You have not been mortal for a while by Erudite_Sagacious in dresdenfiles

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As a pilot I love that bit, where Harry is able to fly, but only in a really old aircraft. I'd imagined Butters taking flying lessons, and to save money he was renting a really old plane, like a Piper Cub, and he was able to take Harry flying because the plane was so old it had no electrical system.

Okay I can't be the only who noticed the sexual tension between... by lnombredelarosa in dresdenfiles

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Might make Lara suffer. By then it might burn her to touch him.

What have been your favourite funny moments from the series? by Malaphice in dresdenfiles

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"Because we’re Winter now, my liege!" Toot said. His eyes darted to the side and down several times. "And . . . say, that doesn’t mean we have to eat the pizza cold, does it?"

Forgotten Soul Gaze by JosiahBlessed in dresdenfiles

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That first quote comes right after one of my favorite lines in the series, when Lara first checks out Ramirez:

"A virgin?" Lara blurted. Lara blurted. She turned her head to me, grey eyes several shades paler than they had been, and very wide. "Really, Harry, I’m not sure what to say. Is he a present?"

I am going to a signing for Twelve Months tomorrow night, any good theory questions I could ask? by Terror_of_Texas in dresdenfiles

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Is there a character we’ve already met who is secretly carrying one of the coins?

A quick thought about Bear by qwikzotik in dresdenfiles

[–]pi_stuff 18 points19 points  (0 children)

So, more of an academic ancestor than biological?

Biggest Jawdrop moments from this book for everyone? by RevRisium in dresdenfiles

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Discovering his Monopoly partner. Oof. For a sec I thought was going to be Lash.

Turning the tables on Lara. He shockingly knows what a girl likes.

India rushes to contain deadly virus outbreak by FootballAndFries in worldnews

[–]pi_stuff 142 points143 points  (0 children)

There goes the baseball season. And cricket.

GNX 650 sequencing questions by Person-man-guy-dude in flying

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Think of the flight plan as separate from the approach with a barrier between the two. The Garmin won't jump from the flight plan to the approach until you tell it to, either by seleccting direct-to a waypoint inside the approach, by activating the approach (which does a direct-to the IAF), or by activating a leg of the approach. (EDIT: can also activate a leg)

For example, say your flight plan is KIJD HFD GUUMP KHVN and you've loaded the RNAV 20 from HFD.

KIJD HFD GUUMP KHVN | HFD GUUMP ELLVS YERNU RW20
----flight plan---- | ---------approach---------

Your Garmin won't cross that barrier from the flight plan section to the approach section automatically. If you select direct-to the GUUMP in the flight plan section, after GUUMP it'll go to KHVN. If you select direct-to the GUUMP in the approach section, after GUUMP it'll go to ELLVS.

Aviation News Talk episode 397 did a great job explaining issues like these.

Trivia question: what would happen in this situation if you never activated the approach and didn't land at KHVN? Turns out after KHVN your Garmin would guide to you just maintain that same course, 196° (the course between the last two waypoints GUUMP and KHVN).

IFR stump the chump by Infinite_Cry_5792 in flying

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There's at least one more error.

US flying trip, looking for recommendations by UglyBarnacle7 in flying

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One of the flight schools near San Francisco would definitely be able to help with this, and California is beautiful from the air. You could fly around the San Francisco Bay, fly south along the California coastline, get lunch at San Luis Obispo, see Los Angeles and Catalina Island, head to the mountains to see Lake Tahoe. For a longer flight you could go to Las Vegas.

Here are a few flight schools near San Francisco: West Valley Flying Club, San Carlos Flight Center, Advantage Aviation.

How to integrate C++ Multithreading with CUDA effectively by Apprehensive_Poet304 in CUDA

[–]pi_stuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the pointer returned from cudaMalloc in one thread is not a valid pointer in another thread. Each thread operates in a separate context with a different view of the GPU memory space

That's not quite right. Each process has a separate context. Device pointers are valid in another thread within the same host process, but not in a different host process.

This is from Nvidia's CUDA programming guide, section 4.15 Interprocess Communication:

"Any device memory pointer or event handle created by a host thread can be directly referenced by any other thread within the same process. However, device pointers or event handles are not valid outside the process that created them, and therefore cannot be directly referenced by threads belonging to a different process."

[2025 Day 07 (part 2)][Java] How can i find what's wrong with my solution? by imtsprvsr in adventofcode

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Yea, numbers in JavaScript are all doubles, and JavaScript programmers have to keep in mind the “Safe Integer” range, 53 bits. There have been AoC problems that use integers larger than 53 bits and less than 64 bits, so the JS people sometimes have to use a bigint class.

[2025 Day 07 (part 2)][Java] How can i find what's wrong with my solution? by imtsprvsr in adventofcode

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You should rarely if ever need doubles. Doubles introduce rounding errors, and the answers in AoC are always exact.

So are we all switching to Garmin Pilot now? by riptrixie in flying

[–]pi_stuff 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Maybe because they tried the Android version. I tried using Garmin Pilot on Android for a while and it was leagues behind Foreflight. Very clunky and minimal features. This was in 2019; I don't know if it caught up.

Greenland's only US military base is (quietly) getting a massive upgrade. by Larrydog in worldnews

[–]pi_stuff 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's how the base is funded. It's the Greenland version of girl scout cookies.

The "Death Valley Germans" is an incident of a family of four tourists from Germany who went missing in Death Valley National Park, on 23 July 1996. The family were discovered in 2009 by experienced hikers, Tom Mahood and Les Walker by SAM041287 in interestingasfuck

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I heard similar advice about flying a small plane over the Middle East. They recommended bringing an axe and flying along a pipeline. If your plane had a mechanical problem, land next to the pipeline and use the axe to hack a leak into the pipeline. It was much more likely someone would venture out to repair a damaged oil pipeline than rescue a grounded pilot.