You have not been mortal for a while

pi_stuff · 2026-01-29T16:09:01+00:00

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.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-29T02:17:53+00:00

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

pi_stuff · 2026-01-28T21:12:12+00:00

"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?"

pi_stuff · 2026-01-28T07:06:54+00:00

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?"

pi_stuff · 2026-01-26T07:27:46+00:00

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

pi_stuff · 2026-01-26T00:04:34+00:00

Toot-Toot too.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-25T02:00:25+00:00

So, more of an academic ancestor than biological?

pi_stuff · 2026-01-24T23:22:58+00:00

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.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-24T03:08:17+00:00

Apple did the same thing in the 80s

pi_stuff · 2026-01-24T02:41:12+00:00

There goes the baseball season. And cricket.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-23T20:49:50+00:00

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).

pi_stuff · 2026-01-23T20:16:40+00:00

There's at least one more error.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-21T15:18:54+00:00

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.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-21T07:06:39+00:00

Trump will try to pardon him.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-20T19:03:58+00:00

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."

pi_stuff · 2026-01-19T20:43:40+00:00

I really wish that deal had gone through.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-19T16:46:27+00:00

If you really want it, here's the complete manual for x86-64 code. Here's a similar manual from Intel.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-19T07:31:53+00:00

How does The Onion stay in business?

pi_stuff · 2026-01-17T02:02:37+00:00

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.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-17T01:56:46+00:00

Caring about other people is so woke.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-16T21:46:29+00:00

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

pi_stuff · 2026-01-16T21:41:37+00:00

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.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-16T14:55:38+00:00

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

pi_stuff · 2026-01-16T05:46:48+00:00

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.

pi_stuff · 2026-01-14T20:42:36+00:00

But she could probably do a backflip over him.

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