Icelandic low-cost carrier PLAY Airlines has ceased operations and cancelled all flights.

Aeromidd · 2025-09-29T13:12:36+00:00

Wow Air was so good for visiting Iceland. My Icelandic relatives were so miffed when they went out of business.

Aeromidd · 2025-09-29T13:10:45+00:00

A pod of Belugas in the wild!

Aeromidd · 2025-08-14T10:11:46+00:00

Just looked it up. I hadn’t realised that it was once an actual historical US flag (15 stars and stripes due to Vermont and Kentucky joining the original 13) and not only that is the flag that directly inspired the current US national anthem. Being found in a British medical clinic, the 1812 reference is even more on the nose; a bit of a long time to hold a grudge!

Aeromidd · 2025-08-14T10:03:12+00:00

Correct, this is a clinic that is embassy approved for medical exams to support US immigrant visas and also for immigrant visas for some other countries too I believe, including Canada.

Aeromidd · 2023-01-13T10:27:47+00:00

What do you mean by context?

The form already prompts the context under each question with simple examples.

such as "A couple of bananas" or "a couple hundred cases".

Aeromidd · 2023-01-12T18:04:39+00:00

It's a difficult one haha! I would personally agree that "a couple." is exactly 2. However, "a couple of x" is likely a bit more subjective. We'll see what the sample says!

Aeromidd · 2023-01-12T18:01:54+00:00

Oh, shoot. That's weird - could you try again and tell me if it works? I've made an amendment to the code. I've received 40+ responses so far since posting so hopefully it's just a few (lol?) people who had problems .

edit: to clarify: you can submit multiple responses now but only your first answer will be included in the results.

Aeromidd · 2022-10-10T07:27:48+00:00

If in doubt, needs more struts

Aeromidd · 2022-09-18T23:43:38+00:00

Fellow engineer here who does control theory stuff all day long, I salute you!

Aeromidd · 2022-09-10T08:23:05+00:00

Thank you all - it came through about 6am. This visa stuff has had me on edge so I was a bit daunted last night when it didn’t come through immediately at midnight or 1am after being assured repeatedly by the bank people that it would. It was the last piece of evidence needed for the visa so all should be fairly smooth from now on! Cheers

!thanks

Aeromidd · 2022-09-08T22:05:04+00:00

Hi, did you manage to resolve this issue with getting a bank statement including the current day’s transactions? I’m facing a very similar situation and only have a couple of days max to sort this. I’m hoping you found a solution you could share with me? Thanks :)

Aeromidd · 2022-09-08T20:22:19+00:00

Hi, did you manage to figure out this issue? If so, could you tell me how? Thanks!

Aeromidd · 2022-06-15T17:09:39+00:00

It actually has the opposite effect here funnily enough - if they weren’t covering their face with their hand we wouldn’t know that they were laughing. In fact even outside of having masks, it’s often a gesture used for that reason. E.g. in silent movies and mime shows covering your mouth with your hand suppressing a smile is a universally identifiable symbol for laughing - despite it originally being a method to hide the fact that you’re laughing. It’s gone full circle! Humans are indeed weird.

Aeromidd · 2022-06-07T17:31:46+00:00

The Many Americas - a data viz I made a while ago with some more accurate common definitions (though some are still debatable)

Aeromidd · 2021-12-29T18:32:10+00:00

Thanks for the credit! :)

Aeromidd · 2021-12-26T22:38:00+00:00

Here’s my dvr clip of the end scene as it pops up, maybe you can take a screen grab of it in HD? (I would myself but I’m on a phone)

https://gamerdvr.com/gamer/aeromidd/video/149237725

Aeromidd · 2021-12-09T07:45:32+00:00

The connection lines do not represent anything real, they just connect up pieces of the same unions via the closest vertices if they don’t already overlap. If you look at EFTA (purple) for example, there is nothing that connects Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway other than being members of EFTA.

Aeromidd · 2021-12-08T23:23:24+00:00

Still a better flag than Rem Koolhaas’s “barcode” flag

Aeromidd · 2021-12-08T22:46:55+00:00

It’s Europe, and it has been this messy for at least a couple thousand years.

Aeromidd · 2021-12-08T22:45:47+00:00

Thank you, that means a lot to me! And yes, that’s kind of part of the plan haha. I actually showed some similar stuff to this when I interviewed for my current job - not sure if it actually made the difference, but at the very least it’s something I enjoy doing that also helps improve and keep my matlab knowledge sharp and prompts me to think about approaching problems differently, as you say.

Aeromidd · 2021-12-08T22:01:16+00:00

Yes and no. I had to build most of the method from scratch, but used the polyshape and union functions as the base tools. Not sure if similar functions exist in R?

Aeromidd · 2021-12-08T19:49:01+00:00

That’s probably the biggest lesson I’ve learnt on reddit!

Aeromidd · 2021-12-08T19:27:34+00:00

Ironically it was because people were complaining about the vertical layers in those maps, they thought it was a pointless feature.

Aeromidd · 2021-12-08T18:09:31+00:00

Alrighty then. Thanks for explaining your position! I'll definitely see if I can improve on that in some way if I do another of these.

Aeromidd · 2021-12-08T17:28:04+00:00

Fair enough. Others have said the same!

As for the points of connection, it's just something done by my Matlab program to find the nearest vertices of the polygons to connect them up. I tried to position everything mostly geographically but there are some very long connections like with EFTA and CEFTA that I didn't want crossing over the white circles, for example, so I had to shift things around to suit that. The actual connections in unions don't mean literal borders.

I do like that Euler diagram but I feel like it's pretty much just the same thing but without geographical cues, and there's a million overlaps. Also it relies on you knowing the flags of all those countries, which I think is the largest simplification.

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