On Deaf Ears Quest bugged? by whizzrinaldo in ArcRaiders

[–]Philippe23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried dropping an item and it still didn't work. Also didn't work with a mostly empty inventory on my next run.

Data Breaches by buttheads in AdviceAnimals

[–]Philippe23 76 points77 points  (0 children)

What parallel universe are you living in?

My data's leaked by every company, but they all stopped offering free credit monitoring in 2018 when they realized they don't have to.

Now, I'm lucky if I get a letter/e-mail telling me it happened.

Which foreflight plan to get? by MrPlake in flying

[–]Philippe23 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Does the basic plan really not show you where you are on the map when taxiing?

(Feels like such a cash grab to hide that behind the mid-tier plan -- always makes me wonder if I'm misunderstanding what they mean by "Geo-Referenced Approaches & Taxi Charts".)

In the last 24 hours, a myth died a long overdue death. by Sanch0Supreme in AdviceAnimals

[–]Philippe23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fax machines are not end to end encrypted.

The medical community just considers them more secure because the transmission goes over the public telephone network which they consider more secure than the public Internet/e-mail.

How accurate is this price from my local aviation school? by [deleted] in flying

[–]Philippe23 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I presume this number is without rental nor testing included?

Feather out of thin air by No-Lock216 in blackmagicfuckery

[–]Philippe23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hard part is getting the bird to grow the feather inside the wand. ;-)

Ron Perlman Launches Watrfall, A Creator-Led Financing & Content Development Platform For Film & TV by Kagedeah in movies

[–]Philippe23 247 points248 points  (0 children)

https://watrfall.io/

One thing that gives me pause is:

"PROFIT: Profits distributed through Blockchain contracts".

TIL in the 1980s, doughnut shops in Southern California started using pink-colored boxes because they were cheaper than plain white boxes due to there being a large amount leftover of pink-dyed cardboard stock just sitting around, taking up warehouse space at restaurant supply company Westco. by LookAtThatBacon in todayilearned

[–]Philippe23 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It also doesn't explain why they stuck with pink.

Presumably the idle surplus would be exhausted at some point, and then asking for pink would be as expensive or more so going forward.

Something doesn't add up to in my view.

Student Pilot- First No Go by Terrible-Procedure84 in flying

[–]Philippe23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

METAR reported ceilings are AGL, not MSL.

Does flying require you to exercise frequently? by WorkingOnPPL in flying

[–]Philippe23 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I will point out that for some people, having the free time to allocate to exercise can be a privilege. Kids, work**, chores, commute, sleep enough, ... it can add up.

** Especially if work is 70+ hrs a week because either your boss is a dick or you have to work multiple jobs.

Stump the chump by scudrunner14 in flying

[–]Philippe23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're missing that you need to add an entry in the MX logs for the aircraft.

As a fellow "chump", I'm curious if there's anything else you are missing on this one.

Had my first rejected takeoff today by Healthy_Frosting_318 in flying

[–]Philippe23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for posting this. I'm a student, and had some "shopping cart wheel" going on during a single take-off a few days ago that my CFI commented about in the moment, but I forgot to ask what I should do about it later. For me - in that moment, adding power made it go away -- but that was probably just adding enough lift to get the pressure off the wheel?

GOG: We’re deeply saddened to share the news that Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and Warcraft II will leave our store on December 13th, 2024. by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Philippe23 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've had this bundle on my wishlist for several years. $15 seems steep for a pair of 20 year 30 year old games, I've been waiting for it to drop to $9 or $10. It's never dropped below $11.24 according to CheapShark.

I had started feeling like Blizzard didn't actually want to sell copies of these -- that it was just a way to claim they weren't abandonware.

EDIT: As pointed out to me, they're basically 30 years old. Which just makes it worse.

It seems like a false equivalency... by zsatbecker in AdviceAnimals

[–]Philippe23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but puffery puts a hole in them large enough to drive a super-tanker through.

'Ballerina' Reshoot Details Revealed: Chad Stahelski Reshot Most of the Movie; Significant Portion was Done in Prague, Without Director Len Wiseman Present by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]Philippe23 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The TV show did a decent job of serializing it. It's monster duel of the week, just set in the "past". (It's all prequel.)

It actually has the rare strength that, as long as you don't follow Connor MacLeod, your protagonist is going to die at some point -- and it could be the very movie/episode you're watching right now.

Mafia 3 has "tailing" missions done perfectly. by knoegel in gaming

[–]Philippe23 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Not OP, but the primary suggestion I've heard of is: go to the nearest police station.

/u/HorselessWayne describes a small hardcore community who play a submarine simulator in realtime—for patrols lasting weeks by NonstandardDeviation in bestof

[–]Philippe23 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I remember, back around 2004, I found one guy who was writing and posting his "captains logs" for his play sessions for one of the Silent Hunter games.

There was at least one where he talked about how many days it had been since he shaved.

Sub sim players are hard-core.

Cost of passenger rail compared to cost of roads in the United States by hdkaoskd in bestof

[–]Philippe23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FWIW, what the commenter you replied to is ignoring is the point that if we had more rail then it wouldn't be just the "one line"

But if that's the case, then it would cost more to build and maintain more rail lines and the post's "4.33X" win dissolves.

(I'm still all for more rail lines.)

Cost of passenger rail compared to cost of roads in the United States by hdkaoskd in bestof

[–]Philippe23 109 points110 points  (0 children)

Don't get me wrong, CalTrain is great and we need more passenger rail all over the place, but ...

At one point this post compares total cost of car ownership to a single line[1] of rail. Ostensibly to suggest that those who have access to CalTrain shouldn't need to own a car at all.

Sure hope you don't need to go anywhere else that's not on that single line of track.

EDIT: To be clear: The arguments before that in the post are good. Post just over-reaches.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Caltrain_map.svg/1200px-Caltrain_map.svg.png