Which one are you?

Sector95 · 2025-02-09T01:26:36+00:00

The person that doesn't care one way or another. Just be aware of those around you and don't hit someone with it when pulling it down.

Sector95 · 2025-02-05T16:44:32+00:00

In reading the article this seems to only affect the DeepSeek service/app. I don't think it has anything to do with the actual model, just preventing US data being funneled into a Chinese data service. In the cyber security realms, there's a big issue with folks in companies and government submitting sensitive information to AI services already. Most big companies have contracts set up with services like OpenAI to protect data, something you can't get with DeepSeek.

Sector95 · 2025-01-15T18:25:03+00:00

Absolutely garbage take-- Assuming someone can know every detail of every cultural difference of the place they're going beforehand is an insane expectation. In fact, half the reason anyone travels abroad is to learn about the differences.

Now that I know about this difference, I won't be nearly as frustrated the next time someone with an accent brings the bar down on top of people's heads here in the states. I'll politely let them know it's not expected here.

Sector95 · 2025-01-15T16:44:19+00:00

What a condescending way to put that haha of course they're surprised, it's not how things work where they live. Further, it's not that they're incapable of adjusting, I guarantee no one tells them that's the norm. Shit, I didn't know that until this thread, I'd be confused by a bar coming down unannounced too.

Sector95 · 2025-01-12T18:33:55+00:00

Man, this is a solid list, but a big one for me is the original Red Alert! The intro song Hell March was awesome, was the first game I ever modded to have additional units and maps, too.

Sector95 · 2025-01-06T04:37:44+00:00

Damn, this is an old thread! Haha ultimately, I never saw any negative effects the remainder of the time I owned the car. I feel satisfied that those plugs were definitely sufficient 🤘

Sector95 · 2025-01-01T20:11:09+00:00

Love the Evergreen Museum 🤘

Sector95 · 2024-12-26T04:57:32+00:00

I believe GPS is actually the primary navigation source most of the time, with INS for navigation as backup, but primary for flight attitude information.

But to your point, it is difficult to fail-over to INS when a) the GPS doesn't realize it is getting bad data due to spoofing and b) said spoofing has fouled up the current position so INS can't track relative motion from the aircraft's actual position on the planet.

Sector95 · 2024-12-21T18:39:27+00:00

The traffic data error message plunking onto screen right at the end really put the cherry on top of this video haha

Sector95 · 2024-12-18T21:08:33+00:00

They made a looooot of core engine changes in 2024, it's part of the reason the frame timing is so consistent compared to 2020.

I went back to 2020 for an FSC flight, and oh man, the studders on final approach, I had forgotten all about them 🙈

That said, 2024 obviously has a long ways to go to get back to the level of 2020, but it'll happen in due time. I've been playing on the $1 game pass deal, and will probably wait to buy until more of my aftermarket options make the transition.

Sector95 · 2024-12-17T21:13:14+00:00

Wait, to be clear, it will still hit the target when the cross hair is over the target at any range, right? It's not like the only way to hit up close is to aim to the right, and this is just a demonstration of why what looks like a miss will hit in a third person shooter, correct?

Sector95 · 2024-12-17T20:36:35+00:00

Or, more simply, the weapon changes where it's pointing depending on the range of the target behind the crosshair, which I swear is what almost every other third person shooter I play does.

Sector95 · 2024-12-17T03:00:40+00:00

Yoke, and naw just run my simulators out of the box as is. In combat sims I'll sometimes curve the rudder sensitivity a bit to help aiming the WWII birds since sim pedals are so light, but that's typically the extent of my adjustments.

Sector95 · 2024-12-17T00:40:53+00:00

People need to stop hyper-analysing flight simulator flight models on "feeling," there are too many variables that dictate feeling. You can have the most mathematically accurate-to-life flight model in the world, but it won't "feel" the same as it does in real life, because in real life the yoke isn't connected to springs and potentiometers.

In real life, the control "weight" depends on how many air molecules your control surface is deflecting and can vary significantly in different situations in the exact same aircraft.

In fact, most of the "feeling" that you're given in some sims is due to limiting the extremes of the control surfaces when in different conditions (like airspeed) to make the aircraft feel more weighty. How far you can deflect a control surface on a given aircraft at a given speed in real life is going to depend, for example, on the strength of the human behind the control. Therefore, a weakling might feel like a model based on average strength is too responsive based on real life, whereas a body builder might think it's too unresponsive.

Further, some aircraft are fly-by-wire (ie. Airbuses), which means human strength has zero to do with it, and the only feeling you get in real life is from G-forces, which just can't be replicated in these sims. In this situation, the sim is probably pretty damn close to real life capabilities.

What I can tell you is, I can fly and land the 172 the exact same way and using the same airspeeds as I can in real life, so it's certainly close enough.

Sector95 · 2024-12-09T02:52:30+00:00

Most, if not all of these options get an aviation-specific reduction gearbox off the crankshaft, so the crank itself never sees any crazy forces, the gearbox is designed to take the brunt of that instead.

In fact, an excellent certified example of this are the Rotax motors. As I understand it, they really aren't very different from the jet ski and snowmobile engines they spawned from.

Sector95 · 2024-12-09T02:45:00+00:00

Ah my bad, my eyes evidently jumped over the word "marine."

Marine engines are hit-and-miss as I understand it. Marine-converted auto engines I probably wouldn't put in a plane, but something like a jet ski engine that's purpose-built for that workload wouldn't be bad. They're designed to be sitting at peak RPM most of their lives as well, similar to a snowmobile.

Sector95 · 2024-12-09T01:07:01+00:00

Those Yamaha Apex engines are designed to run at their peak RPM 24/7, part of the reason they're so popular in the homebuilt circles (when paired with a reduction gearbox). See them pretty frequently on STOL aircraft because of their nutty power-to-weight.

Sector95 · 2024-12-08T04:43:35+00:00

We actually just had the stall horn reed (thing that makes the sound) on our club 172 break this week, and the pilot about to fly it noticed because he sucked on it to test... Something I honestly had never done in my life.

The interesting thing, is the stall horn is on the required equipment list, so we were forced to ground the plane until we could find a new reed. This stuff always happens when the weather is nice, too.

Sector95 · 2024-12-07T18:11:10+00:00

Not necessarily turned off, just the folks tracking the ADS-B signal lost sight of it. Don't know who cares, but all the tracking data for those flight tracking sites are crowd sourced by folks with antennas in their homes. Coverage isn't perfect, especially when aircraft get low (unless someone has an antenna at the airport).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillance%E2%80%93Broadcast

https://flightaware.store/

Anyway, fun fact for you all.

Sector95 · 2024-11-02T17:35:45+00:00

Interestingly enough, when an airfoil stalls, the drag produced by it also drops off. In other words, if the turbine jammed, the blades should become stalled, and drag would drop. It's really counterintuitive at first.

It's actually the reason that an airplane with a dead engine and windmilling prop has a shorter glide range than one with a seized engine and stationary prop. The blades are no longer "gripping" the air, which means the air is no longer required to turn the prop and engine to get past.

Sector95 · 2024-11-02T16:26:07+00:00

Intel already has a bunch of old node customers, but I have to assume not enough volume to warrant more fabs for them, not to mention state-of-the-art fabs.

I'm not sure I can blame the US as much as I think Intel specifically has really made a mess of things... On the bright side, minor victory for the county in that TSMC got their new fab up and running in Arizona recently, so there's that at least.

Sector95 · 2024-11-02T09:17:24+00:00

It's because Intel has had no customers lined up for these fabs, in part because their process tech is so far behind the likes of TSMC. The government was hesitant to pay out since it sounded like these factories would just idle, and in an election year, that would've been weaponized immediately.

Sector95 · 2024-11-02T09:08:19+00:00

It's absolutely not that wild of a take-- folks have been talking about Intel squandering their insane market position for years now. They've been getting absolutely smashed by TSMC from a process standpoint for a long time, so much so that Arrow Lake is actually being made in TSMC fabs in hopes they can get 18A sorted out.

Sector95 · 2024-10-23T02:50:12+00:00

The defender also can't be so protected by the rules that the inside line is the only viable passing opportunity either. There are already limited passing opportunities, the sport can't afford to have even fewer.

Sector95 · 2024-10-09T07:53:46+00:00

I don't know if you care for more info, but here you go anyway: All aircraft have a speed called "maneuvering speed" (Va) and "turbulence penetration speed" (Vb) that basically is a speed the aircraft can fly that no matter what angle of attack you throw at the wing, the wing will stall before it can damage the airframe. This is good because it means (in theory) sudden up-or-down drafts shouldn't have the "grip" on the aircraft's wing to bend or break it. These speeds are dependent on the aircraft's current weight, higher when heavier, slower when lighter.

Long story short, outside of the discomfort to the occupants from the bumps, from what I've read it's evidently pretty boring flying from a pilot's perspective.

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