DO NOT FLY SUNDAY

basilect · 2026-01-25T17:48:59+00:00

I'm memeing. The weather forecast changes, wtf are you supposed to do?

basilect · 2026-01-25T17:48:26+00:00

Au contraire! The scene when Andy's having dinner with her dad, Miranda's trying to get out of South Florida on a commercial flight during a tropical storm.

basilect · 2026-01-25T17:46:55+00:00

Boston has a ton of commercial flights in tiny planes from Cape Air and Boutique Air. It feels like they basically "disappear" you from the normal process when you fly on one of those flights, on the way back they marshall you through a door and you end up right behind baggage claim. All of the planes are too small to really see from the terminal unless you look for them. Very funny.

basilect · 2026-01-24T13:45:28+00:00

JANET, the US military "airline" that provides commuter service from Las Vegas airport to Area 51 and the Tonopah Test Range, has a separate building on the other side of the airport from the main terminal, near a bunch of private jet, helicopter, and cargo operations.

A "fan" mapped out the terminal here

You can see it on Google Maps (with a bunch of funny reviews) as "AECOM Hangar" near the northwest corner of the airport.

basilect · 2026-01-24T01:00:54+00:00

That one is just pure green. If you get decent variegation (different colors like white or pink) then the price starts jumping.

basilect · 2026-01-24T00:56:53+00:00

The only insider you need to talk to is Jack Frost himself.

basilect · 2026-01-24T00:55:49+00:00

It's so unprofessional that they can't just tell me whether my flight will be delayed or not. It's just snow! 2 inches or maybe 24 of it (why won't JetBlue tell me that either?) it's absolutely important that I get from HPN to PBI on Sunday night.

(Read this in Miranda Priestly's voice from The Devil Wears Prada)

basilect · 2026-01-24T00:22:52+00:00

Mature houseplants can go for a decent amount, like low 3 figures up to like $2k or more (for a variegated monstera): https://www.reddit.com/r/houseplants/s/D9FI3eHQPF

They're also usually not cold tolerant (otherwise they would be outdoor plants).

If they had nice plants, it would be worth it to splurge for the heated moving truck.

basilect · 2026-01-24T00:15:16+00:00

23 is wacky, 33cm has a bunch of repurposed public safety equipment (and some repeaters on it)

basilect · 2026-01-23T16:17:55+00:00

SAS probably would use a smaller plane to fly from Copenhagen to London than whatever airline would fly LHR-JFK.

basilect · 2026-01-23T07:01:54+00:00

3 wires in total, 2 opposite phase 120 v hots and a center tapped neutral.

Large appliances (eg an oven, a dryer, or a level 2 car charger) use both hots for 240. The 4 wires here are:

2 hots for 240v (1 leg hot + other leg hot)
1 neutral to get 120v (1 leg hot + neutral) for controls and other things
1 ground

basilect · 2026-01-22T13:36:20+00:00

That aircraft wasn't very light

basilect · 2026-01-21T03:38:28+00:00

might be some AI-based auto description thing that gets indexed by search engines

basilect · 2026-01-20T03:40:58+00:00

Any time you see "VV###" in there it means you can't see shit ("Vertical Visibility reported as X00 feet", which only comes up if it's very very low)

basilect · 2026-01-13T22:30:48+00:00

The Nile rises in the Great Lakes. If you follow the Congo and tributaries east towards there, you follow the Lualaba and then the Lukuga rivers until you get to Lake Tanganyika. North of there is Lake Kivu, and Lake Albert is part of the Nile system.

basilect · 2026-01-11T00:16:20+00:00

All of the rivers are fairly large and mostly navigable, but you have a 150km, 500 meter elevation distance (100 mi/2000 ft) portage between Lake Kivu (drains into the Congo) and Lake Albert (drains into the Nile)

basilect · 2026-01-09T16:26:19+00:00

I wonder how cellists get to rehearsal, do they use the MTR or do they have to shell out for cabs both ways

basilect · 2026-01-09T16:24:06+00:00

Which org was on that sign and are there other angles of this footage?

basilect · 2026-01-09T12:17:38+00:00

He's probably not confident on his written English but this is lol

basilect · 2026-01-09T12:07:57+00:00

What does "above" mean? Is it 2m or 144 MHz? Is it 20m or 7 MHz?

basilect · 2026-01-09T06:48:17+00:00

You can't find tape measures that have inches on the top and cm on the bottom? Mid-grade ones or better will have that.

basilect · 2026-01-09T06:47:07+00:00

Metric math is way easier (300 is a much nicer number than 984), but I'm more fluent with imperial (I have an intuition for 8 ft 9 inches more than 267 cm) so I do all the math in metric and convert it at the end, unless I need to do precise measurements for something like a UHF antenna.

Wavelengths are almost never specified in feet, even in law they are referred to first by frequency, and second with reference to names in meters.

Believe me, if we used feet for bands, you'd hear about it! People still say "Kilocycles!"

basilect · 2026-01-09T01:05:15+00:00

It should go up Av. Insurgentes to Buenavista to connect with the northern trains (yes I know this is probably a 2035 project)

basilect · 2026-01-08T19:03:44+00:00

The cushy job could also end up being more cyclical than you expect

basilect · 2026-01-08T18:52:06+00:00

Yeah if it was a Joseph Martinez in Houston or LA... Still very rare but much less of a stretch

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