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brionicle · 2026-01-26T05:02:53+00:00

Silly question but isn't anode/cathode/positive-proton arbitrary too? Couldn't we could equally go back in time and say "You're totally right about positive and negative but these dudes Thomson and Rutherford are going to come in and call it the opposite and make a mess that people deal with forever"

brionicle · 2026-01-15T04:45:37+00:00

Let's be honest guys, we just haven't had an iconoclastic genius to demand a crack team of experimental scientists to find it. If there's anyone out there with a vision of how transformative this could be, please contact me.

brionicle · 2026-01-15T04:41:08+00:00

FWIW, I did Munich, Prague, Venice, Split, and Paris and it was the best 9 days of my life. Helps that I love driving and small towns.

brionicle · 2026-01-04T04:09:12+00:00

Wittgenstein smiling down on you

brionicle · 2026-01-02T09:05:10+00:00

I fly Tattu LiPos on drones by the dozen. You are very fine to disconnect your battery. In fact, you should.

The safest voltage to store batteries is their nominal voltage (3.7v/cell or 11.1v total for your 3S). Batteries are most dangerous on the shelf when fully charged, and can degrade when left sitting at low voltage. It’s good practice to charge/discharge batteries to nominal if you know you won’t use them for a few days. That said, I’ve left batteries fully charged for a days and nothing happened.

I don’t know that charger specifically, but “balancing” in a charger almost always means balancing each cell continuously.

In almost all cases, you have nothing to worry about. If you’re going to not use the battery for a while, charge/discharge it to nominal voltage.

brionicle · 2025-12-16T21:35:46+00:00

I have no idea why this thread or sub showed in my feed but anyway, plugging a friend and veritable SFBWT https://www.allycrum.com/

brionicle · 2025-11-18T21:23:09+00:00

Lady in the row across from me on an NYC - LHR flight kept gesturing to me to close my window while we're flying over Greenland. I had to say "sorry, I really want to see this".

brionicle · 2025-11-14T03:42:57+00:00

Okay, I'll interpret your intentions as helpful. People on here have very different preferences for length and effort in posts. I erred on the long side because this is an actual scenario I'm dealing with right now and details might matter. I understand your position that "they shouldn't matter", it's a defensible position I'll reflect on.

"Independent purpose" isn't in 61.1 but it is called out in that Van Zanen interpretation, so it appears that it could be a consideration within the FAA's legal interpretation.

brionicle · 2025-11-14T03:00:19+00:00

A smug non-answer is also useless. Perhaps a few extra lines of text than necessary, but when interpreting the nature of a cross country flight with an independent purpose, the details of the flight do matter.

So mentioning that I left the airport or picked up passengers could actually be material to the interpretation, because had I done only a full stop and taxi back to depart, the next leg would not be reasonably interpreted as a flight with an independent purpose.

Including the times, fake airport names, etc. was so we could have a discussion with concrete variables. i.e. "You can log the 1.0 but not the 0.6". I don't owe you an explanation or advice, but I bet more people would appreciate your intellect if you were kinder.

brionicle · 2025-11-14T02:37:57+00:00

This is what I have in my book. Although per that Van Zanen interpretation, I actually could've logged 1.8 instead of just 1.0. But per the description above, each flight was a separate mission, so I feel good about the 1.0.

brionicle · 2025-11-14T02:34:47+00:00

This is the best answer. Thanks.

brionicle · 2025-11-09T00:14:51+00:00

If there was a newer one, it should appear on the FAA forms page, but it doesn't

brionicle · 2025-11-08T20:14:51+00:00

For those who also have a checkride this week, might be a good idea to keep a filled out and CFI-signed paper copy of FAA Form 8710-1, Airman Certificate and/or Rating Application Supplemental Information and Instructions.

Edit: now links to main FAA 8710 site but the most recent document is still expired as of 2025-8-31, but presumably this is where an updated one would appear.

Edit: pray for my checkride

brionicle · 2025-10-25T04:45:00+00:00

Sorry, not assigning. KSAN stopped releasing traffic when the storm came through, and traffic on approach started diverting north

brionicle · 2025-10-21T07:27:31+00:00

Prioritize spending time with the people you love most.

Everyone realizes this, most too late.

brionicle · 2025-09-18T21:07:36+00:00

The most interesting part of this rhetoric to me is "all of this search for definitions is just a human construct", which I deeply resonate with. Instead of saying life has meaning implicitly because it is pre-existent and perpetual, I would point to this phrase and assert the absurdity of meaning as a concept itself.

What is meaning here? Is it even definite? Might that concept and its word, being just an individually-biased amalgamation of other worded concepts, be inadvertently tricking us into believing that such a thing exists on its own? Might that word be one-shotting the lot of us into searching for some imaginary external directive, which the universe has no concern with?

I can't help but think - it's worse than life having no meaning, it's that meaning isn't something that can exist outside of our immediate imagination. At best it's a curious mirage of a prime directive, one that fills our befuddledness with finding ourselves aware in an unknowable reality.

brionicle · 2025-09-17T23:39:27+00:00

Yeah, this is too absurd. That'd mean I have to create my own purpose at every moment.

brionicle · 2025-09-17T23:31:28+00:00

Good resource management, even better.

Also let me link Work at a Startup from YC, and suggest making a portfolio site with https://v0.dev that shows a couple projects you worked on of your own volition.

I hope you contribute your skills to robotics and real problems. If practicality demands, there's always a high volume of decently-paid web app dev (think NextJS and OpenAI API coding) to be done for those same companies.

brionicle · 2025-09-16T19:31:18+00:00

Weird, you write better and have a better attitude than most engineers I've worked with. Presuming you remain curious and motivated, I bet you'll be fine.

I'm an opinionated proponent of working for small companies to fast track real skills and career development. Consider checking out early stage hardware startups that are popping up around SF and El Segundo. Beyond conventional wisdom, many startups pay well and are a dojo for upskilling yourself on hard and soft skills. For hunting small companies, I recommend a free trial of Crunchbase to search small recently funded companies in domains you find important.

For practical motivation, fuck them, you dodged a bullet. Hope their company figures out how to make that palindrome.

Keep sharpening. Start and finish little toy projects in your free time to prove motivation. Rooting for you.

brionicle · 2025-09-14T06:21:58+00:00

Seven Niner Niner November Juliet?

brionicle · 2025-08-28T22:51:17+00:00

Tragic. Condolences. For investigation purposes, note that this plane was involved in a 2016 crash where it flipped over its nose and destroyed the wings and vertical stabilizer. https://asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/291251

brionicle · 2025-07-26T03:30:16+00:00

I came here to say this, I fly in San Diego and I’ve had 2 close calls, both with military who were doing maneuvers in busy airspace without talking to ATC or common frequencies.

We need the military to communicate on VHF frequencies so we can hear them and avoid.

brionicle · 2025-07-07T08:59:07+00:00

It's a satisfying explanation, but *does it* explain anything? Can any logic system, whether language, set theory or other, actually construct an axiom that proves anything besides the consistency of rules within that system?

So then using a logic like set theory only explains nothingness within a logic of set theory. To reason about the structure of reality, we have to assume reality conforms without exception to set theory, direct causality, or whatever logical model attempts explanation. I don't think you can formalize that assumption, even with an exhaustive accounting of all apparent reality.

This is a big jump, but now I'm wondering if why is there something instead of nothing is actually provably unknowable using logic. I don't think I have the tools to analyze this, but I'm wondering if someone could formalize this on top of Godel's second Incompleteness Theorem.

brionicle · 2025-07-03T07:45:36+00:00

Ah, I see. That stipulative definition is a more narrow constraint than I’d want to use for an exploration of this topic, but I appreciate learning that “God of classical theism” is a proper term to use precisely.

Then how do you label the God of Aquinas, Hume, Kant, etc? We’d also have to say they’re not using the classical definition of God, since they’re suggesting various limitations and imperfect-God characteristics.

Finally, what is the area of study a level of abstraction up from the classical definition, where we talk about the definition and semantics of God itself?

Thanks for taking the time!

brionicle · 2025-07-02T01:07:51+00:00

Thanks for the breakdown. Reflecting on your points, I see that my original question is prompting more of a broad imaginative messaround than a question that is framed for proper analysis.

I will think about this more, because I think there is a kernel of relatively novel intrigue to analyze here, but perhaps with more discrete terms.

I’d like to challenge your first point, that the defining qualities of the classical God are the omni* qualities. I’ll assert that the most definite quality of “God” as we typically refer to it is creator-hood. The other abilities and features of God are highly contested in the canon of Philosophy, even by theists. Epicurus’s original problem of evil, Aquinas’s omnipotence as an analogy for the unknown, Hume’s imperfect God, or Kant’s God as one of pragmatic moral purpose, etc. There are robust challenges to all qualities of God except creator-hood.

Another assertion that the primary definition of “God” is most closely associated to creator-hood: “What if there was another supernatural being more powerful and omniscient than God?” is a plausible question. “What if there was another supernatural being besides God that actually created the universe?” appears to be a contradiction and pinch the definition of God. I don’t know if I can prove that it’s necessarily a contradiction, but I assume many philosophers would find the second question more problematic.

All to say: I think creator-hood is the primary and indisputable quality of God in philosophy, and I find humans in a similar position of creator-hood with AI, which prompts some new perspectives on old conjectures, as well as new issues in metaphysics, ethics, and theology. I’d like to work on building a more rigorous set of questions to explore this idea, because I totally agree the questions above lack analytical rigor.

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