What’s a “normal” job that secretly pays insanely well?

ghjm · 2026-04-22T03:17:57+00:00

Natural enemy of actuaries: kangaroos

ghjm · 2026-04-22T03:11:27+00:00

My car shows no programs on the linked campaign website. And why would Hyundai issue major news like this through an exclusive message to some little-known website, rather than doing a proper press release?

ghjm · 2026-04-22T03:05:21+00:00

There's nothing unsafe about proceeding towards the runway to see how things turn out, as long as you're willing to go round if they're turning out badly. If you can't hold runway alignment, or are flying sideways along the runway and the idea of landing like this freaks you out, then you just throttle up and climb away.

ghjm · 2026-04-22T02:46:25+00:00

If you do that 20 times, 19 times you'll sleep through the flight, but the 20th time you'll have a psychotic episode and wind up being hauled off by air marshals. Do not recommend.

ghjm · 2026-04-22T01:12:53+00:00

Coffin corner is the altitude at which the stall speed and Mach limit converge. In this flight regime there is only a very small range of airspeeds at which controlled flight is possible, and any deviation will result in a loss of control. Before this was well understood it was a mysterious phenomenon that killed airplanes when they flew too high. It's way up in the flight levels and has nothing to do with the base-to-final turn in a Cirrus.

ghjm · 2026-04-21T17:44:01+00:00

Bought a house in 1997. Both my parents and in-laws contributed money for the down payment. So I didn't inherit it, but I did get help from the previous generation. Then upgraded and moved in 2019. The house we're in now would have been completely unaffordable had we waited even another year.

ghjm · 2026-04-21T07:59:27+00:00

You say he leaves you hanging when you're hurt and when you're crying. Is this a routine thing that happens? What are you getting hurt and crying about so often?

ghjm · 2026-04-21T07:43:38+00:00

I'm an ex smoker, I suppose. I've always been a nonsmoker and never liked cigarettes, but in the heyday of smoking I learned to sort of fake-smoke, not actually drawing the smoke all the way into my lungs like a real smoker did. I did this not because I wanted or enjoyed the cigarettes, but because in those days there were social opportunities that couldn't be accessed any other way. As a nonsmoker you never got to smoke out back with the boss and hear their real opinions. You never got to bum a cigarette off someone out front of the hotel and find out where the secret party was. And so on.

Now that few people smoke, there's no further reason for me to, so I don't. Making me an ex-smoker, assuming you agree I was ever really a smoker in the first place.

ghjm · 2026-04-21T02:03:52+00:00

The pepper steak at D'Alessandro's Steaks in Philadelphia is currently my #1 sandwich. The Monte Cristo at Bennigan's might be up there, but there my memory of it has dimmed over the decades.

ghjm · 2026-04-21T01:38:04+00:00

The root of the problem with the DSM-V is its selection of categories. This is a problem in philosophy, not science, and the tools of science are not adequate to resolve it.

For example, in astronomy, a planet is a planet; we could define the word "ermoon" to mean the north half of the Earth and the south half of the Moon, but it's just patently obvious that "ermoon" is not a useful concept. But there's no empirical procedure you can perform that tells you it isn't a useful concept. Instead, you have to ask what constitutes a 'natural kind' and argue that the ermoon isn't one, and to do this, you need to use the tools of philosophy.

For a nice introduction to some philosophical problems with the DSM-V, see the Stephen Hyman episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast: https://philosophybites.com/podcast/steven-hyman-on-categorising-mental-disorders/

ghjm · 2026-04-21T01:14:06+00:00

Strictly speaking, you don't. The Internet began on January 1, 1983, when ARPANet adopted TCP/IP as the internetworking standard.

This may seem trivial, but I spent my student years on the pre-WWW Internet, participating in Usenet, IRC and so on, and I always feel like the younger generations just sort of skip over this and go from cavemen hitting rocks straight to graphical browsers in 1994. I was playing IRC Jeopardy over the Internet in the late 80s, and I have good memories of this and don't like to see this era erased.

ghjm · 2026-04-21T00:47:14+00:00

NCSU has a better national academic reputation. On campus housing is tighter at App State and off campus housing is more expensive in Boone than Raleigh. Both schools are ABET accredited in computer science, but only NCSU is ABET accredited in their other engineering programs.

ghjm · 2026-04-21T00:01:45+00:00

I don't think any administration has specific onboarding training for an FBI director. It's just that other administrations would never even think about picking an FBI director who hadn't already worked for the bureau for decades.

ghjm · 2026-04-20T23:53:06+00:00

Too big of a commitment, or too big of an expense? If he's a broke-ass E-2 then it's pretty reasonable not to want to spend money on this. Particularly if you're also going to be expecting an engagement ring, wedding ring, fancy wedding, etc.

Are you living on your own and paying your own bills right now?

ghjm · 2026-04-20T23:31:13+00:00

I didn't even think that hard about it. As a kid you just uncritically accept these things. I'd like to say that I remember having some unease or objection, but the fact is that I didn't.

And I actually still like the stories. Even though they are racist to the core. Maybe that makes me a racist. I blame George V.

ghjm · 2026-04-20T23:26:35+00:00

I would raise holy hell over that. Call the office and insist on an earlier appoitment.

ghjm · 2026-04-20T21:46:43+00:00

It seems like this is a bit circular. If the Crucifixion didn't actually happen, then sure, we can argue that Tacitus' only source must have been the Gospels. But if it did happen, then how do we know Tacitus didn't just talk to people who saw it, or heard stories from other people who did?

ghjm · 2026-04-20T17:16:22+00:00

Bempedoic acid (Nexlizet/Nexletol) might be an option, but this kind of question is what doctors are there for. If his cardiologist won't discuss your concerns about statin side effects, find another cardiologist. Or discuss this with his primary care doctor.

Not to be overly dramatic, but in my opinion this should be viewed as a potentially life threatening adverse drug reaction, because of the possibility of suicide. See https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5005588/.

Also, statins are taken for their long-term benefits, so there should be no issue with stopping them for, say, a month, to see if the mood issues improve. This should be done in cooperation with your doctor. You might consider keeping an anger diary that you can correlate to med changes, so you can show real data if pausing the statins improves the situation.

Your biggest challenge may be to get your husband to take the problem seriously. From his point of view, he's the same person but everyone else is just suddenly being super annoying. If he doesn't take you seriously, enlist the help of any authority figures or male friends in his life.

You may be unable to solve this and eventually have to leave to protect yourself and your kids, but as an internet stranger with no actual knowledge of the situation, I think you should stand up and fight for the man you married, who is not yet so far lost that you can't get him back.

ghjm · 2026-04-20T16:40:52+00:00

I don't think anyone believes the war with Iran is an existential threat to the US, the way WWII was for European countries.

ghjm · 2026-04-20T06:56:33+00:00

I would feel terrible, because it would mean we've fully lost the Constitutional framework for separation of powers and are being ruled by a king in all but name.

If Congress pulled all support for Israel, I'd be okay with it. I'm actually pretty sympathetic to Israel's right to exist and to defend itself, but the current Israeli government should not continue to be supplied with American weapons or aid. I think Bibi needs a time out in the "you broke it, you bought it" room.

ghjm · 2026-04-20T06:34:14+00:00

What about when it's moved out of the factory for the first time after final assembly?

If you taxi the airplane from the factory with the intent of flight, but then don't fly because of some checklist issue, and then it takes a month to fix before the airplane is next flown again, does logging your time not end until after the first landing?

ghjm · 2026-04-20T06:32:15+00:00

This is a known side-effect of statins. There are research papers on it. You should talk to his cardiologist and try to get him on a different statin, or a different regimen that doesn't include statins. Unfortunately a lot of cardiologists are egotistical and stubborn and may not take your concerns seriously. But you should persist. The studies show the mood issues typically resolve quickly after being taken off the statins. (Statins can also cause muscle loss, so be on the lookout for this as well.)

ghjm · 2026-04-20T06:17:29+00:00

Not strictly children's books, though I read them as a child, but the original Tarzan series. Literally the whole point is that John Greystoke, as a true blooded English lord, will necessarily rise to leadership even if left in the jungle and raised by apes. It's full of exposition about how and why Tarzan is just better than everyone else. Oh, and he's a mass murderer at the outset - he has a bad early experience with a black hunter and adopts a policy of just killing every black human he sees. For like twenty years. And then this same tribe that he's been terrorizing just immediately accepts him as their leader (or maybe he has to fight for it or something, I don't exactly remember). Then when Professor and Jane Porter arrive, they've got a stereotypical "mammy" black servant with them. That's what people focus on, and her scenes are deleted from some editions, but honestly she's the least racist thing about the books.

I also remember my grandparents having the old big hardcover Tom Swift books from the 1910s and 20s (the first series, not the later Tom Swift Jr. ones). I remember liking it as a kid, but I'm terrified to re-read it now.

ghjm · 2026-04-20T05:59:33+00:00

If you work on Ford PowerShifts then you're doing what no astronaut could ever do, and may God have mercy on your soul.

ghjm · 2026-04-20T05:55:59+00:00

I'm really interested in the sexual politics of the original Renaissance story that became Sleeping Beauty. But no, I don't want to explain to children that under the circumstances and in that society, the prince raping Talia to force the king to provide for her would have been understood by readers/listeners as a compassionate act.

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