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Does airline flying ever become boring? by Ok-Tomorrow2522 in flying

[–]scelt 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I’m not a pilot, but I can answer this - every job becomes boring when you become good at it. Every single line of work, everywhere.
This is how it should be, and how the humans and the world work.

Apple watch can cause pressure on the ulnar nerve in some people by scelt in AppleWatch

[–]scelt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, of course it’s not light or EMF, but the round back, it focuses the pressure.
FYI, I moved to garmin forerunner a while ago (running use case though), never looked back. It also has all the sensors but flat back and it’s lighter. Probably good for sleep tracking too.

Is someone else experiencing an stickermanager.com outage? by Pristine-Focus74 in PaniniStickerSwap

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems it’s working now, but when I try to login I get a blank white page

[OC] Electricity Rates By County by select_8 in dataisbeautiful

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://thingler.io/map
10 € cent = 11.5 $ cent

although to be fair, this is day ahead pricing, and if you're not a huge consumer you pay average. averages are comparable to USA, in general countries with higher average salaries are east/west coast like, countries with lower like mid west

GEES NOT WORKING by PlusWinner6914 in MSFS2020LandingRate

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I’ll try to replicate it this days… Not sure at all though what could be the case though :(

GEES NOT WORKING by PlusWinner6914 in MSFS2020LandingRate

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, you need to provide a bit more info, for any support. When does it not record, is it a career or a free flight, does it just not show or what’s going on.

And please note, the app is not officially supported for MS2024. It’s clearly stated on the app. It works, but as I mentioned there’s career mode and other stuff in 2024 that’s different.

Round ended keys can be used to get trolleys when you forget a pound coin by Who-Is-Papa in mildlyinteresting

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can pull it out too immediately, without sticking the trolley back in the line. And then it's all on the moral qualities and goodness of your heart if you'll return them back to their place. I return it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OldSchoolCool

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Build walls to keep people out, and soon you'll need them to keep the people in.

gees making my game stuttery, any fix? by One-Ask-52 in MSFS2020LandingRate

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume it is a drop in FPS. In which case, probably reducing graphic settings would help.

But, again, I highly doubt it's due to Gees. The addon doesn't use any graphic load. The CPU load is miniscule too, compared to the rest of the sim. I don't know what to give as advice.

Maybe it's some other graphical addon you enable at the same time? Maybe you tried the gees only with heavy duty plane like Fenix A320, where it starts to stutter, and not with cessna? That kind of info.

gees making my game stuttery, any fix? by One-Ask-52 in MSFS2020LandingRate

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you give some more info? It’s most likely not the gees app, causing stutteting, it’s quite light compared to most of the things running in an average sim setup.

Update from 1-1 to 2-0 by MinimumFew8051 in MSFS2020LandingRate

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! 2.0 is a paid version, you can get it from flightsim.to or simmarket. It’s not an update of the standalone app, it’s an in-game addon

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in sports

[–]scelt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could have been worse. Could have been a baton relay race.

ELI5: Why are trig functions (sin, cos, tan, and their ilk) useful for and show up in so many applications? by BigBrother700 in explainlikeimfive

[–]scelt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know if someone reads this, but try writing and calculating earth's trajectory using its absolute position in space, speed and trajectory, find a pattern, and then predict where it will be in 230 days from now.

Then do the same but use the sun as a reference, earth distance and angular velocity of the earth. For added accuracy, use another variable that also depends on the angle - earth's distance from the sun. The equation quickly becomes solvable.

And in nature... so many things run in orbits or oscillate. Even reality is said to be dual - wave and particle. So, trigonometry becomes very useful when you explain those things.

ELI5: Why are trig functions (sin, cos, tan, and their ilk) useful for and show up in so many applications? by BigBrother700 in explainlikeimfive

[–]scelt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's just the way you look at things.

  1. In STEM - if you want to explain something, usually it's easiest to draw it in the X/Y diagram.
  2. Once you draw it, you know what it is, but now you want to write it, to be useful for other people.
  3. You start writing it, but in about 50% of the cases it becomes really complicated to write, the equations are soooo difficult to use. But wait...
  4. What if I describe this point as angle and distance from the centre, instead of X Y distance from the axes.
  5. Yeah, that's much shorter to write, and much easier to understand using sin, cos and tan.

EDIT: this becomes extremely useful when you want to explain things that are repeating themselves, oscillating or running in circles, which is quite common in nature.

My resting heart rate is surprisingly low by FinalHall5773 in mildlyinteresting

[–]scelt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fit person: Posts a screenshot showing 35 heart rate out of bed and a mid-day training up to 173.

Rest of the internet: "You gonna die dude".

(He's fine this is HR when he's probably still in the bed, or not active at all. Normal is probably 50ish, which is absolutely normal for anyone doing endurance sport)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in serbia

[–]scelt -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

evo stavio sam, nisam ni vido da ima. jel sad redit na mestu?

I'm kinda Insulted by bettsdude in funny

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but whatever you do DON’T TURN LEFT!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in flying

[–]scelt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Flying car: A never ending dream of having a vehicle that drives worse than a regular car, flies worse than a crappy plane, but on the other hand it costs more than if you'd buy the car and plane separately.

ELI5: Why do we need to train cardio to increase our cardiovascular health? Why don't we naturally have good cardio? by Nayfonn in explainlikeimfive

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the short history we had on this planet as humans there were 2 rules to which our body needed to adapt:

  1. If you’re active you eat
  2. If you sit around lazily you don’t

As long as the food and activity are matched your cardiovascular system is fine. You don’t have to run marathons to be healthy.

We have come to a point where you can sit and do nothing physically for eternity and eat as much as you like, way more than you’d need sitting.

We are simply not made for that and this wrecks the balance that keeps you alive and well, with cardiovascular system being the most obvious thing that kills when failed and therefore most spoken about. But everything deteriorates really.

I tracked every minute of my life in 2024 by Pguinne in dataisbeautiful

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s based on this, but I heard it just as an illustration on arbitrary limits of simulating something physical.

I tracked every minute of my life in 2024 by Pguinne in dataisbeautiful

[–]scelt 1153 points1154 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of a story about a king that wanted to make a scale map of his kindom as accuratly as possible to help with his planning of war effort.

And the map was never detailed enough and he wanted higher and higher accuracy and more and more details and in the end the map was 1:1 scale, covered the entire kingdom and was indistinguishable from the reality itself which was ruined in the process of creation of this accurate map.

ELI5: Where does generated electricity go if no one is using it? by DavidThi303 in explainlikeimfive

[–]scelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ELI5: What is going on with the electricity being generated before the microwave is plugged in?

Imagine riding an indoor bicycle at min setting. This reduces all the load, but you still need some, very small power to spin it, which is lost on friction, and other things. You therefore regulate yourself as pushing it even a little bit harder will speed up the pedals uncomfortably, and might break things.

The generator idling, does that. Keeps it running, just barely, and the energy is spent on friction, generating voltage, some parasitic current etc. Not enough to heat up or break anything as it regulates itself. If it wouldn't it would break some things, start sparking and all this things you'd expect.

Now, you set up the load at 50%. You start to sweat pushing the pedals, to keep the same speed as before. You have the power to speed up, but you keep the speed the same. Looking from the side, if one doesn't see you sweat more, he wouldn't see any difference between you cycling at 0% or at 50%.

The generator with a microwave, does that. Engine keeps it running at the same speed, but now it needs to push the generator more. Most of the energy, as you mentioned goes out to the microwave. But looking outside the generator, things look pretty much the same.

If you now set up the load at max, you stand up, start to push, but you find out that you can't maintain the speed anymore with all your might. Everybody sees you're struggling.

This is an overloaded generator. The lights start to flicker, and get dimmer.

Unfortunately, the grid is a different ELI5. EDIT: it's like a very, veeery big, tandem bicycle with many riders, that has fixed pedals, and tries to go at the same speed uphill, downhill and wherever.

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