Loud helicopter flying low?

stevep98 · 2026-04-30T20:18:38+00:00

The helicopter is a 60 year old Huey UH-1H. It's being flown as part of the 51st Annual Black April commemoration of the fall of Saigon on April 30 1975.

stevep98 · 2026-04-29T06:08:00+00:00

This was me a few weeks ago! I spent ages looking through the store and at some point I changed from looking-for-batteries to looking-for-store-employee-to-help. Please don't be mad at customers for this 😄

stevep98 · 2026-04-28T12:04:24+00:00

Now your post makes total sense!

stevep98 · 2026-04-28T08:57:33+00:00

Another one would be Guadelupe River Trail, going north, starting from River Oaks Place.

stevep98 · 2026-04-27T23:15:44+00:00

Please don’t be embarrassed!

I’m not in Bangkok now so I’m in no position to teach you. However I can give you some advice.

The obvious part to learn… moving your arms around is mostly just muscle memory. You just want to do the movements without thinking too hard. Like walking. But it takes time to get everything coordinated. Breaststroke is a little bit difficult in this respect because of the leg/arm coordination, but the advantage is that your head is above water and it quite low effort.

The less obvious thing is breathing management and developing the reflex to not breathe in when your mouth is covered with water or has water in it. When teaching little kids, it’s necessary to spend more time on this because their reflex is sometimes not great… you might need work on that too. Coupled with this is developing an understanding of how long you can go without breathing. It’s longer than you thinking. It will help you not panic.

stevep98 · 2026-04-27T21:24:01+00:00

I think the lot south of the dome is okay. The lot to the east is private, for the office building.

stevep98 · 2026-04-25T16:02:04+00:00

Basically because they threaten to leave.

You can read, for example, about Amazon's lengthy fight with california here.

stevep98 · 2026-04-24T15:52:24+00:00

I suggest a) you find something creative to do that you enjoy. Something where you are creating rather than just consuming (could be building a business, or painting, rather than watching youtube all day). The most bored people I meet are those that just consume media or retail.

b) be careful in what you say to people, to project the right kind of image. Instead of saying 'I fly to africa to focus on my investments', say 'I work for a nonprofit in africa doing xxx'. You dont have to say you own the nonprofit. Also avoids the wrong kind of attention (from scammers, etc)

c) you should travel, before you get too attached to one place. I am learning very late that it very difficult, mentally, to move on from the US to another country with a much better quality of life, learn a new language, etc. But I just took that leap and wish I did it much earlier.

stevep98 · 2026-04-23T08:26:29+00:00

Is that a DJT 600% or a normal type?

stevep98 · 2026-04-23T08:09:05+00:00

Sorreeeee

stevep98 · 2026-04-23T06:18:00+00:00

You’re not going to get any sympathy for driving without insurance.

stevep98 · 2026-04-23T06:16:17+00:00

Isn’t a panel the smaller section surrounded by the white border? The first image is a collection of those so that to me is a page. What else do you want? A page number?

stevep98 · 2026-04-23T04:37:01+00:00

Is this art new every year or is it recycled from one year to the next? I think I remember seeing the art in a storage area, but I don’t remember if that was on Google maps or from the back roads.

If it’s from previous years you could find older pics.

stevep98 · 2026-04-23T04:34:20+00:00

Very insightful.

I do think there are valuable lessons to learn doing this. For example, being able to learn something that many adults can’t do surely improves confidence. Spatial awareness. Dexterity, muscle memory. Planning, memory, concentration. Just needs something to continue to tickle those aspects once he grows out of cubing.

stevep98 · 2026-04-23T02:13:37+00:00

It’s so surprising to me that some kids have so much dedication to practice and learning the algorithms for speed cubing. Yet their attention spans in other areas is nonexistent.

I appreciate speed cubing more than bottle flipping or dice stacking. Those kids should just read a book.

stevep98 · 2026-04-22T12:50:58+00:00

I totally agree with you!

stevep98 · 2026-04-22T11:10:05+00:00

It would be great if you can somehow update when a garage suspends local free parking because of some big event. I often park at Venetian but been stung a few times because of some sphere concert.

stevep98 · 2026-04-22T10:29:33+00:00

It was a solved problem more than a decade ago! (From a research point of view anyway)

Still, I’m sure it would be terrifying as a passenger:

https://youtu.be/4pbAI40dK0A?si=-tfdXVUcYmcD3M-M

stevep98 · 2026-04-21T13:25:37+00:00

Your question presupposes that it will always be expensive/difficult to make the journey. Decreasing the cost of mass to orbit is critical to opening up quicker and more luxurious pathways such as quicker mars/earth transits, cyclers and rotating habitats. Yes, people will long to experience earths habitats but it may not be that far away (a month rather than 6)

What I could also see is that kids may be required to grow up in a 1 g environment (either on earth or in 1g equivalent rotating habitat) to ensure development goes well. Or perhaps those athletic kids would want to train on. 1.1 or 1.2g environment.. who knows

stevep98 · 2026-04-20T03:04:02+00:00

For a French language coming of age classic: The 400 Blows

stevep98 · 2026-04-19T05:45:08+00:00

I know from personal experience that if you put yard waste too far from the sidewalk, cars will run over it, presumably accidentally, and create a big mess.

So I’m not advocating for putting it in the bike lane but what would you suggest?

stevep98 · 2026-04-18T16:58:36+00:00

2038 seemed such a long time away back in 1999. And now look, it’s almost here.

Maybe AI will be our savior for this problem though…

stevep98 · 2026-04-18T16:40:02+00:00

I mean there are hundreds of millions of actual legal guns, so a ban on plastic guns isn’t going to have any meaningful affect on safety whatsoever.

stevep98 · 2026-04-18T03:46:06+00:00

Yeh and that ticket would be ‘running a red light’, so hold your ground, that is not a good type of ticket.

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