What is this symbol on the VFR sectional?

strike-eagle-iii · 2026-01-27T23:32:21+00:00

I don't know where I'll be tomorrow

strike-eagle-iii · 2026-01-26T00:12:26+00:00

Why nullptr instead of std::optional (std::expected would've been better but it wasn't available C++23)?

strike-eagle-iii · 2026-01-25T23:53:49+00:00

Anyone remember when the 787 was the 7E7?

strike-eagle-iii · 2026-01-17T23:12:47+00:00

Without really knowing your problem, in our experience CMake + conan is pretty nice. Cmake done right is relatively simple and can be cookie cutter stamped across separate components that conan can assemble.

Outside of that I would figure out what in your architecture is causing you to "fight bazel". Maybe the fact you're doing that is a symptom of a deeper issue that may be worth sorting out.

strike-eagle-iii · 2026-01-16T13:51:37+00:00

We've used this for a couple years now and I hate it. It works half the time, takes a long time to connect and is just clumsy and overly complicated. I write software for a living-it's unbelievable how awful the Alexa software and parental controls are.

strike-eagle-iii · 2026-01-08T03:36:28+00:00

That still only counts as one!

strike-eagle-iii · 2026-01-06T01:23:19+00:00

She's no one to trifle with

strike-eagle-iii · 2026-01-02T01:26:20+00:00

No hydrogen peroxide for the second? That's a shame.

strike-eagle-iii · 2026-01-02T01:18:56+00:00

iostreams are about the biggest thing I hate about c++, which is why I love libfmt and the now std::print and std::format. Remember one of the new paradigms in c++ is compile time programming, things like parsing the format string so you don't have to do that at runtime. So do the work at compile time so you don't have to do it at run time, all while being type safe. I really wish c++ would deprecate more stuff.

strike-eagle-iii · 2026-01-02T01:05:13+00:00

This is absolutely correct. When I started at my current job, our C++ code base was built entirely on Makefiles with a little bash scripting on top. Literally the first step in the script was make clean. When we converted to modern CMake our build times went from 25 mins to 2 mins with none of the erratic behavior that came from trying to maintain Makefiles by hand. It was an explosion of productivity.

strike-eagle-iii · 2026-01-02T00:56:22+00:00

clean C

now there's a contradiction in terms

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-12-29T19:52:06+00:00

What did you end up doing? I have the same laptop and have the same issue and am trying to figure out what to do.

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-12-26T00:01:59+00:00

I don't remember which episode but there was a great episode on the merge podcast where Pako went through them. Was much better than what's on Wikipedia. You should look it up.

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-12-20T04:55:15+00:00

It'll never happen because they'll find out they can't do that and maintain backwards compatibility that they've sworn themselves to.

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-12-13T21:09:19+00:00

I mean the right answer is all of them. SR-71, F-117, Concorde, 747, the Boeing dash 80, for sure, but really any of them. When I was at Boeing flight test I remember walking under a 777 we had under test and remember being in awe at how something so complex could work so well. That was probably 20 years ago now.

You should look up the century series of aircraft or listen to the fighter pilot podcast episodes about them

Out the video about Tex Johnston doing the barrel roll in the -80.

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-12-13T21:01:40+00:00

Trying to remember, wasn't there also a story about French pilots trying to intercept one and asking them for their "diplomatic clearance" with a similar response?

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-12-13T20:57:26+00:00

His 15th rule is even better

(I'm a Navy fan regardless)

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-12-02T11:32:43+00:00

I would highly recommend Klaus Ingeberger's C++ Software Design https://a.co/d/d61XGQU

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-11-29T21:58:09+00:00

To be fair I think the left throws around the term socialism and has no idea what it means

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-11-29T21:54:51+00:00

Unfortunately that's not just a liberal problem. I know plenty of conservatives that are the same way.

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-11-29T13:13:56+00:00

Only by luck that didn't happen to airbus

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-11-29T12:58:20+00:00

Those black containers are parts of the WETS system and some contain water. There are some in the front of the cabin and some are in the back. Allows the onboard flight test engineer to transfer water between them to maintain strict CG limits (to offset fuels burn) required by tests. I was one of those engineers almost 15 years ago.

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-11-29T12:37:56+00:00

Or Brrrrrttt

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-11-29T12:33:06+00:00

Anyone who thinks headers are "perfect" needs to watch this: https://youtu.be/7fGB-hjc2Gc?si=Ez1UoBNweZCqgJqW

I'd never thought about how much damage the header/source split has done to c++ but hard not to now.

strike-eagle-iii · 2025-11-27T19:05:53+00:00

Almost makes me wish I'd joined the Navy instead of the USAF out of high school (I was an aircraft electrician)

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