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So I've never been a big fan of AOPA, and find most of what they do clumsy at best, and an embarrassing display of incompetence and ill will at worst. The recent Darren Pleasance vs the board kerfuffle made a lot of things very clear, and I'd really like not to renew my membership when it expires soon.

That said, there is one thing that AOPA offers which is genuinely useful and of great value, and that's Pilot Protection Services, especially the medical guidance resources they have. I've found people working there to be extremely helpful and knowledgeable, and for 60 bucks a year, a privately hired lawyer wouldn't provide me with the time of day, let alone legal representation if any was ne

I have a PPL, and am looking to purchase an airplane, with the intention of putting it in leaseback with a local flight school or club, in order to offset the cost of getting the IFR/CPL/CFI ratings. I'm in a stable financial position, where I can comfortably consider doing this, but I still need the numbers to work out and make it a sound decision.

Since this is a completely new territory to me, and I also know myself enough to know I can't just swing it on my own, I'm looking for a tax advisor / financial advisor / CPA who can help me work out a realistic budget and navigate all the applicable tax breaks, ownership structure, business use write-offs, etc. Ideally they will already have en

I've been going through the classics recently, and in particular wanted to rewatch the one in which Banzaii built the lightning mongoose, but I can't find the video (or any references to it, weirdly enough) on the channel or anywhere on the internet.

For context, I can't remember the specific game they were playing, but it's a multiplayer game where you build vehicles to battle other people. I did a full scan of the videos currently listed on the channel, and I thought it would be Robocraft, but I rewatched that one and it's not that. The video in question also had them build an entirely jousting-based combat vehicle, as well as "start pooping!".

Does anyone know what game it was, and what

I'm based in California, and have just accepted an employment offer from a company also based in California, and one of the sections states (some repetitively exhaustive language omitted):

Prior Inventions. I agree that I will not incorporate, or permit to be incorporated, Prior Inventions (defined below) in any Company Inventions (defined below) without Company’s prior written consent. [...]. I have disclosed on Exhibit A a complete list of all Inventions that I have, or I have caused to be, alone or jointly with others, conceived, developed, or reduced to practice prior to the commencement of my employment by Company, in which I have an ownership interest or which I have a license

[I've also asked this on Stack Overflow, in case you'd rather have your data mined by their machine learning models]

I have a very specific need I'd like to accomplish with Mercurial: in the context of a larger, private repo (a video game), I ended up authoring a couple plugins for the engine being used, and would like to share those publically as separate repos, whilst still being able to share history with the files embedded in my private repo.

Because of the requirements of the engine, in order to be functional, plugins must reside in a particular location, relative to the main project

[Using FreshTomato v2022.5 on a Netgear R6400v2]

Hello,

I'm trying to set up a second AP that's meant for shitty IoT devices that require WiFi to be used, but which I don't want to allow to access the internet. What I'd like to do is to create the AP in such a way that it's on the same network as the primary, ie. the phone connects to MyAP and can see the IoT device on the local network and access the internet, whereas the device connects to MyAP-isolated and can see the phone on the local network, but cannot route outside of the local network range. I tried creating a virtual wireless interface for that, but I quickly realised I have no idea how to set up the routing roules to ach

Just wanted to give a shoutout to Wanda Collins, who was my DPE for a private checkride two weeks ago. I did it in a Citabria at KRHV in San Jose and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. She normally teaches and gives checkrides in Texas (KUTS), but also has enough layovers in SFO that she will often be able to give a checkride in NorCal if you're able to be somewhat flexible about the exact schedule. Especially if you're trying to find someone who will test in a tailwheel, you'll know it's really hard to find a DPE in NorCal who isn't booked a year in advance.

A detailed write-up of the whole checkride available upon request.

Her website: https://www.wandacollinsdpe.com/

Hi, I'm looking to get an AndroidTV box to pair with our Samsung UN55B6000 dumb TV, as a replacement for the current setup with a PS4 as the media player, which works fine, but unfortunately lacks several important apps. Dynalink Android10 TV looks promising, but I'm specifically interested in the quality of HDMI-CEC support. This is where PS4 really shines, allowing almost everything to be controlled with the TV remote, and only occasionally requiring the controller.

So, a couple specific questions:

• How good is Dynalink's remote in terms of comfort and usability? Samsung's own (and the available 3rd party replacements) are mostly OK but honestly kinda crappy, and since I have no need f

Hi, I'm pretty much still a giant noob. I've got the hang of constraint-based sketches and parametric design (love it, especially since I'm a programmer by day). I've used it to design a parametric GT2 timing pulley keyed by the number of teeth. I put down the reference profile dimensions in a spreadsheet, then used that to model a single tooth profile. However, here's where I run into trouble:

• I can't create rotational features directly in the sketch, which is what Fusion 360 folks do in this situation. So I can't just make the outline of the entire pulley, then pad it
• Instead, I tried padding a single slice, then applying Polar

So, trying to decide on what life insurance to get, and from browsing r/pf, I get the impression that permanent life insurance is not well-loved in general. However, I'm struggling to see why anyone would ever want the "cash value" component of those policies. All my reading so far has consistently yielded the same basic answer:

• Cash value policies are supposed to combine the death benefit paid out to the beneficiaries with a savings account (aka. the "cash value") that's accessible to the policyholder whilst they're still alive. That's why they're significantly more expensive than term policies. So far, so good. However,
• The only way you can access the "cash value" is either by:

[Note: I'm based in the US / California, so my power plug and shipping needs are accordingly US-based]

I have an industrial sewing machine with a standard 6V outlet on the motor, and am looking for an LED light that could be hooked up to that. There are plenty of cheap LED lights with magnetic attachment (that is my preferred solution due to the ease of placement), but the ones I could find are all for 110V AC plugs. This is kind of a pain because of where the machine is physically placed. I also tried looking for LED bulbs for the traditional table-mounted sewing lights that plug into the motor outlet, but quite bafflingly, none seem to exist, and I most definitely do not want to mess with

So, I'm in the middle of trying to port my 20 years of emacs config from a homegrown solution based on a fork of grail.el to Doom. And by "port" I really mean "rebuild something familiar enough that I can relearn to use it", as I'd really like to leverage the community-built configs for stuff like python (been writing python in Emacs for 10+ years, and I still can't the experience to be anything better than "rather sucky").

Anyway, a big, big problem for the adoption right now is the fact that, try as I might, I can't get find-file completion to work the way it does in icomplete. By which I mean that if I type ~/D/r-g/sc/, it will complete to ~/Dev/renpy-games/scratchpad. No packa

Ever since the stories broke out about how companies like DoorDash and UberEats are being dickweeds and essentially stealing the tips added by the customers through the card charge, I'm trying to make sure the platforms I use don't do that and treat their employees decently. But there's very little info I can find about BeyondMenu, which happens to be the platform for one of our favourite Chinese restaurants. So here are the questions:

• If I tip $10 on my order, is the deliver person always going to see the full amount on their paycheque? Are there ever any circumstances in which they use the tips to subsidise the driver's base pay? In other words, is tipping online ever worse for the driv

Ever since the stories broke out about how companies like DoorDash and UberEats are being dickweeds and essentially stealing the tips added by the customers through the card charge, I'm trying to make sure the platforms I use don't do that and treat their employees decently. But there's very little info I can find about BeyondMenu, which happens to be the platform for one of our favourite Chinese restaurants. So here are the questions:

• If I tip $10 on my order, is the deliver person always going to see the full amount on their paycheque? Are there ever any circumstances in which they use the tips to subsidise the driver's base pay? In other words, is tipping online ever worse for the driv