Hacker News: cladari

New comment by cladari in "Cassie LaBelle: "eBay completely destroyed my life""

cladari — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:19:22 +0000

The R in ALARA is reasonably.

New comment by cladari in "Review of 737 Max Certification Finds Fault with Boeing and FAA"

cladari — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 18:10:56 +0000

Anecdote - After TMI the NRC mandated that all nuclear plants install a system to automatically initiate auxiliary feed water to the steam generators if certain criteria were met. The Combustion Engineering version of this was called Aux Feed Actuation System or AFAS. During the next refueling outage it was being installed and I was giving lectures on it's design and operation (I had moved from operations to training by then) and the very first question from the very first operator training session was "How do you turn it off". My answer was "you can't". They were not happy.

New comment by cladari in "Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults"

cladari — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:07:01 +0000

I don't think it's possible to exercise your way to weight loss. A handful of Oreo's will negate an hour workout. Simply cutting out as much added sugar as possible will drop weight quickly on just about anyone. Cutting out sugar isn't really a diet but more of a habit change. I'm not saying don't exercise, I'm saying both are necessary for results.

New comment by cladari in "China to the Rescue of Nuclear Power?"

cladari — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:16:51 +0000

In Japan they shut down each plant yearly for inspection. Everywhere else it's done on the refueling cycle. The plant I worked at was on a two year cycle so each year one of the two plants shut down for about an 8 week refuel/overhaul outage.

New comment by cladari in "As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (2017)"

cladari — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:10:02 +0000

I got a speeding in a school zone ticket and fought it because the points for that offence are high. The sign gave times the speed limit was in effect but I missed it and there were no other cars on the road so I didn't have that as a reference either. My lawyer argued that if the time of day was required knowledge there should have been a clock installed under the sign or some other visual alert. I got off.

New comment by cladari in "The Slow Death of Hollywood"

cladari — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 23:08:33 +0000

Unless you live in or near a fairly large urban center, or some large college towns, you won't find movie theaters showing small films.

New comment by cladari in "Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels to learn stuff?"

cladari — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:13:40 +0000

I'd add Americas Test Kitchen - independent testing of kitchen appliances and basics. Recipe how to's after extensive testing. Good cooking tips.

New comment by cladari in "Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (2010)"

cladari — Wed, 29 May 2019 03:04:10 +0000

I'm remembering back 40 years here. I worked in the engine room of a nuclear powered cruiser. We had a switch called something like "battle bypass" that would bypass all the auto scram functions. The military calls a shutdown scram while the commercial industry calls it trip. We had a captain rank captain and I believe all nuclear powered vessels had one.

New comment by cladari in "Driven – A bicycle drivechain concept without derailleurs and chains"

cladari — Wed, 08 May 2019 21:09:55 +0000

There are plenty of motorcycles with belt drive, the suspension doesn't seem to be a problem.

New comment by cladari in "You Are Old, Father William"

cladari — Sun, 05 May 2019 00:02:44 +0000

We also lowered the voting age to 18.

New comment by cladari in "Greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry"

cladari — Thu, 02 May 2019 19:03:14 +0000

South Texas is a 4 loop Westinghouse design and Palo Verde is a 2 loop System 80 Combustion Engineering design. Neither is experimental or unusually dangerous.

New comment by cladari in "Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report"

cladari — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 20:23:22 +0000

The 737 has a better glide ratio than a Cessna 172 when both set up correctly.

New comment by cladari in "Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX Investigation Preliminary Report"

cladari — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 20:15:11 +0000

Am I missing it because I don't see flaps mentioned anywhere in that link.

New comment by cladari in "No call for simulators in new Boeing 737 Max training proposals"

cladari — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:58:28 +0000

Licensed nuclear plant control room operators go through 40 hours of training every 6 week. Generally 5 weeks of operations rotation then 1 week of training, all year, every year. Twenty hours of classroom and 20 hours of simulator training, the week includs a written and simulator exam. Failing either and the operator is taken off shift until his remediation training is complete and exams passed.

If pilots rotated into training time these changes could be addressed in simulators on a scheduled basis the airline could plan for.

New comment by cladari in "M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story (1981)"

cladari — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 03:29:16 +0000

This is the straight scoop on the development of the M16. This is the channel for all things Colt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE0xcxwZg2M

New comment by cladari in "M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story (1981)"

cladari — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:58:01 +0000

It wouldn't stabilize tracer rounds, it was perfectly fine with standard issue rounds. The manual bold close wasn't in Stoners original design, it was requested by the military. In my opinion the internal piston design is the true genius of this rifle. Recoil is almost straight back so follow up shots are much easier.

As the Russians seem to be moving to 5.56 the American military is looking to move to the 6mm class.

New comment by cladari in "My First Life as a Nurse (2015)"

cladari — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:02:03 +0000

My first wife was an ER nurse then cardiac critical care. The doctors would look for her to talk to the families of patients who had died because they said she was good at it.

New comment by cladari in "A new class-action lawsuit takes aim at real estate agents and their 6% fee"

cladari — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:56:18 +0000

You can get breakfast at the Breakers for 50 bucks or the Waffle House down the street for 10 dollars. The Breakers waitstaff will get a 10 dollar tip and the Waffle house staff will get 2 dollars for the exact same meal and the exact same amount of work. It's a messed up system.

New comment by cladari in "As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling"

cladari — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 03:03:05 +0000

If he said that in 1970 he only had 3 years wait for item 2. The IBM Selectric II Correcting was introduced in '73.

New comment by cladari in "How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger"

cladari — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:27:26 +0000

My youngest of 3 is now 32 years old. I've recently been thinking about the oft heard "I'm always amazed by the things my grown children remember and the things they don't". I've been trying to discover why they remember things I've forgotten, why that moment was so important to their young lives. We've started to talk about it, trying to find the base so they can use the lesson in their own child rearing.