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New comment by turrican in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

turrican — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:42:27 +0000

Serious question: could this work in reverse if you took a fecal transplant from someone with “severe” autism and gave it to someone below the ASD cutoff?

New comment by turrican in "Why airlines are always going bankrupt"

turrican — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:30:50 +0000

I’m really sorry you feel that way.

I’m very thankful for the stability and opportunities being a union member has provided my family since I left the tech field, and I wish my friends still in tech could enjoy the same QOL rather than all of us being worse off and upper management being even richer.

New comment by turrican in "Why airlines are always going bankrupt"

turrican — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:01:13 +0000

The article touches on this. Pilot wages are very similar across major US airlines due to heavy unionization and pattern bargaining, so labor is more-or-less a fixed cost (and not the biggest fixed cost). Additionally, pilots can and do take pay cuts in lean times. The pilots at my own airline saw a 20% pay cut in the contract following 9/11 and very reduced wage growth for a decade after that. Management took something like a 5% cut and kept the retirement benefits we lost.

Edit: I thought I recognized your name, I see we discussed pilot unions together on HN a few years back. Can I ask what you have against us? Out of genuine curiosity.

New comment by turrican in "Smartphones and being present"

turrican — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:20:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Good luck to you as well.

New comment by turrican in "Smartphones and being present"

turrican — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:37:48 +0000

What deck are you using? I’ve been wanting to supplement my Spanish learning with an Anki deck for a while now.

New comment by turrican in "Indefinite Backpack Travel"

turrican — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:04:34 +0000

For what it’s worth, I am washing them in a top loader. I wonder if that does make a difference.

New comment by turrican in "Indefinite Backpack Travel"

turrican — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:45:26 +0000

It’s uncomfortably close to bribery, but Precheck/Global Entry is worth every penny.

New comment by turrican in "Indefinite Backpack Travel"

turrican — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:30:02 +0000

I agree with you about the breathability of those merino t-shirts, but I think the author is right about their fragility. I feel like mine constantly get runs or shrink even though I’m careful (I’m a frequent business traveler and they do get heavy use). I’m considering switching back to traditional undershirts.

New comment by turrican in "Is air travel getting worse?"

turrican — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:58:10 +0000

May also happens to be the month construction began on one of EWR’s two commonly used runways (though they do have a smaller third runway). This severely reduced the amount of traffic the airport could handle and EWR attempted to keep operating the same amount of scheduled flights as usual, it was a real mess.

New comment by turrican in "Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover"

turrican — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:16:50 +0000

A note for Kobo users: a lot of us (myself included) use Calibre to manage and upload our ebooks. Something about Calibre messes up Kepub files and strips out a lot of the formatting (including the book’s cover).

If I want to appreciate a nice Kepub from Standard Ebooks, I upload it directly to the Kobo.

New comment by turrican in "Minecraft with object impermanence"

turrican — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:15:21 +0000

I contacted support in 2021 as well, trying to regain access to my account made in 2010. They told me that they wouldn’t help me.

New comment by turrican in "Transponder Landing System enables precision approaches at McMurdo in Antarctica"

turrican — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 02:53:35 +0000

RNAV RNP approaches can contain curved descents. They’re usually used in areas with high terrain but I don’t see why they couldn’t be used down here. LPV minimums seem to usually be very close to ILS minimums these days.

That said, it’s always nice to have a ground-based alternative approach. I wonder if they have sustained issues with GPS this far south.

New comment by turrican in "Decline of Indian vultures"

turrican — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:31:54 +0000

Grew up in ND/MT. In my experience the ranchers would use a tractor to move the carcass somewhere deserted, and then let the coyotes do the final clean-up.

New comment by turrican in "Show HN: Safe Routes. real time turbulence data, ML predictions with an iPad"

turrican — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 23:29:02 +0000

I’m not sure I have any suggestions on how to fix it, but the Skypath integration with the moving map in Jepp FD Pro is way too cluttered. There’s already quite a bit of information in Jepp and the bright colors from Skypath really wash out all the other information. I haven’t seen many pilots use it more than once.

New comment by turrican in "Show HN: Safe Routes. real time turbulence data, ML predictions with an iPad"

turrican — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:31:36 +0000

You guys have a great product, I fly for a major airline and really like it. Hurry up and get Delta onboard so we can get their data too: I’ve used their in-house app at my old job and Sky Vector is much better.

Any plans to change the Jepp integration? Most of my colleagues don’t use it, too much data displayed at once. I’m not sure of a solution but would love to hear if you guys have any ideas.

New comment by turrican in "Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max Experienced Dutch Roll"

turrican — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:17:48 +0000

Sounds quite a bit like wake turbulence. As planes move through the air, they leave air vortices called “wake” (much like a boat does in water). This effect is worse when airplanes are slow, like when they’re coming into land. Pilots try to avoid each other’s wake, but it’s invisible and sometimes you do hit it if the controller vectors you close behind another aircraft.

It produces a strong rolling motion and can even flip small airplanes.

New comment by turrican in "Alarms in medical equipment"

turrican — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:43:44 +0000

True, but professional pilots from all countries are expected to be fluent in Aviation English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_English

New comment by turrican in "Is College Worth It?"

turrican — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:16:51 +0000

I didn’t go through it myself, but for him placement rate was the #1 thing he made his decision on. TE was about 75% coding and 25% interview skills from what I was told. He liked it and was successful.

It really does sound like now is a historically bad time to try breaking into coding, sadly.

New comment by turrican in "Is College Worth It?"

turrican — Thu, 30 May 2024 13:47:02 +0000

He ended up choosing Tech Elevator based on placement rate, online reviews, and location.

New comment by turrican in "Is College Worth It?"

turrican — Tue, 28 May 2024 20:18:41 +0000

As recently as 10 months ago, my brother did a boot camp with no prior experience and landed a job as a junior dev with a ~$100k package. His class had a placement rate of maybe 2 in 3.

Seems like the job market has only gotten worse since then however.