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New comment by ycan in "Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers"

ycan — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:38:52 +0000

Alphanumeic call signs are already used around the world [0], it's just that the US (like many other aviation fields) is behind the times.

[0] https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviation-explainer-series...

New comment by ycan in "The strange disappearance of Mrs Agatha Christie (2022)"

ycan — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 19:05:23 +0000

> Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a keen spiritualist, even consulted a medium to attempt to solve the mystery of her disappearance.

This bit was the most surprising part of the article for me, given the themes of science and materialism in Sherlock Holmes books. Looking a bit into it, Doyle really seems to have been into Spiritualism for some bizarre reason [0].

[0] https://arthurconandoyle.co.uk/spiritualist

New comment by ycan in "Caught by MuseScore's Dark Patterns (2021)"

ycan — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 15:58:27 +0000

> is largely built upon hobbyists' transcription efforts.

Which is the same model as one of the other holdings of Muse Group, Ultimate Guitar. It has a wide database for user-created guitar tablatures for most popular songs. Starting from 10 or so years ago, the experience has deteriorated rapidly; they - push their "Pro" versions at the top of each search result, - overlay a bullshit video on the actual tablatures which is easily mistaken for a video tutorial for the song you are looking at, - user created GuitarPro tabs require an account to download, - there is an ever-present countdown until their 80% runs out, which resets every two days or so.

When I first heard of MuseScore and the fact that Tantacrul worked on it, I was quite excited about an open source notation app but I want nothing to do with it because of their parent company.

New comment by ycan in "Fretastic: Guitar fretboard visualizer – scales, intervals, backing tracks"

ycan — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 22:14:13 +0000

Default should be first fret to the left, as is used widely. This way it's quite confusing and it's not obvious where to flip it.

New comment by ycan in "Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions"

ycan — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:21:12 +0000

Their way of placating the vocal minority is the Community portal, where those who are passionate enough to express ideas to improve Spotify (in a way that is useful for the users, and not necessarily for Spotify) are given a place to discuss their ideas and are promptly ignored.

You Don’t Agree with Karl Popper

ycan — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 18:38:51 +0000

Article URL: https://fakenous.net/?p=1239

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24180061

Points: 2

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New comment by ycan in "The new Jupyter Book"

ycan — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:47:15 +0000

Imagine you manage all this but they change something fundamental and you have to (get everyone else to) reinstall all of it.

New comment by ycan in "MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life"

ycan — Mon, 11 May 2020 09:19:40 +0000

The CH yoke doesn’t have a dedicated hand-controlled rudder but it has three levers for prop, do you mean mapping one of them to control the rudder?