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Since ejection wouldn't be feasible, wonder if an undercarriage airbag, perhaps like bumper rails to keep weight down and work around landing gear, would be effective in a crash?


If the aircraft is falling out of control there's no guarantee it will impact the ground with the undercarriage side down. Plus airbags would have to be huge and heavy to do any good.


This would be nice if it had predefined routines to run through, preferably from a plaintext, line-separated textarea.

For example:

  insert value
  insert value
  insert value
  delete value
  insert value
  insert value
  find   value
  insert value
That way, if someone just wanted to see how the data structure worked, they could step through an existing routine. Others, who may want to validate their own routines match the expected output, can add and edit the routine parameters all at once.

You may want to prefill some fields because it may not be clear to everyone what value is expected in the input box.

Neat project. Thanks for sharing!


Hey sorry for the confusion but this isn't my project! I just found it last night while researching b-trees and figured I should share. I now realize that the 'Show HN' prefix means one is showing off their own work. My mistake!

I was excited to come across this work because I was hoping to make something similar to show how a parser builds an abstract syntax tree.

After playing with it for a minute I agree about it needing an auto run feature!


I used to agree with this but it's unlikely a MVP will get enough traction to truly damage a software brand. Of course, this depends on the medium (computer software [harder to update] vs website service) and target audience (investor vs public) and if your audience understands it's a MVP.

Question is: should a user come by your MVP now or in six months when it's "done"? The earlier people see your product and not like it, the earlier you can hone it for future users. Plus, a final version could be rebranded if the MVP was that bad.

Granted, I fell into this trap with my website. I kept putting it's release off and now am learning how to refine it as I see how it's used by others.

For instance, I thought the news section of my site (http://www.survivalscout.com/news) would be really popular but almost no one visits it. It's my favorite part but I seem to be in the minority according to the logs. If I had known that earlier, I may have spent less time making it.


Good site!


- I plan to add offline-mode when I enable user accounts. It will behave more or less like an app when you save guides for offline access

- Most the images are from military manuals that I cleaned up

Appreciate you taking a look


Where can I read more about your SDR project? Is it a transceiver or just for monitoring communications? I'm a HAM (KK6BXK) and starting a website (http://www.survivalscout.com) that plans to cover this type of stuff. I try to link out to neat projects like this


Interesting idea. I used to watch Berkeley webcast videos at 1.5x to shave off ~30 minutes from a 90 minute lecture. Any faster wouldn't be intelligible.


I do the same. I usually watch all lecture videos at 1.5x or 2x speed. Saves me tons of time which is good because usually to videos are of random interesting topics that are distracting me from work.


It is the case that you can teach yourself to understand faster and faster speech. The blind often have human interface devices which speak at absurdly high vocal acceleration.


This also depends heavily on information density. I can listen to some types of content at 2x without issue; other content I can't accelerate more than 10-20%.


Some content I have to scrub and rewatch even at 1x speed.

Some content I can watch at 4x.


Blind people regularly teach themselves to listen at 4-5x speed.


Outdoor survival guides

http://www.survivalscout.com


Came here to say this.

This comic is the perfect explanation of interrupting the thought process.


This is what the Marine's teach when they abandon ship http://www.survivalscout.com/guides/terrain/ocean/abandoning...

Basically cross your arms, legs and look forward


... or start your own


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