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Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 14:47:05 +0100
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On 23/05/2025 14:30, David wrote:
> On 17/09/2023 12:43, Magani wrote:
>> On Saturday, 16 September 2023 at 11:43:44 pm UTC+10, David Brooks wrote:
>>> On 16/09/2023 02:20, Magani wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, 16 September 2023 at 6:23:16 am UTC+10, David Brooks 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 14/09/2023 22:41, Magani wrote:
>>>>>> What a small world!! Cheers, Magani
>>>>>
>>>>> (YBBN, YBMK, NFFN, OOMS)
>>>>> In exchange for you telling me what those abbreviations stand for, 
>>>>> I'll
>>>>> give you this priceless item:-
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqm73DLtwD0
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> David
>>>>
>>>> That after-dinner speech is a real classic. I stil get a chuckle out 
>>>> of it.
>>>>
>>>> Rather than give the abreviations away straight up, here's a couple 
>>>> of hints.
>>>> 1) They are ICAO (not IATA) codes for airports. They're the towers/ 
>>>> centres where I've spent most of my time telling pilots where to 
>>>> go. :-)
>>>> 2) 1st letter is the area of the world, 2nd is the FIR, sub-region 
>>>> within that area or country, 3rd and 4th are the actual airport.
>>>> 3) In the 1st example YBBN: Y = Australia, B = Brisbane FIR, BN = 
>>>> Brisbane.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I left 2 out (YSCB and YBCG - both only temporary)
>>> Thanks, Magani
>>>
>>> I thought that might have been the case. I've now looked and note that
>>> you've enjoyed living in pretty warm locations! :-D
>>>
>>> Once I worked with an RAAF ATC officer who told me he'd cleared an
>>> aircraft to fly VFR below 500ft from Brisbane to Sydney (example names,
>>> I can't remember now)). The pilot complied.
>>>
>>> Later the controller discovered that it was actually a Boing 747!
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> David
>>
>> One of the 'old and bold' ATCOs here in Brisbane once asked an F-111 
>> for his 'best speed downwind for sequencing'.  The pilot's reply: ' Do 
>> you REALLY want that?' :-)
>> For the non-aviation fraternity out there, an F-111 had a top speed 
>> higher than Concorde and would have broken a stack of windows as he 
>> went through the sound barrier.
>>
>> Re the 'warm locations', NFFN was beautiful - our house was about 50 
>> yards from the beach. 28-ish all year round. In OOMS, when it was 45C 
>> and sticky on the coast, it was generally about mid to high 20s at 
>> 8000' up in the mountains and a lot less humidity.  As for Qld, as 
>> they used to say in the ads, 'Beautiful one day, perfect the 
>> next...'.  The ad writers had obviously never lived through a cyclone 
>> in Nth Qld or the hordes of mosquitoes in the Gulf Country.  :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Magani
>>
> 
> I've just been rereading posts here (r.p.d) and happened across this item:-
> 
> https://www.therundown.ai/p/anthropic-drops-worlds-best-coding-model

My sincere apologies! I posted the incorrect link. :-(

THIS is what I had intended to show you:-

https://i.ibb.co/VYDBzWdy/Screenshot-2025-05-23-at-11-53-43.png

I have emailed Savageduck again but have received no response.

-- 
Kind regards,
David