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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@HardwareGeek said in Aviation Antipatterns Thread:
Freezing in mid-air, whatever that might mean, does not seem to me like something that would throw passengers upward
Sounds more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72
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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
Emirates doesn't trust Boeing to the point they're threatening to send their own engineers to monitor the manufacture of the 95 777s and 787s they ordered.
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RE: Youtube vs ad blockers
@Zerosquare I'd feel sorry for the unfair accusation if YouTube's maliciousness wasn't indistinguishable from AdBlock's incompetence.
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RE: Youtube vs ad blockers
Maybe I just jinxed it and I'll be fucked tomorrow?
Yep:
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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@Bulb said in Aviation Antipatterns Thread:
It is generally a non-issue.
Generally.
While the aircraft was flying over Didcot, Oxfordshire, an improperly installed windscreen panel separated from its frame, causing the captain to be partially ejected from the aircraft. He was held in place through the window frame for 20 minutes until the first officer landed at Southampton Airport.
Note that to everyone's suprise, the captain survived and went on to continue flying until his retirement.
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RE: Can I borrow an apology?
@dkf They didn't, but what would such an operator look like anyway?
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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@Bulb said in Aviation Antipatterns Thread:
It wasn't the front.
You 'd:
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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@cheong Also the FAA emergency airworthiness directive is not requiring any redesign, just a very thorough inspection of similar aircraft.
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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@cheong There is no plug, or rather the emergency door itself is the plug. As @HardwareGeek said, the door is still there, it's just deactivated and hidden behind an interior trim panel. It's cheaper to do it this way because you don't need to manufacture a special part (beyond a piece of plastic) and it allows for an easy reconfiguration of the plane in the future (you can just unhide the door if you add enough seats to make it required).
As usual, blancolirio's video explains this better than any MSM article would:
https://youtu.be/I9EvHpf8jZgBetter yet, it also has this comment:
I did 43 years at Boeing in Commercial Airplanes with 31 years in QA. As Juan says this is a plug type door. These types of doors have been used on all Boeing transports back to the 707 and are very reliable. They should not be confused with the cargo doors such as the 747 door involved in the United Airlines flight 811 accident. Those pegs sticking out of the door frame are door stops. There is a matching set of stops on the door. The set of stops on the door are inside of the door frame. The pressurization of the airplane pushes the door against the stops in the door frame. The way the door opens there is a gate at the bottom of the door that folds in allowing the door to move down so the door stops will clear each other and move outward. Part of the mechanism includes pins protruding from the door frame and cam locks on the door side. This cam/pin arraignment is the locking system. Inside the door there is an arrangement of gear boxes, linkages and torque tubes that move the end gate, cam locks and the door moving down. When the door is properly rigged the door stops are adjusted to ensure proper contact and the push rods are adjusted to ensure the linkage goes over center to prevent unwanted movement and subsequent opening of the door. Proper rigging is also dependent upon having the weight of the door slide compensated for. A deactivated door does not have the escape slide. If the door was rigged with the slide weight and then deactivated, then the rigging could possibly be incorrect. Either the door was mis rigged or a safety device was left off the door assembly allowing the rigging to change. These doors are installed and rigged by Spirit Aviation (formerly Boeing of Wichita).
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RE: Youtube vs ad blockers
@DogsB said in Youtube vs ad blockers:
AdBlockers generally remove an entire attack vector when it comes to online security.
There is a reason they are outright recommended by the FBI:
The FBI recommends individuals take the following precautions:
[...]- Use an ad blocking extension when performing internet searches
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RE: The Cat Status Thread
@Zerosquare said in The Cat Status Thread:
Having recently travelled from the northern to the southern hemisphere, I sympathise.
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RE: From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot
@BernieTheBernie said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot:
Remember that all this playing around destroyed that 8 GB shtick such that it cannot be formatted anymore
Of course it did. USB tumb drives have a really low amount of write cycles, often measured in hundreds. The use case is copying a few files here and there, not using it as volatile memory. The expectation is that you'll lose it or break it a long time before it writes itself to death.
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RE: Powershell retarded
@Zenith said in Powershell retarded:
only to hit you with a decidedly batch scripting behavior that's inexplicable if you're thinking like a programmer instead of a scripter.
Like continuing on error by default. What kind of an insane person figured that'd be a good idea? I rarely use PowerShell but the one thing I do remember, because I have to, is
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
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RE: From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot
@BernieTheBernie said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot:
Still not knowing how to get my Terratec DMX 6Fire audio card running.
Sound like a lot of fun: https://linuxaudio.github.io/libremusicproduction/html/tutorials/setting-and-using-terratec-dmx-6fire-usb-external-soundcard.html
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RE: From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot
@BernieTheBernie said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot:
Looked with Dolphin around, and suddenly Linux just hang. Had to switch the machine off with the main switch.
What an experience! Do not know when that happened last time on Windows.When's the last time you ran Windows off some dodgy USB stick?
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RE: From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot
@TimeBandit said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot:
If you want obsolute stability, go with Debian stable. Else, you should try Linux Mint.
I reckon recommending Debian stable was a mistake. Anyone used to windows has a skewed perception of what stability is. The stability comes at the cost of "outdated" packages. If you then come across needing a more recent version than the repository has, good luck.
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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
@HardwareGeek said in Aviation Antipatterns Thread:
You remember that guy who crashed his plane in California, the one who just happened to be wearing a parachute (with a fire extinguisher strapped to his leg under his pants)
You forgot about his best friend's ashes in a ziplock sandwich bag, and a Ridge wallet.
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RE: It semms Jeff Atwood has deleted his twitter account
@codinghorror1 said in It semms Jeff Atwood has deleted his twitter account:
That's a very interesting way to frame it which I had not considered, but I would view it as an unintended side effect (we can't serve that much info over a modem! 56k warning there are lots of images!) rather than something that was intentionally built to encourage introspection and reading.
I agree that it came about as an unintended side effect, but why does that matter? Whether it was intended or not, it is here and it works (for me).
But I definitely agree with your thesis: how do we get people to read?
Not just read, think. Those are not necessarily the same thing.
And for me, it's about not having to click "next page" over and over and over until I'm dead.
Yes, while for me being swamped by a never-ending stream of text is the problem. But as I already said, that's why letting people choose is such a great answer to this dilemma
Pagination is not the way, other methods might help though? 🤔
That's what you say, I say you're wrong. You took something that worked for me and replaced it with something that doesn't (incidentally it doesn't work for the browser either as others have pointed out). Now you're offering to reinvent the wheel, but given your attitude, I fear that the end result will be a square.
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RE: It semms Jeff Atwood has deleted his twitter account
@codinghorror1 said in It semms Jeff Atwood has deleted his twitter account:
Pages, however, block reading / listening which is an enormous net negative
They don't block it, they temporarily pause it. For me a page break is a positive as it forces me to actually think about the information I just read for a short moment.
I understand that not everyone is like me, which is why I like NodeBB's approach of letting you choose. It is unfortunate that you don't seem to understand that not everyone is like you.
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RE: Password managers
KeePass with the KeeAnywhere and AutoTypeSearch plugins on the desktop, and Keepass2Android on, well, Android.
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RE: Replacing shells
@cvi said in Replacing shells:
Minor nitpick: that seems to give you a pile of files (~13MB in a minimal test).
You can configure it to spit out a single binary and possibly also exclude unneeded libraries to reduce the size, but this is hardly a fun process. It's not really documented and you get weird errors until you get it just right.
@cvi said in Replacing shells:
FWIW- premake is a "meta build system" (similar to CMake) that uses Lua as its configuration+scripting language. It ships as a single binary. IME it does a better job at generating clean project files for e.g. VS (though rumors say that recent CMake has also shaped up).
I'm familiar with Premake. I really appreciate it for what it does. I'm also familiar with the fact that it has a set of custom os.* functions. Unfortunately the fact that those are necessary is not a good indication of Lua itself being up to the task that @Bulb is seemingly after.
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RE: Replacing shells
@cvi said in Replacing shells:
The main advantage that I would see with lua is that you can distribute a single .exe/binary for the interpreter (similar to e.g. premake).
You can do the same thing with Python. And your arrays (or "arrays") don't index from 1...
The main advantage of Lua is its ease of integrating with existing C or even C++ APIs, and its speed when used through LuaJIT. It almost makes one forgive the array indexing problem. That's the reason it's commonly used in games as @PleegWat pointed out. That's probably not really applicable here though.
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RE: Replacing shells
@Bulb said in Replacing shells:
Powershell aims to be this, but my experience with it so far is … mixed.
You forgot to mention PowerShell's schizophrenia:
powershell
vs.pwsh
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
All things considered I have to say he's rather calm!
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RE: Aviation Antipatterns Thread
I always found it nuts that in the US you'll get landing clearance for a runway that's still in use by another plane. This is just the logical result of that.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
How not to behave during a traffic stop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGaLHuPW7_4"This happens to me all the time!"
Gee, I wonder why...
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RE: Internet of shit
@dcon said in Internet of shit:
@Deadfast said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
Digital License Plates
Why? Just why?
So you can pay someone a subscription fee every month for the kool factor!
I mean you could just buy a sticker that says "wanker" and it will achieve the same result for cheaper.
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RE: Right to repair sold to the highest bidder
@Deadfast said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
@Dragoon I'll believe it when I see it.
As predicted:
https://youtu.be/7-RgOUT3zeoThe main point of the video is that a similar memorandum of understanding was already made by John Deere in California in 2018 and changed absolutely nothing, because John Deere just hides behind intellectual property, environmental concerns and safety. It's just a PR stunt.
Also:
The only thing worse than being pissed on is when everybody else thinks it's just raining.
- Louis Rossmann
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
Saw a rather funny sticker on the back of a B-double truck.
The right side had a right arrow with "Passing" underneath. The left side had a left arrow with "Suicide".
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RE: The Cat Status Thread
@JBert said in The Cat Status Thread:
Now somebody only needs to invent a device to look past the cat...
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RE: Right to repair sold to the highest bidder
@Dragoon I'll believe it when I see it.
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RE: Is clean architecture controversial?
@Gustav said in Is clean architecture controversial?:
I don't believe you one bit. I'm sure you'd find another way to fuck up the reading, and blame it on me being not clear enough too. And if not you, then someone else. I'm on a 0-80 losing streak in communication right now. It almost feels like y'all doing it on purpose, just to drive me mad. Maybe you already did.
If you think that's bad, you clearly have never interacted with a customer before.
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RE: In other hostile takeover Tweets...
@The_Quiet_One said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@izzion said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
Which means all they'll be left with are the people that are either a) not likely to find another place in those 3 months or b) not willing to risk trying to find another place in 3 months.
IOW you're keeping the people who can't or won't say no, which are the people who aren't usually the best performers. Not a smart move.
Though with the hiring bust in Silicon Valley positions at the moment, there's at least the possibility that the high achievers will feel stuck at this point and determine that they'll bite the bullet for now and keep their heads down.
I could also win the next $2bn lottery jackpot, but hey.
If they win the jackpot they can buy Twitter from Musk in a few months.
My hope is that in a few months time one could afford to buy Twitter without needing to have won the lottery.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
I drove past an interesting programmable road sign this morning.
It said:
HELLO
ROAD CLOSURE
8TH JUNE 8AM-4PM
No idea why it was telling me about a road closure that happened two months ago, but at least it was friendly about it!
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RE: Internet of shit
@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
I'm a bit disappointed. I'd have expected you to 3D print the key, or pick the lock.
Really? I expected @Polygeekery to go at it with a shotgun .
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RE: Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?
@kazitor said in Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?:
Magpies are sweet and wholesome
[..]
a vicious stepmum who wouldn’t let the poor juveniles have anything as she was around, dive-bombing and pecking at their backs…@kazitor said in Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?:
the only people who get tormented by them are those who are being dicks
A.k.a cyclists.
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RE: Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?
@Kamil-Podlesak said in Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?:
@Deadfast said in Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?:
@Vault_Dweller said in Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?:
@Gurth said in Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?:
@Bim-Zively There are plenty more but it seems a lot of countries do their best to avoid the (equivalent of the) word “tax” in the relevant service’s name.
Ours has a very apt acronym
SARSI raise you the Czech translation for "revenue service":
FUAnd I raise the german online tax declaration portal ELSTER, named after a magpie - a bird inclined to steal shiny objects made of precious metals.
Alternatively, it means ELektronische STeuerERklärung. Yeah, sure.
Do they also aggressively attack anyone everything their territory like the Australian magpie?
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RE: Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?
@Vault_Dweller said in Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?:
@Gurth said in Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?:
@Bim-Zively There are plenty more but it seems a lot of countries do their best to avoid the (equivalent of the) word “tax” in the relevant service’s name.
Ours has a very apt acronym
SARSI raise you the Czech translation for "revenue service":
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Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud?
Before we can get to the fun part, let me give you a quick crash course on how Australian taxes work (please don't leave!)...
In Australia, the financial (fiscal) year start on 1 July and ends on 30 June. At the end of the financial year you have to submit a tax return to the wonderful people at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). If you are an employee with no side income and don't intend to claim any deductions, this is actually a mostly painless process because all of the information is already pre-filled for you, so you just click "OK" and "Submit".
Oh, unless you are a foreigner not eligible for Medicare in which case the process is not straightforward at all...
Firstly, your visa conditions require you to hold private health insurance substituting the Medicare.
Secondly, the ATO will still automatically deduct the Medicare levy from your pay check (2%) and you only get it back at the end of the financial year, essentially giving the government an interest-free loan.
Of course they won't just give the money back to you like that, you first have to fill out a Medicare Entitlement Statement (MES) form, print it, sign it, scan it and email it to the MES Unit, alongside a scan of your passport, showing that indeed you are very much a foreigner. Then you have to wait about a month for the response to arrive via snail mail, after which you can finally file the tax return with the ATO to get your money back.
Well, at least that was my experience until the last time I had to do it, before I applied for permanent residency. See, even being in the process of applying for permanent residency makes you eligible for Medicare. By sheer coincidence my application was filed on 2 July, two days after the end of the financial year. This meant that I didn't have to worry about being partly eligible the last year financial year.
Instead of getting the usual letter telling me that I was not eligible for Medicare for the full financial year, I got a letter with this in it:
Wait, what? You have records showing that I have applied for permanent residency but not when? And you need me to give you your own paperwork instead of just asking the guy next door?
Anyways, one of the things that you have to declare on your tax return is any income you make through the pitiful interest earned on your bank account. If you give your bank your Tax File Number, the bank will automatically send this information to the ATO, so when you get to that step, you don't have to do anything other than press "Save and continue":
And commit tax fraud? Because I thankfully have lower confidence in the data than the ATO, I logged into my bank account and pulled up the interest statement. It showed a different, 11% higher amount!
Also in case you didn't notice the note, you get an even more strongly worded one if you click "Adjust":
Gee, I wonder who they'd chose to penalise if I don't adjust it. For some reason I don't think it's going to be the bank...
So how did this happen?
Sorry, this is where I have to quickly explain how UBank pays interest. They have a base interest rate (currently 0.10%) and then a "bonus" rate of 1.75% if you meet certain criteria (deposit $200 into the account). For some reason, last year they decided to change how the interest is paid out. Instead of getting a single interest payment at the end of the month with both the base and the bonus, they now pay you the base interest and the bonus interest separately:
I'm sure you can already tell where the missing 11% went .
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RE: Internet of shit
@cvi said in Internet of shit:
it seems less tolerant of user error.
(Un)fortunately the only remaining paternoster lifts I'm aware of have light gates to protect users against their errors.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@topspin said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
you can't put the taskbar on the side
Taskbar on the bottom makes the aspect ratio of what's left of the screen worse, on the side it makes it better. At least for laptops, but probably also for these UWXVWQHD surfboard-size resolutions.
Having the taskbar centred on the bottom actually works really well for my surfboard-sized monitor. I am very happy that Microsoft decided to tailor the OS specifically to myself and the 3 other people in the world.
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RE: Tesla Owners Get a Little Surprise
@Watson said in Tesla Owners Get a Little Surprise:
@Deadfast said in Tesla Owners Get a Little Surprise:
@dcon said in Tesla Owners Get a Little Surprise:
While pushing every button on the steering wheel
Oh, he hasn't even experienced Tesla's idea of improving that yet!
Horn button right under the thumb so that if you grip the steering wheel too tightly you get a notification?
More so the fact that it's not even a wheel.
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RE: Tesla Owners Get a Little Surprise
@dcon said in Tesla Owners Get a Little Surprise:
While pushing every button on the steering wheel
Oh, he hasn't even experienced Tesla's idea of improving that yet!
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RE: Tesla Owners Get a Little Surprise
@Gąska said in Tesla Owners Get a Little Surprise:
@dkf said in Tesla Owners Get a Little Surprise:
@dcon said in Tesla Owners Get a Little Surprise:
Another surprise for Tesla owners... (just try and find the Defroster icon after December's update)
I'm surprised they didn't slap a humidity sensor in there (near the windscreen I guess) so they can make the icon more visible when it is likely to be required.
Oh yes, the one thing I'm missing when I'm driving on a highway at
highmedium speed is buttons suddenly disappearing and moving around on their own, Office Ribbon style.📎 It looks like you're trying to defrost your windshield. Do you want help?
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RE: Killed by Google
@Rhywden said in Killed by Google:
They must be redirecting their budget towards a new YouTube Rewind this year. They already hid the dislike count in preparation.