AdrianB1

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by AdrianB1 3y ago
Gillette was B2B until 10 years ago, but it was one of the biggest spenders on marketing as percentage of their product total cost. There is no pure B2B if your brand is known to public.
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
It does. When you have nothing big to inovate to most products, you need to tell a story to keep the attention of the customers. This is where 4.1 comes into the picture. When 4.1 changes the direction into politics, you start doing it inte
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
Nope, but all the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack plane wings had to be replaced recently due to cracks and Concorde planes were retired due to cracks (micro-cracks, to be more precise). Aluminium does that a lot.
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
> It isn't safe to keep operating the same airplanes for decades. Me, crying while flying a 50 year old Cessna 172. Oh, luckily you are wrong this time: most planes at top airlines are replaced with more competitive ones, not becaus
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
There was no way to raise the fuselage. That would require longer landing gear with no space in the wings to retract it, so it required new wings, leading to re-certifications of both the planes and the pilots and the associated costs. This
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
Planes have a limited life and a shelf life. If you are an airliner and your planes are either aging or becoming not competitive due to fuel consumption (this is the biggest change from a generation to another), you are forced to buy anythi
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
It is a bit more nuanced: 4.1 Company starts to talk about politics instead of products in their marketing campaigns 4.2 Company starts to cut cost on workforce by pushing out experienced people and hiring cheap newbies 4.3 As a result of t
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
Nope. It is most probably caused by operational stress - rudder assembly is moving, fuselage is also working (compression and decompression cycles on take off and landing, thermal expansion and compression). I bet they don't just put r
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
They are not related. Probably different types of bolts, for sure different stress types. Rudder assembly is a moving part, these false door panels are not.
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
This is probably all the author could write without creating a huge legal problem for their employer. The text suggests that clearly.
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
I see this having a real future in some special cases, but for this price not as a general use tech. I saw a movie where a guy was repairing a ship with some AR (not VR) glasses/eyepiece that was identifying the parts he was looking at
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
All the manufacturers of key pieces of military advanced weapons are on that list. Fighter jets are on the very top. When corporate America is now more about "business" than engineering, making a good plane is very expensive. It&#
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
They both acted in the same area. In case an important company is going under, you can merge it into a similar company to keep it running.
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
That is the definition of "failing upwards". It's the fashion of the past 50 years in business.
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And EASA, which is also politically controlled, will not do it because the US government pressure.
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That is correct. However MDD was manufacturing key military products (F-15, F-18) and it was doing bad financially, going bankrupt and jeopardizing the fighter plane production and maintenance was a "national security" problem tha
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
If a CEO is all cost and no value, they would not exist.
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
Fully agree with the reason behind blue LEDs, but it does not make it acceptable for end users. I would prefer orange any time, green and yellow have too often a status meaning (good/bad), while orange does not and I think it is more n
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
Daylight sky, with emphasis on daylight, and ocean blue only for people living next to a large body of water. Objects in nature are rarely blue. At night, nothing is blue, most of our history the only color at night is the orange-reddish of
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
I met a small number of exceptional people. Most were very good people, smart and very passioned and that made them very productive. Unfortunately not all of them were positive additions to the team, one was counterproductive as he was crea
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
A long time ago I was the superstar in 3 teams, 2 different companies. In the first one, 25 years ago, the management made me the team lead, it worked well. The second case, 10 years ago, the company was a huge corporation but not yet rotte
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
2 problems here: color and intensity. 1. Color. Blue is more rare in nature than other colors and it has a known association with daylight that is disturbing for sleep. Why not something more neutral like orange (not red, not green)? 2. Int
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
Or it just tells the customers of this kind of equipment want proven solutions instead of other (novelty) options, so the manufacturers build their products with that in mind. Stability and support are very important to most buyers.
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I have considered the idea, but I don't see the practical value. USA will not change a bit, most of the good things from Europe cannot be reapplied (incompatible standards and equipment) and, to be very honest, there is no single Europ
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
No, they are not. I find construction rules in USA to be weird in comparison to Europe, it looks like most rules exist to make new developments almost impossible unless you bribe a lot of the people in charge of regulations; they protect th
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
Yes. Linus personally added the driver in the next release of the kernel.
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
The right to repair move started because lately it is difficult to impossible to perform some repairs by yourself and there is a lack of documentation accessible to owners. Yes, in the '80 you got specifications, manuals and guides for
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
The official inspection is different by jurisdiction, the maintenance plan depends on the manufacturer. The inspection and maintenance are different, for example in regular maintenance schedule there is no emissions check, while the inspect
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by AdrianB1 3y ago
I was a poor student at that time with no opportunities, fixing my car was cheaper than paying someone else to do it: my time was tax free (50% tax on labor).
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I owned almost a dozen Dacia's, but not the Logan. I never got to a car shop for any repairs until I had one with warranty, otherwise I was doing all the repairs on my own, including engine rebuilds and even a chassis swap (brand new c

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