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by JCM9 4y ago
Yes. I remember going into the AAA office with my dad before family vacations to pick them up. They gave you a whole pre-trip briefing too on current construction, tips and any issues you might encounter. While apps like Waze do a great job
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by JCM9 4y ago
Yes. People are often shocked when asbestos is found and the recommended response is to do nothing. Messing with it is likely to cause more issues than just letting it be. If it’s intact and unlikely to be disturbed it’s not going to hurt a
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by JCM9 4y ago
Seeing people ask why PFAS hasn’t just been immediately banned. Like a lot of things, “it’s complicated.” 1. These compounds are extremely good at what they do. From lubrication to fire retardants there’s a reason these compounds are everyw
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by JCM9 4y ago
Any broad statements gloss over some nuance, but having been through many of these trainings over the years I’d have to agree with the concerns these articles raise. Blunders like the controversy around promoting “LatinX” as a term and call
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What If Diversity Trainings Are Doing More Harm Than Good?(nytimes.com)
10 points by JCM9 4y ago|3 comments
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by JCM9 4y ago
Google’s best days may be behind it. The search revenue is looking increasingly shaky. New business units like GCP are struggling to operate profitably. They had an amazing cash cow (ad revenue) for a long time but that cow is getting old a
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by JCM9 4y ago
The Visa situation is very bad , but technically for better or worse it’s how the system was designed to work. H1Bs are meant to supplement the domestic supply of certain skills to meet demand. If demand drops (or as is happening with now s
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by JCM9 4y ago
I hear you. But the flip side is there is often a tendency to massively over complicate things in a way that bakes in valueless complexity and bloat, which is very much the norm in large government systems. I’m practice this attitude is far
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by JCM9 4y ago
This demonstrates a gross misunderstanding of how the FAA actually operates in its efforts to address “risk.” It’s far more theatre via bureaucracy and paperwork than actual proven engineering efforts that demonstrably reduce risk.
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by JCM9 4y ago
The original definition was deemed to be not inclusive by DEI so address that they kept the acronym but changed the meaning.
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by JCM9 4y ago
The NOTAM system is something that a room full of decent engineers could easily build from scratch and make it infinitely better in a short time. It’s essentially just a database of categorized posts with some APIs for sending entries and a
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by JCM9 4y ago
Each state modifies this slightly but not much. Note too that the MUTCD can be your friend if you get a questionable traffic ticket. If the relevant signs don’t follow the standards that’s often grounds for dismissing the ticket. Non-standa
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by JCM9 4y ago
Can Experian please just go away. This is just the latest example of where they’ve demonstrated themselves wholly unqualified to be handling the sort of data they handle. This is like elementary level security 101 stuff that they messed up
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by JCM9 4y ago
The east coast of the US has long used extensive snowmaking capacity to keep slopes open. Most resorts in the east have plenty of cold air, but natural snow is iffy at best for long periods. It’s now common for resorts in the east to have 1
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by JCM9 4y ago
A lot of checks and balances in there to make sure the defendant knows what they’re doing and can’t claim later they want to change their mind. The government’s strategy on these sort of cases is to take out the little people with deals, ge
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by JCM9 4y ago
Likely. Could have been testing something after maintenance. Also the data is just for his jet, but as that flight highlights it doesn’t mean he was onboard.
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by JCM9 4y ago
These articles come out every now and then and they all have the same financial and logical flaws. The “forced savings” argument is nonsense. If you’re renting you are simply building equity and “savings” for someone else. Housing cost is a
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by JCM9 4y ago
I remember when this all happened. Would be interesting if it was the result of some really interesting technical bug that nobody could have foresaw followed by a fascinating effort to save the migration. In fact it was all quite boring and
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by JCM9 4y ago
Absolutely. For anyone that’s been for a while the last hype period was a case of “I’ve seen this play before and I know what happens in Act III.” It’s been a while since we’ve had a solid down market and thus there are a lot of people tha
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by JCM9 4y ago
Yeah, I knew this whole space was a race to the bottom the first time when a driver turned up with two phones with one running Uber and the other Lyft. When I asked them how they choose they just said which ever wants to fight harder for th
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by JCM9 4y ago
Fair enough :-)
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by JCM9 4y ago
It’s going to be a painful 2023 for these companies and some likely won’t make it or will be sold off in fire sales. Not to sound cold but the market needs a good cleansing and some of these companies that had unrealistic valuations need to
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by JCM9 4y ago
Uber has turned into garbage and I’ve stopped using them. Ironically they’ve increasingly become the transport option with a terrible customer experience, which is what they set out to change in the first place. The final straw is when I ha
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by JCM9 4y ago
“Doesn’t look like it was made in 2003.” Sometimes in tech we don’t do a good job of recognizing that a problem is essentially “solved” and further “innovation” isn’t helping. The reason why stuff looked like “it was made in 2003” was becau
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by JCM9 4y ago
Yet another example of why you should run for the hills (as a customer or employee) if a private equity firm buys a business.
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by JCM9 4y ago
The aircraft is hanging from the ceiling at the Las Vegas airport along with displays of artifacts from the flight. One of those things people just walk past and don’t pay attention to, but worth a look if you’re there!
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by JCM9 4y ago
The airspace around the airshow was under a TFR (temporary flight restriction). It would have been highly illegal for anyone to fly a drone there.
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by JCM9 4y ago
GPS can be much more accurate than what the article says. For example, over the continental US the extra WAAS satellites provide accuracy down to more like 3-4 feet for GPS based aircraft navigation. These satellites broadcast correction si
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by JCM9 4y ago
I’d argue this space was technically successfully but not commercially so. We love our “smart speakers” and have integrated them into home automation. Does anyone make any money when we use them? No.
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by JCM9 4y ago
This was a legit big screw up. I remember seeing the news alerts coming in thinking this could be the start of World War III.

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