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by _bear 7y ago
My overall grade was 'Outstanding', but I joined in Feb, so had a good -5 months before I was reviewed. Apparently it's difficult to get this where I work.
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by _bear 7y ago
I can read it off-line whilst I'm travelling on the subway/ underground / tube
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by _bear 7y ago
I use Ansible scripts to automate the setup on my new Macs, so far so good
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by _bear 7y ago
In other words, all you do in use the iPad as a thin-client. Which a Chromebook could do. Which your phone could do. Which any of those laptops from 2002 could do.
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by _bear 7y ago
Completely agree. This is not entirely a software fault. Someone must have thought that it was ok and safe enough to rely on data from one sensor.
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by _bear 7y ago
As an A320 family pilot, I still haven’t done cold and dark start. Maybe once day I will find an opportunity to.
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by _bear 7y ago
It uses Electron.. which is packaged Chromium. That's the hog.
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by _bear 8y ago
So... this is just another one of those "create a remote server to use as the main development machine"? What if I want to work in areas of little or rubbish connectivity? Tools such as docker, etc don't exist just to run thi
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by _bear 8y ago
>This is the million dollar question. Why didn't the pilots turn off the system and fly in "legacy mode" like they would if they were flying the prior revision of the 737. As a pilot, if my plane is doing something which I
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by _bear 8y ago
Why, then? Curious.. I'm about to accept an offer next week...
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by _bear 8y ago
That is from 2014. There have been many changes in the programming language since. Most people nowadays are using frameworks and abstraction layers which make most of these points moot.