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avh02
9y ago
Oh man, I've been wanting to buy my dad a curta for years (he started his career in electronics, repairing calculators in the 70s/80s). If something like this pans out might make it affordable.
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avh02
9y ago
I also think giving crew control is a factor. Rather than asking/telling individuals to open their shades you just control it. I guess this makes compliance with regulation easier.
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9y ago
Flew the A350 and 787 a week apart (recently, via Qatar) - the A350 is a surprisingly quiet machine on the inside. The 787's larger windows (combined with being tall) means I get an almost 360 view around the plane through windows arou
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9y ago
or what they're doing is placing remotely detonated charges for later simultaneous usage should the need arise. (I'm not saying I think this is what has happened, but it's just a thought) if you lose significant capacity (or
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9y ago
Having grown up in Saudi, I had heard that they had (literally) the same issue when MMS was originally introduced many years ago - but they have a lot more desert and are simply looking for porn, not even anything abusive.
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avh02
9y ago
Don't know, I think google voice is only available in US/Canada, no? (I'm not in either of those countries)
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9y ago
Well... I don't want to legitimize their "need" for my phone number (which granted they already figure out through contact books of others, they don't even hide that they've inferred it). Phones and 2fa are not depe
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9y ago
Last I checked 2fa on Facebook REQUIRES a phone number to be provided so that your phone is an sms based backup method. Apparently all the talented engineers at Facebook didn't think "oh, let them download a few spares backup code
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avh02
9y ago
Personally not interested in the novel, but the name of it would be appreciated by somebody who is
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9y ago
I knew about the change-of-request-type behaviour with 301/302's, but was not aware of the existence of 307/308. This great write-up should make more people aware of it edit: issue --> behaviour
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9y ago
Oh, put the word (or exact phase) you REALLY want results for in quotation marks and scream "did I f'in stutter?" I forgot about this situation, true that it gets super frustrating
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9y ago
while i've left DDG as my default search, it's not particularly good, i always find myself appending "!g" to get to google results instead... so much so that when google results are terrible (on some poorly worded search
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9y ago
I believe it's done only on publicly visible accounts, modify your privacy settings _if_ you don't want to go all the way to deactivation.
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9y ago
oh yeah, i'm definitely not expecting an on the spot explanations of every single thing, but eventually i'd like an insight in to why something was rejected (if it's a major thing), 'tis all. That can be later on in the
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9y ago
I agree but have to be careful with this one. I'm relatively junior and we had a lot of "it's not the time for this right now" when I believed it was... You have to win somebody over with your arguments rather than a uni
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9y ago
Yeah I used to go early to do this, but more recently they've been far less lenient and far more airlines encourage (or borderline force) early check in. These days I just pay attention to the aircraft, I can sit in regular seats on wi
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avh02
9y ago
I like to think of this as discriminatory. I'm a human being, yes, unusually tall, but a human who has no control over their height, why should I pay more to keep blood circulating to my feet? But then the question is where does it sto
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9y ago
It worked on the vehicle which had it, so with proper maintenance, it would have. As for people getting lazy, you eventually charge it as attempted manslaughter or criminal negligence and things improve, the airline industry isn't a pe
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9y ago
I'll just be happy that I don't have to make sure the driver isn't microsleeping on a late drive home (it's happened more often than I care to count). Some countries have very poor regulations on working hours for people
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9y ago
I grew up in a country where certain websites (you know, like adult sites) are blocked, I'm not comparing this to that exactly, but isn't it strange to be told that your ISP is hereby not allowed to provide you access to a website
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9y ago
it's a little difficult when they can see out of each other's eyes. granted one of them can only see out of one of the other's eyes, it's still difficult and probably so unique/case-by-case that it would be difficul
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avh02
9y ago
remote region ==> air ambulance?
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avh02
9y ago
Never thought of that, something to keep in the very (very) far back of my mind for future usage
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avh02
9y ago
I can't do full on job seeking if I know I'll not take the job. The amount of people's time you waste is significant. If there's even a slimmer of chance I could accept it, yeah, I could go for it.
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avh02
9y ago
This would definitely help with douchebag sites that consider "+" an invalid character
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avh02
9y ago
Sweet, will check it out, I'm not particularly attached to gsuite
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avh02
9y ago
Sounds like you could benefit (to some extent except ignoring certain inboxes) from a custom email domain and enabling catch-all. I use this in order to segregate people(services mainly) sending me emails to different addresses that I don&#
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avh02
9y ago
oh god I wish spammers did this. Imagine: "we notice you don't care about our spam advertising, we'll remove you from our list" heaven.
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9y ago
When I bought my most recent DSLR, I had to pick between a slighly older model with GPS or the latest model with wifi. They were essentially identical other than that I think, maybe touchscreen?
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avh02
9y ago
or you know, live a little and learn a language (or enough to get by).
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