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by blantonl 3y ago
Yeah, I like to leave my Rolex Rose Gold GMT out on my nightstand when service people are working in the house to detect suspicious activity in my household. :/ Sorry man, I dunno if this is a weird flex or what, but it's kind of
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by blantonl 3y ago
Also, I wonder why we don't have electric planes. You know, you're right. Electrical fires have NEVER brought down an aircraft. :/
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by blantonl 3y ago
There is a sharing agreement in place between pretty much all air carriers that allows off duty airline pilots to ride on the jumpseat to commute to work, if there isn't space available in the cabin. It's quite common for instanc
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by blantonl 3y ago
On the 175, pulling the handle cuts fuel, hydraulics, and bleed air. Turning the fire handle discharges a bottle. Turning it the other way discharges the other bottle. It has been reported that in the Sim turning the handle back re-establ
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by blantonl 3y ago
There definitely is something great about these traditions, family, food etc. The article does a great job covering it. I was raised in the south, mostly southern Louisiana, and make no mistake many of these events are not "white-tra
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by blantonl 3y ago
I didn't get that at all. Many of the topics covered later in the article are aren't a hit job, they are a reality and cover an underlying tone of the gathering. It seems like an amazing tradition and frankly a pretty cool thing
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by blantonl 3y ago
I think the point is that it seems like these days every time someone get's lucky with a couple SAAS / Apps they've released they've got to author a blog post how how they climbed the mountain. At some point the playbook
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by blantonl 3y ago
I think the issue is there's this undercurrent of self-promotion with these types of posts. Just like the people 20 years ago who would post their $20K adsense checks on their blog posts saying "you too can be successful like me
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by blantonl 3y ago
I concur with this assessment. I don't want to discount the hard work of the author of the post, but this post could have also literally been "My slot machine win: $3 to $1.2M with one pull of the handle" I'm under no i
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by blantonl 3y ago
The people that imitated Steve Jobs' worst traits under the auspices that they were "as smart and driven" as him and therefore should mimic some of these traits was rather maddening. I honestly believe there was an entire gen
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by blantonl 3y ago
and made millions of dollars
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by blantonl 3y ago
Just to expand upon this, tropospheric propagation happens typically where there is a temperature inversion, meaning, air near the surface is cooler than higher up in altitude. That warmer air aloft acts as a layer that radio waves bounce
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by blantonl 3y ago
Pilot here: I'd bet you 100 bucks the Citation had the Southwest 737 in sight the entire time while on the approach, and knew exactly what was going on. There was almost certainly little to no danger of a collision. When on a visual
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by blantonl 3y ago
significant margin That's what is missing in these cases
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by blantonl 3y ago
In the early 90's I worked for Louisiana State University's AG Center purchasing department and had a mainframe TSO account. I figured out how to use Gopher to various other research universities and download weather satellite ph
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by blantonl 3y ago
...these OS/2 machines were once interconnected by a networking technology called 'token ring'.. no joke. It was basically an entire network where if one single node on the network misbehaved it would bring down the entire
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by blantonl 3y ago
Imagine the goodwill Microsoft could garner with advanced users if this was a simple mouse click during the installation. Advanced Install > Minimal Install
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by blantonl 3y ago
Interestingly enough, something I learned early in my career during sales training is that if you are able to convert your biggest haters, they can become one of your most ardent supporters. Problem is I have a short fuse for disrespect, I
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by blantonl 3y ago
I have zero tolerance at my organization for customers that are rude and nasty. If you send us a support request that is filled with profanities and demands out of the gate, I'll gladly refund your money and terminate your account imm
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by blantonl 3y ago
This is equivalent to the daughter basically saying "do you know who my daddy is?" Deplorable.
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by blantonl 3y ago
I have homes in 3 different cities, so YoutubeTV is my goto streaming service. That replaced what was 3 different DirecTV setups which became outrageously expensive. AppleTV for all theater releases and some special shows. Netflix for thei
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by blantonl 3y ago
Does a helicopter have an equivalent of shifting your car into neutral? There really isn't. A helicopter is a coupled collection of parts and power that is working in concert to not immediately return to the ground in a violent mann
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by blantonl 3y ago
EFB (Electronic Flight Bags) have introduced all kinds of usability issues with aircraft that pilots must account for, and not just for mechanical reasons. Objects getting jammed into flight controls isn't an ipad phenomenon - clipboa
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by blantonl 3y ago
A DFW Airport maintenance employee was killed after falling from a Jet Bridge back in 2015.
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by blantonl 3y ago
How did they "solve" it, from a business sense? Don't they readily admit that they aren't profitable?
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by blantonl 3y ago
He's already made up his mind, so he'll probably just leave out this important tidbit when discussing the issue with "management"
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by blantonl 3y ago
How about the pop-under ads that sat back there behind your browser just waiting to shock you with something stupid when you closed your browser window. Good times.
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by blantonl 3y ago
>when all they did is provide the platform, and store the data. Is there not significant innovation and benefit that was designed and implemented in the first place that caused users to contribute their time, thought and energy? I think
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by blantonl 3y ago
Don't forget the Apple Branded Case and cleaning cloth, which will easily push the cost to $5,200 /s
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by blantonl 3y ago
I'm curious if anyone will be able to develop in it (i.e. write code with virtual desktops etc) I'm also curious about how which unexpected consequences people will experience with such devices (nausea, etc... other unknown illnes

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