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by kayfox 7y ago
No layoffs at Boeing because of IAM, but you can bet when Boeing stops placing orders from their supplier network, people are going to be laid off.
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by kayfox 7y ago
I think they were gambling on the delay being a reasonable amount of time, say 6 months. Now the FAA has had the final updated software for something like a month and a half and just started certification testing. This smacks of some inco
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by kayfox 7y ago
Why, were talking about a fatal error in one small system on a huge and complex aircraft which is 90% the same as the previous iteration of this aircraft. We can fix these things. We should not be approaching engineering problems with emoti
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by kayfox 7y ago
I fully expect this was put out there to put this ball (tens of thousands of jobs lost) in the FAA's court. I also fully expect Boeing to halt production if the FAA processes drag out longer, its not economical to continue making air
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by kayfox 7y ago
They are suspending production until the grounding is lifted. Not killing off the product. They will of course not be paying the tens of thousands of workers that work on that product while production is suspended.
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by kayfox 7y ago
Would the last person leaving Seattle please turn out the lights.
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by kayfox 7y ago
> You keep pushing the blame on the government shutdown. I've actually only mentioned it in two or maybe three comments over the last year. Your operating from the benefit of hindsight. All the information about the Lion Air crash
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by kayfox 7y ago
Yes, airlines want them, airlines run on small margins and 8% better fuel efficiency is a big deal.
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by kayfox 7y ago
IIRC the FAA wont allow Boeing to transfer ownership of the aircraft until the grounding is lifted.
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by kayfox 7y ago
Boeing wanted a whole new design, the airlines pushed for a re-engined 737.
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by kayfox 7y ago
They had a software update to correct a bunch of issues with MCAS in the pipe, but it was delayed by the government shutdown. If there had been no government shutdown, the Ethiopian Airlines crash might not have happened.
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by kayfox 7y ago
That's exactly what happened, Boeing wanted to re-design the 737 with a new type certificate and all that, but the airlines pushed for a re-engined 737. In the end the 737 MAX is largely a good design, just with one big fuckup. There&#
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by kayfox 7y ago
From the sound of things it may have been that the FAA was pressed for a decision before they had the time to analyze and approve the change and then later approved it. Or after reviewing evidence in the appeal, it was clear it could be a
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by kayfox 7y ago
The Seattle Times article is more clear whats going on: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-e... After analysis of lightning strikes, it was determined that the probability of strikes in som
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by kayfox 7y ago
NGINX still has separate support from F5 Support.
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by kayfox 7y ago
MCAS was required for certification, in that it increases the linearity of control forces through to a stall. Without it, it becomes easier to enter a stall. MCAS was not a fix to make training lighter, the aircraft would not be able to g
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by kayfox 7y ago
Before these robot dogs were available, your main two options for reconnaissance of a volatile situation was either sending someone in who will shoot to kill if shot at or a robot with limited mobility (comparatively). Now there's an o
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by kayfox 7y ago
I wonder if having x86-64 cores alongside ARM cores could be a thing, like how ARM big.LITTLE combines different core types for efficiency with different tasks. It used to be a thing that was more common for compatibility, like in the Commo
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by kayfox 7y ago
Manual in this case is the manual controls for the electric trim system, as opposed to automatic trim like the speed trim system.
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by kayfox 7y ago
>> what can brick-and-mortar stores, with all that overhead, do to compete with a presence like Amazon? Be reliable. Amazon is horribly unreliable, that thing you bought last week may not ever be in stock again. It may not arrive
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by kayfox 7y ago
Book adjoining rooms?
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Because they exempt themselves from liability.
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by kayfox 7y ago
They did not fine him right off the bat, there was some back and forth where, possibly because of a language issue, they got the impression that he was asserting himself as a licensed engineer. That's bad in nearly every jurisdiction
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by kayfox 7y ago
To clarify, the one the guy in the article is complaining about is not hidden, has been there for something like 15 years, and has plenty of signage warning about it. It was also an intersection that had tons of accidents from people runnin
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by kayfox 7y ago
I've also seen it either not bring up the firewall (load iptables rules) or suddenly decide to take it down (remove the rules). I'm not sure why it did that, as I didn't have time to dig into the why while trying to deal with
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by kayfox 7y ago
The TL;DR of this article is that you should have to pay for certificates and pay a lot for extended validation certificates because if everyone has a certificate the differentiation for trusted websites is diminished. Its unsurprising that
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by kayfox 7y ago
Lots of file systems at the time were hierarchical databases, but the file-system Microsoft was working on was to be more a hybrid with the ability to find files based on specific criteria right away, rather than having a search process wal
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by kayfox 7y ago
Its really the most tedious thing I've ever done. Everyone here wants to pick apart my arguments because they want Boeing to be the only culpable party, or want MCAS to be the only reason why the planes crashed. This is wrong, it is
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by kayfox 7y ago
Every time we blame a crash on pilots, we are blaming it on training. Aside from some truly exceptional cases,* pilots who contribute to a crash are having issues because they have not been trained adequately in dealing with the situation
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by kayfox 7y ago
AoA Disagree was supposed to be turned on on all 737 MAXs, but it depended on AoA indication, which was an option. This was a mistake Boeing admitted to and has since corrected. Options are not all tied to fees, the process of ordering an

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