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by kayfox 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39374312 MegaZone is part of the F5 Security Incident Response Team.
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by kayfox 3y ago
> If Boeing had been willing to give the MAX a slightly different type rating and difference training for the MAX, MCAS would not have been necessary. I see this a lot, but MCAS would still be needed to comply with the regulations on con
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by kayfox 3y ago
Pink LEDs need a custom phosphor so they may not be available in some sizes. They are also not in high demand, so not a lot of different parts are made.
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by kayfox 3y ago
> Well owning a set of lock picks is illegal in the US so... 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. No. https://www.toool.us/lockpicking-laws.php Oddy enough, owning lockpicks is sorta illegal in some Canadian provinces.
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by kayfox 3y ago
Not as much when taking into account the actual direction of the wind, which would be more inline with the aircraft.
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by kayfox 3y ago
> It was my understanding that there is also no legal liability for a lawyer for giving the wrong answer. There is plenty of legal, ethical and professional liability for a lawyer giving the wrong answer, we don't often see the outc
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by kayfox 3y ago
Paul Hessberg did a talk at TEDxBend a few years bask that helps sum it up visually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edDZNkm8Mas There are a lot of reasons fires are more and more common and more and more devastating, but
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by kayfox 3y ago
> I guess maintenance on the body work is done by Boing or affiliated workshops? No, its done by the airline or a contractor.
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by kayfox 3y ago
This happens a lot when your flying with Alaska or Southwest. Both airlines have significant MAX fleets and will change the dispatch schedule for aircraft fairly often, in my experience on Alaska it happens about 10~20% of the time. Also
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by kayfox 3y ago
> It was an issue with the CFM engine, Not with anything Boeing did. The engine cowling was made by Boeing and was supposed to stay on when the engine lost fan blades, the cowling was what struck the side of the aircraft and broke the wi
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by kayfox 3y ago
The issues were with the controllers for the pressurization system, these control the valve that releases pressure from the fuselage in order to maintain a pressure that is high enough but not too high. A different indication would have b
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by kayfox 3y ago
NGINX the company is owned by F5, Inc, a Seattle, Washington company. All of the open source infrastructure for NGINX is maintained by F5 as a result, and work on NGINX is managed by Maxim Konovalov, an F5 employee. F5 moved all the dev
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by kayfox 3y ago
From what I understand its because each piece of software needs a formal design process and certifications, so if you were to make one piece of software that spans 5 aircraft, for each change to each aircraft's code in that software yo
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by kayfox 3y ago
I really like that they did some animations to show how it all works, people have been arguing over how the latches work for weeks.
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by kayfox 3y ago
Probably Brother.
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by kayfox 3y ago
> just imagine if a small portion of standard-looking outlets did not output 220V (or whatever standard you have) and say 330V. Every once and a while an electrician wires up standard US outlets to 480v 3-phase instead of 208v 3-phase, s
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by kayfox 3y ago
The connector lifetimes are tested by some manufacturers. When I was working on USB (electrical) testing at Microsoft we had test jigs for testing connectors to failure and I can vouch for Microsoft's connectors having lifetimes exce
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by kayfox 3y ago
This is interesting, but if not done well it could have considerable safety and security implications: 1. If the databases are not kept up to date well, there would be a lag when highway authorities change the speed limit in an area, which
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You shouldn't be driving over 100 MPH-and your car shouldn't let you(fastcompany.com)
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by kayfox 3y ago
I think the main delay is probably turnaround time on later prototypes. It takes a while to get something custom made, get injection molds done, get a prototype out of them, so like the idea is that she would have been working on this fo
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by kayfox 3y ago
> considering the distance they have from the engines The engines are under the wing, the windows are above the wing, they are not very close to the windows at all.
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by kayfox 3y ago
You have a typo of "486DX" in your first line introducing the 486SX. >> Some commentators speculated that the 486DX vs 486SX marketing thing allowed Intel to sell defective 486s in which the FPU didn't work but if it di
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by kayfox 3y ago
If the blacklights are LEDs they are UV-A and safe. UV-C LEDs exist, but they are so expensive noone would make a stage lighting fixture out of them. If they are fluorescent tubes that look kinda purple, black or really deep blue when off
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by kayfox 3y ago
We (furry con A/V) care a lot about safety, so there's no way you'd see UV-C lamps at a furry con dance. We also measure sound levels and keep them in check, have free water stations around the room, have medical trained se
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by kayfox 3y ago
I work at a network hardware vendor who has a large Japanese customer base. After Fukushima we were asked to provide specifications for acceptable operating environment radiation levels, after some negotiation they relented and gave us a fi
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by kayfox 3y ago
Somewhere buried in the reporting he had said he thought he was asleep and wanted to wake up. He had been up for 40 hours without sleep at that point, so he was definitely messed up.
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by kayfox 3y ago
The mushroom thing was between 6 months ago and now, its not clear from the affidavit when it was.
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by kayfox 3y ago
It would also make it take twice as long to drive from a ranch in Summer Lake, Oregon to the local grocery store in Lakeview to get groceries. Some large swaths of the United States don't have public transit because of the expanse and
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by kayfox 3y ago
I have not done any empirical research into this, but I have noticed that there are certain police departments you don't see having tons of issues in the news, so my theory is that in some departments the culture of having high integri
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by kayfox 3y ago
Ticketmaster also owns a lot of venues through Live Nation and also owns a lot of the venues labor through Crew Nation. Fortunately for the latter they have not been wildly successful at busting the IATSE union in union venues.

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