letitbeirie

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by letitbeirie 5y ago
It's not just Korean pilots though, deference to a KLM captain in the wrong was a critical link in the chain of events that led to the Tenerife disaster.
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
> This isn't a positive It's a silver lining. It's shameful that the need exists at all, but it's definitely a positive for the people who are getting mostly screwed by the status quo but would otherwise be getting
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Or a gas station. Their margins are outrageous but only if they can get you to come inside - they're only making a cent or two off each gallon of gas they sell.
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
> Americans seem to want and even feel they're owed that kind of false sincerity/kindness from "low skill" workers they interact with This is true to a sometimes weird degree, but... > there's no indication th
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Accessibility and building regs ironically combined to prevent a bookstore where I used to work from replacing a set of skinny, awkward, inward-opening doors which made the entire store a fire trap. Why? Because state law required that any
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Just to add to the confusion there's also "Xennial" which is pronounced exactly the same way but refers to people ~15 years older.
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
> late-1990s / early-2000s eclecticism like old Geocities. My first thought seeing the Gen-Z version was "why don't they show a flashing marquee banner, an email with flapping wings, and play some MIDI music while they&#x2
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Hundreds of warheads would do the trick but it wouldn't take more than a two-week power outage to bring most civilizations currently on earth to the brink of collapse.
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Hawaii (the island) can and does, but most of Hawaii (the state)'s electric demand is on Oahu where they haven't found any geothermal that's viable for making power. [0] https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/clean-
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Solar is already so prevalent on Oahu that they have grid frequency excursions that would be unimaginable on the mainland. Once grid-scale energy storage gets cheaper Hawaii will have one of the cleanest energy grids on Earth. Until then th
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
If a car factory is making 1000 cars a day, a 30-day supply is all the parts needed to make 30,000 cars. Managing that is a giant, complicated, land-consuming operation unto itself, and it all has to get sorted before you can build car #1.
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Subs that celebrate other forms of tribalism seem to avoid politics pretty well. Places where you see everyone rally around comments like "save that for r/politics. this is where we come to talk about how much the EAGLES suck, not
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Point of clarification: you are allowed to take it back so long as you don't commit any other crimes while doing so. As OJ Simpson can readily attest, you are not allowed to rob it back.
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
I can't see a device that displays graphics between a person's eyes and any feature of an industrial plant being very popular with said industrial plant's lawyers.
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
If you want apps you still have to sign in with your apple id though.
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Greenpeace's take on nuclear power [1]: > Nuclear power is dirty, dangerous and expensive. Say no to new nukes. > > Nuclear energy has no place in a safe, clean, sustainable future. Nuclear energy is both expensive and danger
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
The Dutch kept records of peoples' religions. Their Jewish population fared remarkably worse than the rest of Western Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Net...
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Each month my ISP sends me a flyer telling me how much easier it would be to pay them if I let them auto-draft their fee out of my bank account. Each month I tell them what I think of that idea by sending them another check.
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Most things "simple living" - working with your hands, living off the land, camping, etc. - are only enjoyable if they're optional.
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
This one is pretty esoteric but if you want to know anything about Mt. Whitney, good luck doing better than the Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board: http://www.mountwhitneyforum.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist...
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
It can be in some cars, but with sporty 6-speeds in particular it can be very difficult to tell if you're in reverse or 1st just by looking because the shift gates are so narrow. My VW is even worse, because you get it into reverse by
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Like playing the "guess your weight" game with everyone else piling into an elevator
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Most manual transmissions don't give you any indication whether you're in reverse or the gear next door until you start moving.
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
> especially with search getting so good This is kind of the crux of it here. The reason this is a "Gen Z thing" is because you really couldn't get away with just using search until relatively recently. I don't know o
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
Spectrum is kind of a weird case though because it kind of has to be monopolistic - if you allow multiple, independent systems to share the same frequency band, none of them will work. > Suppose instead they held a new auction every year
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
It's for safety reasons so that the system doesn't enter an undefined state if one of those sensors fails, which it eventually will. If the signal goes from "black nothing" to "orange round" you know you went f
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
> A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A,
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
You're still left with the two-sensor problem though: if lidar says "pedestrian" but vision says "clear," you don't know if it's a false positive in lidar or a false negative in vision. If your safety reac
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
> In the future, anti-work in the style of "where's my robot that does all work I don't freely choose to do" Maybe someday. This was one of the common optimistic promises of the space age (along with "power too c
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by letitbeirie 5y ago
> physical systems, say a spaceship, which require critical capabilities and operational regimes, and ask if fallback fault management is really a 'bad idea'. Depends on context obviously but IME as a controls engineer, what yo

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