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by meowster 3y ago
I see and hear about the mistakes that my coworkers make that don't make the news, and I still have no problem flying. There are many layers of safety including the systems and pilots onboard the planes, and statistics still show it i
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by meowster 3y ago
The union has done great things in the past, but lately not so much.
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by meowster 3y ago
Air Traffic Controller here. Tour an ATC facility and talk with them. You'll see why it can't be completely automated.
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by meowster 3y ago
Air Traffic Controller here. A major problem is staffing, and that's still a problem because of Reagan's mass-firing. I don't care about unions one way or the other. I'm just a member of my union for the "job insu
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by meowster 3y ago
The salary varies from 60k to a middle-of-nowhere tower to $150k in New York or California which is not enough to live on comfortably. Of course we are going to burn out and make mistakes when we have to drive an hour plus to and from the
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by meowster 3y ago
The technology is old, but it's solid. It's never crashed on us while working. I think the only time they reboot it is at night when traffic is low and they do an update, but it's seemless because there are two systems. Th
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by meowster 3y ago
Air Traffic Controller here. That is going to screw up our schedules even worse. It also violates the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the FAA and the Air Traffic Controller's union. The FAA released that without discussing it
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by meowster 3y ago
Source?
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by meowster 3y ago
And that's why I use cash everywhere I can, even when it's not as convenient.
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by meowster 3y ago
Quark said the gold was worthless in one episode. Gold is the only element that could contain the latinum.
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by meowster 3y ago
How many drops of cans and removals of cans (causing the whole stack of cans to drop a short distance at the same time), until it breaks?
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by meowster 5y ago
I think OP found the rate of change funny, not the underlying issue. > It is funny to see how things change 180 in a day.
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by meowster 5y ago
I think the idea is that it can't be tracked, but unless the gyroscope and accelerometers are disabled somehow, at least it won't be tracking in realtime.
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by meowster 5y ago
> the fines are trivial IIRC, $100/day. I can only imagine it was a higher amount in a draft, and that someone changed it to keep the hospitals happy.
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by meowster 5y ago
This is amazing. If only the rest of the Internet had this level of content.
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by meowster 5y ago
The baker offered to serve his cakes to gay people, he just didn't want to be compelled to create a cake he didn't like.
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by meowster 5y ago
In Houston, TX, USA, I noticed antennas placed over individual highway lanes. It turns out they track the Bluetooth signals from cars to determine traffic. They even have a message on their website saying people should be more worried abo
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by meowster 5y ago
I don't know of any federal government 401k; everyone gets a "pension", it's called FERS (Federal Employees' Retirement System) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Employees_Retirement_S...
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by meowster 5y ago
How does staffing for school bus drivers work? I imagine they have to have a pretty exact number of drivers? They can't really have too many or too few, how close to the exact number do they have to get, or how do they handle underag
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by meowster 5y ago
It looks like it will be made into a Netflix series. Other than hearing about the fundraiser/contest for one of the seats here on HN a few months ago, I haven't heard anything more about the mission. The episode datea from the en
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by meowster 5y ago
Counting money can aslo give you away. Video (1:48) showing different methods: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g87HVlu55mQ
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by meowster 5y ago
Supposedly there are programs (Rufus?) that will install Windows to an external drive, but I've never tried that. I too might consider the Framework laptop if I could boot both Linux and Windows off of a Storage Expansion card.
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by meowster 5y ago
The MNT Reform laptop has a mechanical keyboard. https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform
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by meowster 5y ago
Also, supporting the secondary market, supports the primary market. Additionally, being seen with Apple hardware supports Apple's legitimacy.
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by meowster 5y ago
If someone wants to get in via the keypad, there is a list [0] that was mentioned on HN [1]. The list is 3129 numbers, which if pressed in sequence, will eventually open the door because all of the possible code permutations are contained
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by meowster 5y ago
He finished the semester and left.
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by meowster 5y ago
I went to a Christian highschool, and they accidently hired an atheist science teacher. It was from before my time there, but according to another teacher, apparently no one noticed for a while, the science teacher would just have students
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by meowster 5y ago
Geez... those phones are beasts. It's incredible how all phones are coming along these days. It seems to be easier for other companies to get into phone manufacturing, I just hope more of them get into FOSS.
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by meowster 5y ago
> If you re going to be paranoid, because you attack children or sell drugs, why the hell do you buy phones in the first place !? Because innocent people can be persecuted too. Just ask many of the ethnic groups across the globe, or oth
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by meowster 5y ago
Many websites have not held up to HN's Hug of Death, to their credit, this one has.

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