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by rlpb 2y ago
> Those relationships are burned. Also, everyone knows that they're more likely to get messed around as a government employee now, so the market rate has gone up. It is now more expensive to hire people for the same roles.
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by rlpb 2y ago
My more optimistic take is that if they take years to resolve claims, then passengers could (should be able to?) rightfully claim more damages for the hardship in those delays. It saves them money overall by providing compensation early wit
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by rlpb 2y ago
I tried Element X but it failed to authenticate with no suitable explanation for me because it's lacking SAML support. Edit: it's also lacking threads still, apparently?
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by rlpb 2y ago
The metric system. "The name pascal was adopted for the SI unit newton per square metre (N/m2) by the 14th General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1971"
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by rlpb 2y ago
All US aircraft. The rest of the world uses modern units :-)
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by rlpb 2y ago
> Available inline in BBC Basic on the Acorn Archimedes. The 32-bit ARM ISA, yes, but ARMv7 came much later. You're basically limited to ARM2 on the Archimedes, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_A
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by rlpb 2y ago
> Two out of 18 souls on board with a turbine? Very common. How do you think pilots train to fly such aircraft? Would you prefer pilots not to be trained, or for this type of aircraft to cease service?
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by rlpb 2y ago
I think there’s a catch, which is lag time. Even under pure capitalism, if the market doesn’t believe the money will last, prospects aren’t going to risk their careers given the training lead time required. In the US, ATC are federal emplo
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by rlpb 2y ago
> You never read about "ATC hiring crisis" in other countries. Why only the US? The UK has a controller hiring/retention problem at the moment, too. The less lucrative airports keep losing controllers to the bigger player
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by rlpb 2y ago
I wouldn't put off newcomers though. While people do connect with those they already know, generally all groups are friendly and welcoming to newcomers, too.
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by rlpb 2y ago
It's not wild for people who choose to use a stable distribution that last released prior to smartmontools 7.4. It's exactly what they want and choose. (Debian 12: 10 June 2023; smartmontools 7.4: 1 August 2023)
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by rlpb 2y ago
I very carefully added 2FA to my wife’s Bitwarden account a while ago. I got her a Yubikey and added mine as well as my backup keys in case one ever got lost. I discovered much later that they call email “2FA” so her account isn’t actually
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by rlpb 2y ago
I thought they had banned this kind of thing, but I can't find a reference to it so now I'm not sure.
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by rlpb 2y ago
Here in the UK, food delivery companies are required to itemise their fees. The amount they take per order makes no sense to me. Their marginal cost should be tiny. Presumably they have investors and marketing fees to pay, but these aren’t
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by rlpb 2y ago
Perhaps speak to the scientists who just updated its position and get them to update its position the other way?
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by rlpb 2y ago
Only if they're from a friendly country. If the reason a user needs anonymity is geopolitical, that isn't a guarantee.
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by rlpb 2y ago
According to the article, they were flying the route as directed by air traffic control. As a pilot, I can tell you that when you're being controlled, the controller takes responsibility for your navigation. This had nothing to do with
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by rlpb 2y ago
> let's not forget that the point of switching to electricity is to be able to use renewables Here in the UK, natural gas is used to provide electricity[1], so switching to a heat pump right now isn't likely to help with the en
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by rlpb 2y ago
Another advantage of insurance is that if your insurer is responsible for the rectification then you benefit from collective bargaining at a time when you may be unable to do so yourself. For example, if my car breaks down in the middle of
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by rlpb 2y ago
> Offering a different price to someone who "calls" from San Francisco, Kansas City or Mumbai is a different issue, and less palatable. The interesting thing about this statement is that expecting a fixed price for anything is
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by rlpb 2y ago
> but i think executing a single command you find after 30 seconds of googling is not too much to ask for from a tech-adjacent person I would be very wary. That instruction sounds like an “unsupported” hack that’s likely to lead to futur
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by rlpb 2y ago
> E.g. if someone beats you up due to a view you expressed, i consider that a free speech issue. If the police beat you up, then that's a freedom of speech issue (as well as police abuse, etc), since one might argue that the gover
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by rlpb 2y ago
"Free speech" is normally about a government restriction on speech. Most people don't take it to mean temporary restrictions during specific private events. For example, at a funeral, the norm is not to speak ill of the dea
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by rlpb 2y ago
Given the tricks that Google play (or at least played) in hijacking their own search results to scare users into switching to Chrome, I shed no tears here. Google set a new lower standard in deceitful behaviour, and Microsoft are simply fol
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by rlpb 2y ago
> The internet as you know it is the value you get out of ads. I disagree. The value I get from the Internet is almost entirely from non-ad-driven sources. The ad-driven stuff is very low value to me.
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by rlpb 2y ago
> Centralizing copyright ownership in a single entity grants that entity the ability to lock down the project at any time... By this logic, as well as refusing to sign CLAs you should also refuse to adopt any MIT licensed or similar soft
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by rlpb 2y ago
Many passkey-supporting sites only support a single passkey per account.
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by rlpb 2y ago
Infestation also applies to actual "organic" results. The old Google philosophy would have ranked pages with annoying pop-ups, paywalls, sign-in walls etc out of existence. Today's Google does not. They even tolerate sites th
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by rlpb 2y ago
Non-nuclear invasions are still happening around the world.
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by rlpb 2y ago
> Now that every modern language a package manager... ...they fail to integrate with dependencies written in any other language. It's fine if you just want to sit a monoculture language software stack on top of a multilingual base p

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