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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
It's not just the airframe OEMs, but the entire supply base of aerospace manufactures has been going through a consolidation. Look at Rockwell Collins and Safran. But it's not all bad, most of this consolidation will lead to new o
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
Kinda fits into this discussion, but I want playlists for netflix, prime, disney+, hulu, what ever, but not just running down a season, but for example a set of Christmas episodes. FXX has done some of this with the Simpsons, but I want to
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
Projects like this remind me of why we need to use public money for space exploration. The extreme constraints on space exploration drive new innovations and ideas that can flow down into our everyday lives.
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
You take the good, you take the bad.
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
It's been a while since I did pressure vessels but it's usually 2.5 times for proof and 3.5 for burst. Then with added safety you usually need about 4x to actually see a "planned" failure. This is most likely a construct
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
Did we all just as a society completely forget about Enron? Enron did rolling brown outs to help boost pay, and used the excuse of demand. Now PG&E has stepped it up by doing blackouts and claiming its because of fire risk.
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
Yea, very true. Up here in Seattle I believe we are in the same boat, a single level 1 trauma center.
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
I think lots of people say "ER" for "ED" Emergency Department became the most common term about a decade ago and Emergency Room faded from building guides and hospital documents.
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
Hell a good program could tell me how much time I have to address said emergency and then give me prices and time to locations for said emergency. I bet people would even be willing to take a bit of risk and drive an extra 10 minutes to sav
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
I think the bigger scam is how they break apart the hospital/doctors offices into separate companies. Now I'm not complaining how I go from one building to get blood drawn and a different building for the emergency department. I&#
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
Yup, exactly my problem and why I went in for the test. Told that I just need to ask people to constantly repeat themselves.
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
Yea, I second this. I had my hearing tested and the results came out "very good." I talked with the doctor and she basically said that what is most likely happening with me is that I have "better" hearing than most and t
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
But they aren't banks, they are just partnering with banks and putting a smooth veneer on top of old/greedy banks. The current trend seems very similar to when retailers all launched their "own" credit cards.
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
I've been using mermaid for almost 2 years now, great software and still improving. It's nice too that I can keep the code in a note and change in in meetings.
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Queer Eye, Perfect Example of Design Thinking(blog.usejournal.com)
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
Fine, but when do we stop assigning money and drivers as co-founders? You can look at situation like Lee Iacocca did the same thing for Chrysler, but he wasn't labeled as a co-founder.
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
This isn't really any different than most cases. Think Elon Musk started Tesla or SpaceX? Nope, he bought in just like Jimmy.
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
What I find so interesting about Vice Ventures is how she has drawn a hard line on the weapons industry.
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
The problem as I see it is that Bingo just isn't a dynamic game, you have a static card with single numbers called out. My bingo card app is unique in that fact that your card changes in direct relation to the number of possible win pa
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
Yes and no. There is a BIT for each unit, (now I don't know the exact details, but this is how I understand/remember it) but the pyrotechnic devices is tested by running a low level current through it to see if it has been fired&#
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
No. As a quality guy he probably has a lot of experience with the single units, but not the system as a whole. No line inspector would have a reason to test a full ship-set of units off aircraft, so I can't imagine a lab setup to do th
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
You are reading that correctly, but as someone who worked on the system over a decade ago, I bet he didn't have it setup exactly like the plane. I bet he tried to fire all the cylinders at once, a 25% failure rate in this configuration
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
The 787 doesn't use generators, they use sealed single use oxygen cylinders. This is a newer version of the 787 system https://www.rockwellcollins.com/Products-and-Services/Commer...
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
> Even if the bag does not inflate, breathe normally as oxygen is flowing. Or not. The 787 doesn't have any accumulator bags, the big difference with that system is that its electronically pulse controlled oxygen flow rather than a
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An astrophysicist examines this year’s baseballs and breaks down the changes(theathletic.com)
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
Regardless of the report and the article, I worked with the Boeing pilots for years. On the plus side they always argued that emergency equipment in the cockpit should be able to be operated by almost any idiot off the street to ensure safe
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
Not exactly the same, but it's one of the prime reasons that I don't have a Costco membership: I hate when I go with members and after they pay you are treated like a criminal as they scan your receipt and check all the items in t
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
> There are of course commonalities across businesses, and commonalities across managers for necessary skill, but each business is, in some core, fundamental way, different from others. Good management of a company doesn't following
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
I remember seeing a number of companies that used 5S+Safety because Six Sigma was a trademarked phrase.
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by soapboxrocket 7y ago
The goal is to make sure you are gone before the title roll back around to the original titles. I worked in a aerospace firm and the took all the R&T (Research and technology because development was done by production) titles and change

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