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by stevepeg 2y ago
> But The Times found that the combination of six-day workweeks and round-the-clock schedules has caused controllers to develop physical and mental health problems. Many avoid seeking professional help because doing so might jeopardize t
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by stevepeg 3y ago
That’s what it already does though. We get a total fuel figure in the flight deck (FOB) and a figure for how much the engines have used (FU - measures flow in the pylons). Add the two together and if the resulting number isn’t what the flig
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by stevepeg 3y ago
That’s good lateral thinking :) Given that the aircraft can be landed over max landing weight (needs a maintenance inspection) and is still controllable with total imbalance I’d say that balancing just wasn’t as pressing of a concern. Also,
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by stevepeg 3y ago
It’s a good idea, some aircraft have quite complex fuel systems though so it would have to account for fuel moving between tanks. E.g. the A330 has an inner tank in each wing (which itself can be split into two compartments if damaged), an
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by stevepeg 3y ago
A320/330/340/350 driver here (can't get away from Airbus apparently). Nope, there is no system to confirm a leak apart from a camera around the tail if you're lucky enough to have one, my previous airline had a flig
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by stevepeg 4y ago
Geez, it's a programming language not a spouse! You can just, you know, use another one if it doesn't work out.
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by stevepeg 4y ago
Airline pilot here: passing another aircraft opposite direction on the same lateral track with only 1000ft of vertical separation is about as normal as it gets. I’d say that it has occurred on almost all of the flights in my career so far
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by stevepeg 4y ago
You should try having to read several hundred of them before a long-haul duty! Good luck trying to find the runway closure notam buried among the 400 reports of a crane within curvature-of-the-earth viewing range of an airport, or the 300 r
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by stevepeg 4y ago
It won't auto-level the wings for you in an airbus, however unless you're in an unusual configuration in alternate or direct laws (requiring a significant series of failures), the bank angle is limited by the aircraft anyway (whet
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by stevepeg 4y ago
Good question, I ask myself the same thing every time I come to this site :) I'm also a programmer in my spare time, I started coding long before I was a pilot. Sometimes I do consulting work and I also have a startup. Flying jobs gene
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by stevepeg 4y ago
Human airline pilot here, a lot of comments about the reliability of automation for takeoff, landing and some emergency scenarios but the proposed regulation is a little more specific. They're trying to allow one pilot at the controls
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by stevepeg 4y ago
I think the GP comment you're replying to nailed the reason why: > I take a contrarian opinion on this, the price of a flight in the US outside of major hubs is egregious. Especially during peak times or holidays. Highly-engineered
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by stevepeg 4y ago
Human airline pilot here, I'm not sure where you're getting this from: > Many private planes with modern avionics now have an auto-level button on the AP that very reliably recovers from a dive or other unusual attitudes. Airli
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by stevepeg 4y ago
No worries, here's my opinion (lots of lang-war stuff, so note "opinion"): I would say that it depends on your comfort with async code in Rust since much of the web ecosystem is built that way. If you're comfortable writ
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by stevepeg 4y ago
No disagreement here. My post is a praise of Rust, not "everyone must use Rust!". These languages and tools are also great! (edit) added 'tools'
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by stevepeg 4y ago
I would say that curiosity about languages in general is one item that you should look for in candidates. Not the only one of course but curious people do tend to learn and adapt well. For an analogy, I wouldn't hire a pilot that isn&#
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by stevepeg 4y ago
Author here: lots of usual language-war type comments here. Just thought I'd add my own little bit of water (hopefully). In my post notice that aside from my personal background with programming I didn't go into detail about memor
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by stevepeg 4y ago
Author here: didn't expect this to get on the front page, some kind of life goal achieved I guess. Here's a link to our Show HN from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630604
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Why Rust is a great choice for startups(dailyedit.com)
175 points by stevepeg 4y ago|281 comments
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by stevepeg 4y ago
It's good to hear that media literacy is being taught like that in high schools. Education on the topic is the best sure-fire solution in the long term. We really like AllSides but where I think our product differs is that we say that
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by stevepeg 4y ago
It's almost ready! It works together with a browser extension which adds the highlights and extra information to articles so we're in the process of tweaking that interaction. We decided to release the mobile app first since almos
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by stevepeg 4y ago
Skepticism welcomed, it's a crazy space so the more of that the better! We differ by giving the reader the tools to form a better opinion for themselves rather than telling them what's wrong and making ourselves some oracle or sou
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by stevepeg 4y ago
Hi everyone, I’m Steve, one of the team working on The Daily Edit. We’ve built a news aggregator which shows you every detail that has been reported on a story regardless of which article, or which publisher, you choose to visit. Readers ca
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Show HN: A new way to fight manipulation in news(dailyedit.com)
15 points by stevepeg 4y ago|9 comments
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by stevepeg 5y ago
Send me an email at jobs [at] dailyedit [dotcom] We're a Rust shop doing something interesting with NLP and web.