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by turrican 5y ago
I work as an airline pilot. Today we’ve started seeing NOTAMs at major airports restricting us from using certain precision approaches and citing 5G. Specifically, the FAA appears to be concerned that 5G interferes with onboard radar altime
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Verizon, AT&T to delay 5G deployment, averting aviation standoff(reuters.com)
2 points by turrican 5y ago|1 comments
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by turrican 5y ago
If you are one of the lucky few that doesn’t get unpleasant side effects for 24-48 hours afterwords, this may be true. I am not, and anecdotally nobody close to me is either. It’s not a pleasant experience that I want to repeat ad infinitum
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by turrican 5y ago
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/may/16/nts... Not as small of a risk as you’d expect (though not anything to seriously worry about). This metal fatigue grounded a large chunk of t
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by turrican 5y ago
Merry Christmas to all of you! Peace on Earth, goodwill towards men!
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by turrican 6y ago
If my airline operates a charter flight with non-standard passengers (like your NFL example), the FAA requires that we ask passengers for their weight prior to boarding or actually weigh them at the door. If I recall correctly, we must do t
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Restaurant Holdouts Defy Covid-19 Shutdown Orders(wsj.com)
1 points by turrican 6y ago|0 comments
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by turrican 6y ago
I was fortunate enough to use the airmail beacon system to navigate a flight between Helena and Missoula, MT several years ago. I did my initial flight training in Missoula and didn’t quite realize how rare the air beacon system really was.
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by turrican 6y ago
The flight attendants on many airlines make a commission for credit card signups, so many (most?) of the ones I’ve worked with don’t mind hawking them.
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by turrican 6y ago
Do you remember if this was the one that had a metal cover, and a page written from the point of view of a soda can that had been recycled into the cover? I’m trying to remember the title of my favorite Klutz book and your recollection soun
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by turrican 6y ago
You may already be aware of this, but SomaFM has an ad-free version of this idea streamed 24/7. I enjoy it. https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/sf1033
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by turrican 7y ago
I left the tech field just a year out of college. I worked in cybersecurity. It was a lot of fun for a tech job, with lots of travel and interesting problems to solve. The pay was decent even fresh out of college like I was. I left to be a
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by turrican 7y ago
I personally have only used the free one. To me it isn’t even entirely clear what the paid version gets you.
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by turrican 7y ago
I used to work in penetration testing. It’s funny (scary?) how far dressing business casual, carrying an open laptop, and claiming to be IT gets you.
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by turrican 7y ago
“Mobile Pass”, blue and white icon. Takes maybe 10 minutes to configure the first time, but is really useful.
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by turrican 7y ago
Unfortunately, Embraer is currently being bought out by Boeing.
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by turrican 7y ago
I’d love to see how social media companies are going to determine which videos are fake as forgeries become more common. They mention a third party that’s currently doing Facebook’s verification. I bet that’s going to be a thriving industry
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Facebook to remove deepfake videos in run-up to 2020 U.S. election(reuters.com)
3 points by turrican 7y ago|1 comments
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by turrican 7y ago
I would happily pay for this service and know others that would as well. Lots of people have kids and grandparents that would get a kick out something like this. Good luck!
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by turrican 7y ago
I had a career change away from tech about two years ago, which happens to be the same time I moved to Providence! If you want to grab a drink sometime in the next couple days and chat about parks and rec, let me know!