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Sure, in vague terms, there is a giant cultural problem in the Middle East where locals don't have the education or training or (more importantly) drive to actually do work, so most good employees are expats, but almost all leadership is locals because of hiring rules and nepotism.

Companies are actively trying to change it, but they aren't there yet and it's an uphill battle that has to start basically at the kindergarten level.

That culture also drives a major "image" focus, where how things look is more important that how things actually operate. I'm not from the Middle East, but this is what was communicated to us by our client / locals we interviewed.

It's truly unexpected failures,in the context of flying the plane. Basically every failure state in flying has a procedure, and as a pilot you're expected to memorize some, and know how to find and follow the checklist or red page for all emergency situations. Beyond that, you have to know how to assess and evaluate any emergency because that's your job.

Comes down to a few things. First, money. Second, location. Third, skill.

The Middle East doesn't have nearly the pool of pilots to start with compared to North America, and even NA is suffering from an extreme shortage of pilots. (Wonder why the airlines no longer fly to your small town? Probably because of a shortage of pilots)

I honestly don't know enough to have an opinion. I'm personally a fan of Star Alliance, but I don't know enough about the middle eastern airlines.

I DO know that even the airlines in NA/Europe etc. have their own share of... Challenges.. And a lot of those are saved by the regulatory / operating environment / culture, and those safeguards don't necessarily always exist elsewhere in the world.

My personal list is Tier 1 US, Canadian, British and German carriers as well as Qantas. Probably throw Air France and KLM in too. In Africa, Ethiopian would be the only airline I would fly if I had to fly an African airline.

I probably would have had a middle eastern airline on the list before I did a project with them last year. After that, I learned a lot that made me stick to the list above.

How did they close them? In Toronto they put up caution tape. The people walked through it. They placed reasonable restrictions, and the unreasonable ones were ignored. Honestly one of the biggest benefits of the pandemic (and there were very, very few) was the transition of classrooms, community and family events to the parks. I've never seen them so active and busy and it gave a liveliness to the neighbourhood that was refreshing.

Toronto is very similar. Outside of the very dense core, but still very much in Toronto proper, you can get lost in forests and ravines and have to be on the lookout for coyote!

Sure a small backyard isn't great... But I live in a major city and instead we just walk to the enormous park, which is way bigger than any backyard.

It's a very different mindset that I thought I'd hate but now that I'm here I couldn't imagine it any other way.

Can't imagine how this could possibly go wrong. Definitely not false results due to changes in skin colour, hair colour, etc.

I'm really really not in favour of the trend to biometricize everything because I just do not think our current methods are accurate enough.

Yes, you can. That legislation passed right before covid as a modification to the original legislation.

The original bill didn't allow it, but it got challenged in court and the government was given a deadline to add that clause.

In Canada, yes, advanced directives can be written.

Also legally, if a company makes an offer and you make a financial change on the basis of that offer, the company is legally liable for all costs incurred.

Now, getting that money is another story...

This is entirely guessing. But if you were drilling a hole to the sewers, both the toilet and the kitchen needed a hole so that could greatly simplify plumbing and construction.

I truly, truly hope this works as described, even partially, on humans. It is so frustrating to see someone who would be able to walk if only the signal could get to their lower extremities.

My grandfather is a paraplegic, and man how much I hope this isn't just faery dust.

If I'm not willing to pay for a browser, why should I be surprised when the free software tries to make money? Yeah, it's not ideal and I'll turn the feature off if it makes it public. But I'm choosing to use a free browser instead of paying for it.. So I can't blame a company for trying to monetize it.

Not to be nit-picky, but I'd just add the caveat "having sex while not married has become fashionable in the last 50 years, after a few hundred years of Catholic puritanism"... Sex outside of marriage has been extremely acceptable in many non-western societies at basically all stages of human development.

Boy, sure are a lot of professions married to teachers.

Boy some days I miss making a webpage with a simple index.html and five pages...

Facebook is likely scrambling private jets as we speak to get the right people to the right places.

They've submitted a proposal to the FCC, but I haven't heard anything further.

As a boat owner... I'm with you!

One thing I noticed in Norway too was on street parking meters that also had electric charging cables. Tap your card, pay for parking and the minor electricity cost just gets added to the parking charge.

As a Canadian, the only time I've had a credit card stolen is in the US. Not saying credit card doesn't happen in Canada, it does, but it's definitely a much, much bigger problem in the US. Almost like the banking system isn't adopting measures such as chip cards to combat theft fast enough.

Good luck finding someone who can serve you at 1Gbps. Like seriously, I'd be curious who you've found because I never actually hit that except in speed tests :(

Fun fact! Reader mode also sidesteps some paywalls on news sites.

Good question! A few reasons. Weight and balance is super important so anything you add means something else needs to be added or balanced. Power requirements are also a problem. More electronics means more power maybe means new engines. Maybe that all means more weight, so you need to reinforce the structure. Which means you're heavier and need a better engine. Etc. Sensors can't just be installed, if you need to drill holes and break pressure bulkheads.

* When they drive

It wasn't awful. I was a new grad though, so I had a grocery store job, some volunteer experience and then fluffed up with whatever skills were on the job posting.

This. This is why I always encourage people who I mentor to have a skills section.

My first job I got the interview because at the time I was attempting to turn a snowmobile into a hovercraft. I had plans and everything.

I put this on the resume.

The first question in the interview? "Look, if nothing else we had to bring you in to ask. How the hell are you planning on turning a snowmobile into a hovercraft?!?"

The project never went anywhere, but it got me the job.

Depends on the firm.

I work for a more technical focused niche consulting firm, and one of our specialties is large IT implementation project recovery. We are extremely successful, but it's dirty work that isn't super advertised.

Enterprise IT: The systems that run the organization, basically everything run by an internal it group.

Legacy systems: Any old software systems, usually enterprise IT, that are running your organization. Often 80's era in big companies, usually on a mainframe and most importantly, even though they are held together by hopes and prayers they usually do the job they are supposed to.

Dev shop : derogatory term for a company who just provides developers, usually with poor oversight and project management controls.

The problem with hiring more people is if I need 20 Devs for six months in a language I am never going to use again, not only do I need to hire 20 Devs, I need to hire the project managers, people managers, pay for their benefits or contracts, and then figure out how to fire or otherwise reallocate people with skills I don't need.