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Simplicity. It just works. It's just an eReader. No fancy app, no ads, just an eReader. That's why I like it.

Oh they charge way more than $700. For a recent project, for four months of flights in North America cost roughly $5000.

I use AlReader on android... But I don't think there is a Linux equivalent.

My favourite eReader for android is and always will be AlReader. Some dudes pet project but it is glorious and wonderful.

Jokes. And then they will regulate prices, stop adding taxes to the internet and force the big carriers to split. And then pigs fly!

If you're a frequent flier, and on the right route, most of those times go right down. I've walked into an airport 15 minutes before the flight, boarded the plane and gotten out of the airport 10 minutes after landing

I agree. I work in a matrixed consulting organization. I have a "People Lead" who guides my career development, and I'm handed off onto projects to "Project Leads" who guide the day to day. And I use the word guide intentionally. When I'm staffed to a project, my role as a project member is to look for the project lead for finance and schedule and PM direction, and maybe to a principal consultant if there is one to guide technical direction, but I'm an IC and expected to do my work. My People lead solicits feedback from those I work with, the project leads etc. But is disconnected from my day to day, so there's no feeling of power, just a willingness to help me with my goals.

I live in Canada and this is a common question! Most places that install tires will also store them for you. Tire stores, dealerships, etc.

While I understand the point you're trying to make, I'd just like to note that if you type any mature engine for any aircraft into a search engine, you're going to find more than one Airworthiness Directive for that engine

Good question... You wouldn't land safely. That's part of the reason the design of the engine is such that if there's a failure, the engine cowling is supposed contain all the debris so that there is no damage to the wing, airframe or associated systems.

Hit the nail on the head here. The bigger problem isn't that there was an engine failure or even a blade off failure. The problem is that the containment failed. An engine is designed to lose a blade, have the cowling and engine frame contain the damage and land safely. When that containment fails, the damage and potential for catastrophe increases exponentially.[Edit - Spelling]

You'd be incorrect. The capital of Nunavut in Canada is cleared to land up to an A380, and that's fairly close to the North Pole.

Often that's how OEM's will get their cold weather testing done, by just flying up in the winter.

Very few in service aircraft in commercial passenger fleets have more than two engines, and even the ones with more than two engines have modified ETOPS rules to comply with.

It's the old big business joke. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". You can easily replace Oracle in that sentence.

Reminds me of university. "No officer, we weren't selling tickets to the keg, we'd need a license to sell booze. We're only selling cups for $5, the beer is free!"

The joke in the aviation industry is "Which enterprise software runs the most airlines?.. And the punch line is Excel.

This has gotten a lot better with the internet.

Almost everything in VBA can be found with a simple Google search, and Microsoft's technical documentation online has gotten very good.

I think the biggest thing a lot of developers miss with the bashing of Excel and VBA is just the simplicity to the end user.

As a consultant, a lot of time the solution has to be able to be given to anyone, on computers with no admin rights or installation privileges, and just work with no other dependencies, installation or special skills required.

Very, very few other methods meet that requirement as well as a plain old Excel file.

It's peanuts. This likely will be covered by some form of insurance, and very little will change.

Can second that. I worked as part of the Home screen team at QNX one summer as a Co-op. That's the entire homescreen, all navigation, integration, accessibility, everything. Grand total? 6 developers and 3 testers.

Also a problem if you're working with airlines, medium to large companies over 15 years old, the government, etc. Etc. Comments like these are why the people who have to interface with actual customers get so mad with development teams.

When your marketing model is built entirely on sticking it to the man, how do you communicate that the man has you by the balls and you have no recourse because your business model is built on the man paying you off.

In the simplest, likely potentially inaccurate explanation... Robinhood doesn't actually make the trades. They pay someone else to make the trades, add a small amount to the price, and that's how they get to 0$ trading price to the end user. The upstream party is refusing to do things, so Robinhood has no choice but to follow the rules that party set.

That's like, way over simplified but gets to the gist

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I find this odd, in Canada we can get all the replacement parts needed. Just may have to wait a bit but they have them.

I think it's an language thing. Shoes I would wear for indoor activities like the gym I'd generally refer to as "gym shoes". Any other form of indoor shoes I'd just refer to as shoes. Indoor shoes to me immediately brings up inside the house, especially because that's how OP used "Indoor shoes" in context

He doesn't own 6 pairs of white sneakers. He has owned 6 pairs of white sneakers over the life of the study, 3 pairs of which he has since "divested" Ie scrapped, and 3 pairs that he currently owns in various stages of their lifecycle.

This is a mostly unrelated comment, but the concept of "Indoor shoes" is just so foreign to my part of the world (unless you are referring to something like a slipper). It still absolutely flabbergasts me that large parts of American society wears shoes inside the house. *Canadian Speaking

It also depends on how you wear your clothes. Before Covid, I spent a significant amount of time on a plane, travelling, and flying around. Now I'm sitting at home. My same clothes are seeing significantly less wear with the lack of travel

Oh man, this. I remember I worked at a major defence contractor, and we absolutely bombed, like failed through the floor an employee satisfaction survey. And when the VP finally sat down with people they expressed how shitty the computers had gotten. And he's like wait a second. No one ever told me this. I can solve 90% of my morale problems by writing a cheque for like $200k?!?

It was astounding how large the disconnect had grown between management and the front line. And also astounding how cheaply the employee morale was fixed once he wrote that cheque.

I love this for a few reasons. First off, we get to see a deeper look into what Apple did, and I'm enjoying how they went outside the established norms... Sometimes the Apple cart (pun not intended) needs overturning.

Secondly, the fact that they are able to dig into this much depth bodes well for competitors to reverse engineer similar performance into other platforms