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I think it's possible the discoverers looked at it and said they had never seen such a colour before artificially

I think the bigger problem is moderation. If little Billy or Sally have a piece of candy or two at a holiday, or a slice of cake on their birthday... No big deal. But I've found a lot of every day foods, especially in the US are so insanely sugary that normal food (I.E. Juice) is worse than candy...

And maintenance. The biggest differentiator between American and Russian aircraft is that the American aircraft were better maintained. The Russian aircraft were likely more reliable for their given level of maintenance... but they were very, very poorly maintained.

The C919 is very similar to a North American aircraft. It was developed in tandem with Bombardier's C-Series (Now known as the Airbus A220). They leverage supply chain economies etc.

Not quite sure where the hate is coming from. The US is consistently eroding their manufacturing capability, and if there's one fact of business it's a void will fill itself...

Love it! The more competition the better. Also demonstrates (at least personally) the internal bias I have that the distribution of mobile phones in North America is the same as the distribution across the world... And that is clearly an incorrect bias

While I'd never buy this, I find it fascinating that outside of the Western lens there are still a ton of different and competing technologies. Reminds me of how Russia advanced research into Ternary computing considerably further than the West.

That's an awesome question. I think that some aspect of systems thinking (such as defining requirements, or breaking complex problems down at a high level) should be included in all engineering disciplines, but I agree that it's definitely a field more suited to being something you transition to instead of starting in. Mostly just because of the volume of general knowledge required to understand the whole system

I think one reason for the negative comments (speaking as someone trained as a Systems Engineer, with 10+ years of experience and now working as a Consultant and performing Systems Engineering occasionally) is that the majority of the "Engineerings" choose to quantify anything fuzzy in a certain way, and then state that it doesn't matter. For example, the human factor. Whereas the reason Systems Engineering is so abstract and high level is the assumption that those unquantifiable factors have to be accounted for in "boxes and arrows", regardless of the fact that they can't be quantitatively engineered.... And many can't handle the fact that these things can't be quantitatively engineered [Edit to add the statement post ellipses]

Yes. The four main players are Transport Canada, EASA, China and I believe South Africa. Each is refusing to take the FAA certification at its word. Had the FAA been running the program, they would have been up ages ago but the other regulators are being considerably more strict. Source: I work in aviation with airlines who operate the Max

In critical applications, much more than you'd imagine. Lots of defence and critical component suppliers still maintain a significant amount of hand work for low volume and critical areas.

Don't have a source unfortunately other than personal experience working as an engineer.

As a fun side note, the CEO of HBC made more than the CEO of American Airlines! Yay for profit before long term business plans, and looting 350+ year companies

I agree. All of my consulting interviews have gone on tangents here, there and everywhere.. And focused more on ability to think, problem solve and be a human. Whereas engineering and software jobs are rote.

I've been struggling with diving into a difficult task at work. I think it's because it's been a while since I've had a difficult task. This post resonated with me, and reminded me of the sense of accomplishment that comes when you push past that feeling and succeed. Thank you, for posting this, because I know that because I read it tomorrow will be a better day.

For a junior candidate, which do you think is easier to train? The engineering skills, or the writing skills? At first glance, I think writing... But as I think more I personally think the writing / communication skills are more challenging to teach, especially to engineers because it is more of an "art" than a fixed talent.