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stevehawk··on AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea
4 days late on this but - if an airfcraft is in a sparsely populated area then it is allowed to be below 500' AGL so long as it is 500' away from "person, vessel, vehicle, or structure." This rule is suspended if the aircraft is in the process of taking off or landing (includes "flying the pattern"). I don't know where you live, so it may not apply to you. If you're in a rural-ish area, the person could be taking off from their own land or an airport you're not aware of.
stevehawk··on Is my plane a 737 MAX?
On the other hand, Hawaiian, JetBlue, Spirit, Allegiant and others are all strapped with Airbus A320neos that are going to be grounded shortly due to engine issues related to P&W's GTF engine.
stevehawk··on Is my plane a 737 MAX?
And the 737NG has its own problems - https://simpleflying.com/boeing-737-ng-nacelle-redesign/
stevehawk··on Is my plane a 737 MAX?
> Everybody agrees that FAA is not what it used to be, these days the Boeing engineers are basically self-certifying their planes.

I think Boeing /engineers/ would argue that statement and instead tell you that Boeing /management/ is self certifying the planes.

stevehawk··on Is my plane a 737 MAX?
The planes are all flying IFR flight plans which are submitted in advance and include airplane type. How far in advance is a little bit random but still in advance of leaving the gate.
stevehawk··on United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections
ah. i've been wondering what the method of securing the bolts would have been and have not seen anyone mention it. torque values or threadlocker is rarely enough for the FAA. it's usually safety wire, castle nuts, lock washers, etc.
stevehawk··on Fired comedian ordered to get day job back after jokes ruled 'simply funny'
maybe the textbook definition hasn't changed, but the interpretation (and application of said interpretations) certainly have in the United States. Especially since the hijacking of "being woke" by white people.
stevehawk··on AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea
do you live near an airport?
stevehawk··on AI and satellite imagery reveals expanding footprint of human activity at sea
> The other is privacy.

True in the aviation world. I've noticed that most people under, say, 50 or so, like ADS-B (airplanes broadcasting their location) for the safety reasons. But most of the pilots over 50 will say "It's just the government coming up with another way to track you."

stevehawk··on Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
You say that, but I recently ran out of disk space on my iPhone.. and the more I looked at the apps the more I realized "I bet these are all framework based apps and not native apps, and no one is tree-shaking their code or doing /any/ of the things you're supposed to in order to minimize disk usage.".. *shakes fist at clouds*
stevehawk··on The Linux backdoor attempt of 2003 (2013)
> And I strongly doubt that agencies that are known to routinely violate the law, the constitution, and human rights care about "contractually mandated" 40-hour workweeks.

lol they 100% do.. because they're all contractors bidding for the work.. so if one company bid X man hours for a cost plus contract and won as the lowest bidder and then put in 3x the time, either the winner would sue for being underpaid or, if they were paid, the loserss would sue because of impropriety.

stevehawk··on JAL A359 at Tokyo collided with Coast Guard DH8C on runway and burst into flames
I have to admit, I wonder how many lives would have been lost if this happened in America. "I have to get my laptop!" "where's my carry-on!?" "I think I left my phone!"
stevehawk··on JAL A359 at Tokyo collided with Coast Guard DH8C on runway and burst into flames
"Line up and wait" is, historically, the ICAO phraseology, which the FAA adopted (and ditched the "taxi into position and talk for thirty more seconds and block comms" phrase). The phrase adoption went into effect Oct 2010 in the States.
stevehawk··on Sony software updates breaks movie theater projectors
it also skyrockets the barrier to entry for software to a point that no one but the big companies could compete.
stevehawk··on The Linux backdoor attempt of 2003 (2013)
maybe 10x the salary (probably not) but also a correlated increase in hours instead of a contractually mandated maximum of 40 hours, combined with the legal inability to do work from home, discuss work at home, and a lot of related perks.
stevehawk··on A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system
The fewer pilots flying cargo means the more pilots to fly passengers.
stevehawk··on A cargo plane flew 50 miles with no pilot onboard using a semi-automated system
You may not want to research how many airliners are fly by wire...
stevehawk··on Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. In my wife's hospital's case, a lot of the nurses were part time due to family requirements. When the hospital demanded they go full time or quit, they simply quit and went part time at neighboring hospitals. You can't go making unreasonable demands of your employees when the demand for labor is larger than the supply.
stevehawk··on Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people
That's weird to me, in the US, because I don't know a single doctor that draws blood for tests. And if a doctor ever tried to draw blood from me I would say "No thanks, let the nurse do it". The American equivalent of this is probably "Administration knows best!" Like at my wife's hospital where they said "having all of these part time nurses is difficult on the admin staff and is going to force us to hire a few more people. So the nurses can go full or quit." Well, they all quit, and now the hospital is paying 4x the normal nurse rate for locums.
stevehawk··on Hyperloop One to shut down
Amtrak in the northeast corridor is Amtrak owned track
stevehawk··on Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies
i'm sure you understand why that is not particularly important to a small American radio station
stevehawk··on 23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing
fwiw the correct email for this is arbitrationoptout@23andme.com
stevehawk··on Beeper Mini is back
we should caveat all of this with "USA teenagers" as Apple does not have nearly these adoption levels anywhere else in the world.
stevehawk··on Transparent wood could soon find uses in smartphone screens, insulated windows
Good video. It's a shame that his voice over is in that "TED talk" cadence where people pause as if everything they say is mind blowing.
stevehawk··on Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?
i think it's safe to say that you're not the average phone user.
stevehawk··on Gordon Freeman at the Olympic Games
The article keeps saying "backhopping" but are they really talking about "bunnyhopping"?
stevehawk··on That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net
godaddy 100% did it. i remember looking for a domain, taking a day to debate, they reporteded it registered and they 10x'd the domain price on me. When I reached out to ICANN about such a bs move they just came back with "GoDaddy isnt doing anything wrong." This was 10-15 years ago.

That was the last time i registered anything with GoDaddy

stevehawk··on Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
the amount of effort that your will to put into this to not enter your attic is absolutely astounding. by the time you finished formulating even a basic plane to fly a drone to run a cable and displace all of your blown in insulation you could have simply run the cable.
stevehawk··on SpaceX will launch the X-37B on a Falcon Heavy rocket Dec. 7
resuming? Has humanity stopped since 1957?
stevehawk··on SpaceX will launch the X-37B on a Falcon Heavy rocket Dec. 7
Well SpaceX launches rockets into space and the others don't so it seems unfair to compare right? :-P
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