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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Bonus points if the menu is at least half in another language

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

As a professional pilot. I don't think there's any future in single pilot ops. Realistically the only time you need two pilots in a modern airliner is when shit's fucked sideways, which is exactly the time the single pilot in this situation needs to work. Normal ops are easy. You could automate that no problem, what is hard is automating whatever combination of failures and weather the engineers never thought of.

Maybe in cargo, where the stakes are lower, it'll happen. But in passenger ops, I think we'll go from 2 pilots to no pilots before we go to one pilot.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

For what it's worth, just about every panel like this is certified to have a specific number of fasteners missing. A lot of the time there will be some other qualifiers such as not missing the leading fastener or not missing adjacent fasteners. Having a bunch in a row like this incident would probably not be ok, but I couldn't say without the maintenence manual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

All real permanent buildings. About half were 2 story, the rest one story. My loose understanding is that when the county set aside land for schools it was basically worthless so the schools got large footprints. The weather in the area was generally good so they save money by making campuses of smallish buildings instead of one big expensive building.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Mine was kinda ridiculous in retrospect. 16 buildings, for ~1600 students, not counting things like the snack stand at the football field. Actually fairly normal for the area. Even my elementary school has 9 real buildings plus 4 racks of portables.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Got an HPE Aruba switch, it's the only HP thing I've ever had that I like. Getting new firmware from HP was a pita though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Unsurprisingly, police are considering the case as a possible murder — but the classless poll still questioned whether readers thought the woman had died by suicide, murder, or accident. Beneath the question, a disclaimer that the poll was part of the company's "insights from AI" somehow made the tasteless poll even more egregious.

Here's the part about the actual poll.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

Just wait until you encounter morse code abbreviations, some of which are still used in some industries. Like the wonderful X abbreviations, such as:

Wx - weather

Mx - maintainence

Tx/Rx - transmit/receive

Edit: I'm starting to think every industry totally did their own thing with morse abbreviations

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Looks like an airforce trainer, probably had some sort of malfunction. Looks like it landed back at Shepard AFB. I wouldn't worry about it, minor emergencies happen fairly regularly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If we get some big breakthrough that sends storage costs and bandwidth cost way down then I think it's possible. Otherwise between the astronomical costs involved and the difficulty attracting an audience and creators, I don't think it would happen unless Google axes YouTube for whatever reason.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The definitional boundary is where navigable airspace begins. You do own the non-navigable airspace above your property and you would have a trespassing argument if a drone entered that area without your permission. Where exactly the boundary is between navigable and non is a bit fuzzy but generally it will be at the highest object in the property eg. a treetop.

I still wouldn't mess with the drone though, as another commenter said interfering with an aircraft of any type is a very serious crime.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well yesterday I was on the clock for 12.5 hours, 7 hrs was spent operating equipment, ~3hrs on prep and clean up and the rest of the time was spent waiting for the next task. A pretty typical day for me. Today is my last day of my 5 days on and I have 4 days off.

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