Maybe you should re-watch the episode :) . This was much more than a "design flaw". There was an issue with the pitot tube design, but it was enough to bring the airliner down like a rock.
A combination of route planning, misunderstanding of what is happening, CRM, poor UX, and at the end, incompetence were also a factor.
Almost all airline accidents in modern days are "freak" accidents, but I personally consider AF447 one of the freakiest of the freaks. The long wait to figure out what was wrong probably amplifies the feeling.
I'm not sure it can be used, since it is much colder than -80. I actually hope it can be, because there is quite a few liquid nitrogen facilities, usually near big medical facilities. Dry ice, quite rare. I've seen some for special effects, but declared at a higher temperature than -80.
Great news, but I think the importance of the -80 degrees centigrade storage requirement is underestimated.
Serbia, where I live, has ordered this vaccine. And our medical system is far from world-class, but leaps and bounds from less developed countries, and I honestly think logistics here will not be able to match those requirements. I've seen tetanus vaccines just being kept in regular, commercial, refrigerators. There have been cases where they have been switched off because they were not on UPSs or not up to standards. Vehicles equipped for transport are an issue by itself.
I'm not sure it's the access to weapons that makes a whole lot of difference. Certain events in the US come first to mind when you mention it, but where I live there is practically no weapons readily available, even certain air rifles being regulated. You can't even buy ammo without approval yet people still fear of being harmed from a "crazy person". People equate any issue with aggression, delusions, dark secrets while in reality in most cases it's more likely to be things like hypochondria, insomnia, family relations, coping with loss of loved ones etc.
Haha, I send him there a couple of times every week for the last 20 years.
It was much more benign and the people we were with are fairly close to both of us. We wouldn't quarrel in such a way in front of them if they weren't. But it was heated at that point, and a learning opportunity for both of us.
A funny piece of advice, I have an actually very good friend (we still are, but at a point in history our relations became a bit dark) who knew that I was going into therapy. I didn't actually accept the fact that I had to go well, and I felt ashamed and weak when we talked about it. Little did he knew, in the meantime I got much better, accepted the fact and started freely speaking about it with other people here and there. Not when not asked, but when the topic of mental health came along, I wasn't shy to expose the fact and encourage people to seek their own. And in one relatively big dispute (minor from this distance), he kind of tried exposing it against me in front of some mutual friends who actually already knew (I told them in the meantime). Well, he looked like massive jackass.
In conclusion, don't be ashamed for seeking therapy. Yes, it may feel shameful now, which is completely unwarranted, but a part of the process of healing is also dealing with the existence of the issue itself and taking a different stance at mental health issues.
I can't seem to find a reliable source, would AWS or Azure penalise you for using a VPN for torrenting? I've heard about accounts being terminated because of hosted seedboxes on VMs, but I'm not sure what would happen with a VPN + Torrent combination.
This is a very stupid example I will give is completely benign but may motivate someone, with a punch line.
I had terrible issues with acne on my back and shoulders. They were terrible, painful, constantly being inflamed, bleeding all around. I couldn't imagine wearing a white shirt, going to the beach, pool, scars showing with short slieved shirts. People actually asked me what's wrong with me, some thinking I was self injuring myself with cigarettea. Doctors described it as one of the worst cases they seen, recommended all sorts of medicine (some doing more damage than good). Spent a fortune treating them and years.
At one point I embraced them. It's me, I stopped being caring. And they went... Psychotherapy probably helped, although I went because of completely different reasons.
I wouldn't write this, but replace acne with ulcerative coalitis, and you have my good friend's story...
And it should (at least looking from outside the system) stay that way. That's pretty serious business and violations should be treated harshly. Some flying items did not exist or were not massively adopted just a few years ago, but I would not like it to become a "new normality" to expect them where they should most certainly not be. As far as I'm concerned, just shoot the damn thing down.
He did, but I don't think that it had time to come into effect. And that part was explicitly related to 5G technology, which is a relatively vague term. The cameras might or might not come into that.
I would argue Serbia is traditionally aligned with Russia/Soviets. That's the narrative for the last 25 years maybe, and I think it was just the path of least resistance. Boomers in Serbia were more westernized than you would expect. Some poor judgement of some Western powers tipped the balance and forced Serbia into Russian influence, IMHO.
Let's put it this way. I would rather my MacBook Pro is double its height than having this. In my PC I intentionally put a chunky, oversized cooler just for the fan to be silent as long as possible and keep the performance as long as possible. Consoles should be performance machines, in my opinion, form should follow function, and beautiful does not mean tiny.
I think you lucked out or maybe didn't pay enough attention to the seller reputation. I probably ordered three dozen items from AE, ranging from cents to 600 euros, only thing not making it was a 10 dollar cable during the peak of the Spring covid wave in Europe, when logistics was seriously disrupted. Got my money back. I suspect it was lost, as tracking showed it strolling across the Far East back and forth.
And items were not up to spec sometimes, but also got my money back or the seller sent a replacement.
For me, excluding the obvious ones like driving is dressing up nicely. Although I value ones looks less as I grow older, since appearance is transient (someone can be having a bad day), I appreciate the skill needed to combine an outfit, which I lack and can't fathom.
By nicely I don't mean like for a wedding or expensively, just plain nicely with your day-to-day apparel. Combine garment styles and colors and subtle details. I have a feeling I would have it easier on some occasions if I just payed attention to how I look instead of just making sure my weewee isn't in the open and the cloths covering me are clean. When I do try, I turn out looking goofy so I stick to my plain, bland, inoffensive elements.
So, we're burning fossil fuels, increasing CO2 output, don't have an idea which will reliably improve the situation and are getting stupider by the day, decreasing our chance to ever getting one. Yay...
Serbian here... Also never heard of it. But I suspect that it has something to do with another, similar one: U dobru se ne ponesi, u zlu ne ponizi/У добру се не понеси, у злу не понизи. Which roughly (because it is archaic) translates to: Be humble when all is good (in good fortune), do not submit to evil (bad, unfortunate, hard) times.
For laughs, there is a hundred year old Hungarian/Serbian hard candy called Negro. The author's name was Pietro Negro, and the candy is charcoal black because of liquorice and doped with menthol, which gives it a distinctive medicine taste. People love it or hate it, I love it personally. In the meantime, more flavours are developed in Serbia, with eucalyptus, peppermint, lime, caramel... And all of them called Negro because it's just a strong brand name.
Nevertheless, every once in a while there is some wiseguy trying to make a story out of it, just ruining the fun. If we really want to take that discussion, I would argue that it's actually an homage to people of color, being so popular yet unrelated to colonialism or slavery and treated like a folk remedy for a sore throat.
Offtopic: I wanted to buy this USB switch, but it's hard to get on the current market in my country (or available for an absurd price). So I started trying to build my own... which was fun, but then I understood I need a some USB/MAX chips that are also hard to find, and started to cause me frustration instead of fun, because I'm not really that good with low-level electronics, university was a long time ago. And I was still without my switch/hub. So at the end I just chose a 3-pole double-throw toggle switch and a couple of USB connectors and wired them up. I only need to switch my keyboard, because my mouse is multi-device. If I need more, I'll just wire a hub to it. Work is in progress, but it can't get simpler than that.
If you're wondering what got complicated, well as far as I read and understood, actually breaking a USB connection with solid state logic is kind of a pain in the neck if you want to stay within the USB parameters, at least for an inexperienced designer like me. And you need to build the power supply for the circuit, and I didn't want to introduce an external power supply, I wanted to piggyback of the USB source. Something this ugreen product does not do. So I left this project for another time, when I freshen up on my perished knowledge. A mechanical switch just switches the lines and that's it.
To those who notices planes flying in circles, it doesn't have to be anything sinister. Those might be planes calibrating avionics or ground/airport equipment or doing test flights after maintenance. I have agencies in the region doing both, so you can sometimes find planes doing strange patterns which are their clients.
I kind of agree. I have the same issue, although I'm not prone to motion sickness in life. My senses get ready for g-forces which are not there so my whole nerve system goes brrrrrrr. Then I need to put in mental effort to stop expecting motion and just concentrate on the visuals which ruins the experience. An hour in Digital Combat Simulator with VR is my maximum, and I usually need a recovery period for my internal gyroscopes to get in line.
Completely agree! Went from a mediocre 2x1440p to high quality 2 x 4K, then back to a pair of equal quality 2x1440p.
I would also add, when it comes to 4K and, for example, MacBooks, things fall apart quickly in my opinion. Cables, adapters/dongles/docking stations just must match up for everything to work in proper 60fps, and it gets worse if you have two external displays.
As for my home set up, also stayed at 25" 1440p. Nice balance for work, hobby and occasional gaming without braking the bank for a top-tier GPU.
Even though it's generated sender-side, AFAIK, you wound't even know it is there as a feature. You paste a link, wait some time, and a preview appears. If you send it immediately, there is no preview. Which is acceptable, but at least give some kind of indication that the preview is being generated. Or for some links there is just no preview, and you stay there like an idiot waiting for a preview to appear without any notice it failed. Sometimes the preview is just not that good, although it's also up to the link optimisation.
You can generate a preview on the sender side. I think WhatsApp does it like that. Since you're the one sending the link, you've already opened it/know what's behind it. The receiver would basically get a thumbnail, with no egress traffic.
As for the DNS, if you're concerned with the DNS of your ISP, you shouldn't be using it anyway (I don't).
Don't extrapolate what I said. I like link previews and don't like Memojis and bloatware. But more often than not I like to know what's behind the URL. Maybe I don't wan't to open the site, or already seen the article, or the preview is enough to get information (like weather?).
If we're on the road to proliferate privacy-conscious behaviour, we need to give something to "the masses", so they can enjoy the experience. And I want my mom and dad using products such as Signal, so I can use it with them. I have no use of it if my friends are not using it, and I'm all alone on the whole network. I don't support bloatware, but some sugar is needed.
I actually like Signal, and would use it a lot more, but don't because of one feature - link previews. I understand the technical reasoning why are they so slow to adopt it, but I (and a group of people I communicate on a daily basis) would probably accept even a half-baked solution like the one on WhatsApp.
Until 7 years down the line you have to round up a team of your most experienced engineers and add some to figure out how to scale the frecking' thing.
In my experience, anything longer than 1500 lines chokes PyCharm. And I can't blame it, it's still the best Python editor. Everything else feels like writing in Notepad. It's the only tool that can actually helps you navigate/organise/autocomplate/whatever in large Python project, which is a must for this goddamn language.