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Yes, they say it to cover their asses -- for the very very rare occasion when an unbelted passenger ends up stuffed into the overhead lighting panel or carry-on baggage compartments. :)

Seat belts in cars also contain several CYA-grade chimes and buzzers. The owner manual may mention risk of injury or death. Likely an airline's contract of carriage contains the same. I suspect both are read as often and as eagerly by their users.

I think the multiple "off tone" messages you're getting are in response to your use of ignorance as a defense for ignoring airplane crew instructions.

I would bet that they displayed high competence at discovering under-charge or forgot-to-charge incidents and swiftly remedied them.

+1 -- we moved to XCPng when citrix played this same game with xenserver a few years ago, and it's been a very positive move.

I have never heard a non-electrified bicycle referred to as "acoustic" before and I love that so much. :)

"Libertarian" is a pejorative now?

I would read this book, binge this netflix series, or season-ticket this play. Please make it so. :)

Microsoft Publisher is mine. Think it, put it on the page, now you're a desktop publisher. I preferred it to Word for the longest time, for even the most banal documents, because I had pure control over layout.

I wish it was ported to Mac.

It seems to be a trend. Honestly, brutalist.report is my daily driver now and my preferred gateway into HN and many other news sites that I frequent. (not that HN is bad, just now there's a similar aggregator)

I think I am pleased with a definition of brutalism on the web that equates to "does not load a pile of JS, autoplay videos, trash, and tracking -- and just sets up a quick, clean, bunch of links to consider" -- if this is where we are heading , I'm pro-brutalism. :)

Did Mongo get slagged in their early days because of the unflattering Blazing Saddles movie reference?

Call it whatever you want. Engineers should be able to select their tools on merit, not marketing.

Paying off a loan early is deceptive?

And the equally compelling anti-argument against everything-is-a-web-page is every time I go to a website I haven't been to in awhile (and some I use on the daily), I need to swat away a cacophony of "What's New! Let's Take a Tour!" popups, like so many cobwebs. :)

When I have my client's money rattling around in my bank account, I find other avenues to express my annoyance with them. Mainly complaining to my wife :) If the annoyance becomes unbearable, I quietly find some new position to work at.

It's ingratitude at some level. If workers should not be grateful to their employers for their jobs, that's a different conversation, but yeah, sabotaging an external PR event -- what employer is going to giggle, clap, and congratulate this person's "bravery" ?? termination had to be expected here.

Amusingly, the employee now gets 6+ months of unemployment benefits to contemplate the means of their activism.

I would actually wonder if the hitler version had a different take.

I hate how cynical I am, but this feels like abdication. "We can't compete, so we turned to Uncle Sugar for a lifeline" Surely it's an anti-signal? I used to hold INTC proudly and loved the Andy Grove era of that company.

Has Intel become a zombie company?

Ghosting seems to be the norm now, even after several rounds of investment in interviews.

I haven't figured out if it's due to poor manners or just plain cowardice, but oh man it's all over the place now.

The rectangle app solved 80% of this for me (OCD window placement across 2+ monitors). I agree with the rest. :)

Not alone. I was pretty grouchy about it a few months ago. It seems to be getting better, though.

I code all over the stack, usually some bizarre mix of python, pyspark, SQL, and typescript.

TS support seems pretty nice, and it can optimize and suggest pretty advanced things accurately.

Py was hopeless a few months ago, but my last few attempts have been decent. I've been sent down some rabbitholes though, and been burned -- usually my not paying attention and being a lazy coder.

PySpark is just the basics, which is fine if I am distracted and just want to do some basic EMR work. More likely, though, I'll rummage my own code snippets instead.

The speed of improvement has been impressive. I'm getting enthused about this stuff more and more. :)

Plus, who doesn't enjoy making random goofy stuff in Dall-E while waiting for some progressbar to advance? That alone is worth the time investment for me.

I am polite to ChatGPT for my own edification and consistency of being, not because I think I will hurt its feelings otherwise. :)

And depressingly still relevant 56 years later.

I agree with your point's sentiment, but I doubt anyone in here is chartering a bus or van to attend an event their neighbors are also attending the next town over.

They think the same way we do. We play the game at the level we can afford. Their game is higher level, but it is played the same.

Pulling my plane out of the hangar is no different than pulling the Subaru out of the garage. Thinking about sharing the ride never enters into it. I don't need to trade reduced cost for increased efficiency and reduced convenience. Neither do these 525 jet owners or charter clients.

If my former Honda Civic NG's natural gas tank could be filled at the same pressures of the Toyota Mirai's Hydrogen tank, my civic would have gotten ~950 miles to a fill. (3600psi vs IIRC 10,000psi). I assume there's a chemistry reason they're not comparable.

I also have to assume the DOT approvals ensure some safety in both (although the pressures are a lot to contemplate in either car) -- there have been NG crashes where the car was consumed by fire, but the tank did not explode/rupture. They're stout and well-considered things. I don't think the H2 storage in the Mirai (and whatever the Hyundai one was called) is the problem. I think lack of access to filling stations is the problem. I've owned 2 NG Civics and while NG stations were in oddball locations, they were available.

I thought the Mirai was a cool car, especially the second gen. Now they're... what, very expensive doorstops? Super unfortunate! I hope Toyota do right by their early-adopters. I don't expect Hyundai gives a rip, but they could surprise me also.

Yeah you'd think everyone would save some time and treasure by just reducing the thing down to "Are you a jerk? Y/N"

...until I saw my boss's THREE HUNDRED page manual on how to interpret the results of these tests. There is apparently some entire industry behind these "tools". I've learned to limit my criticism of what is very clearly, to me, a load of weak-signal hogwash. They may as well throw chicken bones or read tea leaves from where I sit, but then again, I sit from a place of certainly smaller net worth than whoever is peddling this stuff, so round and round we go? :)

I came to post a very similar sentiment, but about Oakland, CA.

Reward police for lowered stats, watch the stats magically deflate. Et voila!

I get an ASMR-like response from taking tests/quizzes, even these sorta pop-psych nonsense ones.

Apparently I'm a "mentor" at FedEx. It resonates. :)

My current client had me sit one of these after 2 years on the job. That one labeled me "Debater". I argued with them out of principle. I think that if their HR people used it to screen me before I started, I would not have gotten the gig at all. :D

Not a health suggestion, but I would get the power of attorney and advanced care directives done while they are sentient. Dealing with a dementia/Alzheimer's parent would be 100x worse on my sister and I without those instruments already in place.

I've been wondering about that proliferation. I suspected something like this. It seems particularly out of control in Texas in the Dallas suburbs.

Thanks for this connection. :)

Nope. 47 now.

As I travel more, my opinion that there are enough humans already has only strengthened.

If I feel the need to scoop up the purported "joy of children", I can visit my sister and wind up my nephew for a few hours, then leave the sugar crash and ensuing tantrums to be her problem as I whizz off back to reality.

I'm so very grateful that my home doesn't have some little narcissist in it running around wearing my face and destroying my property, sanity, and finances. Or at least, not another one. :)

Not sure what GA has to do with what appears to be a news aggregation site from 1998 about commercial airliner incidents.

Not sure who would be in for 12 euros for that list either. There are modern alternatives who are not rattling the collection plate.

I run across ASN the most when looking for this sorta thing. https://aviation-safety.net/

Any high marks Futurama may earn for its finale need to be halved by the episode providing the saddest kick in the bonch ever -- "Jurassic Bark" :)

How many different points of view on "we should really tighten all of the bolts on this emergency door plug" does anyone need? :)

Your remarks make sense darn near anywhere else except a "let's all panic and hand-wring about a Boeing manufacturing lapse" thread