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I don't really think the phenomenon is anything other than people selfishly wanting their belongings to be saved over another passenger's life.

Had to chuckle at this: "If you have made it this far, I first of all commend your patience, and/or your nerdiness."

A thoroughly enjoyable write-up this was.

If you consider having a public holiday to bet on the a horse race, sure. I don't really see the cultural lustre. But I'm a lifelong Sydney-sider so I'm biased.

The time savings are tremendous, to be sure. On Sunday, it only took me me 10 mins to get from Princes Highway in Tempe to Drummoyne via the newly opened Iron Cove bridge exit on Victoria Rd. I wouldn't do it every day due to the cost, but clearly it's worth it if you need to get to the Airport or Eastern suburbs in a hurry.

It's bloody expensive and impossible for casual drivers to know how much they're going to be stung until their etag auto-tops up. I like how fast it is compared to Parramatta road, but you have to be on some serious money to afford it daily now that the M4 is also distance tolled.

Interesting details here. I too have always thought the trench run took place in the equatorial trench. I thought they were just going so fast it seemed narrower.

This comment sounds like AI-generated content to me, as good as it sounds

"Case studies created by Google Bard AI as part of submission to parliamentary inquiry proven to be factually incorrect".

A bit of an indictment of the competence of these academics since they don't appear to have fact checked the generated case studies.

This comment made me think of the Not Hotdog app from Silicone Valley!

Unless you're living in the southern hemisphere, sure

I vaguely remember this from reading Biggles. I think came from pilots getting shot down over enemy lines on the western front in WWI.

I'm also in Australia, and it's gotten a bit ridiculous. There are now utes the size of American Ford F350s everywhere. Our streets and parking infrastructure are just not designed for it. It's become an arms race. You're now much safer if you drive a bigger car and you can see the road ahead much better than if you drive a Corolla.

The Royal Australian Air Force was flying the DHC4 Caribou aa a light airlifter until the early 2000's. It was an amazing piece of engineering and was first flown in the late 50s. You could literally fly backwards in a headeind and land on a dime. It was really useful for tiny dirt strips in places like Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, there's not much out there that can match it's capability for what it was.

Sadly, I only recall having this almost 20 years ago. I probably wasn't old enough to appreciate it then. As I get older, I tend to appreciate the depth of flavour and savour these things so such more.

Haha one of my favourite scenes, apart from Captain Haddock losing his taste for whisky at the start!!!

In my time as an avionics tech on C-130s, it was drilled incessantly into us to never perform maintenance from memory. Always consult each step in the relevant publication and have it with you. We weren't immune, we also had ASORs (Aircraft Safety Occurrences, but nowhere near this level of seriousness) where mistakes were made because the techo did not consult the publication. We had tuffbooks that were loaded with all publications and STIs (Special Technical Instructions, similar to SBs) that should have always been carried to the aircraft and consulted during maintenance. If the SB in this case was unavailable, maintenance should have ceased until it became available. When you sign off on maintenance, you are signing off on it being completed in accordance with the publications referencing the specific section of the publication (at least, that's what we did in the Air Force).

On the driver side, my immediate thought was: How did a fuel leak in one engine cause a total loss of fuel? I would hope that there are now checklists that prioritise shutting off the cross-feed valve if a leak is suspected. Weight and balance are subordinate to the risk of running out of fuel and starving both engines.

On a side note, we would have regular "Safety Days" where incidents of ours, and major incidents like these that have happened to other aircraft were presented to the squadron (both aircrew and maintenance) in detail and discussed. Having the potential consequences in your mind at all times really helped fortify the necessity of following the correct procedures during the regular conduct of your work.

Haha! My mind immediately went there as well!

Newman!!!

Sadly I have to use BeyondCompare for this, but I'd love to know what your PM uses.

Really enjoyed this. If this was a premium mobile game with more levels increasing in difficulty, I'd buy it for sure. Others have covered minor feedback like character icons overlapping on the same space, the flashing lights at the end, etc. So i won't. But overall, this is exciting!

I've been using that format too for the same reason, without knowing about 8601. Day/Month/Year is great for a person (I'm in Aus) since we, as human beings, intrinsically know what year it is, and probably know what month it is if we haven't been on a bender. But string sorting is so much easier using yyyyMMdd format.

Name inspired by Stargate?

I've managed to largely unplug myself from the unrewarding miasma of Facebook by doing this. This has inspired me to go further.

I think ATC has a big question to answer here. Why the hell would you vector a plane to land in the opposite direction of a departing aircraft on the same runway? At any rate, TCAS also has a big part to play in collision avoidance. It's not just up to the pilots scanning visually or manually looking at a radar screen. I wonder if the A350 got an RA or something and pulled up a bit too much in response.

EDIT Just read it was an uncontrolled airport as i posted this, so i guess ATC is out of the picture.

Were there any leaks of Australian data? I can only see Austria in pastebin (spelling mangled as Austriaia)

No surprise at all. They're trying to to rewrite history now.

Yes, does that for me in Australia too.

From Google:

"We’re gradually going to shut down Google Play Music, the Music Store on Google Play and Music Manager soon, with everyone losing access in the months to come. You can read our full announcement here. This announcement follows the launch of our new migration process (back in May) which lets all Google Play Music listeners easily transfer their data and make the simple switch to YouTube Music"

Interestingly, no mention of the new requirement to pay $9.99 pm to listen to your own music in the background, or the fact that ads will play on previously purchased tracks without becoming a premium subscriber.

This may be slightly off topic here, but I attended a birthday party of a friend last year. Long story short, there was a guy at the same pub who OD'd and my wife and I helped him until the ambulance arrived. There was a 'reality' TV cameraman with them and we didn't want him filming us so I asked him to stop. His tactic was to shove the camera in my face and make snide remarks to provoke a reaction. When I put my hand up and stepped back, the guy tilted the camera back really quickly and took a knee panning it up at me, and started saying things like "you hit me! That's assault". To this day I have no idea what ended up being shown, if anything, but it was an eye opening experience about the abject dishonesty involved in reality TV. I can just as easily see that applied to TV journalism.

Found this very interesting. I hadn't given much thought to it before, although I've seen this effect on pressurised sections of aircraft and assumed that was the only cause of this effect.