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> Yes. I am questioning whether I have some emotional deficiency

Yeah, you probably do. Take a hobby or art form that you’re really passionate about and have spent a lot of time on. Something that when you’re doing it, all is right in the universe. Doing this activity your tools become an extension of yourself. They are valuable and beautiful things to you, and you become somewhat attached to them.

Now someone crushes these, your favourite tools and instruments and equipment, in a hydraulic press and says that an iPad can replace them.

If you still don’t see how this could be unsettling to someone who gets so much enjoyment and purpose out of them, and instead view this as looking for a reason to be offended, you probably have some sort of emotional deficiency. You could be autistic, or have psychopathic or sociopathic tendencies.

You’ve probably never invested hundreds or thousands of hours in a hobby, art form, craft or skill. If you had, you would find the ad at least mildly disconcerting.

If you don’t see how, maybe it’s time to get off the screen? Stop consuming and try creating for a bit?

Speed bumps and roundabouts do not “wear out” your car. Not how you ever arrived at that idea.

No, what parent said is true: they could have changed the model number if they so chose to, and kept the same type rating. The 757 and 767 have the same type rating for example.

Whether they call it 737, 737 Max, 73Seven, 838 or whatever else is just marketing and has no bearing on keeping training compatibility. Only the type rating matters for that.

No, I won’t provide such an explanation or attempt to convince you any further. It’s not “my view” it’s just how it works. Plenty of videos and photos online demonstrating how the door works, you can easily go find them and convince yourself.

Edit: I’m feeling charitable so here’s one, knock yourself out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maLBGFYl9_o

You’re wrong. The stops take the pressure load, that’s why there are 12 of them and they are beefy. The bolts simply keep the door behind the stops, that’s why only 4 bolts are needed for that.

Sorry but you are completely wrong here.

No. The bolts don’t hold the door/plug against the pressure. There are 12 stops and brackets, separate from the bolts, that take the pressurization load and transfer it to the airframe. The bolts are there to simply prevent the door from translating upwards from behind the stops (as it would when opened as a real door).

The bolts could be missing and it could take some time (vibration, landings etc.) for the plug to work its way upwards from behind the stops.

Sure but if you read what I’m replying to, they are not “lying” to call it a 737-8-200. That is what it is.

They call it that because their plane is in fact not a 737 Max 8.

Ryanair’s aircraft is a different variant, made only for them, the Max 200 which is the same size as a Max 8 but has the extra exits for up to 200 pax.

It wasn’t a door.

My theory is that blue lights stand out more in Amazon search results.

Yes, “tf edit” would mark on the server that you were opening the file for editing, and cleared the read-only bit, but it didn’t lock the file for others or prevent concurrent edits in any way.

Are you sure? My experience of using TFVC was that it would warn you if someone else had opened the file for editing but would not actually lock it. Multiple people could edit the same file concurrently with standard automerging/conflict resolution afterwards.

It just never ends with this outfit.

With perpetually heavy traffic, a nice sandstone geology and no earthquakes, not to mention the home of Macquarie Bank, Sydney is like a perfect shitstorm of conditions for a massive network of freeway toll tunnels. At least, one of the tunnels is being built for trains, should be more though.

As a Seattle resident I don’t mind it being gradual, but it is painful seeing its compromised again and again. For example, using slow light-rail vehicles on a regional length line, abandoning a centralised transfer hub, and monumental station designs that are either hundreds of feet underground or hundreds of feet in the air with escalator after escalator adding minutes to every trip.

Yup, we built a new house in Australia in 2001 and thought we were being so forward thinking by getting a 2nd phone line for the modem/fax. Of course it ended up being done using a pair gain and we were stuck at 33.6k.

Streetcar suburbs are not 1950s suburbs, they are 1900s-1930s suburbs. 1950s suburbs are car suburbs.

Completely wrong.

I assume ”non-resident” in this context means not a permanent resident, but still a SSN-holding resident otherwise. For example a TN or H1-B visa.

These visas don’t authorize you to work for a company other than the one officially sponsoring the visa, but you are allowed to own your own business. Perhaps that is the motivation for wanting to open an LLC, but I’m not sure what an LLC gets you in this situation that simply declaring yourself a sole proprietor doesn’t.

Shots inside an aircraft usually use a set. If you watch any Netflix series at all, you start to see the same A320-based aircraft cabin set used over and over again in different shows. It looks just like an A320 cabin interior, but split in two lengthways and the aisle widened, with a flat panel added in the ceiling to fill in the gap from the widening. Once you know what to look for you realize it’s the same set every time.

It’s possible they used the actual aircraft in this case because they were filming an ad or some other promotional material for the tour company, perhaps.

You’re being shortsighted.

Apple is the brand that many of us in the tech crowd have long recommended to our non-technical friends and relatives. You could pay a slightly premium price and expect a machine that is easy to understand, “just works” and most importantly: that you would get a fair few years’ worth of use out of for the extra upfront cost.

Apple is undermining that by shipping 8GB and 256GB in the base configuration. They’re setting up a situation where the expected life of their computers is potentially shortened by unexpectedly-bloated future OS upgrades.

Remember the crappy underspecced Celeron laptops that Walmart used to sell? That unsuspecting non-technical customers would shell out hundreds for, only to become unusable slow in only 1-2 years, meanwhile suffering through it that whole time?

We recommended Apple to our friends and relatives precisely to avoid those kind of cheap and nasty predatory products, but now Apple is moving in that direction too.

As someone (who is technically skilled) who has recommended Apple tech to my whole family (who are non-technical) with massively positive results after migrating from Windows PCs, yes that does anger me.

It isn’t uncommon when you know what it is doing. Wholesale removal or discouragement of LINQ is a sign of fake cargo-cult performance “optimization”.

It’s perfectly fine to use if you learn about how it works and how to use it properly.

> I dont know enough about C# to know if this is true

Do you know enough about C# to realize that .Select() by itself doesn’t materialize the collections, making the benchmark completely nonsensical?

The query structure is the same because it was a failed attempt to evaluate classes vs. structs, not one query vs. another.

I dunno. When I first used PayPal.com as a teenager, $20 was pretty important to me.

Yuck. Not sure I’d pay money to find out what Meta’s definition of “ad” is. Sure the explicit ads may be gone but what about all the “promoted content” and chum-boxes? I consider those to be ads too.

This is Meta we’re talking about. You can pay, but the ads will be back at some point, whether you like it or not.

I'd disagree. For financial services, one cent unaccounted for is failure.

What? That’s an even worse analogy. Being integral parts of the Ford truck, it’s like saying that users should have a choice of what programming language Google used for its services, or what brand server it uses in its data centers, or which brand of networking equipment it uses — utterly meaningless.