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Comment · 1 year ago
I think you're crossing reliability and availability.

Reliability means 99.9% of the time when I hand something off to someone else it's what they want.

Availability means I'm at my desk and not at the coffee machine.

Humans very much are 99.9% accurate, and my deliverable even comes with a list of things I'm not confident about

Comment · 2 years ago
Last three years I've been in the Netherlands, all pop was glass bottles, similar with most water
Comment · 2 years ago
Ideally I'd like the same experience I have for Plex et al for my library on supported mobile devices.

Go to app, select book, download to device. Same as I would do with a tv show or movie.

Comment · 2 years ago
Any chance you'd add ebook support?
Comment · 2 years ago
Sure, but imagine you're wearing gloves, covered in dirt and mud and oil. I'll take buttons any time over the obsession with touchscreens.
Comment · 2 years ago
I was in Oslo 5 years ago and even then, the parking meters outside apartments had been retrofitted with charger, and this was on parallel parking spots.

A lot of cold countries have plugs at every parking spot for block heaters. It's not too big a leap to retrofit those for some level of charging.

Comment · 2 years ago
This is not correct. To the passengers, this just looks like another seat next to a window with a plug installed. It's not a door.

If there was a reconfiguration to a seating standard that required the extra exit, the plug would be removed and a proper door would be installed, with the associated interior pieces.

Comment · 2 years ago
And last year, crypto was going to take over the world.

I'm skeptical of yet another, extremely computationally expensive aspirational technique.

Comment · 3 years ago
In Europe they use Engineer interchangeably with Aviation Mechanic.

If this is a tour company, moving a plane, it's not unreasonable that they'd bring a mechanic along in case they needed an inspection on the way. It's cheaper than contracting out a lot of the time.

Comment · 3 years ago
A lot of your lifestyle changes.

You buy groceries more often, but less of them. Or you bring a wagon or those metal carts.

Furniture etc. gets delivered. Because everyone gets deliveries, the cost is lower because they have stable demand.

With good transit, you take it to the station or rental car if you're doing a road trip.

Comment · 3 years ago
This is incorrect. As soon as one incident was found, they would have had to ground the fleet until they had checked all the rest of the planes.

It's not a should, could, maybe, it's a your fleet is not flying if you find a problem like this and haven't checked.

Comment · 3 years ago
I disagree. I review when I have polarizing experiences (good OR bad), or when I want to show support for a business.

I think tying a review to your google account is also good, because anonymity on the internet is generally used by people to say things they wouldn't say in the real world, often in harmful ways.

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