vic-traill
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Comment · 2 years ago
>Reminds me of the Gimli Glider
This was a very Canadian accident, in that they ran out of fuel halfway through their cross-country flight because of (in the end) conversion errors in calculating the required fuel amount for the then-new metric 767. Canada was still in the conversion process from imperial to metric, and the airline industry was a relative latecomer to that change.
Comment · 2 years ago
Just a couple of warnings.
/s
Comment · 2 years ago
Biden's party has racked up a series of electoral wins in recent years
Comment · 2 years ago
Harshest punishments for those whose actions cost lives and badly jeopardized security, analysts say
Comment · 2 years ago
Airline's claim that online helper was responsible for its own actions was 'remarkable': small claims court
Comment · 2 years ago
General thought brought about by TFA, not commenting specifically on TFA.
Lately I've been wondering about contemporary expressions of opinion.
When I was much younger these was a oft-used chestnut 'Opinions are like assholes; everyone has one'[0]. To my mind, one's opinion was an entry point to a journey of dialogue, not a terminus.
I get that the level of effort to post one's opinion is low, and the resultant distribution high.
Why do we think our opinion should be widely disseminated? Does the world need to know my opinion on a topic, or is posting motivated by other factors, e.g. vanity?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Opinions_are_like_ar...
Comment · 2 years ago
> some indication that a vehicle is driving autonomously is useful information to everyone around them
I'm genuinely curious - what are you thinking when you say this?
I don't know what I'd do with that information. It shouldn't make me drive differently - e.g. not be aggressive to see if I can invoke reaction(s) in the autonomous system, and I should already be driving w/ due care.
Comment · 2 years ago
>You were contacted after my intervention and a refund arrived along with a 20% voucher nearly three weeks after it was first promised.
Voucher? So you have to spend more money on HP products to claim a shitty 20% for HP having broken contract law? Am I interpreting this correctly?
If so, wow.
Comment · 3 years ago
Alas, no, not so much. This is a very frequent flyer; you have to damn near tackle writers (literally and metaphorically) to stop them from using an apostrophe in the possessive form of the pronoun 'it'.
Comment · 3 years ago
Came to the comments to see if anything was known about him post-escape.
My google-fu fails me in finding any info regarding capture. Maybe his is still at large?
He apparently escaped on Oct 15 2020 [0], smack dab into the middle of the pandemic. A national lockdown came into effect in early November 2020 [1] - how the hell would that work for him?
[0] https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/hampstead-heath-g...
[1] https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/file...
Comment · 3 years ago
was on track to run out of money in a matter of weeks (from TFA) != it ran out of money, it failed, there is nothing left (your comment)
I appreciate you were focused on the exec compensation part of the dialogue. Just noting that the money was not yet all gone.
Comment · 3 years ago
That article has an odd cadence to it.
Makes it tougher to grok for me ....
It's even worse than that - I've been in Sales Engineering, Sales and IT Management as well. Telecom, Edu and Healthcare environments.