I don't know if this comment is satire or not, but I thought the company existed to provide a fast and (relatively) safe means of travel over long distances to people. I guess the old engineering adage applies here too: fast, cheap, safe, pick any two.
Maybe the connection to this topic won't be obvious, but I used to read Animal Farm and think that the Donkey was supeior to the Horse. Nowadays I don't think that anymore. The Horse was never alone for a day in his life. The Donkey survived the Horse but was left alone. So I now think "I will work harder" is the right approach most of the time.
A great tool, trully a programmer's text editor. Used it for more than 10 years, it seemed like it had plugins for virtually eveything. I remember one time we had to work with huge XML files, like 100 MB in size or so, and everyone was grepping them or struggling with other editors, while jEdit had that nice XML parser plugin which showed a nice hierarchical tree :) Thanks for all the work put into it. Nowadays I tend to gravitate towards KDevelop and others but I hope jEdit continues on.
This answer: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/34627 is most likely correct. Based on the fact that main carriage is off the ground, flap setting and wing AoA. During departure the rotation angle would be larger before main wheels leave the ground.
500 milliseconds is huge. I don't know what that app does, but in my world if you have as much as 10 microseconds delay you've blown your time budget and you're missing all your KPI and your goals. Have you ever tried to have a voice conversation with a delay of half a second? It's a very frustrating experience. Also, if your framebuffer rendering pipeline has that kind of delay, the user will leave the app in frustration very fast.
It's not the competion that matters, not even playing against or defeating the #1 tennis player. Think of it as a tennis point being played. If both you and #1 play the point perfectly, a beautiful play that will remain in tennis history and create a sense of wonder in many people that watch that point, it does not even matter if you win or lose the point, what truly matters is being part of something great, greater than yourself, greater than the current #1 in the tennis.
But to be able to do that, it requires a lot of work, a lot of dedication, and a mindset of playing for the game's sake, playing to feel good and have fun and make other people feel good watching, not trying to win a competition. Also, it doesn't mean that the point could not be played in a different way which is also perfect and beautiful in its own, so other people could potentially play that point and that doesn't mean they're lesser players that you, and it doesn't mean that somebody who can win all points and matches is also playing the most beautiful tennis ever.
You've described the hero's journey but I don't see how it applies to the context of this thread? Is your point; that the metaphor for something greater than yourself is an adequate replacement for religion or something?
I'm not a professional so what I'm saying could be stupid, but I don't see why anti-coagulant medication has to act globally in the organism for something that is a localized issue. I realize the circulatory system is not segmented, however couldn't there be something to be done with the time of action of the anti-coagulant? From my vague recollection, clot formation has something to do with turbulent flow post-valve as well, so improvements might be made in this area as well... try getting a fluid dynamics expert in the team that designs the valves, and I'm not joking.
FWIW.
> Sir — A. J. Tatem and colleagues calculate that women may out-sprint men by the middle of the twenty-second century (Nature 431,525; 2004). They omit to mention, however, that (according to their analysis) a far more interesting race should occur in about 2636, when times of less than zero seconds will be recorded.
This analysis fails to account for the prediction that in early 27th century FTL speeds will be achievable and a woman would invent a relativistic shoe that would allow here to wind the 100 meters dash.
The facts so far are that two new aircraft of the same model have crashed in a very short period of time, in the same stage of flight and exhibiting the same problem as evidenced by ATC recordings: loss of flight control.
We should not focus only on the software aspect, even though a very questionable (and dangerous in my opinion) decision was made to not communicate to the pilots the existence and operation of the software with no additional pilot training.
The software relied on input from sensors at least in the Lion Air crash and the fact is the sensors failed on new aircraft.
I would trust the NTSB as much as the European counterparts. I have read some of their reports and they are very dilligent and fair.
We should avoid placing blame now on anyone whether it is Boeing, pilots, national agencies, until the full reports are available. The grounding of the aircraft was perfectly justified with the available data from a security point of view.
The air industry has been focused on avoiding a blame culture. Even I, as a passenger sometimes look for the lowest price, so the pressure for cost cutting may come from us as well.
> Even I, as a passenger sometimes look for the lowest price, so the pressure for cost cutting may come from us as well.
Of course you do, and that is not your fault. This is why we have independent regulation organizations like FAA or EASA, to not have matters of security solely in the hand of the free market.
Reminds me of a story of a budget airliner cutting costs by buying used parts and patching them up. Now nobody had actually tried to do something so nuts/genius before so there weren't any clear cut regulations. Eventually there was an accident and the FAA started to put screws under the microscope and interrogate maintenance crew.
Thankfully the aviation industry nowadays out of self interest cares about safety.
