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New comment by throwaway3563 in ""Strong focus on aesthetics" contributed to collapse of Norway timber bridge"

throwaway3563 — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:23:35 +0000

“Plenty”?

New comment by throwaway3563 in "Pilot of Boeing flight says he lost control after instrument failure"

throwaway3563 — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 20:53:05 +0000

The most that the ATSB was able to determine was that the data corruption was basically akin to a C++ reinterpret_cast of "altitude" as "angle of attack", causing the 37,000ft or so altitude to sporadically be read as a 50 degree AoA.

The issue was not definitively traced to cosmic rays or another root cause.

New comment by throwaway3563 in "Boeing 787-9 experiences 'technical problem' – lands 24 people in hospital"

throwaway3563 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 22:27:19 +0000

https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/i-lost-my-ability-to-fl...

> "the pilot came to the back of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner “in shock”, Jokat said.

> "I asked ‘what happened’ and he said ‘my gauges just blanked out, I lost all of my ability to fly the plane’."

New comment by throwaway3563 in "Meta outage"

throwaway3563 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:39:44 +0000

In USA, same story here. Logged out and cannot log in.

New comment by throwaway3563 in "Shave and a Haircut"

throwaway3563 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 23:54:31 +0000

“Not happy…” (“Jan”) would probably work for most Aussies, as one of the most well-known but still local catchphrases.

New comment by throwaway3563 in "Microsoft is driving users away"

throwaway3563 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 01:14:55 +0000

The main issue with powershell is its name. It would have been better named powerscript. It’s not really a shell but a much more powerful script language along the lines of Perl or PHP.

New comment by throwaway3563 in "Ask HN: What's going on with Azure Code Signing Service?"

throwaway3563 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 08:20:06 +0000

In a similar boat. I was paying $85 a year for a Windows code signing .PFX which is an amount I’m willing to pay for an open-source hobby project.

However $400 a year for a HSM signing certificate is ridiculous and seriously overkill for my project.

New comment by throwaway3563 in "DiskClick: Ever wanted to hear old hard drive sounds"

throwaway3563 — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 02:01:24 +0000

Yup, the pause loading HIMEM.SYS was always distinctive. The blur of clicks loading Windows also got faster when switching from the loading screen to the desktop and startup items.

New comment by throwaway3563 in "Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees"

throwaway3563 — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:16:10 +0000

The big box discount store (which demands that customers buy in bulk to save money, and because it is so far away from you that you can ONLY visit it once per month) is as much a product of US style suburban sprawl, as car-dependency is.

New comment by throwaway3563 in "American Airlines sued for seizing cardholders' miles"

throwaway3563 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 05:43:41 +0000

PDF of the complaint: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=...

American Airlines sued for seizing cardholders' miles

throwaway3563 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 05:43:41 +0000

Article URL: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/american-airlines-sued-seizing-cardholders-210731839.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39186763

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by throwaway3563 in "Gamers at risk of irreversible hearing loss and tinnitus, study suggests"

throwaway3563 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:32:56 +0000

It’s possible our ears never evolved to handle that. Instead we evolved to move around, build shelters, protect our ears etc. and generally take defensive measures against excessively loud environments.

New comment by throwaway3563 in "The growing inequality of who gets to work from home"

throwaway3563 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 09:04:44 +0000

This isn’t code executing in a computer. It is about prevailing societal attitudes (which are themselves self-referential and self-reinforcing) so it is necessarily kind of imprecise and circular.

Ask HN: Can't You Just "

throwaway3563 — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:58:40 +0000

"Can't you just do X?"

Anyone else get annoyed at this question sometimes when trying to find a solution to some problem? It's borderline insulting sometimes, as the word "just" implies that I overlooked the simple, obvious way to do something. Sometimes it comes from someone who is lacking the nuances of some problem, and hasn't looked into it beyond the surface level, which makes it all the more aggravating. I take very little personally at work, but this one gets on my nerves to no end.

Yeah, I would have done that if it were feasible/maintainable/wouldn't leave a can of worms for someone else to decipher. It's not like I actually LIKE to create more work for myself. I'm not doing it X way because it's not the correct way, or it will cause more problems in the future.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39063514

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by throwaway3563 in "Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people"

throwaway3563 — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:08:16 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

"... five subgroups this syndrome often falls into.

- The perfectionist

- The superwoman/man

- The natural genius

- The soloist

- The expert"

New comment by throwaway3563 in "U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business"

throwaway3563 — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 22:25:56 +0000

> because their business is information itself

No they haven’t, not in that way.

New comment by throwaway3563 in "Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion"

throwaway3563 — Fri, 29 May 2020 01:20:49 +0000

Underlings... minions... henchmen...

New comment by throwaway3563 in "Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake"

throwaway3563 — Thu, 07 May 2020 20:11:22 +0000

The slide at the bottom has “non-technical executive hocus-pocus” written all over it but I thought the rest of the content was sound.

New comment by throwaway3563 in "For $39, Frontier Air Will Let Passengers Keep Their Distance"

throwaway3563 — Tue, 05 May 2020 08:03:59 +0000

Those are in addition to the main AC.

New comment by throwaway3563 in "Valve drops VR support for macOS"

throwaway3563 — Mon, 04 May 2020 01:50:05 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation