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Maintenance and operation is a big factor, but engine-outs do happen. It also seems like you are talking about helicopters, which have a special exemption: https://www.law.cornell.…

I’m going to disagree unless you are in a specific area of aviation, because it severely reduces your emergency landing options.

Those pilots are in the minority, and already accept a much higher level of risk. Also, drone flights that have been problematic are typically in congested areas (much like laser p…

As a pilot, this has always been weird to me. I’ve come to the conclusion that people just don’t like drones. I think selling them to the masses is part of the answer. I can build …

Yeah - I forgot about their opaque pricing tiers. One other benefit of paying up front is that I think you are less restricted on S3/Cloudfront in what you can host. I think Cloudf…

Out of curiosity on the marches, was it due to electrolyte imbalance? I know army types can drink a ton of water in hot climates! I’m in the Rocky Mtns, so it’s pretty dry up here …

Maybe it’s confirmation bias, but I have heard of very few over-hydration cases whereas medical dehydration seems pretty common. Granted the pressures for dehydration are a lot mor…

I like Cloudflare, but this is also what makes me skeptical. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and I've had the rug pulled out from underneath me many times before. I wish the…

I actively quit producing content and deleted my account. Maybe it’s confirmation bias, but I do feel like the quality of discourse has taken a nose dive.

It was just an example of complexity - I would imagine a new coal plant is still more complex than a solar farm.

Is that 14% different with solar? I’m just bringing this up, because solar is dead simple compared to engineering studies and infrastructure required to build something like a new …

That’s not entirely true - aliases to AWS resources are free (their suggested “workaround”).

Totally agree with this. In their defense (not that I like it), obviously the market is willing to pay what they charge. It’s unfortunate that the other big cloud providers haven’t…

It’s still a huge problem for people that have purchased domains. I bought one that apparently used to be a BT tracker, and gets on the order of several hundred NXDOMAIN requests p…

Now please do this for NXDOMAIN on Route53. This can be a big problem with acquired domains.

I think it’s worth mentioning here COTS hardware is also very resilient (things like ZFS without ECC excluded) to radiation these days. Here’s a video of a GoPro riding through an …

This was really interesting! What about COTS hardware on the ISS? I haven’t heard of major failures with things like their laptops.

It was my understanding that radiation levels at Earths surface are still very low unless you had some kind of amplifying collector (ie - large antenna). Devices at high altitudes …

Why do you think this?

That’s highly unlikely to have a CME as a root cause unless it was connected to long distance transmission lines. CMEs tend not to affect small electronics on their own.

Yes, I find them valuable. The quality of engineer varies wildly across my organization, so it at least gives tests some basic structure.

Sarcasm can be hard on the internet. It actually stands for: Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards and is a pretty logically laid out standard.

I’ve owned some Hondas recently where the rotors noticeably warped after several years (maybe since the cars have such good longevity?). It probably strongly depends on driving sty…

I can’t speak for the OP, but a “rotor” can mean the brake rotor on a disc brake, which can warp due to excessive use/heat. They are common on most cars, and usually need to be “tu…