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> why is everyone such a p**** about We can do a lot better than using non-inclusive language like this. There are better ways to express the underlying concept.

I can have something for sale without an obligation to sell it (depending on offer terms, including price).

That would be an average supply of just over 2 W. (50Wh/day is 50Wh/24h or 50/24 W)

> anytime you need a serious business use, good cables are well labelled. Unfortunately, many not-good cables are also labeled similarly as good cables (fraudulently).

"absolutely nothing" is overly strong wording for a plug-in EVSE. The standardization of the receptacles tells how much current is safe to pull. "This receptacle is 50A rated and c…

In a world following your proposed rules, we’d never get to 480Mbps USB-A, because we already had 4-wire 12Mbps USB-A ports with just D+/D- and power and creating 480Mbps USB-A fro…

“If delta-x is negative, then delta-y can be positive.” It seems like there’s a straightforward/obvious corollary that reverses the sign on both clauses. (Walk the curve in the opp…

They certainly should have known. The information about GPS jamming appeared as a NOTAM in their Foreflight (electronic flight bag application) briefing, which 14 CFR § 91.103 requ…

This was NOTAM’d. There was no TFR (temporary flight restriction) associated. It was entirely legal to undertake that flight (and could have been done safely, but obviously wasn’t)…

4. Having kids together. 5. Having mutual friends. 6. Having common interests (playing in sports leagues, charity/volunteer work, active in local politics)

It would be safe. The ILS projects a localizer signal (left/right deviation compared to runway alignment) and glideslope signal (up/down deviation versus the intended flight path, …

Stall recovery is absolutely required to be instructed and demonstrated in the private pilot checkride. These are demonstrated to a full aerodynamic stall, not merely to stall warn…

(Per other comments, a visual approach is still an IFR operation; they were still IFR, but flying a visual approach.) It's very common to cancel IFR in the air, especially for late…

The satellite GPS signals are incredibly weak. Individual GPS signals typically arrive at the antenna below the receiver’s thermal noise floor and the system relies on processing g…

A "visual approach" is an instrument flight rules operation. The flight was still IFR and had requested/been cleared for a visual approach, but had not switched to VFR (which they'…

Your last paragraph confuses a few different things. The aircraft was completely legal to fly under IFR during the en route phase. There is no requirement for a local altimeter set…

The ILS approach being not legally usable as an approach due to a missing local altimeter setting does not make it unusable to back up a visual approach [or VFR arrival]. I would 1…

This is a judgment issue more than a skill issue. GPS NOTAM'd as unreliable on a dark, moonless night? Fly the ILS approach (or fly a visual approach along the track of the ILS app…

I'll bet that the NTSB will list GPS jamming as a contributing factor. I agree with you that it's not the primary cause of the accident.

The pilot is literally the one who holds most of the blame here. This is a pilot-error accident. They flew a perfectly functioning airplane into rising terrain on a visual approach…

If I ordered a mushroom burger (especially as my preferred “mushroom and Swiss burger”), I’d be surprised if it came without the beef patty (the burger part). It’s not that I can’t…

Understanding the dynamics and likely limits of what those “union protections” would be critical to answering your last question. Contract negotiations are back-stopped by strikes.…

In a world where AI heavily disrupts software, a union striking over economics (to get an extra $50M paid out to union members every year) would immediately notice all the replacem…

What’s a union going to do if (doing a lot of work there) AI significantly reduces the demand for software engineers or tech workers generally? If employers have the upper hand at …

There’s a surprisingly robust Asian restaurant scene within a few blocks of the train station there. I try to eat there every time I visit Drupa.