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throwaway3563

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    Comment #40021985

    “Plenty”?

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    Comment #39684816

    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 s…

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    Comment #39673938

    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 …

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    Comment #39604790

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

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    Comment #39568303

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

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    Comment #39506667

    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…

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    Comment #39451337

    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 sig…

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    Comment #39437193

    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.…

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    Comment #39199376

    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 p…

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    Comment #39186764

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

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    Comment #39082745

    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 excessiv…

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    Comment #39076846

    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 impreci…

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    Ask HN: Can't You Just "

    "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" im…

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    Comment #23478688

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome "... five subgroups this syndrome often falls into. - The perfectionist - The superwoman/man - The natural genius - The soloist - Th…

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    Comment #23434740

    > because their business is information itself No they haven’t, not in that way.

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    Comment #23345259

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

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    Comment #23107672

    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.

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    Comment #23077631

    Those are in addition to the main AC.

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    Comment #23063756

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

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    Comment #23049418

    This website is one big dark pattern and it severely detracts from the article. - Full screen popover when you scroll to the top - Useless socialmedia “sharing” toolbar covers the …