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The rental car insurance benefit already covered $2600 worth of damage when a rental car I had got banged up a bit. I also get a $300 travel credit a year.
Your normal car insurance covers rental cars.
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> If they'd use Docker with React this would have never happened! It's probably because they wrote it in Go. Did you know Go doesn't even have generics?
What do you mean? Go has generics. Kind of. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...
I was on a plane just about to push back at Heathrow, and the pilot informed us we'd be delayed 15 minutes due to this failure. In the end it was 10 minutes, and we landed only 5 minutes late at my destination. Doesn't appear to have been a big deal, at least for me.
https://www.airport-technology.com/news/optimised-runway-too...
Twenty years from now... uber car service system failure affecting 90% of North America
I was at a conference in Northern Virginia some months ago and saw a presentation from the folks at Upside, a startup specializing in booking business travel. They described the legacy system which handles pretty much all booking in the US, a system called SABRE. They described it as an ancient 6-bit computer system in Texas with no modern API. Everything they do tech-wise is a modern wrapper around that system. So I…
Wish I didn’t know this.
I was at a conference in Northern Virginia some months ago and saw a presentation from the folks at Upside, a startup specializing in booking business travel. They described the legacy system which handles pretty much all booking in the US, a system called SABRE. They described it as an ancient 6-bit computer system in Texas with no modern API. Everything they do tech-wise is a modern wrapper around that system. So I…
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Why? Sure, the skies are more and more crowded, meaning more and more people will be affected by a once-in-20 year failure, but why would it happen more and more common?
Well the archaic systems are getting older and older. From what I've heard it's almost impossible to get replacement parts for some of the computer systems that run airports/airlines.
I was at a conference in Northern Virginia some months ago and saw a presentation from the folks at Upside, a startup specializing in booking business travel. They described the legacy system which handles pretty much all booking in the US, a system called SABRE. They described it as an ancient 6-bit computer system in Texas with no modern API. Everything they do tech-wise is a modern wrapper around that system. So I…
Wow. I remember sabre from genie- General Electric Network Information Exchange. In the 1980s. I’m not sure compuserve was invented yet. My father and I could use “electronic mail” to stay in touch. For you youngsters: I hsd never yet had a “remote control” for a tv yet. Yep. Had to get up to sdjust the volume or change the channel (don’t get me started on adjusting the antenna). Wish I didn’t know this.