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I love that so many people here think they can think about the problem for 10 seconds and come up with a solution that hasn't already been considered a thousand times and discarded.
I'm remembering the ISBN switch, which I thought would throw off some older systems—and it probably did, but it took so long to happen that the transition ended up being pretty smooth. The key element was that for a solid ten years or so, every book had both an old-style and a new-style ISBN (and possibly some still do). I'm hoping that behind the scenes they really are looking at a better plan than just "work around…
I still love the bit of book trivia that since 13 digit EAN's start with a country code, you can convert an ISBN-10 into an ISBN-13 by prepending it with the code for "book land" - 978. (I worked on Library Management Software for 6 years).
> Here’s the full answer, along with how they triage the problem – for instance by assigning the same flight number to more than one flight a day (although that means they need for it to be flights that would never both be in the air at the same time, such as where the same plane is used and can’t reasonably be substituted) This sounds like it's calling for trouble! Whenever I hear that any IDs could be "recycled", I…
https://www.nats.aero/news/nats-report-into-air-traffic-cont...
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IPv6 is seen and used directly by professionals, not the general public. Overbuilding it in the sense being mocked made sense.
> IPv6 is seen and used directly by professionals, not the general public Yes, that's the problem. It's unusable on your fucking home network. Please, don't post again the 10 "concise" 50+ page documents that you "just" need to read to set up ipv6...
> Here’s the full answer, along with how they triage the problem – for instance by assigning the same flight number to more than one flight a day (although that means they need for it to be flights that would never both be in the air at the same time, such as where the same plane is used and can’t reasonably be substituted) This sounds like it's calling for trouble! Whenever I hear that any IDs could be "recycled", I…
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A collaboration between the US Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy. Lots of solid engineering out of Oak Ridge, Argonne, Sandia Labs. Make it a system owned and operated by the FAA.
> Lots of solid engineering out of Oak Ridge, Argonne, Sandia Labs. Researchers and academics are quite possibly the last people on earth I would ask to deliver safety-critical software.
I love that so many people here think they can think about the problem for 10 seconds and come up with a solution that hasn't already been considered a thousand times and discarded.
If you like a similar problem to scratch that itch there is also the 37 dogs problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMxoGqsmk5Y - a database whose primary id had a maximum of 6 digits, but the id was encoded as roman numerals.
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Any well-written article should anticipate, ask, and answer the obvious questions. For example: Why not use alphanumeric characters? And if the answer isn't known by the sources the writer quotes, the writer should say so.
Answered in this comment by “hagbard celine” under the article: https://viewfromthewing.com/airlines-are-running-out-of-flig...
>They also still have fun with flight numbers for instance running flight 1776 between Philadelphia and Boston; flight 1492 to Columbus; AAA777 to Las Vegas;
AAA777.
Am I missing something?
Edit: A1 seems to be unassigned, which might be even better, to not create confusions.
> Here’s the full answer, along with how they triage the problem – for instance by assigning the same flight number to more than one flight a day (although that means they need for it to be flights that would never both be in the air at the same time, such as where the same plane is used and can’t reasonably be substituted) This sounds like it's calling for trouble! Whenever I hear that any IDs could be "recycled", I…
It is, and from what I hear it's routinely causing hiccups in the German freight train network with its sometimes really ridiculous delays that sometimes can add up to > 24 hours.