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Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight
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Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight
#352I find it just really endearing that at companies, regardless of how many other issues they have or the dysfunctions and bland corporate culture, there are people who keep the pride of purpose and "olden days / traditions" in their memory and do things like this. Or are able to call on institutional memory of something bygone, that reappears once in a while. (whether it's a big gesture like this or small cultural day…
https://aviationsourcenews.com/breaking/atlas-air-to-fly-spe... The ceremony is prepared by CEO himself in this case.
This should be the top comment, and the title should probably be set to "Planned ceremonial flight path of last 747 delivery path".
There a now hundreds of comments arguing about how this "Easter egg" got pulled off, when it is in fact nothing else than a well organized publicity stunt (typical HN discussion, though, I suppose ? Fontenelle, golden teeth, etc..)
Good for the 747 folks, though, it's always nice to get some form of recognition.
And good luck to all the people trying to make planes fly with less GHG emissions - hopefully they get a ceremony, too, someday.
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#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
More cynically: Roughly 2.4 tons of fuel, equating to 16.8 tons of CO2 emissions.
I was thinking along those lines as well, but: 1. For context, this was the final delivery flight of a 747, ever. It's a pretty momentous occasion. 2. If we're going to criticize something like this, then we probably should be criticizing a lot more about the waste in our own lives. Everyone generates a lot of unnecessary waste, even if we don't think about or consciously acknowledge it.
Arguably, the stunt is a symbol. Critizing it for also being a symbol for the inconsiderate waste of co2 budget is fair.
…I mean, building a 747 in 2023 is really not a reasonable thing to do given our remaining co2 budget, even if some techies feel sentimental about that plane.
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#354Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personal satisfaction, like exposure, is not legal tender.
While this is obviously true, the long term effects of a positive, growth mindset are more likely to have an effect on your net worth than if you cannot or will not take pride in working hard and doing the best job you possibly can.
Keep in mind that this "positive, growth mindset" means quitting your job for a better one if you're not going to get promoted in the job that you have. That, or starting your own business. Many companies have made it abundantly clear that there's no positive growth inside their company for ordinary workers. Only for the wallets of the managers and shareholders.
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#355Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just because you don’t like your manager(s) doesn’t mean we’re all bad :)
Not that you're bad ... you just love Jira tickets and spreadsheets and don't want to be accountable to anything that could come back and bight you.
Don't project your manager(s) habits onto others, please.
Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight
#356And what looks to be a touch-and-go at the end of the journey as well just to round off the flight.
Very nice.
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#357Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pain ensues when you have two or more people/camps of people who Give A Shit but are in conflict with each other. Then often the organization just rips itself apart or collapses. The tricky bit is how to empower people who Give A Shit while maintaining alignment.
Interesting, I'll make a note to keep my GAS levels around 80.
Seriously, I think the answer to this isn't about intensity of feeling (although 100% is never healthy for anything, ever).
It's about channelling the GAS into principles, tightening them up, and agreeing on what matters. Then putting that energy into being flexible about everything else.
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#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is certainly questionable research, but from the lived experience of a superannuated engineer (me!) not an HR group. As for gaslighting? Well, my aim is indeed to make you work harder. Not only that, but for you to have more money not less. At all levels — our society, the sector in which we work, our businesses as a whole and each team in those businesses — your success has a positive effect on everyone else as w…
Working smarter and for better companies/people is what got me more money, not working harder
Working smarter and for better companies also got me working harder. I simply work harder when I'm working for a company I care about, on a job I care about, when I feel appreciated and have the freedom to contribute in a way that works for me.
If you make me care less about the job and worry more about money, that's not going to help my productivity. If you want passionate and productive workers, you've got to give them something to be passionate about, but you also have to make sure they don't have to worry about money. If they're thinking about how they'll make rent or how they're going to pay for some unavoidable expenses, they're not thinking about how to solve an interesting problem for you.
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What’s even the point of the popup then? If you're in the EU you'll see a "Reject All" option. To confirm this, set a breakpoint in their JS, change your country to an EU one, and the option to "Reject All" cookies appears: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/09wcuy4yh3qqoaw/reject_a... Here's a screenshot of where I set the breakpoint and changed my country to France: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ju41dpj14p…
They chose to spend developer time on that rather than treat their users well. Wow.
They need the ad money to run the website and the better analytics to know how to improve it. It’s not a mystery.
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#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, this can't be some prank by a renegade flight crew, it can only be a farewell celebration act with a kick-off meeting, a budget and a dozen people who signed off. But I'm not criticising, by that measure we'd have to question any resource expenditure that exceeds the bare minimum for sustaining life.
Well this admittedly cool looking stunt represents more than 5 persons worth of annual sustainable co2 budget (estimated at 3T/year), so I‘d say it’s a smidgeon above the „bare minimum for sustaining life”.
That's why you don't do stuff like this for each and every subvariant. This is a once in half a century occasion, it absolutely pales in comparison to the amount of fuel the type has burned for trade show visits, photo opportunities and numerous other nonessentials. Arguably there isn't a single use case for jet aviation that isn't far out of the range of sustainable co2 budget.