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Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by MomoXenosaga »

avgcorrection wrote: post #366
mach1ne wrote: post #117

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I don’t mean to be negative, but most people certainly don’t try their best. Many are only working for the paycheck and don’t attach their sense of success to their professional output.

For sure. Whatever happened to hired guns putting their hearts and souls into maximizing profits for the shareholders? I mean, not to be negative or anything.

I know a Japanese expat who moved from America to Europe because he didn't want to work himself to death. There is more to life than career and money. Sure he earns less now but he actually has the opportunity to spend it!

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by MomoXenosaga »

Aeolun wrote: post #216
runarberg wrote: post #193

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I think majority of jobs are low wage with no future prospects, and quite a lot of jobs have bosses or—worse—shareholders taking away the profits for their own private climate devastating opulence. Why would you work hard for these people? Why would you do anything more than the absolute minimum? I think this supposed American dream was only ever a ruse, a Hollywood propaganda. If it ever existed it only applied to a…

> Why would you do anything more than the absolute minimum? For personal satisfaction? You are going to be there anyway, you might as well do a good job. I’m not saying to put in more hours than contracted, but those hours should be high quality (or as high as you can make them, under the circumstances).

No that's not how it works unfortunately. You are supposed to do overtime and answer emails on your weekends. Fuck that.

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Post by eddieroger »

t-writescode wrote: post #325
varenc wrote: post #287

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> 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 chose adhering to the legal requirements over the users, putting them right in the middle of the pack of literally all websites and companies run by more than an individual. You don't have to continue on to their site if you don't wish to.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by stubish »

renewiltord wrote: post #371
stubish wrote: post #224

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Fun is a good thing to spend some of our CO2 emissions budget on. We need fun. A joyless society isn't worth saving.

Exactly. It's why I have a truck, actually. Sure, I could drive an electric Nissan Leaf, but come on. Is that life worth living?

Sure, if that is important to you. You are welcome to make sacrifices elsewhere. We will need to make sure you make them though, probably by taxing your petrol through the roof.

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Post by thayne »

dspillett wrote: post #341
thayne wrote: post #313

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so apparently they only care about your privacy if you are a citizen of the EU? And that just brings up the question again: why show the popup to non-EU viewers if the only option is to accept the cookies. It isn't even effective as a form of protest because those viewers have even less influence over EU regulations than EU citizens.

> so apparently they only care about your privacy if you are a citizen of the EU? No, they care about being minimally compliant and laws vary. A number of places have legislation that just says "users much opt in" but the EU has legislation that says "users must opt-in, but cannot be forced to opt-in by there being no opt-out option". They don't care about your privacy at all, no matter where you are, if any claim ot…

I was being sarcastic. I was referring to the fact that the on the EU dialog it said "we care about your privacy", but in the dialog I got in the US it didn't. And was thus implying that despite their claim, they do not care about anyone's privacy.

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Post by stanmancan »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #249
stanmancan wrote: post #177

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I have no clue what I'm talking about but this piqued my interest. If I ask WolframAlpha: Q:how many carbon molecules in 2.4 tons A: 1.092×10^29 molecules X molecules of pure carbon carbon would theoretically require 2X molecules of oxygen to turn into CO2 Q: how much does (10^29)*2 molecules of oxygen weight in us tons A: 5.827 tons So 2.4 tons of Carbon + 5.827 tons of Oxygen = 8.227 tons of CO2? Maybe? What am I m…

No need to ask WolframAlpha; you can do those computations yourself very easily. Avogadro's number is the conversion factor between grams and "atomic mass units", 6.023e+23†. 1.102e-6 is the conversion factor between grams and tons. The atomic weight of carbon is 12.01 amu. So 2.4 tons of pure carbon should contain 1.312e+30 atoms of carbon. The concept of a "carbon molecule" is not well defined; theoretically you co…

This was a fantastic answer, thank you!

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by fragmede »

newaccount74 wrote: post #300
fragmede wrote: post #154

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This particular level and visibility of sky writing is new, but "drawing things in the sky" dates back to the 1920s or so. That sort of skywriting uses oil to cause the airplane to leave a trail of white smoke, visible against the blue background of the sky. The precision we see in this route is fairly new, but, especially on proving flights for new aircraft, which needed hours and hours of flight time and would take…

I'd say this is a very different type of drawing, because you only see it on a tracker. Someone watching in real live from the ground wouldn't see the pattern, because I don't think jet trails stay in the air for two hours. This seems more like people using run/cycle trackers to make drawings on a map. (Strava Art)

We can only see it on a tracker. My claim is that sort of flight route drawing predates modern tracking on the Internet by decades. GPS was released to the public in the 1980's.

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Post by exhilaration »

blamazon wrote: post #165
aeturnum wrote: post #16

Makes me think of the famous "707 Barrel Roll" story from its initial testing: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/60-years-ago-the-f... “You know that. Now we know that. But just don’t do it anymore.” Edit: forgot the barrel roll was on a 707 - not a 747

That very plane is on display at the Udvar-Hazy center of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, at Dulles airport. Plane nerds MUST go there!! Incredible place. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_F._Udvar-Hazy_Center

Agreed, it's the best museum in the DC area.
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