flying_mechanic

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Aircraft Maintenance Tech here, this is not a Boeing QA problem, nor did it cause an unsafe scenario, but did prompt a return to gate. On these aircraft the windows are a laminated tempered glass/polycarbonate sandwich almost 3/4in thick and are designed to survive impacts at high speed with large birds, ice and hail. I have personally shattered one once and the window was still perfectly structurally sound. The most common fault with the windows is either a delamination of the layers that causes a warped area of vision or the electrical heating elements go bad/start arcing inside the pane. Both scenarios happen say once every 6-8 months in a 15 plane fleet, so not very often but it does happen. The maintenance limits are surprising too,only need to be replaced if it limits the pilots vision(their call) or if the heater doesn't work or is arcing. I've also seen pilots call small things "cracks" or other imaginative language and it was a small thing, still needs to be fixed but not worth the drama. Long story long, things wear out, things fail but don't worry about the windows, they are gonna hold.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

NASA finally got the bra off

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The spec still uses letters, WiFi 7 is 802.11BE under the old common name convention this gen would be WiFi BE which is a bit confusing. As of WiFi AX(6) they switched to numbers for the common name. As for who it's good for, it's great for everyone, not just gamers. The spec has a lot of major improvements in bandwidth, collision avoidance and transmission density. All of which makes it better to move lots of data to multiple clients at the same time. Meaning if you wanted to stream Netflix to 3-4 devices in 4k the limiting factor is not the WiFi anymore, it's the internet connection and the client hardware. If you work from home and have to video call in, but others in your house want to stream high bandwidth content, no problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Those don't seal well, so probably not

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Aircraft maintenance has been doing the negative pressure unlock tests on cockpit doors for decades, its honestly surprising what isn't common knowledge. Like others have said, rapid decompression of only a portion of the aircraft is very bad, and will result in massive structural failure as individual compartments aren't pressure rated and will blow apart. The doors I've had experience with had large panels that would pop out when in a negative pressure event.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I had to do a double take, I have almost exactly copy of that cat tree and 2 voids, a short and long haired one. Was starting to wonder where my third cat came from. Good looking kitty friends, and they seem very happy with the new perch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Another fun fact, Dave Grohl supposedly cheated on the one he was dating with the other and that's what lead to Varuca Salt's breakup

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, the second half of this post is not a very true statement, and is pretty disingenuous to reality. The Bambu ecosystem can operate independently of Bambu labs if you want/need to, there are plenty of knock off replacement parts to keep it running long term, you can buy all the consumables from amazon/aliexpress and many of the other components. The slicer has a feature rich open source alternative too, so software isn't an issue. The only thing it has against it is its not open source. I own both a prusa and now 2 Bambu printers. I spent a long time researching what I was going to purchase to upgrade my prusa printers. The mk3.9 upgrade for my mk3s+ was almost the cost of a whole new printer, and new units were more expensive than the p1s. The p1p/s has more build volume, is faster, and has been more reliable and in general usable than my prusa ever was. I want to support prusa but they have fallen way behind in nearly every way. If you don't want your data collected and you desire privacy you can have that with a closed source product, it's not impossible. And you can get a better machine at 2/3 the cost of a prusa or a multi material one at the same cost.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I think sex is an adjective in this case as it clarifies what type of orgy happened

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It does seem to be about being tied up and pegged

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Wait, you don't?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bits of the soundtrack still bounce around in my head, so many hours in this game

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