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Carth Dookie posted:Would a quantum computer be able to accurately model the decay, similar to how it can be used to model the outcome of coin flips? No. Decay is either truly random or the universe has non‐local variables, and no one believes the latter. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Jun 16, 2019 |
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Platystemon posted:No. This is really annoying somehow. An apple falling from a tree might seem random, but ripeness, wind etc decide it. I want to imagine an atom can also be ripe for decay. What else in the universe is truly random? It would be odd if only certain quantum phenomena were. Maybe our future internet security will be based on personal random number generators (new use for acronym PRNG) based on radioactive sources, and we'll have forum threads about "should I really be carrying my PRNG in my pocket?"
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MrChips posted:So, uhh, this is kind of So it was me playing Flight Simulator.
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Charles posted:So it was me playing Flight Simulator. You thought you were playing around in a game, but all along you were remotely operating a commercial international flight. :ender's game:
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Ola posted:This is really annoying somehow. An apple falling from a tree might seem random, but ripeness, wind etc decide it. I want to imagine an atom can also be ripe for decay. What else in the universe is truly random? It would be odd if only certain quantum phenomena were. Maybe our future internet security will be based on personal random number generators (new use for acronym PRNG) based on radioactive sources, and we'll have forum threads about "should I really be carrying my PRNG in my pocket?" Don’t worry, Einstein hated it too. 
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Carth Dookie posted:Would a quantum computer be able to accurately model the decay, similar to how it can be used to model the outcome of coin flips? ? It’s random. You can accurately model the outcome of coin flips and radioactive decay with simple pencil-and-paper math.
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Platystemon posted:No. Well, unless we're in a simulation. 
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Jun 16, 2019 16:37
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There are people on this airplane I’m on now that think it’s completely acceptable to play videos without headphones.
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Jun 16, 2019 19:01
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Minto Took posted:There are people on this airplane I’m on now that think it’s completely acceptable to play videos without headphones. I've heard stories of people watching porn on a plane without headphones. So it can always be worse...or better, if you're nasty.
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Jun 16, 2019 19:03
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I got like, thirty seconds into a song last time I was flying before I realized I hadn’t turned on Bluetooth for my headphones... Felt pretty loving dumb. 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I've heard stories of people watching porn on a plane without headphones. So it can always be worse...or better, if you're nasty. someone post that video of the guy jacking off under a blanket across the aisle and then when he realizes he's being filmed he basically gives the IT'S TAPE look
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Minto Took posted:There are people on this airplane I’m on now that think it’s completely acceptable to play videos without headphones. This is becoming more and more common. There are a couple motherfuckers that chill in our union office on breaks that regularly watch videos without headphones. I'm usually wearing headphones and listening to music so it's not a huge issue for me personally, but have some loving decency.
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Minto Took posted:There are people on this airplane I’m on now that think it’s completely acceptable to play videos without headphones. I’ve noticed this seems to happen a lot on Frontier. It’s pretty god damned trashy.
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This was a United flight, but headed towards Orlando, so I should’ve expected terrible passengers.
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Minto Took posted:This was a United flight, but headed towards Orlando, so I should’ve expected terrible passengers. What’s the point of taking United if they won’t beat up passengers who deserve it.
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Jealous Cow posted:I’ve noticed this seems to happen a lot on Frontier. It’s pretty god damned trashy. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, I can fly for free and avoid flying on Frontier if I can help it. The airline itself is fine, but the pax are unbelievable People of Walmart levels of wtf, same with Spirit. The last time I non-rev’d on Spirit there was a very loud and belligerent black dude in the terminal accusing the gate agent of being racist because he didn’t want to pay for his carry-on bag. Some other poor sap ended up paying for the guys bag to de-escalate things. I was blown away the gate agent didn’t call security on the guy. e.pilot fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Jun 17, 2019 |
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e.pilot posted:I was blown away the gate agent didn’t call security on the guy. Gonna go with "Didn't feel like having to deal with the paperwork/police report for $600, Alex." I generally keep to Alaska for transcons, and Delta and JetBlue otherwise. fknlo posted:The thing where they only have one flight and it's at a dumb time is poo poo though. Dumb/inconvenient departure slots are cheaper.
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I'm sitting here waiting on a frontier flight yet again. Hard to pass up when they're less than half the cost of anyone else on a shortish notice flight. The thing where they only have one flight and it's at a dumb time is poo poo though.
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e.pilot posted:I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, I can fly for free and avoid flying on Frontier if I can help it. The airline itself is fine, but the pax are unbelievable People of Walmart levels of wtf, same with Spirit. Only non-stop on the route I need.
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Minto Took posted:There are people on this airplane I’m on now that think it’s completely acceptable to play videos without headphones. It the drat kids these days! You see it all the time on public transport when a group of kids sits around listening to their lovely rap music at high volumes over their terrible phone speakers. Not surprised that it's made its way to planes.
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2 hour delay out of Denver and we finally get to Milwaukee at almost 1:30 and the loving jet bridge isn't working and we're still sitting on the loving plane. Wooooooooo.
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Aargh posted:It the drat kids these days! You see it all the time on public transport when a group of kids sits around listening to their lovely rap music at high volumes over their terrible phone speakers. Not surprised that it's made its way to planes. rap? more like crap!
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Aargh posted:It the drat kids these days! You see it all the time on public transport when a group of kids sits around listening to their lovely rap music at high volumes over their terrible phone speakers. Not surprised that it's made its way to planes. Found a pic of the perp: 
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Ola posted:This is really annoying somehow. An apple falling from a tree might seem random, but ripeness, wind etc decide it. I want to imagine an atom can also be ripe for decay. What else in the universe is truly random? It would be odd if only certain quantum phenomena were. Maybe our future internet security will be based on personal random number generators (new use for acronym PRNG) based on radioactive sources, and we'll have forum threads about "should I really be carrying my PRNG in my pocket?" In the same way that we know the factors affecting the fall of the apple, we know the factors affecting the ejection of the neutron or whichever; in the same way that we can't look at some apple and discern what instant it will fall, we can't look at the atom and discern what instant it will decay.
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Reminder that turbulence can always get worse: https://onemileatatime.com/turbulence-video/ I'd like to imagine the water leaking from wherever at the end of the third video there is the airplane crying.
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We’ll rate a flight critical system as non-critical, what’s the worst that could happen? Quarterly bonus woooooo Year later: yeaaaahhh, about that
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Aargh posted:It the drat kids these days! You see it all the time on public transport when a group of kids sits around listening to their lovely rap music at high volumes over their terrible phone speakers. Not surprised that it's made its way to planes. Old man yells at cloud (out of the window), then yells at a stewardess. 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Reminder that turbulence can always get worse: https://onemileatatime.com/turbulence-video/ I too had a fun experience yesterday, during the beginning of glider tow. We were probably no more than 50 meters above the runway when we hit some kind of rotor. My glider suddenly shoots up, I push forward to get back level with and lift up from the seat and hit me head on the canopy. Then pull the stick to not fall below tow plane, followed by another trip up high and another hit of the canopy. I was desperately trying to stay behind the tow plane while pulling my belts tighter. I probably should have released the tow rope, but all my concentration was on staying behind the tow plane so I wasn't able to evaluate whether I was on a safe release altitude, and search for tow hook release. Afterwards the tow pilot told he too was throwing the stick left and right to try to stay level. He also considered releasing the rope from his end. Another example why I should have an action cam with me, so I could later evaluate what happened and my response.
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evil_bunnY posted:We’ll rate a flight critical system as non-critical, what’s the worst that could happen? Quarterly bonus woooooo  "the rational market"
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Finger Prince posted:
Boeing has the defense side to keep the stock price afloat, what with that coming war in Iran and all e: we just shut down our 3rd shift and cut overtime in like half because Spirit is just not consuming 737 parts like anticipated rscott fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jun 18, 2019 |
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rscott posted:e: we just shut down our 3rd shift and cut overtime in like half because Spirit is just not consuming 737 parts like anticipated Uh, why would they be consuming anything other than zero?
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hobbesmaster posted:Uh, why would they be consuming anything other than zero? spirit still makes assemblies for aftersales service
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Spirit is still pumping out 52 737 fuselages a month (at least on paper) though they moved all their salary staff to 4 day weeks and rumor has it they're doing a 2 week shutdown in July e: I mean the max ofc, our NG sales basically dropped to nothing in 1Q, everything going forward is maybe 2 units a month for spares requirements. The max was supposed to pick up the slack and then some, so now there's a hundred suppliers running around with all this excess capacity and nothing to do with it rscott fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Jun 18, 2019 |
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It's almost like the global airline industry woke up one day and realized the 737 has always been a poo poo airplane, that there's a reason everyone started buying 320s, and that they've all been had. There's an ongoing joke where I work where we ask "is today your first day?", except it isn't a joke because it's like it is everyone's first day, every day.
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I thought the reason why everyone was buying 320s was because of the bribes
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:the -200 was a perfectly good airplane, i think he smol 
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Saukkis posted:I too had a fun experience yesterday, during the beginning of glider tow. We were probably no more than 50 meters above the runway when we hit some kind of rotor. My glider suddenly shoots up, I push forward to get back level with and lift up from the seat and hit me head on the canopy. Then pull the stick to not fall below tow plane, followed by another trip up high and another hit of the canopy. I was desperately trying to stay behind the tow plane while pulling my belts tighter. Oh, this was you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAQ15b9rY94 (I hardly have room to talk, I’ve not yet soloed in gliders. Towing is fun, though)
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I almost cut away a guy on takeoff once. I've forgotten if the stick touched the aft stop or not, but my left hand definitely touched the cutaway handle.
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rscott posted:Spirit is still pumping out 52 737 fuselages a month (at least on paper) though they moved all their salary staff to 4 day weeks and rumor has it they're doing a 2 week shutdown in July Are those the fuselages I see on railcars going through Denver? I’m used to windmill blades but the other day there were a bunch of fuselages. Cool looking.
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