BearOfaTime

So anon blames an entire country for their shitty life choices?

I don't remember the last time I ate fast food. I'm sure when I did, it was nothing like this - oh, it still sucked - but all I got was a burger and iced tea.

Though I completely agree restaurant portion sizes are insane anywhere. I akways get 2 meals out of a "serving", often 3.

CAD

Catia

User retraining (imagine retraining 10,000 employees, and then the lost productivity you'd still have). Oh, and this assumes which shell, which distro?

Excel, with tables.

The thousands (millions?) of automated processes that export/import from Excel, and have done so for years.

CNC systems that will only run on older versions of Windows, and for which the company no longer exists and there's no reolacement. I once worked with CNC machines with controllers that ran on paper tape. They're probably still running today.

Ooh, here's one - battery management on a laptop, that's only adjustible from a command prompt in Linux.

Fucking psychopath at 17

Same experience.

As Tech Connections points out, knowing what your water is like is crucial.

I use powdered detergent - 1 Tablespoon in the wash door, one in the prewash. This is about 1/3 of what I'm told to use.

I've used Folder Sync since about 2011. Killer app.

I run rooted just so I can backup/restore apps, using NeoBackup. It backs up to a local folder.

That folder, along with pretty much every folder on my phone is synced to a server at home using Syncthing-Fork. This way new data (photos, downloaded files, etc) are always replicated, and I can effectively manage the phone file system by moving files around at home. Any changes I make will sync back to the phone.

Not exactly what you're looking for, but I've carried a Walmart led light, 2 AAA, twist focus, for a few years now. The price varies, but I've never paid more than $15 for one, and I use NiMh rechargeables in them.

I've also carried this one, they claim 270 lumen, it's surprisingly good. On narrow focus it throws a good 150', though I'd say effective is more like 50' (it would reflect animal eyes at 150, and you may see them, if it's really dark out).

I think getting high lumen from a single AAA is a tough challenge, in that it's a bit niche so finding one is rare. I'd sure like to have one.

I picked up a single AAA light from Bass Pro for about $12, works fine for what it is, but it's no thrower. I can't find it on their website, but they have a rechargeble one that does 300 lumen.

Those are 18650 battery lights. A 18650 is about twice the diameter of a AAA. 18650 is the defacto standard for flashlights these days because of the size and energy density.

A 18650 is 18mm diameter and 65.0mm long.

The AAA battery is ~10mm diameter and ~40mm long, very close in size to a 10440 battery.

But you can't assume you can throw a 10440 lithium into a AAA flashlight, because lithium voltage is lower than a primary (alkaline, etc).

Honest question, do you think the outcome would've been significantly better without the reinforced block?

I don't know enough about the layout, the plane, etc, to have a good perspective.

The tower warned the flight of birds in the area

The crew transmitted an emergency message just before the crash

Sounds like it was a crash, not a lack of landing gear. Though the timing on those messages would be informative, I don't see the crew sending a mayday once they impacted the ground.

So I'm wondering if that wall made any difference at all (again, I really don't know, just thinking out loud). I do wonder why they'd construct something so robust in a risk path.

You could learn from this person, since all your other responses are adversarial.

True.

But one thing you control, the other you don't.