childOfMagenta

childOfMagenta , 30 days ago to Science Memes in Ant smell

Write more bugs.

childOfMagenta , 2 months ago to News in Not Again: United Airlines Boeing 777 Makes Emergency Landing In Denver

Exactly.
I flew the 777 for a living. It's a tank.
Extremely reliable, flies like a dream, plenty of power.
I haven't flown the new generation 777 though and you can bet it's not as safe. Nothing Boeing makes now is.

I used to be a "if it's not Boeing I'm not going" pilot.
I feel stupid now.

Airlines suffer the exact same problem. Greed.
Boeing doesn't make the engines. GE does (or Pratt and Whitney).
They are very reliable engines too.
If they start failing in a specific airline, it's a maintenance problem.

Edit: also as comments started, this could be nothing but normal issues, haven't read the article. I stopped reading at "engine issues, including tyre falling off..." What??

childOfMagenta , 3 months ago to Asklemmy in If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?

There's a guy, Isaac Newton, he's 57.
Ask him about his second third law, hopefully he came up with it already.

childOfMagenta , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Asklemmy in If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?

I steer gigantic metal birds pulled by armies of horses carrying dozens of people, to the antipodes... in less than one day... using dead animal juice.

childOfMagenta , 4 months ago to White People Twitter in Transcriber

Or the transmissions in the transports...

childOfMagenta , 5 months ago to Asklemmy in What's with all the tech layoffs?

If you tried copilot at the beginning, it's improved a lot since, now it's using GPT-4.

childOfMagenta , 5 months ago to Microblog Memes in And snooze is dessert

I recommend the canapés.

childOfMagenta , 9 months ago to InternetIsBeautiful in No Hello

56k noises