Re: Just because...
I can buy an ODBII code reader of eBay for a tenner, plug it into my car and it tells me what’s wrong with it.
Problem is, I don’t have a 2 post lift or an engine winch.
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Please yourself. Nobody is talking about airport steps. It’s onboard steps for places that didn’t have airport steps. Even gravel fields. No doors on the gear wheel wells either. In the 1960s this was not just for passenger steps, but ground access for cargo doors, fuel intake etc. There were no A319s in the 1960s.
This explains better:
https://simpleflying.com/737s-low-to-the-ground/
Anyway, it really doesn’t matter if you buy it or not.
Steps are still used, even for higher cabin doors because airport handling has mobile stairways. Jetway bridges are only limited availability especially at European airports, many still require those passenger transfer buses for parked aircraft out on the apron. Airports are too busy for the number of terminal stands there are.
The reason for 737 lowered stance was to make it practical at more airports that were less well equipped. Not only are the passenger door low, so are the cargo loading hatches.
So many million believed Farage and sided with Trump.
That’s why I despair. I’ve tried to find a good reason for leaving the EU for years since the whole referendum thing came about. There is none, apart from this latest “oh you wouldn’t understand”. This totally condemns the whole leave ideaology .
I was a shotgun licence holder when I did regular clay shooting. My police visit was an inspection of the gun cabinet and a check that the house was tidy and unwashed dishes weren’t piling up in the kitchen.
As a member of the clay shooting club, we were invited by the local police to their gun range for a safety and gun security talk with a hand gun demonstration. I was given this little box of 12 .22 handgun rounds for my turn. Unfortunately on the first shot the gun action cut a gash in my thumb making it bleed everywhere and I was driven in a police vehicle to A&E for stitches. Next morning at home when I put my jacket on, the remaining 11 .22 rounds were still in my pocket.
Not only that, but there were routine launches of Skylark, in fact 441 launches between 1957 and 2015. A sounding rocket, which may have been only suborbital, but the peak development could lift 200kg to 350 miles altitude. So significantly ahead of this Space Command “first rocket”.
We need spearhead projects like space to drive us forwards and help sort out earth problems.
It’s part of human nature to push on and explore beyond the envelope.
Anyway, this moon thing won’t happen in 2024, that timescale was set to generate some glory in Trumps final term.
2030 is more realistic.
I doubt that the existing cabling sufficient to power a light is going to be capable of carrying the current needed for EVs.
People don’t have petrol pumps on their driveways, so I don’t see how going to shared charged points will be a problem. Especially with the tech more developed in the future,
Oxford Westgate car park has 50 spaces with chargers.
It exists so people can create fictional anecdotes to trigger outrage and then wallow in an echo chamber of similarly outraged people. And also so people can pointlessly whinge eternally about anything, usually governments.
It also exists so people can get into “discussions “ and then cowardly block people when it doesn’t go their way. They can then return to their echo chamber and have their false beliefs reinforced.
It’s a cess pit, but a less noxious cess pit than faecebook.
Contrary to popular belief, Uni computer science is not a holiday, they use C, C++, Assember and stuff like Haskell. They teach supporting stuff in mathermatics and predicate / first order logic.
Python with its extensive choice of libraries is replacing MatLab on the physics / science courses, and it is quite suitable for that role.
C++ is seeing the benefit of Qt now, because Qt goes some way to addressing the Linux gui fragmentation problem. Qt is available for Python but the c++ is more native. How many times I’ve heard “ffs, not tomcat again”
Java is a total turd, horrible outdated piece of crap, which is becoming more and more stigmatised and increasingly rejected since it started to carry the Larry spike.
I am amazed to see that PHP is still a thing on Tiobe. I had forgotten it existed.
In my experience it is the millions of little microscratches on the surface of the glass / plexiglass that causes the light to spread over the screen and interior making vision difficult. Having experienced this in a Robinson R22 a couple of years ago, the idiot cannot keep you fixed in a handheld beam, so it appears as brief flashes from the source.