I’m more familiar with the 737 (as a hobby, not as a pilot), but for that aircraft the “loss of thrust on both engines” checklist has the start levers as the second item on the list.

Note that in the checklist I am looking at the goal is to restart the engines rather than diagnose the failure and that involves these levers. I suspect you’d notice pretty quickly if they were not in the expected location.

Thanks, this is good information. So it then fits the overall picture that they would've actually bumped into these switches in the rush of emergency eventhough they're never expecting the switches to actually be off.

Do you know if it says anything about restarting them simultaneously or not?

I would think trying to restart engines one at a time would be preferred, over both of them at the same time - or maybe thats not how it works..?

Just from a systems perspective if the actions to restart the engines can be parallelized then they should be; maybe only one engine will start. You don't want the 50% (for 2-engine aircraft) chance that you spend time on the one that won't start before trying the other.

It’s not. And the fact that you think they sing songs makes me think you’ve never watched it.

The post you replied to is a reference to Bandit saying "it's just monkeys singing songs, mate", when he goes to the movies with Bluey.

The misunderstanding here shows that we need to be careful with in-jokes and references in an asynchronous medium. Even among people who have consumed the media in question. It's even worse with the general public (or even just general HN public).

No. We don’t need to make conversations so boring as to allow you and your robotic ink to completely unambiguously understand them. For every one person that didn’t get this obvious Bluey reference deep in a Bluey thread, I’m sure that 100 more DID get it.

Sure, you can optimise for your cool in-jokes, and exclude people.

What's robotic ink?

Probably robotic ilk using the more common modern usage of ilk - https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/ilk

.. along with an unintended cool in-joke about how dogs can't type.

Yeah, at first I thought it was 'ilk', but then I suspected that there was yet another exclusionary in-joke hidden somewhere.

Ah I missed that. Fair enough then.

Sorry, I didn’t get the reference. I’m a moron. My bad.

Don't worry, just for fun.

I'm pretty certain that's a quote from Bandit.

Ah fair enough.

I have an elderly parent who has required multiple trips to the ER in the last year. The issue here (Seattle) is that the beds in the other departments are full, so there is no where else for them to go. The ER usually determine within a few hours she needs to be admitted, and then it takes a day for them to actually find the capacity.

It isn't quite as formal as that, but there is a group of engineers who review new APIs for following AWS-wide standards.

there's also a significant amount of automation in place these days to sass you in the right direction, i.e.

* focusing on resources and operations on resources

* using consistent and expected naming schemes, pluralization, etc.

it also helps that the sdks and clis are very raw wrappers around this, such that if you know what it looks like in the sdk then it will look similar in the cli.

I recently just set this up for my 5 year old.

I bought a Grandstream HandyTone 801 as a bridge. I use voip.ms as a service provider. Both are geared toward more technical users, but the service is very reasonable for the price. Instructions for configuring it are clunky but not too bad: https://wiki.voip.ms/article/Grandstream_HandyTone_802_-_HT8....

I had previously tried Ooma, but I didn't like that it wanted to sit between my router and modem.

Curious if you can set a schedule so that it doesn't ring in the middle of the night. Do you get spam calls like the old days?

I haven’t explored that. My intended use case was outbound calls, so I just bought a phone that allows you to switch the ringer off.

Rather than specific hours, I would probably just create an allowlist of friend and family numbers and trust them not to abuse it.

I would also be interested to know how true this is for individual productivity versus group productivity.

Nor was it before the pandemic.

I'll throw in that the hardcover book is absolutely gorgeous and a pleasure to hold and read from.

Qntm’a hardcover books are really well designed. And cheap. I think I paid $12 or something. It really makes me annoyed to see crappy hardcovers for $20-30, knowing that what looks like self-publishing can do such a good job.

My solution has been to use iCloud to sync photos to my desktop, but then I just backup the iPhoto directory on my desktop which has all the raw photos in case iCloud goes poof.

I found it useful to set deadlines that force me to prioritize features that add value/functionality. Since for me these are just personal projects, I try to add accountability by telling friends "hey, Monday I want to show you this really cool thing I did". This helps sharpen my focus.