At this point a new format should emerge as a replacement of pdf. It’s very useful and easy to publish, but working with pdf documents beyond reading and printing is way too complicated.
Google has been unusable for some years. Limited results, capped searches… such a difference with the original Google, it’s just a ghost of what it used to be.
I’m definitely going to give Kagi a try, I hope you are not restricting results by politics or so.
I’m paying for Chat gpt at the moment but I still need to just search and not to be spoon fed curated results all the time… the moment they include payed advertisement in gpt results is going to feel like
browsing in the Truman show.
I've been using Google professionally for 10 years and 10 more before that as a hobbyist, and there has not been a degradation of the results.
Every single time I have had someone claim that, and they then shared their search methodology, it became extremely obvious that the problem is between the keyboard and the chair, not in the search engine.
If one was a professional researcher and relied on the various search switches [1] for nearly every search conducted, one would have found unequivocally that google's search ability has seriously declined some number of years ago. Google's present search is an insult to what it once was. It's presently perhaps a good fit for grasping, or easy to find data.
Also, additionally even with a focused search back pre 2010-12, I being thorough, often found myself 700 to 800 entries in search result, selectively opening about 10 or more sites to investigate further for a broad all encompassing search. Present time I'm lucky to get three results that are not ads, and no second or third page of 10 results per page. Google is clearly playing the numbers game.
When people experience search degradation (which I definitely do), they experience that while using the product EXACTLY like they did for years. Why else would they experience the degradation. It is most striking when something that used to work suddenly doesn't work any more.
My experience after flying 737, MD80, A320, A330 and A340 is that nobody takes special care with cockpit buttons. They are work tools and treated as such.
The main ones (autopilot and flight controls), rarely fail if at all.
The only ones failing from time to time are small switches for radio channel volume or cockpit light adjustments and system buttons at the overhead panel that are easy to replace by maintenance.
Touchscreens are not a good option for main controls due to poor visibility(dirt from fingers and sun reflections), hidden submenus, turbulence making hard to press the correct button…
The A350 and 787 are using trackball controlls for submenus and the onboard computers, not a touchscreen.
I must add that one place where we are using touchscreens is in the fly documentation. Most airlines use somekind of tablet, ipad or surface with apps for performance calculation, navigation charts, pdf manuals, etc… they are working mostly ok now a days and I’dont think you can substitute the touch screen with buttons for that without loosing a lot of functions.
I don’t know if this can be seen from space, but it is easy to see from an airplane 38000’ high. It’s some kind of ore or gas prospection. A giant grid in the middle of the Algerian Sahara. It goes across mainly of a large mesa, but also actoss the small dry creeks and hills around. There is some kind of industrial installation to the west of the grid.
I was going to post this video, it explains the differences and advantages of the original (and british copies) one vs the american. Also how most modern reproductions fall short of the original. I would say that it is better than the article.
The European rules for emergency medical kit (I guess FAA rules are very similar) also automatic defibrilators are increasingly being included in these kits:
CONTENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL KITS
(a) Emergency medical kits should be equipped with appropriate and sufficient medications and instrumentation. However, these kits should be supplemented by the operator according to the characteristics of the operation (scope of operation, flight duration, number and demographics of passengers, number of decks, etc.).
(b) The following should be included in the emergency medical kit:
(1) Equipment
(i) sphygmomanometer — electronic recommended;
(ii) stethoscope;
(iii) syringes and needles;
(iv) intravenous cannulae (a sufficient supply of intravenous cannulae should be available, subject to the amount of intravenous fluids carried on board);
(v) oropharyngeal airways (three sizes);
(v) tourniquet;
(vi) disposable gloves;
(vii) needle disposal box;
(viii) one or more urinary catheter(s), appropriate for either sex, and anaesthetic gel;
(ix) aspirator;
(x) blood glucose testing equipment;
(xi) scalpel.;
(xii) pulse oximeter; and
(xiii) pneumothorax set.
(2) Instructions: the instructions should contain a list of contents (medications in trade
names and generic names) in at least two languages (English and one other). This should
include information on the effects and side effects of medications carried. There should also be basic instructions for use of the medications in the kit and guidance for conversion
of units for the blood glucose test. The operator should make the instructions readily available. If an electronic format is available, then all instructions should be kept on the same device. If a paper format is used, then the instructions should be kept in the same
kit with the applicable equipment and medication.
(3) Medications
(i) coronary vasodilator e.g. glyceriltrinitrate-oral;
(ii) antispasmodic;
(iii) epinephrine/adrenaline 1:1 000;
(iv) adrenocorticoid;
(v) major analgesic;
(vi) diuretic — injectable;
(vii) antihistamine — oral and injectable (including paediatric form);
(viii) sedative/anticonvulsant — oral plus injectable and/or rectal sedative;
(ix) medication for hypoglycaemia (e.g. hypertonic glucose);
(x) antiemetic — injectable;
(xi) antibiotic — injectable form — Ceftriaxone or Cefotaxime;
Enlarged prostate blocking the flow of urine for one example. My grandfather couldn't relieve himself without a catheter during the last year of his life.
NJ EMT here and the guidance we are given is to not run AED while driving as the vibrations can make the analyzer misread. There are probably different types of AEDs to account for this
I’m guessing the tradeoff in the air is worth it. Can’t stop to run an AED and if they need a shock it’s because they’re in a potentially fatal rhythym
For certain moments and limited groups the inmediate playing could be very useful, like a group of people skying or in a job site where you need inmediate communication at a distance when installing something, not office work, more contractor like situation: “please bring the box from the trunk” or something like that.
Last vacations I was looking for something like this while skiing in Andorra with friends, as each call is in roaming and extremely expensive (like 8-10€ per call) But what I needed was a network independent app, and I couldn’t find one. So I guess this app fails short for
Me anyway as it uses Facetime.
> like a group of people skying or in a job site where you need inmediate communication at a distance when installing something, not office work, more contractor like situation: “please bring the box from the trunk” or something like that.
Wouldn't you rather use some actual radios for this? They make small PMR ones that aren't expensive, need no license/permit (in Germany at least) and have surprisingly good reach. We used a pair of these to communicate with people in a heavily reinforced concrete basement that blocked out cellular and data completely, and on hiking trips in the alps (though with a lot of rock in between you need at least something to reflect your signal, but that's still way better than yelling)
> But what I needed was a network independent app
Not sure if that's actually possible with decent reach. After all, I don't think you get direct control over iPhone/Apple Watch modems/transmitters and neither wifi nor bluetooth are optimized for this use case.
Yes, modern PMR can be very good amd afordable, and I own 4 of them!. But for this trip I couldn’t take them with me and was looking for a mobile phone solution. I guess you are right and they simply don’t have the power..
You could start with a copy of the book „the land of Lisp” or „practical common Lisp”
People seem to recommend portacle https://portacle.github.io/ for a first dev environment but I usually set everything up myself. Portacle seems to have all the essentials. You can follow SLIME installation instructions from the quicklisp page of portacle doesn’t come with it.
