I like referring to imperial as the weird metric system because itās defined by the meter and kilogram anyways. I might be wrong about the kilogram but too tired and lazy to fact check myself.
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Itās pronounced āstandardā
My absolute favorite to get metric people annoyed hahaā¦ I didnāt make them rules 
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For weirdness sakeā¦
The imperial measurement is weight in lbs and the si is mass in kg. But, if you think about it, they have to have units for both mass and weight.
Si weight is in Newtons, and Imperial mass is measured in Slugs.
Further proof that, as a superior system, we will use anything but metric.
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Wait until I pull out my ruler with 1/10th of an inch markings and piss everyone off.
Except for Satur9, heāll understandā¦
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We got a few machinists around here.
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Theyāll also understand
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Why are nasal sinuses a thing!? Infections in there are painful AF!
Just one more reason to want to be a block of metal instead. This sucks and the only fix is to wait for a week or threeā¦
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Anyone got a flex in P1 and another in P3 (im thinking Apex & UG4 [and maybe add an xled in P2 for extra ābling blinkā 
) ?
Also, how close to an XG3 can i get away with?
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Exactly my setup
You could, but I haventā¦
Iām saving that P2 for ā¦ something else.
Take the following with a pinch of salt as I dont have any magnets.
The following is paraphrased from other Speculations and guestamations.
The installation will affect the location with regards to being careful of where the needle pokes and potential to cause damage, and with regards to a Flex, it could be as close as you like.
The xSeries, You would still want to keep the recommended 5-10mm away and ignore the fact that itās a magnet due to the ferite core of most other xSeries is insignificant with regards to magnetism.
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You can order less than 10 if you use the āOrder samplesā link (its kind of hard to spot but you can ctrl+f for it). The per unit price is around $13 I think, but shipping to the US starts at $25.
As for the cheaper cards, I think those are the ones I also ordered. They worked but unlike the Fetian ones they did not come provisioned with the default ātestā master encryption key. That meant that they didnāt work out of the box with the Global Platform gp tool. After some back and forth with the seller I was able to get part of the provisioning key and was able to install some applets, but without the full key thereās no way to set the signing policy, set security domains and some other features. The seller insisted I had the keys needed but there was a language barrier and I dropped it.
Probably doesnāt matter for applet testing, but I ended up just ordering more of the Fetian cards.
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Howās this going?
Or have I just started another [RANT]?
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Turned into a āOh noes! last minute so lets throw more bodies at it!ā issue. I went from ~20hours a week for summertime maintenance to ~45hours the last 4 days. Plus today (another 4-5hrs or so). Weāve had 3 diff mechanics out in the last 2 weeks to get things finished up.
Equipment-wise, weāre on Okay standing for the moment. 1 truck still down, but the other two are operational which will last us a couple months until the weather hits. Weāre still waiting on our 4th truck (since Oct last year), no idea when that one is going to be ready.
House was re-rented for 1 more year, work contract is all but finished, like 95% finalized but the airline wants us to do more work, but charge them less so they only doing a 1 year contract and hoping to renegotiate next season.
Still no word on my raise, or our bonuses etc. Though they have changed last years TDY bonus to a āIf they return, theyāll get the bonusā, which sucks for the 1 guy that isnāt coming back.
Our support vehicle with the expired tags also has front-end suspension issues, the struts on both sides need replacing so boss is waiting on the tags/registration until that gets fixed (probably another month or two).
Corporate management sucks, but local boss is doing the best he can.
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On a completely unrelated note, anybody near Aspen, CO looking for a job this winter? Aircraft Deicer at the airport probably $24-25 an hour (not sure what itās going to be yet), 6-14 hours a day, 3-7 days a week
We are going to try and hire a couple of local people and just TDY the rest from Denver or Salt Lake City. Just need a drivers license, and pass a TSA screening etc. Ability to pay attention to detail and history of video gaming a plus (3 joystick control system, feels like playing Mechwarrior, itās actually cool as hell)
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So not great thenā¦
Sounds like management needs a shake up or restructure
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Yup. Listening to my boss talk about the āgood 'ole daysā, I guess around ~5 years ago everything changed and got much much worse, the bean counters took over and run everything now.
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THIS cool?
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Pretty much, yeah, 'cept itās a larger vehicle. No flamethrower (unless something goes horribly wrong), but we do get to spray 180C+ degree fluids all over stuff.
Cockpit:
That 3rd joystick in the upper left gets mounted between the knees and drives the truck from the cockpit.
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Hahaha fuck yeaā¦. I used to do thatā¦ single man operation is fun
I only skimmed the big postā¦ just saw a very familiar visual Iāll back and read now
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Weāre doing 100% single-op in Aspen, itās been a blast so far as long as you donāt mind 70+ hour weeks 3 deicers last season, we need more people and trucks.
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Yea I remember that de-icer life
I did a few years at dtw with IDS, taking a wild guess itās the same company
Ours was a bit worse because our main pad was difficult to drive toā¦ I donāt remember but I think you had to cross a runway? Only been a decade
We jokingly called it the fortress of solitudeā¦ we could only drive in or out every few hours
We had no internetā¦ a deck of cardsā¦ a tv and exactly 1 dvd of the movie āblowā we watched it so much that I have someone past memorized and gone to blocked it out and donāt remember it
My last winter with them, was a mild winterā¦ so it hovered in the middle 30s for weeksā¦ and we had contractual obligation to have full staff if within 10 degrees of freezing
we were a much bigger stationā¦ probably 20? vehicles and 35 people at any given timeā¦ didnāt do single man operation unless you managed to sweet talk someone
Our main pad was 5 across 3 deepā¦ we did a shit Ton of CRJs and Saab 340s
Had a CRJ taxi into my truck while I was in the boom one yearā¦ that was a thingā¦ pilot error heard wrong radio trafficā¦ wrecked his wingletā¦ and I shit you not, he blew the slide to come out and inspect ā¦ gas on a fire
I donāt miss the bare hand tactile checksā¦
Your hands soak up the glycol and look great for the first weekā¦ then age and feel soggy the rest of the season
Manā¦ so many sketchy memoriesā¦ good
Times lol
That time there was a some kind of wire loose my cabs left right swivel jointā¦ and it was sparkingā¦ activelyā¦ and before we could even assess, heard a knock on my windowā¦ fuel guy nozzle in hand to fill up my cabs heaterā¦ 
ā¦ sir please go away from the sparky sparks with your nozzle of devil piss
Thereās zero chance he didnāt notice the sparks and decided he some come top me up anyways
Fuel guys are a species their own, people make the cliche jokeā¦ but I have seen them smoking in their truck 
Had a cab auto leveler go out when at max elevation, had to bring the arm in without leveler function with fixed rotationā¦ my windshield was parallel to the ground when I got to the bottomā¦ my ass has -never* puckered so hard
Pilots getting themselves grounded because they new better than us, and wouldnāt shut down apuā¦ and fluid making its way into the intakeā¦ or the Saab guys not wanting to do (I forget the operation name) 1 prop/wing at a timeā¦ and trusting that their battery had enough juice to restartā¦ spoiler it didnāt and it took hours to get them jumped lol, poor passengers
āChecking the tire pressureā of the tire out of eyesight with the pad tower during a rush 
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