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extraduder_ire
48 days ago
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Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation
Most cars don't operate for >12 hours a day every day. Last time I randomly checked the flight history of a Ryanair 737 on flightradar24, it had spent over 18 and a half of the previous 24 hours airborne.
justsid
48 days ago
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Same with trains. If they don’t run, they start to lose a lot of money for the operator really fast.
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