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Comment Re:Ribbon, No. (Score 1) 235

Alt-key, key works in Libreoffice, and any app with a menu.

The letters you use are underlined whenever you hold down the alt key, and the shortcuts are there in the menu too, on the right hand side.

The only difference is that Word's ribbons overlay the key's letter over the button, and libreoffice (and any other menu-driven program) underlines them. Programs used to always display the underlining, which made things more discoverable, but I guess it did look slightly messy.

Comment Re:Ribbon, No. (Score 1) 235

Yes, Base doesn't get a lot of love. The main audience for Libreoffice, and certainly its developers, would prefer to implement a database directly on their choice of SQL server and use whatever scripting languages and graphics libraries they are familiar with for an interface, instead of learning things like Access or Base.

Comment They weren't looking for cracks - (Score 1) 57

The inspection didn't require them to remove the part to look for cracks - they were to look at the bearing in place and verify that the two halves hadn't separated, by confirming that the outer edge of the bearing was still in line with the housing.

The explanation seems to be that the failing of this bearing doesn't mean that the engine will fall off, because all the parts are retained, with the inner race inside the circular lugs. But it will make space, which means the mount will rattle, and if that is combined with existing, unobserved cracking in the lugs, could have lead to rapid progression of those cracks and a failure before the next inspection occured.

Comment Neither occupant required medical attention. (Score 2) 39

> neither of the men on the plane required treatment or transport to a hospital.

This is interesting, and I hope that this wasn't some people doing an unauthorized test. But if they did have a hypoxic episode, they would have come to on the way down, and it probably would have been wise to allow the plane to do its thing, under supervision.

Comment Re:Best way to use the electricity? (Score 1) 62

Many appliances can be scheduled to run at a later time. So you can set your dishwasher, washing machine and maybe your oven for some kinds of cooking to run even if you aren't at home.

I hope that things like pool pumps and hot water systems, which are already on off-peak rates, will be making use of this time.

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