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That looked incredibly harrowing. I can't imagine how hopeless that must have felt.

What do folks use for something like Meta’s Async? RabbitMQ?

> The workloads commonly executed on Async are those that do not require blocking an active user’s experience with a product and can be performed anywhere from a few seconds to several hours after a user’s action.

I recently took delivery of a new Tesla and was worried that my color choice would be too flashy. Then I started noticing a ton of cars with the same color.

I understand where the OP is coming from. You over estimate what people think of you and your choices.

In the end I believe you are correct, most people just don’t care about your choices.

It is working now for me; was getting the same error as you earlier.

There is no safe dose of lead. Ideally, I wouldn't want to spread any lead during my run-ups.

I'd love for the plane I fly to use G100UL, which is unleaded aviation gas, but it's just not feasible. Unleaded aviation gas is truly wonderful – it extends engine lifespan and reduces the frequency of oil changes. Sadly, after talking to GAMI at Oshkosh, they said I can't run it due to the high compression ratio.

Also old pickup trucks rock. =)

He was commuting to be crew on a 737 flight. No need for a weapon to kill a lot of people when you are at the controls of the plane.

At FL360 (36,000') the plane has a glide ratio of 20:1; so they would have been able to glide 136 miles.

I just looked and I saw it available under “New Features” in their iOS App.

They really do not do a good job letting you know when features go live.

At first blush Pi.ai seems like a “better” conversationalist.

> Ticketmaster now requires text message phone number verification, but they can bypass this by buying “Mobile Virtual Network Operator” phone numbers in bulk from eBay

I’m surprised SMS verification is this ineffective at testing for “human-ness”.

I’m blown away by the audio quality, well done. It’s nice that it also recaps the comments.

You said the cost is about $2 an episode, is that mostly for the summarization or audio generation?

Same. I love it here but am frustrated at the dysfunction of the Bay Area. Making a good salary insulates me somewhat to the CoL issues.

Camping in the Sierras is awesome and as a pilot flying in California is a dream. Mission is gritty but there is great food around. It seems to have stabilized.

The kind of stuff I get to work at at Apple is insanely cool and commuting 280 is great.

Still have a good friend group; albeit a bit smaller since folks have moved away.

This is the prompt they used

> Once upon a time there was porcupine. Every day, she baked a loaf of bread. One day the loaf disappeared. Because of that, she had too much butter. Because of that, things got slippery. Until finally she opened the first ever butter theme park.

It seems like the LLM did exactly what the author wanted

I use it to do a practice flight before I do a real world trip to a new airport. That gives me a much better idea of terrain and what to expect than just looking at charts.

It’s also a huge amount fun and let’s you do things that would be unsafe in IRL.

Autopilot (plane) in cruise is much different than using it in the terminal environment.

My perception in sense of safety and workload reduction is about the same for aviation vs automative.

I’m a instrument rated pilot that mostly flys for fun on the weekend.

The big danger is folks disconnect from their duty to actively monitor the systems.

I would never play an iPhone game with either system.

If you disengage with flying or driving the consequences can be catastrophic in seconds.

Fewer things to hit in the sky but you can never be complacent.

Imagine playing an iPhone game while PIC and accidentally flying into the clouds? The CFIT stats are terrifying.

>> With autopilot engaged, I am monitoring everything - probably with more accuracy then if I was driving, due to the decreased cognitive load.

> Almost every study on human behavior contradicts this. When you have no load, your monitoring and responsiveness gets poorer, not better. (Now, you can certainly go to the other extreme and get overloaded, with the same effect)

With both a plane and a car you still have some load; you are supposed to be monitoring the performance of the systems.

I perceive myself to be safer when I have autopilot enabled on a Cirrus. My thinking goes from having to manipulate the controls to monitoring the performance of the aircraft.

I could be derelict in my duties at ignore the plane and play a game on my iPhone.

I perceive that experience to be very similar to when I engage Autopilot on my Tesla.

I go from having to manipulate the control to monitoring the performance of the car. With over 110k miles on my Tesla I really do feel with autopilot.

That will change this spring which isn’t too far away.

> Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated a successful emergency landing on Sunday in a dramatic test of a crucial abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, a big step its mission to fly NASA astronauts for the first time as soon as this spring.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-spacex/...

I’m unable to see my historical Google location data on iOS via

https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?pb

I’m getting the following error:

“Location Services permission is not set to always. Timeline cannot function properly if you don’t allow Google Maps access to your location while in background. [Skip][Turn On]”

Seems like I should be able to see what historical location data they have without enabling background location.

Disclaimer: I work for Apple

Many utility companies have special rate plans for EV charging. Electricity is incredibly expensive in San Francisco but PG&E has a special rate plan that is only $0.11/kWh if you charge after 11pm.

https://www.pge.com/tariffs/tm2/pdf/ELEC_SCHEDS_EV.pdf

Does the utility that serves your father have a similar EV plan?

I had not seen that edit. Agreed that the title is inaccurate.

The trend on these Telsa / EV blogs has been to take Tesla's logs as gospel and discount human observation.

There have been other reports of users claiming autopilot being engaged when it was not and reports of not noticing that summon was enabled even though one can't really miss that (that has subsequently been redesigned).

Human factors for these systems is incredibly challenging since such a wide audience of users useses them.

> Tesla has now reviewed the logs and says that there’s “no data to suggest that Autopilot was engaged at the time of the incident."

is a quoted directly from the article. It is also the title of the story.

Tesla has now reviewed the logs and says that there’s “no data to suggest that Autopilot was engaged at the time of the incident."

http://electrek.co/2016/07/06/tesla-model-x-rollover-acciden...

Catch Notes had around the same number of users when we "decided to go in a different direction" last summer.

It was incredibly challenging for us to monetize the service and our user numbers where an order of magnitude off of where things would have been intesting for some investors.

Co-founder of Catch here, we are sometimes compared to Evernote but Catch is a note-sharing and collaboration app.

1. Two-factor

We don't offer two factor but is something we are investigating. This is mitigated somewhat by the fact that a lot of our users use Google login.

2. SSL / TLS

SSL shouldn't be a paid feature. It's been included in our product for free since we launched.

We try and use SSL everywhere. All page from catch.com are only available via SSL. e.g. login, landing page, marketing, blog, etc.

There are a few exceptions like our Knowledge Base which is powered by Assitly / Desk:

http://support.catch.com/

3. Encryption

We don't offer note level encryption. We'd love to get some feedback on a straightforward way to do key management.

4. HSTS

We've been using HSTS for at least a year now. It was an easy decision for us since all content from catch.com is only available via SSL.

Security is hard and hopefully these breaches will raise the bar for everybody.

Thank you for the kind comment!

If anybody has any questions feel free to email me at a@catch.com

Co-founder of Catch here, some context; we launched our first Android app in 2008 and have about 10x as many users on there as we do on iOS.

The issue we've seen is that people build an iOS app and then port it over to Android.

We designed Catch 5.0 apps for Android and iPhone in parallel. This let us keep consistency between the platforms when it made sense, but also let us tweak the design early on so it could take advantage things unique to the platform, e.g. Action Bar on Android.

The team is incredibly proud of this release, and it is nice to see folks taking notice. Both Google and Apple have also featured this release, everybody is beaming here. =)

17 years! That is some serious dedication, kudos to the team.

Do you have a citation to back up the claim that you shouldn't use MongoDB for serious apps?

We have done billions of ops with Mongo and have never lost any data.

Agreed, this is a trivial amount of data.

Context is the article which made is seem like even 220GB is an ok amount, still can fit in memory.