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I think maybe you've misunderstood what the common knowledge said. Turbulence hasn't ripped an airplane apart at altitude, so yea turbulence alone hasn't caused a crash. But anything near terrain is plenty risky (mountain waves, low-level wind shear). If the turbulence makes you drop a couple of hundred feet that's no big deal at 35,000 feet and no matter how bumpy it gets, the wings aren't going to break off. But if you're near the ground (or a mountain), well....

It's not lost on me that those are the opposite of software engineering!

>One drawback I been told many times is that you need a lot of tools and they are not cheap...

There's truth to that. You will find no shortage of people in the woodworking community that insist that you can do woodworking with a couple of hand tools in a small space. I don't think they're necessarily wrong, but that's going to be a very limiting situation as far as projects go. Depending on your personality and wants, maybe that would work for you. But it's not for me. At a minimum I want floor space for a decent sized table saw and a workbench. Those are going to take up the most real estate among the core things.

And yes, it's not a cheap hobby. If you buy used tools, you can save a lot. But you've also go to remember that lumber is pretty expensive too. You can save money on lumber by buying rough-sawn stock but then you need to spend some more money on tools to process it (a good investment once you've decided the hobby is one you want to stick with!)

The things I like about woodworking:

* It's tangible. I can put in a couple of hours of work and then step back and see exactly what's been accomplished.

* The techniques are hundreds/thousands of years old. New tools come along (not as quickly as they do in software), but at the end of the day, we've pretty much decided on a handful of best ways to do things. There's always new stuff to learn, but you're very rarely inventing something from whole cloth.

* And my personal favorite: Every project has a definite end. That jewelry box or coffee table is FINISHED. Sure, after a time I might put a new coat of finish on something, but once a piece leaves my shop it's done. I'm not forever tweaking this or that about it, trying to make it something it was never meant to be or tearing pieces of it apart to redo the joinery or whatever.

How do you pronounce that?

The page gives very little context. Can someone explain what this is? Is this really trying to catalog every arewe...yet website in existence? Why would you want to do that? What makes that interesting?

> I sometimes think about the fact that Amazon S3 effectively has to exist until the heat death of the universe. Many millennia from now, our highly-evolved descendants will probably be making use of an equally highly evolved descendant of S3

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

As Raylan Givens once said: If you ran into an asshole in the morning, well, you ran into an asshole. Keep running into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

I've been on reddit since before subreddits existed and I've never been banned. Now I'm sure you've had your run-ins with some unhinged mods now and then but to be banned 100 times, you should probably take an honest look at your own behavior.

It would, yes.

He left the Senate in 2009 when he became vice president. He left the VP office in 2016 after Obama's second term ended. He was private citizen when this was happening. Powerful person? Sure. An agent of the government? No.

It should please you to hear that the Biden team was not the government at the time.

I tried but my account got flagged for extra validation. This requires me to take a form to a bank or brokerage so that someone there can verify my identity and then stamp the form with some special stamp.

Well I do my banking with online banks so I have no access to a brick and mortar branch nor do I really have the time or inclination to try to talk to somewhere there and get what they're asking for.

We'll never know. That's for future generations to decide!

I've used AWS Step Functions extensively over the past several years and give me code every day of the week over the Stepfunctions json config. Once you get beyond a few simple steps, it gets very hard to look at the config and understand what's going on with it. Especially true when you haven't look at the config in awhile. The DAG visualizer definitely helps, but as soon as things get beyond the trivial I long for a different tool.

I've made worse landings with a CFI sitting next to me in the cockpit when I was starting out. Landed a bit long but otherwise looked like a soft touchdown and a straight roll. Very impressive!

Probably want to amend the title to reflect that this is from 2018

It’s curious that you pit Joe Rogan singularly against “the media”. Joe Rogan has owned up to mistakes but the entirety of “the media” never has? Nobody in the media has ever owned up to a mistake? Joe Rogan is not a member of the media? What is the definition of the media here? People you dislike/disagree with?

I've read (in order) Consider Phlebas, Player of Games, Use of Weapons, and Excession thus far. Use of Weapons was the toughest one for me to get through so far. I started it and stopped it a few times over several years and just couldn't get past the halfway point. I eventually got over the hump with it and devour the last half of the book over a couple of days (which is fast for me). So for my money, Use of Weapons is a bad starting point.

My favorite by far is Excession but I don't know that I'd start there. I think the payoff of getting a story from the perspective of the Minds is better appreciated after you've heard about them and their capabilities from a distance in the preceding books.

My pick would be to start with Player of Games. That's the one that was a page turner for me nearly from the jump.

The design is dumb but you’re really stretching. I don’t need to see the entire rear of the car to know which way the blinker is indicating. If I did then that would mean 99% of the cars on the road, which have no arrow at all, would suffer from this ambiguity.

Pink Floyd not Led Zeppelin

I don't know if you're making a joke or you're serious. If you're able to quit regular smoking and have only the occasional cigarette then more power to you. But for me, the "occasional" cigarette has doomed many long bouts of smoking cessation. Sometimes i'd fall right off the wagon and other times I'd manage the "occasional" smoke for months. But make no mistake: once I had that one cigarette and opened the door, the intervals between the occasional smoke would get smaller and smaller until I was back to my old habit.

I just passed the 10 year mark since my last cigarette. It's easy these days and I almost never think about cigarettes but I still wouldn't trust myself to have one.

Depends. Can be very dangerous when near the ground on takeoff or landing. Heavier, slower aircraft make stronger turbulence. You especially don’t want to be a smaller aircraft behind a larger one. The vortices sink so if you’re following an aircraft and you’re at the same or higher altitude then you’re fine. If you’re lower then watch out, you might be on an intercept course.

While technically correct, this assertion has quite the positive Amazon spin on it. They are required by federal law to provide health insurance to employees who work 30 hours or more.

Right, I was responding to watwut's question of "what exactly do you want me to ask?"

- Tell me about your software development methodology.

- How are requirements communicated to developers?

- How is work by developers tracked?

- What VCS do you use?

- What bug tracker, etc?

- Do you practice devops?

- What's your build process look like? Automated? Continuous deployment?

- How big is the team?

- Do you do sprints? how long typically? How do you decide what to work on in a sprint?

- How do you determine when something is "done"? Who decides?

- Describe your infrastructure.

That's usually enough to get started. You can drill down as far as you want on pretty much any of those.

No, that's not quite what it is. You can have an unusually rapid, but regular (i.e. normal sinus) rhythm and that's called tachycardia. During tachycardia, the electrical impulses that control the muscles of your heart fire in the correct sequence, intensity, and spacing between impulses, they just go through a cycle much more quickly. If you looked at an ECG and measured the distances between the peaks and valleys, they'd be at consistent distances, just really close.

During a-fib, the electrical impulses are all off. The peaks and valleys are irregularly spaced and the amplitudes vary from cycle to cycle. This usually results in a rapid heart rate as a second order effect because, due to the "misfiring" not enough blood is pumping through and your heart is working harder to make up for the difference.

I'm sorry about your friend. I hope this isn't insensitive, but could you elaborate any more on what happened? I'm an a-fib sufferer with a pool so I'm quite curious.

Is it getting more and more common? Is there any evidence to support that?

You’d have to find such a person first. From the article, there were a unique set of circumstances that doctors don’t even truly understand that led to his blood having these properties.

It's not accurate. In a country of 325 million, you'll surely find some examples of it, but it's not been my experience as the father of two young children.

Careless mistakes are probably one of the most common types of bug you’ll find in the wild