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No way. Looking out the window is one of the joys of flying.

Picking out my house, seeing tiny cars on a remote highway, etc. Even 100+ MP cameras and high resolution screens won't come close to that level of detail.

Agreed - it is very similar to Google Maps.

The article is from 2023. I wouldn't be too hard on the author as it was still a novelty back then.

Similar experience with my Pixel 5 but different outcome. My SIM tray crumbled and they sent me a new phone under warranty.

This is fun. Like a cross between Bananagrams and a crossword.

Scored 26 today but I'll be back tomorrow to do better.

You can still visit Sizewell B, the plant in the article. I visited last year.

Two very knowledgeable guides led our group of 4 on a 3-4 hour tour of the facility, including the turbine hall.

https://www.edfenergy.com/energy/power-stations/sizewell-b#v...

Saffron is 94 USD per gram at major Australian grocery stores.

When I went earlier today, this locally-grown product was the only saffron available. https://i.imgur.com/q8z9MBF.jpeg

The bracing provided by the backing sheet makes all the difference.

Some of the simple desks the sell are nothing more than a tabletop and four screw in legs. With no bracing the desk is unpleasantly wobbly.

The very popular Ikea cube bookcases (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/cat/kallax-shelving-units-58285/) aren't sold with a backing sheet - thankfully they seem stiff enough without it.

London prices have been high for a long time but growth has been more reasonable since the flat construction boom.

Eyeballing from a chart here (https://www.plumplot.co.uk/London-house-prices.html)

- 1995 to 2010: 300% growth (10% p.a.)

- 2010 to 2023: 75% growth (4% p.a.)

I've found it's best to use a combination of written and spoken word, when trying to communicate more, but less frequently. i.e.

- Write a set of concise, clear, well-structured discussion notes ahead of a meeting

- Give all attendees time to pre-read the notes and flag the specific points requiring deeper discussion

- Once face-to-face, discuss ONLY those flagged topics. Don't waste the opportunity for high-bandwidth communication on the notes/topics that aren't contentious.

Stop signs are blank on the back. Could you hide the text instead?

This is great.

It's beautiful, and you've explained the field of tidy tree generation really well.

I wish I had this to refer to last year when implementing something similar in VBA for Excel and PowerPoint [1]. Perhaps it's time for me to revisit!

[1] https://aaronbrooker.com/vdttool

I'd happily pay 5x the price of the cheapest product available, if I knew I was getting a higher quality product with a longer lifetime.

However, I can never tell if this 5x premium actually gets me a better core product, or just gets me better branding, advertising, aesthetics, and/or superfluous features.

So I usually just buy the cheapest and hope for the best.

For anyone who finds this interesting, I recommend reading Underground Maps Unravelled, by Robert J Maxwell: http://www.tubemapcentral.com/writing/umu.html

It covers the history of London Underground maps and signage, analysis on how/why certain map elements help users, and contains a number of painstakingly recreated historical and theoretical transit maps to illustrate the points.

I've been working on an Excel tool to procedurally generate Powerpoint value driver tree graphics from spreadsheets.

https://aaronbrooker.com/vdttool

Most corporates only have MS Office so I've had to stick to using VBA.

Built to save me time in my day job, but has become a passion project. The most challenging part has been improving the algorithm for displaying the trees in a compact form but with an eye-pleasing amount of whitespace.

I think you are talking about Blendle which up until a few years ago let you pay by the article for many major newspapers and magazines.

I miss it.

Does the Netherlands even have hills and valleys?

The issue with the MAX8 is that it is fundamentally imbalanced. The larger heavier engines are tacked on to an airframe similar to the existing 737, constantly causing the plane to tip forwards, such that repeated tiny changes are required to maintain level flight. It is these tiny changes that are automated by software and can cause a crash when fed faulty sensor data.

The MAX10 is a significantly longer aircraft. The forwards rotation of the larger heavier engines is better balanced by the forces imparted by the tail acting over a longer lever arm, so the problematic sensor-driven software-controlled tiny changes aren't required.

I have the below address bookmarked - easier than digging through menus!

chrome://settings/content/notifications

Earlier this year I worked in the finance department for a major airline with significant B737 Australian operations.

As much as I would have liked these numbers to be false, they are sadly reality.

A typical 737 pilot earns 200-250k AUD and can work no more than 72 hours per month, including training, admin, etc.

If a pilot needs so much sleep that they can only safely work 18 hours per week, I'd hate to think how compromised a passenger's safety is when being shuttled around by a Taxi/Uber driver working 40-80 hours per week.

The hotels are not allowed to offer a lower price than booking.com. To undercut, or offer bonuses, risks then getting pulled from one of their largest sales channels.

I just ran it at 1% instead of $1.

On only 5% of days was the spread greater than 80 -> 120.

You can work this out from structural engineering principals - Euler's theory of column buckling would likely govern the cross sectional area of the legs.

But yes, you're right, building things from wood is such a time-honored technique that it is rare for this to be required. Millions of stools, cabinets, and timber-framed houses have already been successfully built, so there's no need to reinvent the wheel when you can just copy what has been done previously.