For me it is Evel Knievel high above the Caesers Palace fountain. So many extreme sports descend from his daredevilry.
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Joel Spolsky mentions a more charitable take on this from Ed Fries:
> Lotus had to fit in 640K. That’s not a lot of memory. If you ignore 1900, you can figure out if a given year is a leap year just by looking to see if the rightmost two bits are zero. That’s really fast and easy. The Lotus guys probably figured it didn’t matter to be wrong for those two months way in the past.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
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Mahle / Ferrari were getting 45% or so out of the ICE a few years ago with pre-chamber ignition.
A pertinent example would be Tesla. They shipped approximately 100 cars a month in 2009-2010, with the chassis made by Lotus.
They received a $465 million loan from the Department of Energy in 2009 ("people’s hard earned money") to invest in a production plant to make their own cars and batteries. They did so, and launched the Model S a couple of years later.
They paid the loan back in 2013 with 13 million of interest (quite attractive rates, really).
Looking at the wealth that was generated on the back of such a loan, one can only think the government should have taken equity, rather than a percentage point of interest.
Tesla had a 7.8% tariff imposed. BMW's are at 20.7%.
Most Teslas sold in the EU last year were imported from China.
Both companies are fighting it in court.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/27/tesla-tak...
In other words, they are very economical replacements for middle managers. Have at it.
I submitted your [1] here back then, conversation:
Adrian Chiles' "inner chimp" and other columns [1] helped me understand it. Also, when I laughed off my psychologists' questions ("oh, everyone would answer these questions the same way, this is silly"). Oh no they don't, she said.
There will be a grey area for sure. But for people who have it, it is real, and it is different to how other people experience the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/30/my-treatment...
> the therapist said that she had rarely been more certain of a positive ADHD diagnosis
> my utter failure as a student, the huge highs and lows of my professional career, my distrust and lack of respect for authority of any kind, and my pride in my achievements as an autodidact
Oh yeah. I'm with you.
People's experiences inside their head are amazingly different, but society treats them the same. Some have inner monologues, some don't. Some have aphantasia. Some have prosopagnosia. Some are left handed, which was once considered evil ("left" is "sinister" in Latin, from another autodidact).
We used to label people as one of: normal, genius, retarded. We are becoming more nuanced now and exploring "neurodivergence". The label you have been given is ADHD. One day it will be much more nuanced.
Embrace it. It's not negative, it's society recognizing you and me and our type.
Bannister knows probably more than anyone about the topic and tells the story well. Thoroughly recommend the book. His tale of a guy called Bill being invited into the cockpit and discreetly given the controls to fly supersonic was awesome. Of course, later over a beer Bill (Weaver) talked of his times flying the Blackbird at twice the speed, and of the time it disintegrated around him.
“Lord King’s edict that the aircraft had to be profitable within two-and-a-half years had been realised. There were times, in fact, when the seven aircraft in the fleet would contribute around 40 per cent of BA’s entire profits”.
Mike Bannister’s excellent book Concorde talks at length about how “handsomely profitable” the BA service was (as opposed to the Air France one) from 1984 until the 2000 crash and subsequent grounding put them in to a spiral where keeping enough people certified was too expensive.
One part of this profitable change in 1984 was surveying their customers (who typically did not book their own tickets) to see what they thought the price was. About $5000 was the perception. It was actually $3000, so they quickly raised the price to the perceived one.
https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ap...
> “At one point, Howard Temin wrote Francis Crick, Sir Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner of Watson and Crick, the co-discoverers of DNA, the authors of the central dogma itself. Temin writes Crick a letter, gently suggesting that an amendment to the central dogma might be in order. Crick writes back: "I'm sure you think this is true, but you must realize you are wrong".
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-obsc...
For example, you receive a sales order for 1000€ of widgets, which cost you 600€. You ship them. You invoice for 1000€.
No money moved (hopefully you do get paid at some point though). However, you need to do some bookkeeping.
On the left side of the ledger (debits): Accounts receivable 1000€. Cost of goods sold 600€.
On the right side of the ledger (credits): Revenue goes up by 1000€. Inventory goes down by 600€.
These completely match. No money has moved, but the books are now up to date and balance.
Any transaction that does not balance should be rejected.
Nope. Double entry bookkeeping means every transaction is recorded in (at least) two accounts.
Recently I was told that Hungarian notation was "best practice" and I must use it.
> A continuous record of the past 66 million years shows natural climate variability due to changes in Earth’s orbit around the sun is much smaller than projected future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.
"Now that we have succeeded in capturing the natural climate variability, we can see that the projected anthropogenic warming will be much greater than that.”
That does not seem to support your claim of "natural rise".
SI has SSHL left side from infection. Dealt with it for 20 years, then an impact basal fracture degraded the right side.
Started with Apple Airpods Pro as aids. Now using Oticon CROS and Own. CROS works OK, Own works OK, but both are compromises, and have the overhead of using aids. Both have a different sound experience.
CI seems like another compromise. I am guessing stem cell is the golden ring - growing back the nerves.
So indeed, corrective and maintenance work have payoffs.
This would also be true of managers - their work should pay off over time, so measuring it in "meetings attended" is not a good metric.