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It’s an interesting question for HN, so you should try resubmitting it

Perhaps there are some useful ideas in this code: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles

Electoral politics[0], alcohol, tobacco[1], drugs, gambling, unbridled consumerism … for example

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

[1] https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/throwback-thursday-wh...

What animals cannot be accurately depicted with 13 circles?

“Communicate” means communication with air traffic control

They did that.

Communication with the passengers is good, of course, but optional, if they have time

So the results are unpredictable, just as they would be if humans randomly checked the cameras recordings.

Such a contrast to the recent crash in Korea, where a combination of difficult conditions and small errors meant things ended up very tragically.

What’s the reason that people try to dodge fares by buying a single ticket? Is it because they know when and where tickets are likely to be checked?

If it has a product manager then they will inevitably need to justify their role by finding things to do.

It “just” needs some minimal maintenance to ensure the same simple functionality and UI is maintained as the OS develops.

Yes, in the same sense that the Pyramids and Stonehenge and the Parthenon are rubbish

But they do not, because that will not attract investment.

It’s exaggerated, but it still represents some degree of progress.

>It also gave no reason for its decision… (to lift the ban today)

Can’t we do better than this?

Physics-based? Reality-based? Physically-derived?

Using a device which is mostly lithium ion batteries as a weapon? Even scarier than you expect, if you puncture a battery

A simple spellcheck won’t detect it but grammar check might.

Edit: the reason is probably that the writer is saying “eleven hundred”. It sounds OK but looks strange in writing

You don’t have to be the best player or to cheat on the poker table for +ev

You have to be better than the bad players, and know when to fold against a better player

You will make less profit than cheats. But, you won’t have to cheat

Obviously that cache can massively accelerate repeated access to the same data, and reduce tape wear and mechanical wear and energy usage.

But I think the critical issue is where you want the cache to be. Because end point devices already have local cache.

So this product only seems to have a big advantage on applications where you expect many unique users to access the same archive data for the first time, and within a short period of time before it expires from the tape drive’s SSD cache.

This is why I think it’s a small niche. Maybe too small to be worthwhile.

Edit: it also has the disadvantage that the first few devices to try to access the data would have a huge delay for a minute or more while the data is located on the tape. It’s also vulnerable to DDOS by attackers requesting random cold data, to fill the SSD.

The chance of hiring a genius is tiny.

So, hope someone else performs that experiment for you.

These minor blips only stand out in the context of SpaceX’s unprecedented consistency, which surpasses anyone else. But, if they have another snafu soon, maybe it could hint at a slight decline in their normal technical excellence?

Edit : OTOH, this was launch 23 of that booster, as mentioned by @gregoriol, so I for one might see that as a successful test discovery of the reuse limits of the structure. And also, the F9 that didn’t reach orbit probably wouldn’t have threatened the lives of a human crew, although it would have scrubbed their mission.

It appears very similar to the treatment of Ross Ulbricht, Assange, maybe even Snowden?

These are the equivalent of white collar crimes (typical massive frauds from the finance sector, etc) but they are getting a blue collar punishment of decades in jail that a successful and persistent street drug dealer could receive, NOT the few years in comfort camp prison that white collar frauds usually get.

That is how bad this situation is becoming.