dan_quixote

I'd also assume that a CLI resisting JSON support is likely to have a very stable interface. Maybe wishful thinking...

This is MSFT we're talking about. Aggressive legal maneuvers are right in their wheelhouse!

Maybe all the back-stabbing and nepotism was data-driven[1]?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/executive-insights/content/how-do-you...

Let's also keep in mind that vitamins as supplement pills are mostly useless, we all mostly know this, yet we all mostly buy them anyway. Maybe this idea is already wrapped up in your "perceived ROI" comment...

Learning Korean to better communicate with my GFs family and take advantage of _finally_ having real motivation to learn another language.

I'm really enjoying having a different type of challenge than I'm used to. Mostly approaching it with Duolingo and Anki vocab cards with moderate success so far. We both have our own careers, kids, various responsibilities...so I don't get much time to practice with her. And practicing memorization at the end of a long day is tough, so I'd love to hear any tips you all may have to improve my memorization techniques and mnemonics.

I'm in a similar situation - my girlfriend is Korean and speaks perfect English but some of her friends and family do not (and are rather self-conscious about it). I'd like to meet them halfway by getting to a basic conversational level in Korean. Any tips? What has worked well for you so far? I've been working with Duolingo for a few months with mixed results. I just started Anki with the Korean Vocab by Evita deck [1] and it has been really great for vocab at least. I'll be checking this post out later as well.

[1] https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/4066961604

> And, spoiler alert, Brian does not get crucified. But rest assured he will still sing Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life."

Seems like they keep it for the most part. What would this production be without Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life ???!!!

You should be there. It won't be easy, but you will revisit this memory many times in the future. Each time you think about it later, you won't regret being there. You will, however, regret NOT being there. And know that it gets easier.

Significant ease of use.

You can commonly deploy the device/server with the client's public key.

Assuming continued forward progress, this feeling is true of each generation. But when I get nostalgia about all the progress the world made since my early childhood in the 80s...I think about my great grandfather who was 8-ish when the Wright Brothers made their first flight, 40s when the atomic bomb was developed, 73 when the first man walked on the moon, and then lived another 20 years!

Give it another watch. I did recently and was surprised how funny it still is. It's rather timeless, mostly innocent, absurdist humor that still makes me laugh.

And it's normal to see young kids walk to school unattended in Seattle. I live near an elementary school and see it every day. Totally unusual in much of the rest of the US.

I'd like to extrapolate this further.

Don't make yourself independent from the experience. If you're already enjoying yourself, you will enjoy the taste (of whatever is in debate) even more. You will associate the taste with the story of its creation as well as your personal experience. Aim for the memorable experience with family/friends over consuming "the best" (sometimes it can be the same thing!) and you will enjoy it far more often. It took a long time to convince my ever-optimization-focused brain to choose this path.

And a corollary to this argument is to never look down on someone for enjoying something you don't like - they simply found a way to experience joy where you didn't.

Not necessarily. CFRP is plenty strong to handle the task. But it's a complicated material - though not necessarily new. I think one complication people underestimate when comparing to steel or titanium is that CFRP is NOT isotropic - meaning that its physical properties are NOT the same regardless of orientation. Another is that CFRP has so many dimensions to its strength (e.g. orientation of resolved force vs fiver orientation, fiber diameter, fiber length, fiber material, epoxy material, etc). Yet another is the concept of fatigue life. Steel is very forgiving in this regard - as long as you don't strain it enough to reach plastic deformation, you're good almost forever. CFRP (and even aluminum) have a lifetime no matter what. In that case, you need decent non-destructive testing techniques of which I'm certainly not an expert.

I have one major unanswered question about it though...is there any reason they needed the weight savings one gets from CFRP? Every sub I've ever heard of requires additional ballast to dive even when using tried-and-true steel hull. If they didn't need the weight savings, it was completely absurd to use CFRP.

I wonder how much damage has been done in the name of upholding "rugged individualism". We willingly isolate ourselves and refuse to ask for help when we need it while the problem just sprirals.

Got a decent citation? I can't even fathom what that would be like. I'd bet my daily inner monologue is 100X what I actually speak out loud.

Many years ago it was my job to design and procure control systems for natural gas power plants - this included mostly valves and instrumentation. Of course, once you're dealing with superheated steam (whether fired by natural gas, coal, angry isotopes, etc) it's all the same valves and thermocouples. So I got to know the product lines of the handful of suppliers very well. A few had nuclear product lines (USA only) which were identical in spec to everything else...with two major differences:

1) Everything had to be manufactured in the US with all the requisite paperwork

2) Every non-destructive test under the sun was required for every distinct part, including an encyclopedia's-worth of paperwork per test per part

In this case, it's not the parts, or even the design that breaks the bank. It's the validation.

I've done this many times in many European airports. It's often no more inconvenient than walking to another terminal in a large airport.

If so, that's quite the case study on the difficulty of cloud migration!

I'm not convinced it's so nefarious. When the problem is this big, individuals eventually feel unable to help; not to mention that the mental health aspect causes people to (rightfully?) fear erratic/dangerous behavior. West Coast cities are putting massive amounts of money into the problem, but the problem is so much bigger than they can reasonably handle when people are able to move from other locales to cities with more services. It's a national problem and we're collectively blaming SF/LA/Seattle/Portland for not solving it.

Keep in mind that urban areas don't explicitly produce these problems. People with these problems tend to congregate in urban areas because that's where the needed services/networks/etc exist. People from rural areas have the same problems - they just tend to suffer in silence (more room to hide in rural areas) or move where they can survive more easily (urban areas).

> The cashierless thing is fine, but is never going to be the reason people pick one store over another.

There is a Go-style Amazon Fresh very near my house. There are 4 other grocery stores roughly the same distance away. I find myself going to Amazon Fresh more often than not because of how easy it is to walk in, grab something, and walk out. They even put your shopping time on the emailed receipt - and I've made it through in less than a minute on more than one occasion.

Major structures of a 777 are aluminum. I wouldn't expect many large, easily identifiable, parts to float (for long).

The "Fujicron" lenses (28, 35, 50mm F2) are something special. They are the perfect form-factor, relatively cheap, fast to focus, and sharp.

It applies well to engineering in general. If I have no constraints, I'm as good as useless most of the time. Give me a few constraints and I'll revel at what I can achieve with limited resources.

There are lots of extra security effort/measures that are required when a bank has LOTs of cash on hand. Yes, there is added cost in counting, but it's the security that really costs the bank.

I'd say it's cruel. Paying interest on some medical procedure because you (and likely almost everyone else) cannot afford the eye-watering cost? What else do we need to convince people that this is not sustainable? Maybe a collapse in this medical loan market? One has to assume the major players (hospitals, insurance, etc) have firewalled themselves from this system.

I live in Seattle. 8 year olds walk past my house to-and-from school every day without parents. I can't say I've seen this in any other major US city though.

The ribs are already all different across existing commercial airplane wings.