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Never heard of this project. I would think it was influential on the development of the Falconer V-12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falconer_V-12 for the Thunder Mustang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_51_Thunder_Mustang

I posted once in the looking and received a couple of calls from that post. Didn't latch on to anyone, but was good conversations.

Better analogy is the MiLB minor leagues, lots of eager desperate players who make little to nothing and have no bargaining power.

Agree, I'll have a value point to balance as well. I don't expect it to have any net effect on my career at this point, hope there is some worthwhile learning though.

Mid 50's here. As my kids are hitting college age I'm starting to get the itch to go back and complete my degree. My company has a facility near Cal Poly, where I went, and I drive by on my way in and out of town when I go onsite. Really don't know what to expect, figure I'll just wander on campus and stop by the admin building and see what they have to say. I'll bring my old student ID with me, just in case.

No kidding I've been following https://deltahawk.com/about, since before my first child was born and now he's in college.

Added corollary, Always test restore your backup, it's the best example of schrodinger's cat.

I've used this program several times in the last few years after seeing a comment here on HN.

I started at 49, 55 now, no serious weight lifting experience prior, just basic exercises.

Worked up from the empty bar. My max on squat has been about 260, and deadlift about 310. Various injuries from prior to lifting keep that about as high as I go.

I supplement with swimming on non-lift days during the week, yoga and walking on most weekends.

Been a boon to overall fitness, have done long distance backpacking and canoeing (90 miles just this summer) with my oldest son's scout troop. Just last week did a one day 50 mile ride with my youngest son.

The app makes it a game that helps with the commitment, I get up at 4:30 to carve out the time each day.

Never heard of them, but reading the link, yes same idea.

My first quarter at Cal Poly was about $90 if I recall correctly. Books were $150. Commuted to school and lived with my parents, who charged me small amount of "rent".

It was close to $400 a quarter near the end.

Paid my way through college working for Best.

It was minimum wage. $3.05/hr at the time, unloading 60 ft trailers in 100 degree heat in the late summer. That notwithstanding we actually had medical/dental and paid vacation time.

Often thought if they'd made it longer, it was a pretty close approximation to online shopping. Look at an example on the floor and then order from the warehouse upstairs.

Same joke here, I tell people I'm trending to card table in the parking lot.

Like my job and company alot, hate the open office. Literally have standing conversations start right behind my chair multiple times a day.

Involved in large scale, long term solar testing in the past:

I was almost always better to let the rain clean the panels in the field, even in some pretty dusty and arid climates.

The deciding factor was usually the labor cost of the cleaning. (Think very depressed labor prices) Even then the risk of damage from the cleaning ops might sway away from manual cleaning.

Yes, anything Miles Davis, and most of Vangelis have been for my coding.

I have a VM that I have to fire up every once in a awhile to deal with a Delphi 7 app if you feel really sentimental.

Check your bill, we found a charge on ours for rental on the also unused box. Took it back to the service center, and removed the charge.

I went to the test doc at: http://altoonabustest.psu.edu/buses/reports/480.pdf?15190591...

The relevant quote there is:

The interior of the bus is configured with seating for 39 passengers including the driver. Eight seats fold away for 2 wheelchair positions. The manufacturer passenger placard indicates that the test bus can accommodate 42 standing passengers. At 150 lbs per person, this load results in a measured gross vehicle weight of 43,540 lbs which exceeds the gross vehicle weight rating of 42,000 lbs by 1,540 lbs or approximately 10 people. At this load, the front gross axle weight rating is also exceeded. All testing performed under this partial test was performed at a seated load weight of 37,230 lbs.

My read from that is total weight, and only about loading to highest placarded passenger count, which using the govt. weight would overload the axle.

I didn't see anything that would change based on weight location or CG.

As with every EV vehicle it's about weight reduction while maintaining structure and safety margins.

Might be better on the bottom. See this rollover during testing. https://insideevs.com/four-injured-electric-bus-rollover-inc...

Disclosure< I work for Proterra and our packs are on the bottom.

It's one of the difficulties in manufacturing for US entities is the huge amount of customization. Pretty much everything outside of the shell, battery pack and motor, can/is customized.

We of course think our tech is better.

I like the red, they stand out.

I work out of Bay Area office in Burlingame.

I'm back in the Greenville site a bunch. Really nice area, the downtown is super active, people really friendly. My wife and I have it on the think about list for bugging out of CA.

Plus they just bought some of our buses.

Working at Proterra, we're doing our part.

Randy wrote the Lisa Assembler for the Apple II.

https://archive.org/details/LISAAssemblerVersion2.5ManualPho...

The more I read about this, the more I kept waiting for a Douglas Adams joke. Science is just silly sometimes.

I explained to one of my neighbors, who's not in the industry, job searching in software dev is like the nightmare where you forgot that you had a college final and you haven't studied.

Eric Conveys an Emotion, still there but not updated

With the North Bay fires toss in several billion dollars of insurance money as well. It's going to be a construction Gold Rush up there.

As far as later in life activity we just utilized a local older guy who does minor home renovations work to keep busy. $80/hr, could charge more, turns down work all day long.

Your peers were here on weekends and you were not.

To get a true stress read, I think you would have had to tell your staff that they needed to pass this test to come back to work in the morning.

Don't have the report handy on tbe phone, but it was in a dive in imc over the sierras exceeded Vne shredded the chute.