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imilleron The longest ever flight was 64 days in a Cessna 172 (2021)

What I was (jokingly) told when flying paragliders is, if you just put your hands in the air and scream, the problem will probably resolve itself.

imilleron Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items

There is a windows port that works great! https://pyenv-win.github.io/pyenv-win/

imilleron Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch

You can get a similar experience to the Fenix (but without the higher end sports features) with other Garmin sports watches. The Forerunner 255 is well reviewed and very similar to the Fenix for about half the price.

imilleron What are you supposed to do with old clothes?

I have 2500+ hard miles on their socks, used the warranty, and highly recommend both the company and the socks.

imilleron For centuries, English bakers’ biggest customers were horses

I would recommend reading this article on Colin O'Brady. His "impossible first" wasn't exactly either of those things. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/the-pro...

imilleron If nearly all Airbnb reviews are positive, does that make them meaningless?

I wonder how changing the rating system in cases like these from a five star scale to a thumbs up/down system would affect user behavior and system usefulness. It seems like ebay, uber, airbnb, etc all suffer from the same "anything less than 5 stars is effectively negative" issue.

imilleron New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (2016)

In US anyway, my understanding is that most of our containment structures should be sufficient to survive a plane impact without loss of containment. [1]

[1] https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/PVP/proceedings-abstr...

imilleron What drives Yellowstone's elk migrations?

I think you meant 41.

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolves.htm

imilleron Nepal bans solo climbers from Mount Everest

If you go on Oxygen, you basically want to have enough to get you down to camp. The effects of coming off Oxygen can be totally debilitating. There are also advantages to climbing without Oxygen if you have the proper physiology, mainly you don't have to worry about carrying g it or running out. Anatoli Boukreev's book about the 1996 Everest disaster is very insightful. Among other factors climbers running out of Oxygen contributed to the scope of that disaster. It's a fascinating read.

imilleron Goldman Buys $2.8B Worth of Venezuelan Bonds, and an Uproar Begins

Interest is because of the time value of money and risk, not just risk.