joncrane

If you read the last paragraph, it seems Trump learned some tricks from mister "C.B.S." and even took them to the next level.

>Dealers are terrible awful places to buy a car but they’re generally excellent at fixing cars quickly.

I'm going to have to stop you there.

A little about me, I was a college dropout and worked as a mechanic for a few years, then went back and completed my undergrad, got a Master's and I've been white collar for a couple of decades, but I've always done as much work on my car myself as possible.

20 years ago we used to call the dealership service department the "stealership." I'm afraid nothing has changed.

I normally won't let the Toyota dealer lay even a finger on my car but I recently had some recall work done (fuel pump). I also asked them to look at another issue since the car was there and they presumably had the specialized equipment and knowledge to diagnose a tricky automatic transmission problem.

Well they couldn't even replicate the problem, even though I left detailed instructions on how to reproduce (yay bug reporting experience!). I watched the test drive on my dashcam and he didn't do what I said.

Worse, they messed up the recall repair and left equipment in my car. I told them it was probably the sending unit. They diagnosed the car for over 6 hours, checking everything BUT the sending unit, before finally giving in and realizing it was indeed the sending unit (it's the fancy name for a float in the gas tank). It took them another 4 hours to finally fix it.

I was left without my car for two full days for a repair that they told me was a 3-hour job.

Never, EVER take your car to the dealership EVER once your car is out of warranty. I have friends that used to have car dealerships in the family. They don't make much money on the sale of cars, the service department is under intense pressure to generate most of the profits for the dealership. They will lie, cheat, and steal to get your money. I cannot stress this enough. STAY AWAY FROM AUTOMOTIVE DEALERSHIP SERVICE DEPARTMENTS.

The average HN reader, with a little internet searching and some common sense, is better equipped to diagnose cars than a dealership.

I just learned the term insight porn, thank you.

I don't think the poster buys a Tesla, drives it for a few months, and sends it to a junkyard. I'm pretty sure that just because the other person stops owning it, the Tesla does not stop being useful to SOMEbody.

Wow, the ability to mobilize and execute that mission on short notice, not knowing when the rains will return and resubmerge the city is awesome.

I wonder if that's the closest that real archeologists will get to Indiana Jones style adventures.

This is one of those "great problems to have" that people talk about.

I watch a lot of ATC videos on YouTube and these low passes happen a lot in emergency situations. The two scenarios I've seen are:

1) Pilot thinks there may be damage/malfunction and does a low pass so that the Tower/Ground Ops staff can have a look. This was evident in a recent one I saw where the pilot had a nose gear fault. It took two passes, but they were able to confirm that the nose gear was NOT down and were still able to have a successful landing.

2) Student pilot either has mechanical issue or in-plane pilot becomes incapacitated. Tower/remote instructor tells student to do multiple low, slow passes at increasingly lower altitudes and speeds to get used to taking the proper heading and control inputs until the final pass is so low/slow that the landing essentially happens naturally.

I'd be flabbergasted if the FAA bans this type of thing, in both of these cases I personally saw (and I'm sure many others), this procedure saved lives. Why would they ban this?

I like how the article was posted on May 4th and it has lots of Star Wars references.

Why wait until after the acquisition? Have Twitter also announced a hiring moratorium?

Absolutely not. They regularly turn over IP logs to law enforcement for various reasons.

"Infrastructure is cheaper than developers(sysadmins)" all over again.

People act like this is new but it's been around for at least ten years where I live (near Washington DC).

This would be true if we were still on the previous administration, but I think we're back to our regularly scheduled programming now.

They should pay for it but an independent body should be responsible for building, launching, maintaining, calibrating, etc.

What we need is an incentive for the O&G companies to be squeaky clean and to rat each other out.

Align the incentives.

Generally speaking, someone on a PIP is not eligible to move to another team, so the sole reason is to fire the person.

So wait, you're supposed to swab your throat and your nostrils now?

So what's better, getting your throat spit up your nose, or getting your nose mucus in your throat?

"And with that, we pass on to the weather." Brilliant.

Does anyone else get a "Server Error" when trying to "register?"

Like the other poster said, this is the first time I've heard of it, but I've only been using for about 3.5 years.

As far as I can tell from some of my automation, the outage started between 1 and 1:15pm Eastern and the outage was "fixed" between 3:15 and 3:30 pm.

I say "fixed" because we're still seeing lots of slowness in the API responses.

My main hobby is taking my car to the race track and driving fast. Learning the line, finding a pace buddy and following each other, critiquing each others' lines. Trying out different tires, brake pads, alignment, etc. It's a great hobby because it will literally consume any and every resource I have (time and money, basically) so I have to limit it. I am very mechanically inclined so I do all the work myself.

I cannot state enough how much I love it. It's both an art and a science. It involves danger. It's exciting. The community is absolutely insanely great. It allows me to progress both through ladders set up by organizations, and by my own recording of lap times. I can compete as hard as I want or I can just go out there and turn laps at 7/10 and no one cares.

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29028746

Wow. I didn't realize he had died. In early 2018, I came || this close to working for Zappos as a Cloud Architect to get them moved onto AWS. Presumably because Amazon had owned them for several years by then. I wonder what it was like working for Zappos at that time.

Neat article, but I have a question that's kind of a tangent: what are those rose-colored lenses that the pilots have flipped down to look through the windshield of the plane in the picture?

I was once arrested wearing nothing but a t shirt on a freezing night. The police officer intentionally left the windows open in my compartment while blasting the heat in the driver's seat. I asked him to roll up the window and he ignored me. This was in Montgomery County, MD.

It happens.

How do you propose we vet office holders?

The OP is saying the test is for holding office, not voting. There absolutely should be a higher bar for holding office than for voting.

What are you doing about it?

>It has automatic scaling, so it can scale up and down with traffic (all of which is configured in ECS)

Doesn't scaling take time, though? Doesn't downloading a new docker container definition and starting it take at least as long as initializing a new lambda function?

Also with lambda there's no configuring to do for scaling. If anything lambda gives you tools to limit the concurrency.

> the incentives of the cloud provider and you are completely opposed

I think this is a little overstated. The cloud provider wants their customers to be happy while minimizing costs (and therefore costs to the customer). It's not truly a perverse incentive scenario.

Sorry, it's actually now 29.5 years away.

Also this article isn't even about a tokamak so...