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pageandrew··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
Why is Elixir better suited for agents?
pageandrew··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Canadian border control has the legal authority to search your phone and you are obligated to provide a password.
pageandrew··on Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig
> - Independent drill-downs in the Branches/Commits panels (deliberate, not a port artifact)

> (deliberate, not a port artifact)

Smells like AI

pageandrew··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
The IAEA said earlier this year that Iran had enriched uranium to 60%. Uranium is enriched to 3-5% for nuclear energy, and 90%+ for weapons.

Don't be silly. Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Were they actively racing to a bomb? No. (That's what the CIA was saying). Did they enrich uranium to near-weapons grade so they _could_ race to a bomb, in a matter of weeks, if they decided to do so? Absolutely.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-stored-highly...

pageandrew··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
Source? Do you seriously think the US just agreed to accept Iranian nuclear enrichment?
pageandrew··on Apple Studio Displays have 128 GB of storage
Is the iMac gone? I'm able to add an iMac with an M4 chip to my cart and Apple says it'll deliver tomorrow.

https://www.apple.com/imac/

pageandrew··on Don't rent the cloud, own instead
The point was about redundancy / geo spread / HA. It’s significantly more difficult to operate two physical sites than one. You can only be in one place at a time.

If you want true reliability, you need redundant physical locations, power, networking. That’s extremely easy to achieve on cloud providers.

pageandrew··on European Alternatives
Person above you did, my bad
pageandrew··on European Alternatives
Have you ever been to San Francisco? How many 6 lane highways do you think exist in the city of San Francisco?

I can tell you (I live here) -- there are none. SF is one of the most beautiful cities on Earth, and I'm trying my hardest to visit as many cities on earth as possible.

pageandrew··on Prism
These things don't really seem related at all. Its a pretty generic term.
pageandrew··on European Alternatives
Quality of life in places like San Francisco and New York is very high, and you get the insane salaries, and your healthcare is oftentimes mostly if not completely covered by your employer (I pay literally $0 out of pocket for high quality healthcare here in San Francisco).
pageandrew··on European Alternatives
The person you're responding to is claiming that Americans have to pay $10,000 for a 2 bedroom apartment, thus that is why the salaries are so high.

That isn't true unless you're looking to rent a luxury apartment in a big city.

pageandrew··on Say No to Palantir in the NHS
Would you prefer that militaries have less-capable software to make targeting decisions?
pageandrew··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Can't even get STS tokens. RDS Proxy is down, SQS, Managed Kafka.
pageandrew··on DBCrust – A modern database CLI
Not just you
pageandrew··on Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense
What's unethical about selling to DoD?
pageandrew··on Cloudflare was down
Google is claiming the root cause is with some of their central IAM services, which would have a cascading effect to the rest of their services.
pageandrew··on Tsunami Warning for Northern California
How do these detect tsunamis? They must be observing elevation changes, right? Is that GPS based?
pageandrew··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Why would the BitLocker keys not be recoverable?
pageandrew··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Can they recover this OTA considering the systems can’t even boot?
pageandrew··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
I don’t know Windows systems. I’ve read it’s causing Blue Screen of Death.

I take that to mean that systems can’t even boot. Right?

Can this be fixed over the air?

pageandrew··on Pilots hide mental health problems so they don't lose their licenses
Not an airline pilot / medical examiner, but I do read r/flying quite regularly.

Your story is not uncommon. The general wisdom on DWIs is that yes it does hurt your chances of getting into airlines, but if it was (1) minor/borderline, (2) a long time ago, and (3) you have shown a pattern of recovery, it is not a career ender.

pageandrew··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Ousted from his board chairmanship, but still works at OpenAI.
pageandrew··on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
> Have you actually flown a forward-slip?

Yes, I'm a Private Pilot. I've done them dozens of time. Still feels weird to be flying sideways and cross controlled.

pageandrew··on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
Cross controlled stalls are not part of the PPL ACS, which is I believe what the person above you was saying.
pageandrew··on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
Its not inherently wrong, but flying cross-controlled feels wrong to me. Probably because I don't do it very often, and I'm aware of the fact that it increases my stall-to-spin risk if I don't properly manage airspeed.
pageandrew··on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
> One of the pilots had sail-plane experience from riding a one-man ice-boat with a sail attached over an icy lake - which is where he learned the maneuver

This is correct, but I want to note that every Private Pilot (in the US at least) learns this maneuver, and it is required to be demonstrated to an examiner on the Private Pilot practical checkride.

pageandrew··on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
The ideal approach to landing is what's called a "stabilized approach", in which the aircraft descends to the runway at a constant 3 degree angle and constant descent rate. If the pilot finds themselves with too much altitude too close to the runway, in other words above that glide path, they need to more aggressively descend to meet the glidepath.

One way to aggressively descend would involve just pointing the nose down, but this has the effect of increasing speed (trading altitude for airspeed). You need a way to descend more quickly without increasing speed. Generally, this is done by adding more flaps (increasing drag), but in the case of the Gimli Glider, their hydraulic systems were down, so they could not add more flaps.

A forward slip is a maneuver in which you roll the aircraft such that the top of the wing and side of the fuselage are exposed to the oncoming air (relative wind), and you use the rudder in the opposite direction to keep the aircraft flying straight (with respect to the ground track). When properly executed, the rudder and aileron cancel each other out so you keep flying straight across the ground, but the nose of your airplane is not aligned with the direction of travel, and the top and side of your airplane is exposed to the oncoming wind, significantly increasing drag, and thus descent rate.

pageandrew··on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
They forward-slipped a Boeing 767 to bleed off the remaining altitude! A forward slip is a cross-controlled maneuver that feels unnerving and wrong enough in a Cessna 172, let alone a Boeing 767. And they did it with minimal hydraulic assistance as well...
pageandrew··on The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket
I remember Elon saying that flight test 1 would attempt to do a soft touchdown in the water.
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