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Ahh good catch - counting down to midnight on October 1.

Smells like an ARG / marketing campaign. Their "want to talk" email is "truthorconsequences@", they have two "blog posts" and a list of vaguely related press pieces (none of which mention them), their logo is clearly a derivative of the "other" Black Mesa's.

Oh totally agree - we live in wildfire country and are in the process of replacing our entire house, effectively, with concrete, metal and other fireproof materials. We have to stop using wood in these places.

NYC flooded massively during Hurricane Sandy. Most of the gulf coast experiences the same annually. Now more of the eastern US will suffer the same fate as climate change accelerates.

The rural western US has always been affected by wildfire, but rarely by the type of hyper-fires we've seen in the past decade, again due to accelerating climate change.

Where do homes "belong"? Chicago?

Edit – here's a NOAA map of $1B climate-related disasters in 2023: https://coast.noaa.gov/data/nationalfacts/img/fast-fact-weat...

If you're new to this: from experience during past eclipses, make sure you're in the area of totality. Our family was on the edge of that area for the last one and thought it'd be enough - it wasn't, as we sadly learned sitting in a slightly dim parking lot. You need to be right under the center of it to get the full experience.

Definitely a misleading headline - Watch Duty shows 14 prescribed burns in the state right now. I live in the WUI and they've been doing burns around here for the past ~3 months.

In the game of Apollo vs No Apollo, agreed, the game is played out. Even if there's some eleventh hour agreement, reduction in API fees etc, the direction is clear - Reddit's killing these guys, just a question of when.

But in the game of Christian vs Spez/Reddit Corp, I wonder about the wisdom of posting these recordings and going this nuclear on Reddit's brand. I suspect Reddit's got some good lawyers, whether you're in the US or Canada.

Reddit would need to monetize those users, presumably by adding ads etc to Apollo, eventually turning Apollo into the Reddit app which already exists today (and which Apollo users don't want to use). Only the users willing to tolerate Reddit's enshittified UX would stick around.

Reddit can just force Apollo to shut down and accomplish the same for $10M less.

I hope Apollo's not overplaying their hand here, though it's super interesting hearing these conversations from the inside. It's clear reddit's got it out for the 3p apps, and I'm personally leaving reddit over this (longtime RIF user), but this post is a bit concerning.

It focuses on the "[apollo can] quiet down [for $10M]" topic in the conversation, and the apparent misunderstanding between Apollo and Reddit, Reddit taking "quiet down" to mean "go away quietly, without a lot of public noise", as a threat.

Apollo states that they meant "go dark", "reduce API usage", "reduce reddit opportunity cost". But for that position to make sense, Apollo would need some leverage here. They're using Reddit's API and platform behind the scenes - they have no leverage I can see. What am I missing?

I thought the same at first too, then realized this is mesmerizing beautiful *pollution*. Similar to the iridescent sheen of an oil slick on the ocean.

OP's document lists 11 cities for comparison and says nothing about living in the country.

I always find myself coming back to ST for "powerful text editor" needs. It works, it does what I need. I was able to use it for a long time before paying for it. Not sure why it needs to be explicitly compared to VSCode and treated with the same expectations.

Glad to see someone referencing BigClive's teardowns and explanations.

As for the business rationale, I think it's less about consumer demand and more about the recurring revenue for the light manufacturers. Products like this exist where mandated - see his video on the Dubai LEDs - but aren't made broadly available.

One personal counterpoint, as a non-user: I trained under an elite alpinist for 3+ years. This is is someone who'd achieved much in their field, was a happy parent and generally seemed successful and content.

We had a lot of intimate conversations (daily check-ins, 365 days a year). On the topic of existential dread and depression, he stated that the single most impactful thing he'd ever experienced was one shroom trip. He wasn't a regular user; just this single trip had a lasting effect on him. I've heard similar from less familiar sources, who are similarly successful and aren't drugged out.

That said, I appreciate you're being skeptical here. I know more than one "medical cannabis" user who became a deadbeat. Dosing control needs to be a thing in this space, it's just a free-for-all right now.

It's very rare, but nevertheless the kind of thing that corporate legal teams worry about. That said, there are lower-friction ways to deliver these terms - include them in your check-in paperwork, post them visibly in a public space - but that requires a legal team which cares about reducing user sign-up friction.

I didn't say it was a particularly valuable ad space, I completely agree :) But having had these conversations with the people responsible, that's nevertheless the reality.

There are existing supported technologies which solve all of these issues. You can set up a Passpoint OSU solution, route users through T&Cs once and provision their device with a secure credential for encrypted autoconnection in the future. Or build said sign-in into the venue's mobile app. But that requires consensus from the corporate stakeholders (marketing and legal), who tend to prefer status quo.

There are folks working on these problems, both from wireless industry and venue side, and if anyone is really interested in helping I'd suggest looking into the Wireless Broadband Alliance as well as the Wi-Fi Alliance. Passpoint will eventually kill portals but it's taking forever due to these politics.

"Spreading the word" isn't needed. There are plenty of low-friction tech solutions to public Wi-Fi onboarding and the people responsible for these systems know about them.

The persistence of stupid captive portals etc. is an intentional move by the hotel, coffee shop, wherever. Their marketing department values your eyeballs + any data you provide as part of sign up. It's stupid because you're trying to get online, you don't want to experience this friction, but it's a "customer touchpoint" and the venues don't want to lose it.

Source: have built large Wi-Fi networks for 15 years, helped develop Passpoint support on Android, ran large U.S. coffee shop Wi-Fi, ran citywide Wi-Fi in NYC.

I live in the WUI among trees. We've already spent $20,000 removing some fuels, and are spending $30,000 to remove more. This is in a county with a median annual income of $26,000.

We can only afford this because of my remote tech worker salary. My neighbors aren't as privileged.

The state could contribute more funds to these efforts, helping property owners reduce the fuels around their homes and improve defensible space.

Upending your whole life and moving somewhere "safer" is no small thing, particularly when you have generational ties to the area. Doubly so when rural economies are dying, and you can't afford to move.

Native Americans have lived in these places for thousands of years. Much longer than cars, industry, datacenters and their resulting climate change. I'd fault the latter for this situation, not the victims.

I suspect the author wanted you to notice the similarity between 7 and 8 when you got to them, not at the beginning of the article.

I spend a lot of time thinking about important conversations beforehand, and the directions they could take. I'll pace around the house for half an hour talking to myself, practicing speaking. This has proven helpful in my job, which involves a lot of meetings and conversations.

To the original commenter's point, you don't want to memorize your answers, you just want to explore these conversational avenues and test-drive what you might say, seeing how it sounds, what positions are more defensible, what topics to avoid. This is the skeleton of the conversation you'd like to achieve, the "plan".

Of course no plan survives contact with the enemy. When conversation gets spontaneous / goes off the rails, I try to detach and control my emotions. Sit for a few seconds, consider what you're about to say before speaking, and be straightforward and honest.

Growing mobile-first population. Portrait is easier than landscape. Creators design with this in mind, get rewarded with eyeballs.

It's an LED matrix which requires third party cloud servers to update the display. I own one. It's great.

Yeah, simple enough. Also simple enough to go-around when you're obviously slow and going to be short of the runway, but look at Asiana 214.

I do wonder if there's some training deficiency or cultural issue that leads to this scenario in Air France flights.

Entirely speculating, but it sounds like the fundamental problem is that they had a confused Captain and First Officer who both thought they were the Pilot Flying. Human factors / psychology issue. Sure, on a Boeing you'll feel the other pilot's input, but if you're tired enough, or panicking because the plane's not doing what you expected, you might not get the hint.

Task saturation - followed by loss of situational awareness - is a very real problem in today's airliners, particularly during takeoff and approach/landing. You're trying to do a ton of things in a small amount of time, while dealing with a dynamic situation outside, and in this case after a long, tiring flight over the Atlantic.

There are a great series of (dated but still good) videos from American Airlines about automation dependency, human factors and the simple but very real problems that develop as a result - often leading to panic and disaster when things go wrong. Search YT for "children of the magenta".

I agree that there's something in these videos - at least in Gimbal. I don't think it's a saucer-shaped thing or necessarily of extraterrestrial origin. It could be a drone (either ours - another branch of DoD/govt - or another nation's) etc. Still an interesting mystery, but no proof of anything extraordinary IMHO.

In the case of relying on Christopher Mellon's credentials, I'd point out that he has a commercial interest of some kind with To The Stars Academy, the production company which seems to be behind all of these videos' presence on the History channel.

In their 2021 annual meeting notes [https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b5a458fe749405f83225...], To the Stars Academy notes that "Christopher Mellon, a member of TTSA’s advisory board, [is] no longer with the company" implying he was employed by them in some fashion. Thus prior to 2021, he likely stood to benefit commercially from these films' distribution, particularly when he was quoted alongside them.

The "saucer" shape and its rotation were IR glare, that's the point of the video. He's very clear that he's NOT debunking the existence of an object. The exhaust of a jet engine, or another high-heat signature, could cause such glare.

AFAICT no pilots saw this shape with their naked eye. They were miles away from the target and relying on what they saw via their sensors.

Exactly. The whole system seems hilariously naïve if you have any real-world driving experience in the bay area.

I drove 205/580->680->880->237 daily for years, one of the first express corridors. People constantly crossing over the double-white line, intentionally exiting the lane at each transponder to skip tolls, driving on the shoulder, driving past a huge line of cars so they can bully their way in at the last moment. CHP seems to let most of that slide - they're busy with the massive accidents that constantly result.

I highly doubt they're going to care about 1 vs 2 vs 3, and I feel for them if they're expected to.

That's a Part 15 label (see https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-A...) and it doesn't apply to avionics / radio navigation systems.

(I do agree this is Boeing's issue to fix, 200MHz guard band is huge, Boeing needs filters)