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What you're forgetting is it absolutely would not work when you first put it together. You would then begin a journey of debugging which would teach you a lot more than any YouTube video ever could.

I wonder how you got that TLDR. He literally said they hired a bunch of people only because they did Elm.

There's a very weird asterisk about it not being considered vegetarian. I would understand it not being vegan with the bun and all, but how did they manage to incorporate meat products into a cauliflower sandwhich?

Just to give a little context as a pilot: It is the job of the tower controller to decide who uses the runway when. There are often multiple planes waiting to take off, and multiple planes nearing the airport to land. It's not uncommon for a tower controller to allow a plane to takeoff while another is approaching the runway. The theory is, of course, that the flight will depart in plenty of time.

In this case, the controller failed to tell the departing flight to hurry (the references to 'no delay' or 'immediate' in the blog post), AND frankly timed things pretty close given the weather. Without the ability to actually see the approaching plane, or perhaps even the plane on the ground, it will probably be found that timing a departure that close at all was reckless. That said, I feel for these tower controllers, it's not common for many planes to get stacked up waiting to depart, and it is their job to get them out. What may have worked just fine on a clear-weather day simply became too dangerous on that day.

The official manual for air traffic controllers in the US is the FAA Order JO 7110.65W [1], if anyone cares to review it.

1 - https://www.faa.gov/documentlibrary/media/order/atc.pdf

Has anyone actually tried the experiment posed in the article? If I go to Amazon and search 'spatula', I get pretty reasonable results:

- A Kitchenaid spatula for $7.99

- A similar set of two knockoff brand ones for $13.99

- Some editorial recommendations including one from OXO, a wooden option, a fish spatula, etc.

I wonder what weird state the person writing this has on Amazon.com, or maybe it's all hyperbole?

Unlike the NOTAM outage, a METAR outage will and should actually affect flights. Without weather at your destination it becomes impossible to know if it’s safe to land there. The forecasts (TAF) are actually used more in flight planning, but actual weather is very valuable while enroute, when not close enough to hear weather over the radio from the destination airport.

I would personally recommend trying TFE paste, rather than Teflon tape. Easier to get a seal, less annoying to tighten.

I think the title is using the word 'inevitably' where they mean 'eventually' or 'ultimately'. It's not inevitable that people who invest in Bitcoin lose money, for example, they could have changed their mind and sold then next day, making it avoidable. What they mean to say is that most people who invest _end up_ losing money, not that it was unavoidable (the meaning of inevitable).

It’s called premium economy and it exists on most major airlines.

It’s worth pointing out that the last row on a plane often doesn’t recline, so the idea of everyone reclining is a bit of a red herring. That said, you do know that when you book your flight (if you’re wealthy enough to pay for a specific seat), so it could be considered one of flyings many taxes on the less than wealthy.

> I went out of my way to feed the Apple ][ video into the luminance pin of an S-Video port for this segment to make the text more readable at the expense of color.

I found this to be the most interesting part of the whole post, I'd love to see a schematic of how that works.

I personally disagree with this. I think that instinct is very meaningful and valid, and most people would be better off co-sleeping with their children rather than teaching them how to be alone more effectively when they’re too young to have done so in the wild.

Even a flat piece of foam will generate lift [1]. The only requirement per se is that the trailing edge of the wing is somewhat sharp. A more optimized shape would allow the plane to fly at a lower angle of attack and would reduce drag, but drag isn’t exactly your problem if your thrust to weight ratio is 2:1.

1- https://www.av8n.com/how/htm/airfoils.html#fig-barn20

It sounds like you have never actually visited Iceland as a tourist or resident intentionally. It’s a beautiful place, perhaps not best judged on emergency layovers.

Sabotage, to me, explicitly means that the act was committed with the intent of derailing the project’s original purpose. This act seems orthogonal to the original intent of the project, so it’s underhanded but it’s not really sabotage.

For the record, the 'Feels Like' temp usually takes wind speed into account. It's probably not necessary for the dev to include that factor manually.

For me it showed 79F and sunny as 'pants weather' (my Feels Like temp is 87F), I'm not sure I fully endorse this algorithm.

The most wild thing, to me, is how effectively it has been taken over by scam artists. The other day I tuned into a 'startup pitch' show where the premise is you pitch your company idea to an 'investor'. Unfortunately in practice the investor applauds your idea, and then claims he will 'invest' engineering time worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but he needs you to 'prove you are serious' by investing tens of thousands of dollars of your own money.

I'm sure after putting up the cash you are handed some janky app worth nothing close to what you paid, much less his supposed investment. While maybe not being illegal, it was incredibly predatory. The 'entrepreneurs' weren't being asked the most basic questions about their business, and were clearly not financially in a place to invest the money he was demanding. Rather than helping them achieve an entrepreneurial dream, he is sucking up the limited money they have (perhaps even inviting them to take on debt) without any real hope of success.

It seems like every channel on Clubhouse is some version of exploitation, whether it's about crypto, your love life, or your money. I don't know how I would moderate that away if I was them, but it seems like the time to do it was several months ago, and now might be too late.

When they say to tuck your head, tuck your head to the side so you roll over your shoulder. Don't just tuck forward so you roll over your neck. Think of it as putting one of your ears on the same shoulder.

If you’re thinking of buying a Dymo, just get a refurbished Zebra printer. They’re actually meant for commercial use and don’t have any of these issues.

You could use something like Cloudflare Access to secure it, while it's on the Internet. There's no reason you need to build the security just because you build the tool.

Cloudflare Tunnel will spin up a free tunnel for you even without a Cloudflare account. If you run `brew install cloudflare/cloudflare/cloudflared` and then `cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:8080` you will get a URL you can use to reach that local port from the Internet.

I use it to share in-progress work with co-workers, test webhooks, etc.

Edit: fixed command thanks to comment below :)

Hate to say it, but I'm not sure this type of visualization is ideal for this data. Given that the actual clustering is meaningless, I would think a simple histogram would expose the relationship between the different cities better.

My mind could be changed if this exposed a hierarchy, for example if the US was a single bubble which could be clicked-into. Or if there was a meaning behind the clustering, like if geographic proximity determined how close the bubbles were.

> would move no air no matter how much power you dumped into it

Fun pedantic correction, it would move air via the Magnus effect [1], but of course it would be orthogonal to the direction you want it to be moved!

See the Turbosail [2] for a fun application of that effect.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosail

Tesla makes improvements at a much faster rate than conventional car companies, which results in what we might call 'hacks' as those changes matriculate through the other design components. It's not ideal, but decades of building software has pretty conclusively shown that agility and shipping quickly is a better practice than waiting for perfection.

You might say "well agility is great, except in my self-driving car" but I would remind you that people said the same thing about security software, infrastructure, etc. and were wrong every time. My believe is cars will get safer and better built faster with them innovating than with the traditional model of annual incremental releases. As a Tesla owner, I can also comment that the car feels no less well built than any other car I've owned.

The Model 3 was designed later than the original S and X, meaning it had a fit-and-finish which S and X lacked, at least until the recent refresh. I see that disparity as an example of Tesla disrupting itself, being willing to launch a lower-priced model which could compete with it's own luxury vehicles.

Since then, the S has been refreshed (including Plaid mode), making it more competitive. They are now in a situation where demand outstrips supply, with extensive delays to get hold of a Model X in particular. To me this signals that demand is now there, but Tesla is actively making the choice to focus on the 3 and Y production volume (which also contributes to the Cyber Truck, Roadster, and Semi all not being available yet).

It's also worth noting that much of JWST is now twenty year old technology. Assuming it isn't a total failure which needs to be salvaged for PR reasons, it will almost certainly make more sense to build a new observatory in ten years rather than rescuing this one. If Starship exists at that point it will also be a much less complex undertaking to get it into space, and it could likely use an even bigger mirror.

Empathy is a powerful thing. We make many little decisions during the work week around if it's ok to take something down, if an engineer's request needs to be handled immediately, etc. I think the goal of the company is to align everyone around empathy for the drivers (I presume you're all already customers), so that you make those decisions in ways which enable engineers to deliver software well.

There is very good data on this. Infection rates are roughly 5x higher, and death rates 13x higher, among the unvaccinated.

We don't really know what happened here, because as far as I can tell the OP didn't actually engage with anyone to understand what was happening. It seems most likely that the company needed to focus more on one project than another for a little while. That is not the same as stalling something intentionally. It's hard for the company to have empathy if the person didn't elect to communicate their thoughts and feelings.

The company made an offer. The person accepted it. Nothing notable about the scope of the work changed (at least as detailed in the blog post). The person wasn't stiffed or otherwise cheated. They just... didn't like a job offer which they themselves accepted.