funnyflywheel

I find that having Brendan Eich back in charge of Mozilla would be very unlikely for two reasons:

- He’s already built a modestly successful competitor in Brave, so there might not be much incentive for him to jump ship. - It’s possible that bringing him back may risk the ire of the LGBTQ+ community. (His comments against same-sex marriage led to his resignation as CEO of Mozilla back in 2014.)

However, this is just my speculation.

https://xkcd.com/927 comes to mind.

To expand on your point, the United States Railroad Association only lasted for a little over two years until the Esch-Cummins Act was passed in 1920. Later, Conrail was under federal control for about a decade before it was sold to private investors in 1987, but it had a more regional focus.

The first thing that came to mind was "switch to Firefox". Other than that, I have nothing to recommend.

Louis DeJoy is still in charge.

Thanks for the reminder that Heinz (Henry) Kissinger is still alive at age 100.

Apparently, the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (the board that regulates other engineering fields in the USA, such as civil engineering) used to offer a Professional Engineer (PE) exam for software engineering, but it was dropped in 2019 due to lack of participation and bad prospects for increased participation.

https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...

I took a look at the git blame, and the commit title is perfect.

https://github.com/gco/xee/commit/750196023da5457d9535b30299...

I did some more reading, and it turns out I confused QNH with QFE.

This only holds true if you’re flying at or above the transition altitude. The transition altitude depends on where you’re flying: for example, in the USA and Canada it’s 18_000 feet MSL.