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You are in good company my friend. Here's my trike:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3SEndDnVXg

Be sure to check out Atomiczombie.com, if you have not already. Definitely THE resource for frankenbike/recumbents. I've built two recumbents. One directly from their plans (the Meridian) and another one of my own design, a trike based on the Meridian. Bike hacking is a lot of fun!

How to MIG weld.

As a young person I had a job at a computer repair shop. I might have been 19 years old. They did a 1 day working interview. I impressed them heavily with 10 repairs in the day, all of them solid and billable. They hired me. I was alarmed when they also hired a guy that blew up a customer's motherboard by plugging in the PSU cables incorrectly (This was the in the mid 90's).

It went downhill from there. I became the target of a lot of bullying and harassment from the alpha jackass, leader of the coked up jackasses that worked there, and eventually he gave me a degrading nickname that implied that everything I touched broke.

I was constantly stressed out, felt like the worst employee in the world (at that age I didn't know I was the victim at this point) and this self-fulfilling prophecy just made things worse. Suddenly I'd become bad at my job. I couldn't fix 5 computers a day, and they often came back with problems.

Was this issue me? No. the issue was a highly toxic workplace where I was berated for my successes ("Oh look, he fixed one, must be a F****n miracle") and expected to fail.

I'd have quit, but I needed the work. The manager, a lowlife cokehead and strip club aficionado, mercy fired me 2 months in. He saw the problem but didn't care to fix it. Of course, I was better off. They were a crooked shop to begin with and my reputation was at risk for having worked there even 2 months.

Many years later I am a well respected manager who never treats employees like this. I am well aware that if my employee is failing me, then in some way I am failing them. I work on the relationship with the employee as much as I work on the issue. I encourage their successes, help them work through any issues, and show confidence in them until they start showing confidence in themselves.

I can honestly say this approach has worked wonders, and I've seen huge HUGE turnarounds in employees who thought they could never make it. Now they're rock stars.

Ya think? It's a test flight to make sure that the aircraft can take off, fly, and land. I doubt they even retracted the landing gear.

Flight testing will slowly and very methodically expand the flight envelope until it meets or fails its design objectives.

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My first thought was "This sounds vaguely like the music on the radio in Portal. Does a future SpaceX become Aperture Science? Is Elon Musk the progeny of Cave Johnson?"

The 737 Max debacle claims another victim without so much as a rough landing. Very very sad.

In the very, very early 1990's, I was on Prodigy, then later AOL. We were teens with lots of free time and being completely obsessed with Flight Simulator and aviation in general. One kid, Geoff, decided it would be fun to start a make believe airline. So, he was the "CEO" or whatever, and as I had extensive experiencing fiddling with aircraft "designs" in flight sim, I became the official aircraft designer. I think there were 3 or 4 of us, on the entire online community, doing this stuff at the time.

It quickly spread and got gained members, and eventually split into two over the usual online quibbles.

I am still amazed at the online virtual airline community and what's grown around it such as vatsim. It's one of the few things that I can say "I was there at the beginning!", and I'm super proud of it.

I managed to get to use it before it was hugged to death, and found some great nearby concerts and events to go to. Immediate feedback:

  - ESC closes the current window you just clicked to open
  - Different color icons for music/events
  - Filter by music/events
  - Filter by upcoming date (next 30,90,6mo etc)

I forgot to add- I love it! Great concept. I hope it takes off for you.

That looks a lot like several levels of the first Portal. That conveyor system didn't run on GladOS, did it?

Indeed. It's very, very sad.

My best friend's mom recently passed. She had Stage 4 breast cancer and somehow survived for a decade in that condition. My friend's dad has always been "out there" in a sense, but now has full on dementia.

While cleaning out their old office, we came across Apple Pay gift cards, all with their code revealed, stored in an envelope. $2500 worth, from people with very little to begin with.

His Dad, with his dementia, had no idea what it was about, and his Mom is gone. We can only conclude that they were scammed. His Mom was a very sharp woman, but somehow it still happened. Very sad indeed.

Still being investigated apparently. From what's known, they haven't been labeled as RCE's at least.

Wow. Slashdot. Haven't seen that on HN in.... a long time, maybe never? I was a dedicated Slashdot user back in the day. I miss what it used to be.

Greetings from another web hosting junkie! 25 years in the business this year.

I edited my comment to lead with that, because that's the main point. Thanks for helping me see that.

It tells me that the involved driver doesn't know how to get the most out of the Cybertruck... probably. A Subaru of any size is a much lighter vehicle that's going to handle completely differently. Getting out of that and into a Cybertruck would be like getting out of a Corolla and into a Suburban. Just completely different vehicles.

That being said, Subaru is renowned for being a highly capable off-roading car. Cybertruck is highly renowned for nothing so far :D

I'd venture to say that this locker function being delayed is a good thing. It'll force people to learn how to drive their truck off-road instead of hitting the Locker button, getting themselves stuck even worse, and then blaming Tesla.

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WiFi is not only reasonable but preferable. Because if a cat5 cable is going to be ran, it'll be done by an electrician. And when they get to the end of a spool, they will break out the wire nuts and splice away. I've seen it first hand.

Not even electricians can screw up WiFi :D

This is a fantastic, simple explanation of subnetting and CIDR notation. Well done.

Indeed, his involvement could have been fabricated after his death, and he'd be unable to defend himself.

And the one time I actually followed my gut and got a new job, I let my boss convince me to stay on (I really loved the company) and then he sold it shortly after to some jackasses that ruined it. And then when I did leave, I left without a good plan and ended up in a family owned company whose infighting left everyone wondering if they'd have a job the next day. Pure hell.

- Investors are priority over customers

- Getting stonewalled at every opportunity to be heard

- Drastic change in ownership with nonsensical goals

- Family ran company with lots of family infighting and drama

- An office full of cokeheads

Some of my personal faves.

Lloyd Christmas and Mary Swanson.

These vinyl stickers are an elegant hack. Vinyl is cheap and easily replaceable, in fact it might just be easier to put another sticker over them in the future.

In the last year, I've gone from

1x portrait 24" next to 2x landscape 24"'s on top of each other, all 1080p

Then switched to

1x 35" UWQHD 3440x1440 curved and 1x 24" 1080p monitor

Then was gifted the Mother Of All Monitors.

43" 3840x2160. The only thing it misses is a slight curve. Still, it's incredible.

The 43" 4K monitor is essentially an endless combination of portrait and landscape monitors. Window size/shape no longer matters.

Try it. You'll like it.

The lesson I took from this is that just because nobody else seems to be working on the problem, and just because some people think it isn't a problem, doesn't mean that it isn't a problem worth solving. When an idea is sufficiently advanced, it can often look impossible. The trick is to make it possible, and then make it available. He struck gold in that regard, both in lives saved and in monetary compensation.

When I was 11 or 12 years old I was simply obsessed with yoyos. And Tommy Smothers had his yoyo act, and I was just enthralled. Here was this fully grown adult (this was in the late 80's) doing things with a yoyo that I wanted so badly to do. I always thought him to be the funniest, nicest guy, just based on his act. When I read that he passed, I wept. So long, Tommy.

My first use of Synergy was in the mid 2000's, using the same KB/Mouse on a Windows XP machine with a Debian desktop box next to it. Worked fabulously for a long time.

Check out the WSPR beacon and other kits at https://qrp-labs.com, great stuff for the radio amateur. I have built most of their kits, and the owner is a fantastic fellow.