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Yes, the helo pilot accepted responsibility for tracking the 'CRJ' traffic via the visual separation callout, but unfortunately identifying AA 5342 in this way is not a clear or unique way to do so. They are a common plane type and come in several sizes/configurations.

That last second call from ATC should have been more than a confirmation that they had the traffic in sight. They were less than 1000ft apart in that moment. It should have been to tell them that the Collision Avoidance ('CA') system was alerting and that they had to "pull up". Even if 'pull up' was all that was said, it would have been better than asking for a confirmation of visual separation.

Not a mention of 'COVID' anywhere on this page (thank you Ctrl+F). Surely, it had a role in how we got here, at least inflation-wise?

Has it slipped so easily from the face of History? Let's just hope its not a new pandemic that provides that final false-flag style push into fascism, as an excuse for suspending democracy. Those Republicans who will say one final time that we aren't a democracy ("we're a republic!") will be sorry for the seeds they have sown.

So, you're saying you can recall a 2 week period in executive branch history that could hold a candle to what we've just witnessed? This idea of just keeping track of it all is real.

I marvel at the project management task that Trump & crew are maintaining in this flood-the-zone period, just to prevent duplication of effort and running into each other. There's already been a lot done to the DoJ, but its just started at the FBI.

Follow the firings -- and just hope you can keep up with who they're being replaced with. That's the real encroachment. We could be on the edge of real abuse when our law enforcement agencies fall under fascist control like this.

Exactly. Those ads were highly effective because they prey upon people's prejudices -- unfortunately the more inhumane ones. The human mind is primarily a pattern-finder and prejudices are hard to unlearn once you learn them.

You know how many male latinos swung over to Trump the moment they saw that ad the 4th time? There was no escape from that. You can replay Jan 6th & 'they're eating the dogs' 10 times and it won't matter.

Harris wasn't the most natural candidate perhaps and couldn't compare to a past president (and Apprentice show media celebrity) in terms of familiarity to voters, but what alternative candidate would you propose in her place?

Honestly, yes the defeat in retrospect was to be expected (to everyone but the pollsters maybe?) but Harris was no lightweight and it was reasonable to expect she could compete with a damaged (hey, the U.S. now has a felon president!) opponent who she defeated at the first & only debate. Had the election been held in August she'd probably have won, but give those trans-phobic tv ads time to sink in and male latinos would rather vote for the felon-man who had the presidential experience, and find a way to make his eggs a bit cheaper, along with the rest of inflation. Supposedly.

Harris was up against a lot of negativity and she wasn't well defined enough to find defense against it all. Trump, on the other hand, actively provided a defense against all the cases against him -- since fighting is all he has really. Even if he was losing and the defenses flawed -- even convicts in prison find women to wed them. Those prison brides share much of what we see in (some of the less practical) Trump voters.

Outdated, but still useful in ways.

I loved the idea around the 10Gb NICs but wondered what model switch are you connecting to? And what throughput is this topology delivering?

Hence, the birth of the dreaded 'technical debt'.

I suppose we have to assume that it wasn't Brin's idea to launch the Chrome browser 3 years later.

Yes the City of London has a population of around 10,000 but employs nearly 1 million by some estimates since the legal and financial capitals exist within it.

Since Postgres 12, there's been support for “Pluggable Storage” where you could even define different storage engines for tables individually. Think of the Oriole extension which bought by Supabase in April 2024.

I realize you've long since moved on, but this type of story is the type of thing that well-received Medium articles are based on. Given the way you've described it, I know I'd be interested to read about this & I don't even do much Excel work in Python. Please consider it.

How is it not a patent violation for compounding pharmacies to manufacture these drugs, even if they're in short supply? I don't think the article dealt with that issue clearly. Maybe they didn't reproduce the patented molecule exactly perhaps?

I think you're going to have connect a lot more dots than that to prove that type of conspiracy. These awards are heralded year after year because of their reliability in giving people what they expect out of an award, whether they're forward looking (for predicting future success) or more backward-looking. There is some flexibility in how people judge deservedness for them.

You can at least concede that when it comes to Toni Morrison, its not like she only won a couple of isolated awards. She won a long string of them, and is one of the most decorated American writers of the last 80 years. One of her books, Beloved, was made into a movie by Oprah. There are plans to make a second book (Sula) into a movie or series as well.

Could you say why you find using memory-mapped files to be a portability issue? Thanks.

I don't think it's feasible to ask that your children find resiliency on their own in isolation. Surviving in that new reality will have to be on some national level at least. It will require resources to offset the harm done by these conditions.

Even American conservatives, for example, appear to acknowledge that climate change is occurring. Their current spin is that no major economic changes are required now (inaction is fine!) because they believe that technology will find a way to address an even warming globe. I think a lot of people choose to believe that to avoid doomerism.

I missed that, thanks.

I tried your strace commands on my linux desktop and I don't get anything like your results. I get a few lines of 'read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1...' type stuff. Are you using bash (as I am) or some other shell? Could there be some escaping that I'm missing? Thanks.

I feel like your grizzlybulls.com site is quite nice & loads very quickly for being under the load of HN visitors. The idea of democratizing algo trading for the masses is appealing, but there is that trust factor even for mere trading signals, let alone automated trading. You may have to provide more rationale on your site for what (and which) algos can do for the everyday trader.

I think I'd give consideration to changing the name since I'm not sure the name speaks directly enough to the idea of algo trading. I'd work on finding a better one.

Your book looks interesting & I'll have to consider buying it. Good luck to you.

You're offended. Now, refute the characterization with cogent, rational arguments. Leaving off your own arguments and simply stating that you're affronted doesn't serve much of a point.

I think you're spot-on here. He has (also) casually left unchallenged all the haughty & exaggerated stories of his personal record, be they about the degrees he does/doesn't hold or the businesses he did/didn't found.

I suppose he gets all the credit for being authentic due to his telling the public not to buy TLSA shares, and the way he tries to work the number 420 into share purchase prices? Its all just theatrics, just as how he (and was photographed as he) carried a sink into the lobby of Twitter last year on the day he bought it. You'd think a heavily-burdened business leader would have things of greater import on his mind than cheap imagery.

You're kinda burying the lede here... Was this woman resuscitated by your efforts and do you know how long she survived afterwards?

Having confidence about engineering ourselves out of our mistakes is, after all, the conservative rationale for ignoring Climate Change. They're certain that out of the sky will fall the technology for combating the runaway warming of the earth and it all happen just in time (mind you) before any major harm is visited on the earth's populations.

The actions from the Right that are more directly disingenuous are where they try to deny scientific conclusions and the damage already done. They'll post on twitter (implicit denials of sea level rise by) showing 150 year old pictures of seaside landmarks beside today's version with similar sea levels. Yet where are are counter-arguments for why the arctic sea ice/ice shelf is in such worse shape than it was just 30 years ago?

Yes, this one is miles better in video (and even audio) quality. This is the one you want. You can actually recognize Jobs and some of his NEXT staffers, too.

I stand corrected. I got confused between 'nameplate capacity' & 'capacity factor'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nameplate_capacity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor

One year's worth of power generation.

And yet today's article from the NYTIMES[0] shows that the Federal Reserve was aware for more than a year that SVB was using the wrong model for risk. Despite giving the bank several warnings, they did not fix its 'vulnerabilities'.

This news just came out today, so perhaps the WFH rationale wouldn't have been given press had this been known?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/19/business/economy/fed-sili...

What if I told you that Patrick Bateman was the protagonist in American Psycho (2000).

@hcm: Would have loved to see the 'after' flamegraph just for comparison purposes! I'm still trying to get used to groking flamegraphs when optimizing. They're a somewhat new tool, IMO.

I too have had dreams of leaving tech for those fields, esp. financial planning but they're both sales-oriented & have high wash-out factors.

Going for CFP certification in financial planning could improve one's chances, but the training will take some time & isn't free.

There's a lot of demand for good financial planners, but not sure about real estate sales now that interest rates are on the rise.