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It certainly makes sense as a proxy for competence across a diverse population for insurance purposes. You have a baseline of hard braking events that a competent driver may encounter under normal circumstances. If a driver routinely exceeds that number, they are either unable to correctly estimate closing distance and reaction times, which makes them higher risk for causing accidents, or they are driving abnormally aggressively, which also makes them a higher risk for causing accidents. If you consistently put yourself in situations where hard braking is required, it doesn't matter what your skill is, you've reduced your safety margins and an accident is statistically more probable. You said it correctly with "would've been safer to start building a distance buffer", that is the proxy the insurance companies want to use for risk assessment.

35 years without an accident on my record isn't because I'm a magnificent driver, it's because I always try to leave a way out for when something unexpected happens, because the unexpected _does_ happen.

The fact that some people may have the skill to drive more aggressively means nothing in the aggregate as far as insurance companies are concerned. If you are skilled enough to drive in that manner, you are skilled enough to avoid it as well. It's simply statistics.

The claims sound somewhat exaggerated, 5kw of subwoofer is nothing in live music venues, though they purposely don’t go as low. Here’s some more modern “big” subs, which are larger and can radiate significantly more power

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It didn't, do what? I would consider the first 256 integers to be "small integers" ;)

> Converting a small integer value into an interface value no longer causes allocation

I forgot that it can also be used for single byte strings, That's not an optimization I ever encountered being useful, but it's there!

go1.15 re-added small integer packing into interfaces: https://go.dev/doc/go1.15#runtime

The only source that will respond Ford invented the car is a person who has no idea and is simply guessing the first name comes to mind. It can't really even be contested since Benz's and Ford's inventions are decades apart.

yeah, "middle of winter" wasn't quite right, but the chances of a microburst during what is an otherwise already windy/gusty winter day are basically none

I doubt there was a thunderstorm in the area in the middle of the winter

Composite fiberglass materials aren't flexible because of their composite structure, the layers and resin are there to increase strength and stiffness of an otherwise extremely pliable material. Think about fiberglass cloth or pink fiberglass insulation, glass strands get very flexible as the diameter decreases.

Even if an approach uses DME, depending on the aircraft or company operating procedures they still may not be using DME, because GPS is a valid substitute for DME in an approach and more convenient if you’re already otherwise using GPS RNAV.

In fact it’s quite common to shoot approaches that have DME specified fixes in an aircraft that doesn’t even have a DME transceiver.

The FAA only knows when you last took the BasicMed quiz and attested that you will follow the rules. Getting a physical, storing the form signed by the doctor, and maintaining a valid drivers license are up to the individual.

Cork has always been used is lots of shoe footbeds, Birkenstock just makes it visible.

_maybe_ it makes a difference within the first few hours of training, but once one is able to land consistently the difference is negligible. The minor differences between different planes in general is far more noticeable than just high vs low (and "in general" most small planes land very similarly anyway)

The big reason for high wing bush planes is for ground clearance, and to avoid damage from debris kicked up by the wheels.

Direct damage from combat sports can catch up to you eventually. CTE is pretty serious, but unfortunately you probably don't realize the extent of that damage until it's far too late.

This is kind of patronizing to the pilots. There’s nothing particularly difficult about what they did, which has been practiced many times. They ran their checklists, and then landed the plane, and they did it well, just like any other qualified pilot should have. People need to stop conflating basic competence with heroics.

Age is always a factor in mechanical failure, but I’m sure this failure will be inspected in detail to try and avoid it again in the future

Maybe? Anecdotal I guess, but I've met more plumbers with chronic knee and back problems than software engineers. But being a plumber in the US isn't too physically demanding, and makes OK money, so it's probably the example of disparity the GP was trying to highlight.

You will be surprised how much good software engineers make in the USA -- still many multiples of most successful plumbers, and without the long-term physical consequences of that type of labor. Yes, there's still going to be better examples to highlight the disparity.

You literally described diffuse reflection, which is "white paint"

This is what most people miss. Yes the FAA is slow, certification is costly, and liability messed things up in the 80s -- but you can't get the huge cost reductions we see in the automotive sector without mass-production. Aircraft are essentially hand-made in a labor intensive processes, using individually crafted components.

It's not hard to see what certification costs, take an EAB kit, use all non-certified avionics, and even take an automotive engine and convert it for aircraft use if you want. If you spec that out equivalently* to a certified aircraft, taking labor costs into account (you don't get to count the 1500 hours in your garage as free), it's less than comparable certified aircraft, but not orders of magnitude less.

(By equivalent, I mean safety and redundancy -- ifr capable. Not talking about making my own AP with cheap servos and a raspberrypi and navigating with a handheld gps)

Yes! I should check on that, see if they at least have a number for me yet.

LODA requirement is gone now btw

No one pays bravo landing fees just to get their commercial cert. You can get all your certs just fine without going to an airport that large.

The engines don’t require lead, it was just the only high octane fuel available. We do have a 100LL replacement now, and work is being done to get it into service. Lower compression engines run just fine on mogas where it’s available too.

You’ll be waiting longer than that for a Sling HW. It was nearly a 3 year waiting list when I ordered one last summer.

I think their point is that apple seeds don’t grow true to their parent, so every single sprout from a seed is essentially a new variety, and they are continually created and lost -- the genetic line is not extinct, these are all the same plant. Capturing a large collection of palatable apples is fun, but framing this as some sort of historical preservation is kind of tenuous.

Go's crypto libraries are all native, and a good example of why corporate backing is very useful. It's unlikely that you would get someone like agl to develop such excellent cryptography libraries in the first place without being sponsored to do so. Yes, there are some talented developers who will donate their skills, but I would wager that the majority of the most experienced developers are going to be busy with work, and large contributions are only going to happen as part of that work.

High performing employees are not always fungible. You risk are losing significant expertise and institutional knowledge.

You can absolutely make an impact multiple times within a year, but the odds of those "impacts" being a net positive without ever having maintained the results is not good.

If I'm hiring for a senior or better role, I want you to be able to make meaningful, sustainable changes in large and complex systems. It can take the better part of a year to even fully understand many complex systems, so it's unlikely you ever experienced the full long term affects of your changes.

Unfortunately these altimeters are part of a very large critical infrastructure, which can't be ignored. Just saying they shouldn't be working that way doesn't negate the fact that they are working that way. Part of engineering is taking the real world into account, even if the real world is inconvenient for you.

It doesn't matter how easy the new certification process is, or how the technical specification said it _should_ have worked; this was existing technology that was otherwise working. You can't come in and step on existing infrastructure, then declare ex post facto that it should have gotten out of the way before you got there.

The planes were in spec at their time of production, and in working condition before the 5g rollout. Imagine carriers installing some new technology near highways which causes cars with a device installed before 1999 to occasionally crash. You can't just say "too bad, those owners should have upgraded by now".

Regardless of what the specifications say, you can't rollout new technology without taking the real world parameters into account, and these were well-known parameters before anything rolled out.