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weaksauce··on Outbreak Linked to Morel Mushroom Exposure – Montana, 2023
from my research on morels a few years back when i found some growing in my back yard unexpectedly... all sources seemed to say you need to cook them to neutralize or lower the toxin that may be present in them to safe levels. never ate them thou because the ground wasn’t one i’d consider pristine enough to eat from.
weaksauce··on Mustard
thank you!
weaksauce··on Pilot of Boeing flight says he lost control after instrument failure
I think it's worth reporting on because this particular issue is known to everyone... you need to cycle the power on the planes every 3 days or else the reset themselves. it's crazy that a modern plane needs to have that happen but it does. the most likely situation is that the plane didn't get shutdown and happened to occur at a level flying situation and the pilots probably freaked out and overflew the plane which got it into upset territory. the plane was trimmed and would have been fine if the pilots(likely) didn't do what they did.
weaksauce··on Mustard
sounds delicious... what's the recipe?
weaksauce··on Via ferratas are finally catching on in the United States
that is something that can be reversed if the public doesn’t want it enough.
weaksauce··on German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization
yeah i see ads for 14g all the time and for some reason that stuck in my head as an ounce but 3.5 grams is an eighth of an ounce so 5 is slightly more than that. either way more than 5g is a reasonable amount to have on you if you are going to buy it for a longer timeframe.
weaksauce··on German Bundestag Passes Cannabis Legalization
an ounce is about 14 grams. 5 is slightly more than an eighth. if you don’t live near the dispensary and want some for a month or a few months an eighth is not really that much. i don’t think seeking help is an appropriate response here.
weaksauce··on Mozilla Firefox is below PG&E threshold for support
i have seen websites that actively block you from using them unless you’re on a “supported” browser. it’s kinda nuts
weaksauce··on The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 508: YJIT with Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
rails nowadays is fantastic and is hitting its second wind.
weaksauce··on Waymo recalls software after two self-driving cars hit the same truck
that's one reason crash traffic happens and stays for hours after the original reason for the traffic to happen in the first place is gone. I remember reading that one person applying their brakes too hard can have a knock on effect causing a traffic pattern to emerge for a long time after the initial braking ever occurred.
weaksauce··on I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner
yeah just the motors alone were 471 euros and the controller boards were about 300 euros... this is a spendy project
weaksauce··on FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal
just forward the call to lenny. https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
weaksauce··on Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say
I don't know if i'd ever feel good enough to get in an autonomous car if they were just a bit better than the average driver... the average driver is not great.
weaksauce··on Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say
> damn I would not have been able to react that fast.

i apply my own standard of driving to it: I wouldn't get in that position in the first place.

weaksauce··on Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)
yes it’s that bad. i’ve written some webexts and if you ask for all data it really is all data... otherwise how would it work if you needed to change something on a page? i keep my list to my own bespoke one-off extensions or only the major big names or i audit the code manually.
weaksauce··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
it's crowdsourced so it may not have been removed from the other location. it's possible though that they have the same machine though... you can call them and find out if you're motivated to update it
weaksauce··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
> use LEDs to save on electricity

a lot of places switch because it produces less heat damage as they stay on for long periods of time and make a lot of heat. this can negatively impact longevity of the backglass and plastics

weaksauce··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
there’s an api you can use to get machines near a gps location and then you can look through that for machines that are the same. not a feature of the website proper but something you can do if you know a little scripting
weaksauce··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
it's completely opensource so you could host it yourself and retheme things.
weaksauce··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
because the pinball map serves a purpose that would not fit well in a larger mapping thing. people want to know what pinball machines are nearby them so they can go there and play them. very different in scope than a movie gun/car database. they also don't share the same playerbase that a more general arcade machine app might have; people like pinball and will seek that out in a different way that people who like arcade machines will not do the same.
weaksauce··on Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines
the description usually has that kind of info in there... and it's crowdsourced s you can add that info in if you want to.
weaksauce··on Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse
we don't need shareholder growth capitalism as it stands... we need sustainable capitalism that is in it for the long term. no clue how to achieve that as it stands though and ceos have short term goals/bonuses tied to short term profits.
weaksauce··on Boeing faces new safety alert over earlier generation of 737s
> IMO it is proven that Boeing does not care about your safety, they just asked for an exception for a safety requirement, putting the passanger safety responsibility on pilots training and memory because fixing the issue the proper way would cost time and money and that is more important then safety

That's a rather uncharitable take on what they are asking for which is a temporary reprieve over a pretty minor risk.

> Boeing states it is working on a "long-term solution" for the problem, which would be rolled out across the entire global Boeing 737 MAX fleet. The FAA confirmed this, stating that Boeing is looking at design changes.

weaksauce··on Collision Detection (2015)
real time collision detection is a good book on those fundamentals with real world considerations.
weaksauce··on Modeless Vim
the only time i've seen any bugs is when the neovim version lagged behind what they require in the project. i would work but not well. upgrading neovim fixed it for me.

though, like any project, there are probably bugs at the edges... not sure what bugs you are experiencing however.

weaksauce··on Modeless Vim
If you don't already do it the neovim extension for vscode is nights and days better than the one trying to emulate vim in javascript.
weaksauce··on Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
trucking autonomous driving needs to be parity or better than the average truck driver not the average driver.
weaksauce··on Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware
yeah, that's insane. i used to work in a pretty regulated industry and they would have all the calibrations done by the metrology department and every instrument would be tagged and made sure to be in compliance. you don't need some wrench manufacturer telling you to calibrate.

how does this help some guy in a shop somewhere that doesn't need strict calibration schedules and bought the wrench secondhand or even firsthand?

weaksauce··on Is my plane a 737 MAX?
> And finally: It goes beyond my comprehension that someone would decide to build a version of the voice recorder specifically for the US that only stores 2 hours of voice, while the international version of the same plane stores 25. What kind of cost reduction per unit is that, $1 per airplane? Having two different models to "certify", produce and warehouse just to save a dollar or something per unit does not sound like any sane business decision.

pilots unions strongly fight against this for privacy reasons is why.

weaksauce··on Is my plane a 737 MAX?
i'm not 100% sold on the automation that airbus provides. true that when all the sensors are working well it's fine and probably safer than boeing's methodology. however, when things go south there are something like 5 different layers of degraded "laws" of flight that have different levels of protection and can make what is an already cloudy situation even more stressful and dangerous. coupled with the blended control that each stick has can and has caused disasters before. with boeing the pilot flys the plane and there is less automation outside of the standard autopilot systems found on both methodologies.
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