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zackbloom
·2 years ago·discuss
What you're forgetting is it absolutely would not work when you first put it together. You would then begin a journey of debugging which would teach you a lot more than any YouTube video ever could.
zackbloom
·3 years ago·discuss
I wonder how you got that TLDR. He literally said they hired a bunch of people only because they did Elm.
zackbloom
·3 years ago·discuss
There's a very weird asterisk about it not being considered vegetarian. I would understand it not being vegan with the bun and all, but how did they manage to incorporate meat products into a cauliflower sandwhich?
zackbloom
·3 years ago·discuss
Just to give a little context as a pilot: It is the job of the tower controller to decide who uses the runway when. There are often multiple planes waiting to take off, and multiple planes nearing the airport to land. It's not uncommon for a tower controller to allow a plane to takeoff while another is approaching the runway. The theory is, of course, that the flight will depart in plenty of time.

In this case, the controller failed to tell the departing flight to hurry (the references to 'no delay' or 'immediate' in the blog post), AND frankly timed things pretty close given the weather. Without the ability to actually see the approaching plane, or perhaps even the plane on the ground, it will probably be found that timing a departure that close at all was reckless. That said, I feel for these tower controllers, it's not common for many planes to get stacked up waiting to depart, and it is their job to get them out. What may have worked just fine on a clear-weather day simply became too dangerous on that day.

The official manual for air traffic controllers in the US is the FAA Order JO 7110.65W [1], if anyone cares to review it.

1 - https://www.faa.gov/documentlibrary/media/order/atc.pdf
zackbloom
·3 years ago·discuss
Has anyone actually tried the experiment posed in the article? If I go to Amazon and search 'spatula', I get pretty reasonable results:

- A Kitchenaid spatula for $7.99

- A similar set of two knockoff brand ones for $13.99

- Some editorial recommendations including one from OXO, a wooden option, a fish spatula, etc.

I wonder what weird state the person writing this has on Amazon.com, or maybe it's all hyperbole?
zackbloom
·3 years ago·discuss
Unlike the NOTAM outage, a METAR outage will and should actually affect flights. Without weather at your destination it becomes impossible to know if it’s safe to land there. The forecasts (TAF) are actually used more in flight planning, but actual weather is very valuable while enroute, when not close enough to hear weather over the radio from the destination airport.
zackbloom
·4 years ago·discuss
I would personally recommend trying TFE paste, rather than Teflon tape. Easier to get a seal, less annoying to tighten.
zackbloom
·4 years ago·discuss
I think the title is using the word 'inevitably' where they mean 'eventually' or 'ultimately'. It's not inevitable that people who invest in Bitcoin lose money, for example, they could have changed their mind and sold then next day, making it avoidable. What they mean to say is that most people who invest _end up_ losing money, not that it was unavoidable (the meaning of inevitable).
zackbloom
·10 years ago·discuss
You really think suing two ex-employees is their plan to make money? Most of the money those employees have is the money MagicLeap paid them.