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plegresl
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million

A quarter-century ago, the university was looking to expand. It considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not forget it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/nyregion/trump-columbia-u...
plegresl
·w zeszłym roku·discuss
The ones in museums supposedly had their internal wing structure cut to prevent them from every flying again:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211113195112/https://theaviati...

but that part of the post has been removed from the updated version on the original website. The post now just says that one of the main points was identified as incorrect information. So the actual airworthiness of the ones in museums seems unclear. You can find a list of where they are on display here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14_Tomcat#Aircraft_o...
plegresl
·2 lata temu·discuss
Why? Google also partners with Broadcom for TPU.
plegresl
·2 lata temu·discuss
See also Rigetti Computing
plegresl
·2 lata temu·discuss
Dell is half the racks, the other half are SuperMicro:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1803429159005241780
plegresl
·2 lata temu·discuss
>They also say they will take liability provided you haven’t misused the system or failed to properly maintain the car.

There's debate about this:

http://safeautonomy.blogspot.com/2023/09/no-mercedes-benz-wi...
plegresl
·2 lata temu·discuss
And the key blanks are from Ace Hardware!
plegresl
·3 lata temu·discuss
Fuselage assembled by Spirt AeroSystems in Wichita, KS with final assembly by Boeing in the Seattle area
plegresl
·3 lata temu·discuss
Reminds me of the classic paper "The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations": https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202
plegresl
·3 lata temu·discuss
Any suggestions on brand names, websites, etc. for these Japanese tools?
plegresl
·3 lata temu·discuss
Overweight landings are a thing and it's very, very rare for the airplane to break apart or even be damaged when performing them: https://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_...
plegresl
·3 lata temu·discuss
Falcon 9 uses a factory of safety of 1.4: https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/164283main_2nd_exp_conf_24_Commerci...
plegresl
·3 lata temu·discuss
https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665752607233826817

"Washington Court House is a town of 15k (not an actual courthouse)."