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$13800 transferable membership and $220/mo.

It's certainly possible to maintain GA aircraft to a high standard and not break the bank. For example, a flying club I'm in has Cessna 172s for $116/hr wet with no-compromises maintenance.

It is in Messace Center post MC1381210, published June 5.

This paragraph on organizational model is super relevant to understanding how tech companies are responding to LLMs today.

Aoki’s key insight was that the J-mode had a comparative advantage in environments of moderate volatility: situations where conditions changed frequently enough that rigid central plans would be outdated before they were executed, but not so radically that only top-down strategic intervention could cope. In an environment of stable, predictable demand, the H-firm did fine; in an environment of extreme disruption, where the whole product line had to be rethought, centralized authority was indispensable, and the H-firm also did fine. But in between—where the challenge was to make constant small adjustments in a changing but recognizable paradigm—the J-firm excelled.

See for example https://aakashgupta.medium.com/microsofts-ceo-just-became-a-... or https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-12/zucker...

~30 years ago (in 2002), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was adopted. In the wake of scandals like Enron and WorldCom, it imposed a bunch of new rules that make being a public company more expensive. At the margin, that would impact the count of public companies.

It's also much easier to raise money for private startups. Back in the day there was a point at which you _had_ to go public in order to finance your business. Now you can have raises like the recent $122 billion OpenAI raise. https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai/

"You're wrong" is a criticism of the speaker, "that's incorrect" is a criticism of the content. Two different things.

And https://word.cloud.microsoft/

Reading all of the crabby comments about pothole repair make me feel great about my city in MN. Leave voice mail about pothole on my way to work in morning, pothole filled when I return home in the afternoon.

And I'm sure they'll never forget to connect an AI feature to it.

A school photography company I worked for used a custom Kodak stock. They were unsatisfied with how Kodak's standard portrait film handled darker skin tones.

They were super careful to maintain the look across the transition from film to digital capture. Families display multiple years of school photos next to each other and they wanted a consistent look.

I'm guessing you don't live in a rural area in the US.

No big company would bother with an acquisition if the top result is 0.05% increase in revenue.

At one job, we had a garish chicken hat that lived in your office if you were the last one to break the build.

This was in the days before automated CI, so a broken commit meant that someone wasn't running the required tests.

Bad for your power bill though.

Bought my IBM PC from Sears back in the day. Still have the receipt.

Here are the results I just got.

1. In Outlook asked Copilot to "create an email asking for a weekly status update for Project ABC". Iterating a bit, I asked it to be more casual and shorter. Here's what I got:

  Hey Team,

  Hope you're all doing great. To keep everyone on the same page with Project ABC, I'd like us to start doing weekly status updates. Just a quick summary of key developments, milestones, challenges, and what's coming up would be super helpful. This way, we can coordinate better and tackle any issues right away.

  Thanks for your cooperation and hard work. Looking forward to your updates!

2. I provided Copilot with this prompt:

"I am upgrading the electrical service at my house from 100a to 200a service. Create a project plan in Planner for this project."

Here's the response I got:

  Nice! Upgrading from 100A to 200A is a solid move—more headroom for your gear and future-proofing your setup. Here's a breakdown of how you could structure this as a project in Microsoft Planner, with buckets and tasks to keep it organized:

  ---

  ### **Bucket 1: Planning & Permitting**
  - **Assess current electrical load and future needs**
  - **Consult with a licensed electrician**
  - **Request utility service requirements**
  - **Obtain local permits for electrical service upgrade**
  - **Review NEC and local code requirements**

  ---

  ### **Bucket 2: Materials & Scheduling**
  - **Select upgraded panel (200A rated) and breakers**
  - **Order required materials (panel, feeder wires, conduit, ground rods, etc.)**
  - **Coordinate shutdown and install time with utility provider**
  - **Schedule rough-in inspection with local authority**

  ---

  ### **Bucket 3: Installation**
  - **Shut off power at the main disconnect (coordinate with utility)**
  - **Remove existing 100A panel and components**
  - **Install 200A panel and connect feeders**
  - **Upgrade grounding/bonding system as required**
  - **Replace meter socket if required**

  ---

  ### **Bucket 4: Inspections & Finalization**
  - **Schedule and pass electrical inspection**
  - **Have utility restore permanent power**
  - **Label circuits clearly in new panel**
  - **Update homeowner insurance with new electrical capacity**

  ---

  ### **Bucket 5: Post-Project Wrap-Up**
  - **Document panel layout and upgrades**
  - **Evaluate energy use and plan for future expansion (EV charger, generator, etc.)**
  - **Close out permits with inspection authority**

  ---

  You can assign these tasks to yourself or any contractors involved, and add due dates to align with your timelines. Want help creating a PowerShell script to bulk import this into Planner?

3. I provided Copilot with this prompt:

  book a meeting with <name> for August 1 entitled "Test Meeting"

  I can't directly book meetings or access your calendar, but I can help you set it up! Here's an example of what to enter in Outlook or your preferred calendar app:

  **Title:** Test Meeting  
  **Date:** August 1  
  **Attendees:** Bryan Herbst  
  **Time:** [Insert your preferred time]  
  **Location:** [Optional]  
  **Description:** [Add any notes or agenda items]

  If you're using PowerShell or a script to automate calendar events—especially within Microsoft 365—I can help you write that too. Want to go that route?

I pasted your prompt:

  ffmpeg command to convert movie.mov into a reasonably sized mp4

  ffmpeg -i movie.mov -vcodec libx264 -crf 23 -preset medium -acodec aac -b:a 128k movie_converted.mp4

  Here’s the breakdown:
  - -vcodec libx264: Uses the H.264 video codec, great for compression and compatibility.
  - -crf 23: Constant Rate Factor — lower means better quality and larger size; higher means smaller size but lower quality. 23 is a nice middle ground.
  - -preset medium: Controls encoding speed vs. compression efficiency. You can try slow or faster depending on your needs.
  - -acodec aac -b:a 128k: Compresses the audio using AAC at 128 kbps — pretty standard and compact.
  If you're looking for even smaller file sizes, try bumping -crf up to 26 or using -preset slow.
  Want to bake in scaling, remove metadata, or trim the video too? Happy to tailor the command further.

Lane splitting coming to Minnesota. https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/ots/safe-driving-information-an...

Go mentor a high school robotics team, or volunteer to help run events. It's 100% sports, minus the athletic dimension. I see tons of lifetime friendships being made.

In the original, if either the stock transfer books of the Company _or_ the book entry system of the warrant agent are closed, the person becomes a holder on the next date when either are open.

In your rewrite, if both the stock transfer books and the book entry system of the warrant agent are closed, the person becomes a holder on the next day when both are open.

If you search for the language of the original, you'll find a bunch of examples of the exact same language. I'm with the others that this is well-litigated language that no one wants to change. https://www.bing.com/search?pglt=161&q=Each+person+in+whose+....

It's really not hard at all. It probably took 5 minutes to install, with most of the time futzing with the power cable routing so that it looked decent and didn't rub on sharp corners of the opener bracket.

MS engineer with 45 years industry experience begs to disagree.

The Levi's from the online store last a lot longer than the department store ones.

I've been very explicit with my manager about not wanting to be promoted. There's nothing wrong with saying "this is enough."

Also--your decision is a "for now" decision, not a "forever" decision.

I hated those slide d connectors. It was very common to have mechanical stress on the connector and just mixing the machine a bit would often cause it to disconnect.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL is a good picture of that.

While it's true that the increase in interest rates is having some effect at the margins, a fundamental problem with the OP's thesis is that there's no _reduction_ in interest rates that creates the peak in 2022. That makes it hard for me to believe that interest rates are the only cause here.

Another, more correlated hypothesis for what caused the 2022 peak is that it's related to a combination of pandemic economic stimulus and pandemic-related changes in demand for software engineers.

That's just the ethics training, depending on your role there's much more than that.

One factor is your distance from the nearest weather radar, and nearest airport with automated weather observation. This sort of prediction is heavily dependent on whether the precip is detected by sensing.

I've seen similar things in our area (Minnesota) where you drive through a snowstorm, but the radar shows nothing in theare.

Sell the bill? Market is very liquid.