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oh man, I referred back to your blog post when I wrote the ssh certificate authority for $job ... ~10 years ago.

Thank for writing it!

indeed, and this is unironically cited by the "shall not be infringed" crowd as a reason that they should be allowed to bring guns anywhere and everywhere, potentially turning any movie theater disagreement or minor road annoyance (or traffic stop, to bring this back to the police) into a violent life ending incident. to quote jwz out of context, "now you have two problems".

Two companies that aren’t currently being run by people throwing nazi salutes; great choices.

You had me up until “we take full responsibility”. This administration is much more about darvo response when they’re caught doing something wrong.

While true, I believe op was talking about with respect to the protections afforded by the law.

Wouldn’t it be horrible if the United States were a dependable ally?

back when orkut was a thing, google did this one weekend with internal employees. some co-workers participated; unsurprisingly they all said it was _very_ disturbing.

it's not a defense because despite your efforts to antagonize, I don't need to defend myself.

i'm over our little interaction. cheers.

it's not a "defense". i'm saying your reply is weirdly bombastic and generally incoherent.

this reads like an LLM generated argument. it's totally incoherent and has almost nothing to do with what's being discussed.

cheers, friend.

but proceeded to try to lock up Trump for the entire period of 2021-2024.

that's a very strange/partisan way to say that they tried to hold him legally accountable for his actions.

So you are 1/3 right?

if you're trying to assign fractions of correctness (huh?), op said historian and tenured professor. and I suspect the ordering of the list on the site matters. so of the prominent, public things that Ben-Ghiat self-identifies as, commentator is the _least_ important.

In a like vein when Australians say "goodeye" they usually aren't talking about your vision.

They aren’t saying goodeye, they’re saying g’day (good day)

Yes. the answer is yes we want mental health to be covered.

well, the first attempt was reckless because they didn't have enough altitude. the second attempt was with more altitude, ie. "driving with more caution"

fwiw, I tested this out as well by clicking open issue and uploading a file and then not actually submitting the issue. the file is still accessible 2 days later.

so it doesn't appear to be fixed. :-|

i'm not disagreeing with you that going from non-profit to for-profit should be challenged, but doesn't openai still maintain their non-profit? they just added a for-profit "arm" (whatever that means).

it's a sad, they crashed like 30 miles off the coast in very poor weather. if they had managed to turn back ~15 minutes earlier they probably would've been able to land at HAF. the preliminary ntsb report is here: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/G...

if you want to read about the crazy stuff that ferry pilots do, i can recommend kerry mccauley's "ferry pilot: nine lives over the north atlantic". he's got a story in there of ferrying an f35 (the bonanza type) across the atlantic when his extra fuel bladder stops feeding the main tanks so he has to pressurize the system by blowing into the bladder. absolutely bonkers stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt2TGjuwv_s

MON just means that there are a certain number of VORs that aren't going to be decommissioned. it's not a different kind of VOR. and they're decommissioning all of these VORs precisely because GPS is so reliable.

Having ff on an ipad and phone is really not having a “common point of failure”

You do you, but I find relying on a second device (third really, the plane has gps and nav radios) and battery backups much easier than buying a new chart supplement and a bunch of charts every 2 months. Plus I have all the approach plates for every airport …

trying to duplicate the functionality that I get from my setup with paper charts and plates is just practical.

personally I carry a second efb (eg. my phone) and spare power banks rather than try to deal with a mess of paper charts. it's certainly cheaper than trying to keep my sectionals up to date (which, now that I think about it, I don't think I've actually bought since I took my private checkride).

you're absolutely right, charts and plates. it's fun to realize how much aviation terminology comes from boating.

i'm pretty sure "defcon is cancelled" is an _ooooold_ meme

but while you might be able to land an A380 there,

as my old flight instructor used to say, "you can land a plane anywhere, once"

it was less fun having beers on a thursday afternoon for sure, but I at least understood the fact that the company had thousands of non-US employees and TGIF on a friday afternoon for us was TGIM for everyone else.

i'm sure there are. but google's arc, the engineering culture wasn't just dynamic, it was dynamic and (apologies to use an eric schmidt-ism) impactful.

patrick "sorry I missed the last tgif I was running a marathon in paris with my daughter" pichette.

and I don't say that disparagingly. that was endearing.

(i'm probably getting some details of that wrong, it was ... dear lord, a long time ago)

yeah, eric stepped down in 2011 and larry took over as CEO and from the inside it felt fine for a while. but larry definitely got disinterested after a few years and the company felt rudderless by like the end of 2014.

i keep thinking about this google arc. I was there for nearly a decade (at this point i've almost been gone for longer than I was there) and from the outside, the company is almost unrecognizable.

it is definitely not the company that it was pre 2010. from my lowly IC5 (when I left) position, it felt like something happened in 2014 or so that really put the company on a different track. eric had already left and the founders had started stepping back and the people left running the show were, not them. i guess they were able to maximize shareholder value. but it was clearly at the expense of something.

anyway, I dont have anything to say that hasn't been said more eloquently by ben. except, I saw this change too. and it bums me out because I got to see the place before.

why would you expect that?

I've been rejected from a few jobs that I've applied to at this point. honestly, this was the only time I can remember that it was an email, let alone an email from a no-reply address. every other time I've been passed on after interviews, the recruiter at least had the decency to call and tell me over the phone.