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Key financial results for Gamestop from the recent fiscal year (2025–2026) include:

    Net Income: $418.4 million
    Gross Profit: $1.196 billion
    Total Revenue: $3.63 billion
    Operating Income: $285.9 million

I think altium has taken over as the top tier commercial offering in this space.

I always disliked Orcad. Especially because cadence had excellent software that predated OrCAD, and for reasons that I cannot fathom chose to promote OrCAD after they acquired it instead of the better software.

Here's a specific example in the interface. If you wanted to draw a wire, the keyboard shortcut of the old software was 'w' but orcad required you to type 'ctrl + w'. Why are you forcing me to use control when w doesn't do anything on its own? It was filled with similar tiny annoyances that just slowed things down. (Admittedly, it's been years since that was my primary work, and free stuff is good enough for what I do now.) I sincerely hope that orcad has continued to improve over the years.

There are tons of free sim tools. 'Spice' (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) was a very early commercial sim. So many of the free ones use some variant of spice in their name. LTSpice, Qspice, etc.

Kicad is an excellent free schematic capture and simulation software.

The author posted this project on reddit a few days ago where they mentioned their motivation: "I have a coworker who is constantly talking about the glory days of ShadyUrl, but that website has been down for several years at this point, so I figured I would create an alternative."

The existing electric planes are designed to be trainers. They are primarily for takeoff and landing and flying in the pattern at an airport. Less than 1-hour endurance, and useful load that can barely accommodate two people.

I grew up believing many of the myths that this article addresses. So I'm hesitant to believe it entirely without verifying additional sources. In particular, this quote seems misleading:

the U.S. Forest Service reports that kudzu occupies, to some degree, about 227,000 acres of forestland

I quickly verified this statistic. But I know that "forestland" is a specific category of land. What about non-forestland? How many acres of kudzu are there on land that is not considered forestland?

experts estimate that kudzu covers another 500,000 acres in the South’s cities and suburbs

I found this statistic about 500,000 acres quoted in several places, but didn't find which experts came up with that number. Still, it was very quick to find double the acreage in one specific type of non-forestland.

That doesn't even begin to touch non-forestland countryside (i.e. non-city, non-suburb)

The US Forest Service estimates that kudzu adds 2,500 acres each year. US Department of Agriculture estimates that it spreads by 150,000 acres per year. I don't think this is a discrepancy, just that each agency is looking at specific land types and uses.

It seems like this article is seriously cherry picking data to make it seem like kudzu is less of an issue.

Kudzu does grow up and over live trees and kills them. It will also grow over abandoned buildings, or nearly anything really.

Have you engaged with the FAA yet? Even if you're going the experimental route, it's useful to have an active and ongoing dialog with them. And they are tremendously more receptive to working with companies on new technologies than they were 10 years ago. It's a different regulatory environment than you would have been dealing with at SpaceX.

It's also worth noting that if you own above a certain percentage of a company's stock, it's legally required to make your trades public.

Also interesting -- look at the trade volume during the big moves, like 3-June. There's no way retail investors are causing that much volume, especially when it's during pre-market and post-market trading hours.

I guess I'll be pedantic for a moment. A coup, by definition, is a seizure of power from government. If they are not successful at seizing power, then it was not a coup.

There is a long list of entirely preventable human-caused accidents. Is there a reason pilot-caused crashes are less scary for you? Computer caused accidents will be fixed and won't happen again. Human-caused accidents will keep happening as long as experience is valuable.

    Aeroflot Flight 593 - pilot let his son fly the plane, 63 dead
    Germanwings Flight 9525 - (possibly suicidal) pilot deliberately crashed , 144 dead
    Air France Flight 447 - pilot caused airplane to stall, 228 dead
    Aero Flight 311 - both pilots got drunk, 25 dead

If you ever take commercial flights you are already being flown by autopilot, and have been for decades. It might give you comfort that there is a human pilot in the cockpit for backup, but it's only a matter of time before the human backup moves to a ground station.

Merriam Webster dictionary says, "insect, noun, any of numerous small invertebrate animals (such as spiders or centipedes) that are more or less obviously segmented —not used technically"

I couldn't help but wonder if Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) was chosen intentionally as a fake source. WHOI can be pronounced "hooey", which is slang for a fake assertion.

If compliance were the goal, then I would be inclined to agree with you. However, this lawyer is suing first without any notification first that the shop is non-compliant. That's what makes it come across as predatory.

To be fair, "sudden loss of steering" is different than "sudden loss of power-assisted steering".

In some different articles I read, the change from 0.6 to 2.5 came after flight testing of the aircraft when it became apparent that the MCAS system needed greater authority to function properly. That part of it was totally normal. The major error, however, was that the documentation was not updated following the changes. That created a situation where some people were looking at documentation that no longer reflected the true system.

Alternate Article:

https://sputniknews.com/us/201912241077783862-its-not-santa-...

This sounds like a commercial operation. They're obeying the law, staying below 400ft, and operating in a rural area. It seems like the news articles are doing their best to make this sound bad when there's nothing nefarious going on.

Gasses and odors of any type shouldn’t be able to work their way back into a building via the sewer pipes.

I don't see any claims in the article that the odors entered the building via the sewer pipes. What makes you think that was the path that the odors followed? It could have just as easily been through an open window, or the pipe work could have been near an HVAC intake for the building.

32 degrees seems really really shallow compared to what I see in pictures. This source https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/geometry/angle.html says it's 51.5 degrees.

pretty easy really. Add acid to water, then add baking soda to the acidic water until it's neutralized. (no more bubbling), then pour it down the sink with more water. Use appropriate precautions, gloves, goggles, well-ventilated area, etc. Once the acid is neutral, it won't hurt anything in the pipes.

The actual study has not been published yet. So far, the researchers have only presented the information at a conference.

I used to make my own PCBs at home, and I still really enjoy the technologies that allow making high quality boards from home. I've found for my personal stuff that going through a low-cost fab house is just so economical, and the quality is so good that I usually can't be bothered to do it myself anymore. Still great if you want the learning experience, or if you really need it now.

Complete tornado records in the US begin in 1950 -- how far back does it need to go for it to be worthwhile in your opinion?

When people start talking about bicycle upgrades to shave a few ounces here and there, I just point at my belly and the 10's of pounds I could drop from my body before I worry about a couple ounces on my bicycle.

Many modern light planes have a cost starting at $100,000

What planes are you referring to? I'm not familiar with models in that price range that are certified for commercial operations.

This software wasn't even a critical feature.

There are two crashes directly related to this feature. So, it doesn't make sense to claim it wasn't critical.

In Boeing's own hazard analysis, they rated the feature "Hazardous", which is the second most critical rating. Obviously, it should have been rated "Catastrophic". But even with their own policy, anything rated hazardous is not allowed to have single-sensor failure. By their own policy, this should have had at least two sensors. There were multiple failures that let this slip through to production.

Yeah, like did you know that 18 is the legal drinking age in the US? That's why 18 year old soldiers can drink alcohol in the military. BUT, if a state increases the drinking age to 21 in their state then they get sweet sweet federal highway funds. For a long time Louisiana was a holdout, so 18-21 year olds would go there to party for mardis gras, and the road quality showed it.

They are not before and after shots. These are both "after" shots, the first one of the inbox view and the second one of an email view. Click on the image to see the default gmail view for comparison.

Same, sometimes pen and paper is just better for my needs. I keep flirting with digital pens. The idea is awesome, you write with a pen on paper and it's automatically digitized and backed up. (There's special markings on the paper to help the digitizer). In practice there's been some glitches, but in the worst case it's still paper and ink.

I tried a Livescribe Echo pen for awhile. It always felt kinda bulky in the hand, and there were some glitches. It also had audio recording, and probably the best feature was you could point at your writing and it would fast-fwd/rewind the audio to the moment in time that you wrote that word. Great for filling in gaps when taking notes. Livescribe tried to integrate with Evernote at some point. Seemed like a great idea, but either Evernote or Livescribe failed terribly on that integration. Lost functionality from the stand alone Livescribe app, and never gained the functionality of Evernote. Ultimately my pen fell prey to a failed OLED problem that many of those pens had.

Recently trying again with a Neo Smartpen. The first one had a firmware bug and after a few days it couldn't re-charge anymore. Customer service replaced it, and replacement seems fine. This pen feels much more like a regular pen. Power on/off is triggered by removing/replacing the pen cap, so I barely even notice it's not a normal pen. Digitizing quality has been solid. Not as many features as the Livescribe had, but the transcribing quality (OCR) is much better. (Of course, I'm comparing a brand-new Neo to a previous-gen Livescribe. Could be cool to check out the new version of Livescribe, too)