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Glad to hear the majority of Hacker News thinks it's ok to sexualize and catalog pictures of me without my consent. At least now I know who I'm dealing with here instead of merely suspecting it.

They can’t force you to produce a lawyer on the spot, and they can’t force you to call one in front of them. Your conversations with lawyers are secret and the police aren’t allowed to know anything about what you talk about. They have to reschedule the interview.

You don’t. You tell them you won’t be talking to them without a lawyer, and they have to drop it until you find one. They can’t demand that you magically produce a lawyer on the spot.

This is heavily dependent on the subject matter/industry.

We have a winner. :)

I'm with you on all of that, but that's not what the person I'm replying to is saying. They're saying that the subject of the article might be a bad guy so he probably deserves what's happening to him.

I'm not just saying it, I've done it. Someone else in this thread has too.

Do you really not get how what you're saying is 180° from principles of due process, equal protection, and freedom of speech?

Is this the case of someone guilty getting 25 years in jail for not wanting to snitch?

This is an absolutely disgusting suggestion.

Probably would’ve still been harassed and wound up on the no-fly list, but yes, if the FBI tricks you into meeting them, walk away.

I think many programmers have minimal experience with other jobs, and assume that coding is somehow more elevated or demanding than other professions, while the reality is quite different.

As someone who has worked in a few different fields, this x 100. There is nothing "special" about programming.

Retyping out programs from magazines isn't even something most programmers have considered these days

Oof, this takes me back to the day I learned about RAM the hard way. I was typing out a program from a magazine. It seemed like it took forever, even then. About halfway through the computer rudely informed me that 4K of RAM is not, in fact, enough for everyone.

It's not a kernel module, it's a compute kernel. Nothing to do with operating systems. They provide versions for android-arm64 and linux-x86_64.

The fine README says it builds and runs on Ubuntu 20.04.

More productivity for the productivity god! Produce, produce, produce!

On the aerodynamic side, this aircraft has a mass of 1.8 kg / 4 lbs, which is an equivalent weight of 0.7 kg / 1.5 lbs on Mars. That is also the force required to maintain altitude. Imagine picking up four or five apples; that's what we're talking about as a minimum to stay in the air. For comparison, a DJI Phantom weighs 3 lbs, and a Mavic comes in at 2 lbs.

I can't find numbers on the power system or materials so I can't speak to the thermal side or how much flight time that affords.

EDIT: Apparently there's enough energy to fly for 90 seconds (!) per sol.

Around these parts, you have to be yelling and calling people names to be considered "partisan." Subtlety is lost on us.

(Not /s, but also not not /s?)

the only approaches I've noticed that aren't in the simulator are some RNAV approaches to smaller airports.

That's bizarre. CIFP has every approach in the country. They'd have to actually remove approaches to be missing any.

I generally don't like the New York Times either, but you're grasping at straws here.

Same here. Between their garbage labor practices and the fact that everything on Amazon had become, well, garbage, it was an easy call to make.

Years of telling Facebook I won’t give them my number finally pay off.

I deleted my account a while back. (Well, whatever Facebook calls “deleted.” Incidentally, did you know you can’t delete your HN account, even if you email them and ask?) Curious whether there’s any data for me at all in this breach.

Ok, but she experienced a decrease while living in this building. And doctors said that is consistent with exposure to VOCs.

;)

Just want to thank you both for the delightful irony of these comments.

This only "makes sense" if such a person believes that their personal advantage is more important than other people. It makes no sense whatsoever from a Rawlsian perspective.

they are actively getting in the way of why I would use their product

No they aren't. They're being completely transparent about this and giving you the option to keep the old behavior with a one-time settings change. So what's the problem exactly?

This is awesome. I've wanted something like this for years. Thanks so much for building it.

Even gliders have trim. It's not technically considered a primary flight control because you can survive without it, but at the very least it's annoying not to have it.

Flight instructor here. This person knows what they're talking about.

Two hours of time can cost you into the thousands of dollars

I’m sorry, what? Who are you hiring, Pablo Escobar’s lawyer?

Unless you've had personal, repeated experience dealing directly with the FAA on aeromedical matters, I suggest you listen to someone who actually has. I know how to do a risk analysis, and aviation is a much more varied field than just scheduled air carrier operations.

I'm a professional flight instructor. I also sit two desks over from a non-FAA-affiliated flight surgeon at my day job. I watch student pilots go through the medical process all the time. It is infuriating to see the outlandish and expensive hoop-jumping nonsense that these folks get put through. I'm talking thousands of dollars of exams in some very common cases that have absolutely no evidentiary basis for increased risk. And those are the ones that don't just get denied outright, with no avenue for appeal.

On the rare occasion when aeromedical does see the light, it's pulling teeth. It took years for the American Diabetes Association to convince the FAA that they were wrong about diabetes. And when they finally relented, they dragged on their feet on actually issuing the medicals.

The aeromedical division has become so hostile and ossified that Congress has had to tell them to cut it out.

It's a problem. And it's exemplary of what happens when an authority has the kind of incentives under discussion here. They will never get in trouble for saying no, even when saying no flies in the face of all actual evidence.