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In one fell swoop, Fender destroyed every bit of musician goodwill they had. For right or for wrong (and I think for wrong), their claims are baseless.

I wish them (and their PE overlords) a powerful defeat, ideally in a court of law, but if not, in the court of public opinion.

It's simply not for you then. That's okay.

I'm the opposite. I can't use a non-RPN calculator. Getting the numbers out of my head and onto the stack is how I achieve clarity in what I'm doing.

I used the 49 in high school until I wore out the substandard keyboard. Then I did what I should have in the first place and bought a 48GX which I still have 20+ years later.

If you are unfamiliar with the author, Dave Arnold is a former instructor at the French Culinary Institute, a bar owner/operator in NYC (Booker & Dax (closed), Existing Conditions (closed), and Bar Contra (https://www.barcontra.com)), a cooking equipment designer and manufacturer (https://www.bookeranddax.com), sharer of lots of knowledge (e.g. https://cookingissues.com/primers/sous-vide/part-i-introduct...), James Beard Award winning book author (https://www.kitchenartsandletters.com/products/liquid-intell...), and a weekly podcast host (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cooking-issues-with-da...).

I highly recommend anything he works on.

Sun Rays were so good. Being able to walk over to someone else's desk and say "hey, take a look at this" and swap your card for theirs and instantly have your desktop was such a great user experience.

Also enjoyed the keyboards (with control where caps lock "normally" is)...

Importantly, it also plays Weather Channel-esque background music.

Which has its own sort of funny subculture. One is Phish fans unexpectedly hearing what was decidedly not publicly common music being aired on the Weather Channel: https://jambands.com/features/2002/07/24/guyute-and-your-loc...

Fast forward 20ish years and a similar thing happened with Fox Sports interludes: https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/12/17/fox-producer-who-got-the-n...

Maybe it's me, but I think in the worse case scenario (criminal liability), a jury will be more sympathetic to a person (acting in good faith) that had an issue because of the car manufacturer's provided system than they would to a person who installed a DIY/open source self-driving system.

And I say this as someone who considered trying out the project.

For example, it would be pretty difficult to produce vacuum tubes now.

Vacuum tubes are still made. They’re used extensively in instrument amplification.

But I think this bolsters your point!

I personally took a cab from Newark to Laguardia

I don't understand why anyone would ever attempt to do this. Was it truly the only option?

I feel like this whole thing buries the lede a bit.

Yes, turns out running overlay/VPN type things disrupts traffic patterns. This is a non-story.

But we're talking about using wireguard on a local network, so the actual interesting question is: why does it cause the performance to plummet? Is it an implementation issue or something more fundamental?

I expect some performance impact. I don't expect a three orders of magnitude impact (which is what 355 KB/s imputes).

It's interesting how major airlines competing with them has made things worse for everyone. I have many times seen passengers ignorant about what "basic economy" means (or at least feigning ignorance) and it leads to passengers trying to negotiate seat swapping on their own, or gate agents getting involved when it's a young child getting separated. All of it leads to boarding delays, which leads to delays pushing back, which leads to sequencing delays for takeoff.

but I also hate the hesitation on uncontrolled left-hand turns in particular. Seems dangerous.

Bingo. This is exactly where it scares me, particularly when I'm already in an intersection.

I've pretty much just made it a reflex to hit the turn-off button when I turn on the car. At least it's easy once a reflex.

My daily driver is old enough not to have auto stop/start. My problem is my wife's vehicle has it. She instinctively turns it off as soon as she's in the vehicle. Because I only drive her vehicle sporadically, I don't have the muscle memory to do that, so it inevitably catches me by surprise.

For all the zillion things I can configure in my Honda Passport, I can apparently not turn that annoying feature off.

Here you go: https://www.idlestopper.com/

Sad that this is what it's come to, but here we are.

I was considering purchasing a Honda recently, and this was one of the things I investigated. Like you, I consider the hesitation imposed by this mechanism to be annoying, and in addition, dangerous.

There is already an argument that says "let's stop pulling stuff out of the ground purely to burn" and instead use renewable resources. That's a difficult enough argument that lots don't agree with.

Saying "let's burn the plastic" without a plan to stop creating single use plastic creates a backdoor reason and economy to keep using plastic for everything.

Because in the real world burning plastic for energy reduces CO2 emissions.

Compared to what? Over what period? Consider this at the extremes. Instead of investing in any photovoltaic, 100% of PV demand should be shifted to burning landfilled plastics. Would you argue that makes sense?

That should say "reducing carbon emissions", not adding. Burning plastic for energy is a net reduction in CO2 emission.

Not sure I understand that math. You have plastic. You burn it. That is a net increase in atmospheric CO2.

The other option is you bury it, which sounds horrible, but at least doesn't increase atmospheric CO2.

The problem is you're going to say that instead of burning the plastic, we burn something else. But maybe we don't do that, either?

OpenRailRouting 2 years ago

One thing I’ve been curious about but have never dug into deeply enough to understand is what constitutes an “address” on a cargo line.

As an example, in the US, large lumberyards often sit on a rail line to receive deliveries. Often that lumber comes a long way… for instance from the Pacific Northwest to the east coast.

Maybe if I look at this project a bit I’ll understand how you slap a “To:” address on such a rail car.

Why do you say that?

Mainly because Apple's custom silicon could not even be prototyped in a small scale facility. It'd likely be in Taiwan.

But there are multiple reports, some from Apple employees, that refer to it as a being some sort of small scale, "skunkworks" silicon fab.

I apologize if I missed them. Please highlight. Curious of the credentials of the folks reporting such a thing, as well.

Let's go with "definitely not", given the amount of other things that could be within a 7 mile radius of your location.

The blog paints this as some secret lair of nefarious experiments. It actually refers to the facility as a "Secret Silicon Fab" which is quite the logical leap. I would suspect they're etching PCBs, perhaps? One thing is for sure, it's not a silicon fab.

I'm sorry, but if you're going to come with grandiose claims, your foundation should be solid and not hypothetical.