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I find it so odd to have such an extreme response to Apple all-of-the-sudden. Like they've been so great all of these years and only just now you're deciding to make such an extreme switch that you're going to choose the worst possible hardware imaginable because you can't even stomach buying a decent GNU/Linux laptop from Dell or Lenovo or Framework or System76? Jeeze. That little puny 8GB ARM laptop you're choosing instead is going to be painfully slow compared to whatever Mac you're coming from. At least check out the System76 laptops - some I do believe come fully open-source with Coreboot if that's all-of-the-sudden so important to you.

It is a pedantic but meaningful distinction that I'd only point out on a sorta geeky site like this, but actually, FL180 (or, flight level one-eight-zero) is the altitude at which an altimeter will read 18,000 feet if it's set to assume that the barometric pressure is 1013 hPa (29.92 inHg). Above a certain transition altitude, aircraft switch their altimeters from reading altitude in the local pressure to this "standard" pressure. This is because above that altitude and safely away from terrain, it's no longer important to know precisely how high you are, but it _is_ important to know what altitude you are relative to all the other aircraft nearby.

The cones aren't to alert the pedestrians the the crane. The cones are to mark out a path in the road for pedestrians and to alert auto drivers to that path. As an American I get that you don't typically walk anywhere but I can't believe you've never ever encountered a set of high visibility cones marking out a temporary path around construction equipment on a roadway.

Is there a good light under which to view this? It's corrupt. Isn't that far worse than whatever benefit you presume "HN" would be cheering?

What do you mean by "the short window when the labor to do so was affordable"? Other cities in the world seem to be able to build underground railways just fine and they have similar labor costs as the US. See Paris or Sydney for cities that have created new underground railways recently.

How would you imagine one could make driving better, aside from making public transit better? The best thing you could hope for if you feel like you need to drive within SF is to have as few other people feeling the need to drive within SF.

But wait, I have to ask: why do you live in SF?

Practically anywhere else in the US is cheaper and better for people who want to drive.

Very few other US cities are better for people who want to get around by other means.

There used to be a neighborhood around it that had architecture similar to what the neighboring North End still has, which is very distinct among the entirety of the Americas. The lack of imagination that existed back then that led to it all being razed to build this and the rest of the garbage of the current West End is stunning.

And at least there's this there now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_slide

Aside from silly "sales-tax-holidays" I've never heard of the sales tax rates changing so frequently. I'm curious to know where this is happening "multiple times per year". Here in MA it's been the same rate for 15 years. And for the sales-tax-holiday situation can't a shop just say something like "everything will have x% taken off at the register" just like they would during a typical "10% off all items" type of sale?

Why did you expect a foreigner who is not from China to realize that they'd be inhibited by the local authorities from doing work they were invited to do by those same local authorities? It's bizarre to think that it's bizarre that a foreigner might merely express some surprise by that.

"Never" is a really long time.

It would take a severe lack of vision to not be able to imagine that the following will -never- improve: charging infrastructure, charging technology (specifically, charging time), and BEV range

A lot of folks aren't great with numeracy, so I think it's good to use examples to help people understand how much tax Apple didn't have to pay that they themselves would have had to pay if they earned as much as Apple did.

Wow, I feel like you have to have incredibly thin skin to be offended by the one or two sentences acknowledging the legacy of what these ships were principally used for. Bach's music's principal purpose wasn't to further racism.

For monthly donations, the minimum is actually 3 EUR. And it's super easy to do from the US - just enter a CC number and billing address. What would be a lower bar?

For smaller amounts, I can imagine it would be better to save them some overhead and donate annually. They have a button for doing 10 EUR per year if you still wanted to help out. You can choose any amount that's at least 3 EUR. I imagine even 3 EUR per year would help! Here's the site if you can't find it: https://donorbox.org/kde-community

femou, are you affiliated with Zen? Do you know if there are any plans to add support for ARM users running Windows or Linux?

The reason for diverting is more about rules than simply the distance. If the weather was marginal at Tampa and the pilots were worried that another failed attempt would lead them to have less than the required fuel to reach the diversion airport (Ft Lauderdale) while still staying above their minimum reserve fuel, then they'd be required to divert without making that additional attempt. Realistically, they'd still probably have enough fuel to reach Ft Lauderdale, but there'd be more paperwork to fill out....

I imagine there are innumerable 300 year old houses being preserved in Japan and that crossing the ocean wasn't needed to preserve this particular one. But this will be able to be appreciated by people in Los Angeles without traveling so far. It seems similar to how Japanese art is already shown in Californian museums and how Californian art is shown in Japanese ones. "Genuinely curious" people like to be exposed to culture from other places.

I don't think the drivers are the issue. The infrastructure, including the signage and road markings are vastly more sane and regular in SF than in Boston. And have you seen the road layout in Boston? I have no idea if this will be a challenge for Waymo, but I could imagine why someone would think it would.

WSL is still very broken on Windows on ARM for any cpu intensive workloads. With the push to popularize this platform, I really hope some attention finally gets paid to the various RCU stall bugs that have been reported and ignored.

Check out the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire or the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont. I've heard it's also legal in CT State Forests but haven't actually seen this written down anywhere.

Don't most of the airfare searching sites let you include your baggage situation into your query? Kayak does, at least. I just assumed the rest did as well.

Americans doing various "fitbit" challenges need to actually "try" to complete 10,000 steps in a day. People in 1909 would have had to try hard _not_ to complete this number of steps in a day.

Sure you can, and they likely did start descending before contacting ATC. But before they did any of that, they had to spend some time donning their oxygen masks and doing a few other "memory items" before then descending.

United Airlines used to have this back in the days where your seat had an audio jack and a few channels of music to listen to. Channel 9 was the audio from the cockpit.

Nowadays you can listen to ATC from nearly anywhere by visiting https://liveatc.net/

I think you're getting your aircraft manufacturers mixed up. On all modern Airbus airliners, there is no physical link between the two pilots' controls at all. On Boeing aircraft, the controls are physically linked and both move even when one pilot is making inputs. On the 777-300ER, if both pilots are making inputs, and those inputs differ enough, then the physical link can be disabled and then the inputs are considered "desynchronized" and only then to the inputs become averaged.

I just found out today that Firefox does not yet support the css has() selector, while Chrome has supported it for over a year now. I get that there are a lot of reasons for this, but it surprised me, I guess.

I use Firefox because its fullscreen mode is far better than all the other browsers I've tried on Linux, but it does seem like it's clearly slower to perform and slower to be able to adopt new web 'quasi'-standards.

I think it goes something like this: Doudna, et. al. were the first to discover and describe CRISPR in nature. Zhang, et. al. were the first to successfully develop ways to edit genomes with it.

I know too many people who were children of immigrants who speak, read, and write fluently in both their parent's native language and the language where they grew up to know that your experience can't be representative.

Maybe it depends on where in the US one lives, but speaking decent Spanish has come to be really useful to me pretty frequently. And it's always been very rewarding in those moments when it has. It's not an every day thing, but at least once a week I find myself in a situation where having Spanish was definitely useful, if not required. That is far less frequent, maybe once a year or so does it feel "required", but then it's been especially rewarding to have it.

We have better food than France by any measure I could come up with. Despite this, the typical person living in France is eating far better foods than we are.