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See also the similar book NeuroTribes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroTribes

The one in Georgia is pronounced Al-binny. Sometimes Awwl-binn-eeh.

The large recording device was designed to detach if the cable was raised for repair.

Clever!

It sounds like you're right. Also, that's the book I read way back then! Neat, I'll have to pick it up again.

Unrelated but fun story about antagonists and undersea cables that I saw in some Cold War history book in college.

The CIA had cooked up a bonkers covert mission to send a submarine with an airlock right into the soviets’ top submarine harbor. There, divers were to place a tap an underwater data cable that fed the nearby submarine base—a crown jewel of Soviet sub deployment intel.

The CIA knew the cable passed through the harbor somewhere. But where?

To search the entire harbor for a tiny cable would have taken too long. The mission planners were stuck on this problem until one day one of the CIA planners is out on his personal boat. He sees a sign that says “WARNING: Undersea Cable” and has a moment of clarity.

They brought a translator, popped up the periscope in the Soviet harbor, and spotted an equivalent sign which they used to carry out the mission successfully.

For extra credit they had to go back to exfiltrate the data if my memory serves.

Documented testimony of flagrant disregard for interstate law might have something to do with it.

If one of the many jurisdictions passed through has camera footage with the car and face uniquely identified, that’s a lot of legal exposure.

You are replying to OP who wrote the article. I might have missed it but I don’t think they described any ongoing legal action against this particular copycat.

Friction stir welding is popular in rocketry because it is very controllable.

This twitter reply sums it up well:

“SUCCESS! We now now max pressure the tank can hold and the damage a rupture might do.”

Why not both?

"There have been five X-37 orbital missions. The spaceplane's first mission, USA-212, was launched in April 2010 and returned to Earth in December 2010. A second X-37 was launched on mission USA-226 in March 2011 and returned in June 2012. The third mission was USA-240, which launched in December 2012 and landed in October 2014. The fourth mission, USA-261, launched in May 2015 and landed in May 2017. The fifth and latest X-37 mission, USA-277, was launched on 7 September 2017, and broke the record for the longest X-37 mission, after 718 days in orbit, on 27 August 2019, finally landing on 27 October 2019 after 780 days in orbit."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

Where I’m from in southern USA, there are 65mph state highways with 4 way traffic light intersections. There is always a “stop light ahead” sign, and the rule is simple: if you are traveling the speed limit and you pass the “stop light ahead” sign before the light starts to change, you will clear the yellow phase.

A lot of Amazon warehouses operate roughly 24/7, so there are multiple shifts.

Also, keep in mind that there are truck drivers, vending supply stockers, safety specialists, IT folks, etc supporting the whole operation.

Actually, pretty much every Amazon FC (at least in North America) has free coffee machines in the breakrooms. Some FCs have really bad coffee, but it is there and it is free. It used to cost money at some sites (to pay for the vending machine) but based on associate feedback it is now broad policy to be free.

I work in a corp office where the coffee is far worse than many FCs I've been to.

https://medium.com/@josefow/streets-paved-with-gold-sfs-ridi...

For reference, in the United States, the amount of money spent on road maintenance per state controlled mile looks something like this:

* $2,700 in Alabama

* $80,000 in Massachusetts

* $84,000 in California

* $208,000 in New Jersey

https://reason.org/policy-study/23rd-annual-highway-report/m...

False equation. It is silly to compare the operation of the entire US government to a small special ops team from a 3-letter agency using a small special ops court to compel a small special ops team within a corporation to do something.

The teams that do that kind of thing are very intentionally separate from the bureaucracy.

I’m 24 and this is why I switched to iPhone 6 or 7 years ago, I was being left out of group chats.

True. However, I feel that UPS has the customer obsession factor that other 100 year old companies don’t.

See, for instance, the parent headline. UPS is fanatical about delivering packages and is therefore willing to work with a doomsday competitor in huge volume. This in contrast to Fedex who will not.

You’re talking about amazon packages. I’m talking about all packages in the entire world.

Yes, it is coming (google Ship with Amazon) but UPS will be fine.

In much the same way Amazon has a head start on other e-commerce firms, UPS has on Amazon. They have been customer-obsessed in one of the hardest spaces (Meatspace logistics) for literally 111 years. This kind of thing is extremely difficult to get right, and Amazon has a long, long way to go before they can compete with UPS.

UPS is enthusiastic about working with Amazon, but Fedex is not. Simple as that. Fedex is a gap-filling option within Amazon.

Those animated paragraph breaks are awful. I can't read the content without strategically covering them by scrolling.

https://sites.google.com/a/slu.edu/swartwout/cdw2019

Woah. This is awesome! I travel for work and keeping my plants happy has been vicious trial and error with passive auto watering stakes. I've been looking for a convenient sensor package so I don't have to muck around with wires. Jackpot!

There are many raspberry pi projects on reddit for the "microgrowery" community... I recommend having a search. I plan to set up an indoor tomato and herb garden using these methods.

For solenoids, I advise some methods like [1] so that you can connect a cheap and daisy-chainable relay board like [2] via SPI. Then you can control anything.

If you don't want to get down into the 5v to 3.3v mumbo jumbo, it may be easiest to connect an arduino or clone via USB to the raspberry pi. There are bazillions of documented ways to drive relays with an arduino.

[1] https://www.tansi.org/rp/interfacing5v.html

[2] https://www.ebay.com/itm/SPI-breakout-board-with-6-relays-fo...

https://outline.com/www.economist.com/asia/2017/05/18/as-cri...

I had one of these on my commute in Atlanta for a while. (Left turn) It was impossible to read the sign unless you came to a stop, at which point a cacophony of honking emerged from behind, whether it was the right time or not.

At some point they added a little yellow light to indicate it was legal to turn. I was a little awestruck.

https://outline.com/www.economist.com/asia/2017/05/18/as-cri...

The reddit AMA author seems to have worked at a ‘traditional’ FC where there are miles of bookshelf or pallet style storage. In this layout it is difficult to place optimized restrooms as one pick worker may cover half of a million sqft building in a shift.

Newer, robotized FCs have much more tightly packed, human-inaccessible storage zones and have restrooms a reasonable distance from static pick workstations.

https://www.aboutamazon.com/amazon-fulfillment-center-tours/