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Reminds me a bit of the UPS Flight 6 that crashed in 2010. Wasn't the cause of the fire, but the fire heated up the co-pilots oxygen system to the point he couldn't wear it and eventually succumbed to smoke hypoxia. Due to smoke in the cabin the pilot couldn't see his flight deck readouts or out the window and eventually crashed into the ground.

First step to mining a NEO is knowing where they are.

He's got Granny Smith in the shit category, and this just reminds me of a funny story about dogs!

We had two corgis and my wife made all their meals by hand. Part of their diet was apples, but we found one of the corgis would almost always eat around the apple (usually just a cheap red apple) pieces and leave them for the other dog. Then one time Granny Smith apples were cheaper at the grocery store so that is what we purchased and provided. He ate them up!

Turns out the dog just didn't like the sweeter apples and wanted the tart tang of a good Granny Smith.

When COVID broke out I was working with a manufacturing company, helping to fix their PMO. One of the big issues they had was that the only way to get parts through the factory was for the PMs to go down to the shop floor and constantly babysit and move them; the primary directive from management was "the PMs should not be going to the shop floor." Perfect! So COVID hits and I suggest we send the PMs home to work since they are only at their desks working on their computers and talking with customers. Corporate VP: "But if we send them home how will we know if they are working?" Me: "How do you know they are working now?" Of course the most ironic part was that VP was on the phone calling in from home because he lived in a different state that had no business operations in his area. Not surprising to me, that company has since shut down.

So two questions:

1) what other priorities?

2) has anyone that worked on teams actually used it? It has one of the worst UX's ever.

It should also be noted that Small Steps & Giant leaps has been able to create a really strong backbone/backoffice through the utilization of discord.

I've never felt so disconnected from my teammates.

That's a valid point, but having everyone back in the office isn't the only solution to that problem. It may be the best solution, but seems like the easiest rather than the best.

I'm interested in the ITAR implications here of the video. When asked about seeing the inside of the fuel tank during the crew demo mission Shotwell said no because it was covered by ITAR. This video clearly shows inside a tank.

I would note that today's VW Golf has better horsepower and a higher top speed than the first Ferrari.

I'd love to see your math.

I don't have any math to support my belief just a little bit of logic, but it works like this: 1) 787 burns X lbs of fuel per hour in flight 2) 787 takes Y hours to fly from point A to point B at Mach 0.85 3) X lbs of fuel * Y hours = Z polution 4) Boom burns Xf lbs of fule per hour in flight (could actually be less because it's smaller or could be higher because of additional needed thrust) 5) Boom takes Y.85 to fly from point A to point B at Mach 1 6) (Xf) of fuel (Y*.85) hours = H pollution

So as long H is less than Z then Boom would be decreasing the impact on the environment. Now I know that there are a lot of missing numbers in here like passenger count production impacts, etc. But the solution you seem to imply is that flight just shouldn't happen and I'm not sure this is an option so if Boom can reduce the amount of pollution created by flying then it seems like something you should be for not against.

The blank check is ultimately the problem. I say remove the blank check and then let colleges figure out the rest.

I look to the UK as an example. The government only guarantees $10,000 in student loans so most programs coincidentally cost less than $10,000. Are there exceptions? Yes, but for the most part this holds true.

Not a complete solution but does significantly help to address the blank check issue.

Invisible Inc, the sounds are even on point.

I'm always amazed how inefficient cross industry pollination is. This was a major issue in aerospace for years (see Hudson River) and there are a number of solutions, one of the best being a high pulsing light on the wings. How has that not gotten pulled over to the wings of a wind turbine?

I'm in agreement with you on this. I've been playing with a package for Atom that would simplify a bunch of stuff in my process, but in general I don't like the risk of proprietary software/stack for my workflow.

The RAT was deployed too, so clearly they were having power issues. Just haven't seen if they had power plant problems before or after the engines appear to have scraped the ground.

Based on the photos of the damage to the engines the aborted landings didn't go well.

https://avherald.com/h?article=4d7a6e9a&opt=0

I've been working on an Expanse based theme syntax and UI for Atom: https://github.com/CraigDamlo/expanse-syntax https://github.com/CraigDamlo/expanse-ui

Now I'm starting on a daily logging package.

CATIA is a beast of a bill!

This. And if you pull if forward, stack ranking did a lot of damage to both GE and Microsoft after Ballmer implemented it.

The real failure of stack ranking is it never ends, so at some point you are firing good employees.

The old no press is bad press theory in action. It will be interesting to see what actually happens when the season starts and moves into the all-star break.

Are you going to risk telling your employer that you're not joining an important meeting because you don't want to use a service without your VPN? What if some important club/charity/etc. has its members in a Discord group?

I'm not going to risk losing my employment, but I'm going to tell them I have a problem using the service without a VPN. If they are willing to fire you for raising privacy concerns then you should have concerns over the culture. Plus most companies I've worked for always want the VPN connected when you are off their network.

I would like to see the impact of the dollar in terms of the environment in 2020 vs 1985. I hope that the impact of my dollar is less, and I bet most people today are willing to pay more for a smaller environmental impact.

I worked in a company who's culture was to collect unread emails and then brag about how many they had. I never understood it.

So as a long time OmniGraffle user this looks really nice, clean and simple. I've fallen out of love with OmniGraffle because I spend more time fighting it then I do working with it.

This also looks great because it's not a subscription. But it also doesn't have many features, which is why the price is so great.

What the site doesn't show is how much customization I can create. I might be showing my age, but I miss shareware, the ability to try a software out before I buy it. Of course I think I still have Q-Crack floating around somewhere so...

So I worked in a legacy industry and they co-located a couple of teams near our biggest client. They decided to put in place an open office concept for the engineers and support staff, and gave the VPs and sales guys private offices.

Especially when we first moved into the office the VPs loved to take the customers on a tour and stand at the top of the space and tell them how great this open office was. I was in a bad mood one time when this happened and the VP asked me if I agreed (with the customer) and I said, "it is perfect for what it was built for, it was built to show our customers how many resources we have and to imply that we have no walls separating our BUs from working together." He was not happy, but also had no lines of responsibility to me or my business segment.

And like all open offices it was loud so everyone put on headphones and we had zero cross-BU interaction and very low inter-BU interaction. At one point corporate tried to push a no headphones rule because it looked bad when they brought in customers and it did not land well in the cube dwellers. A compromise was reached to not allow headphones when customers leadership visits where planned, about once a month.

My biggest problem with the design was that they guy in the desk that faced me spent around 80% of his time on conference calls. Now he wasn't loud at all, almost never said anything on these calls, but he would sit silently with his headset on staring directly at me the whole time. Now he wasn't looking at me, just looking forward but it was really disconcerting.

What I always find funny about the whole concept is that the open cube was really first imagined by Taylor as he tried to apply physical labor efficiencies into the office world. You would have everyone in an open office with the manager slighly raised up behind everyone so he could monitor them to ensure everyone was working at peak efficiency. Plus the modern leader of open offices, a company I forgot the name of in Colorado implemented and pushed open offices into the modern world, and then killed the practice internally in less than 2 years.

I wonder how much of that was lack of direction and leadership. They had a number of different channels they were exploring which is fine, but they didn't seem to be really focused. I know when we tried to work with them they were losing $8 million a year, but the CEO at the time was getting paid $6 million, so...

I don't know if they are working with Bosh here, but Microvision in Redmond was working on a system like this with NASA about 10 years ago.

Terminal 1 at CDG may be horribly dated, but I love that design and look.

I have two big issues here:

1) in your math you are assuming he took no money off the table in the 4 years before this point; that is just plain not true, he go bonuses every other year before 2019

2) I believe that profits/growth on a whole ate a trailing indicator, so his actual impact will be seen over the next couple of years; and if you look at 2019 as the first time in 22 years that the company posted a loss...

Just add to what I wrote above. Perhaps you are right that he should get the money, it was in his contract. But as a society and company builders let's learn from the error and force better contracts onto the CEOs. It's time that the CEOs stopped writing their own contracts.