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I spent a lot of time as a child playing the flight simulator demo, this brought back a lot of good memories

They seem to work through buttonfly, just not directly through the other links

If you don't use the app store, you can still install the xcode command line tools with the xcode-select command. I didn't bother signing in with an Apple account on my personal Mac.

We're talking about a web browser, right? What workflow?

More like one of those hover chairs from Wall-E

I can't imagine those working too well these days. None of my cards have raised numbers, they'd make a completely blank impression. They have probably been completely phased out in the UK.

I think they mean that companies rarely update their status pages to reflect reality (for instance, AWS outages are rarely shown on their own status pages). This is often by design, company policy, or a desire to save face.

You're not alone, though personally I quite like his tone and delivery. It's entirely probable that you're not in his target audience and that's okay.

It's true that some planes fly on leaded fuel, but commercial airlines generally do not. It's only piston engine planes that fly on leaded AvGas, all jet aircraft including tubroprops fly on fuels like Jet A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_fuel)

While we're at it, you can't forget Anna Murphy (formerly of Eluveitie, currently Cellar Darling) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDE3Bx1Cb1I

Another day, another gadgetbahn. It's hard to tell from their website exactly what problems they're trying to solve. They seem to have taken all of the worst aspects of monorail style operations, the relative complexity of maglev, and the vendor lock-in of a gadgetbahn and have just run with it.

Off the top of my head:

From their rolling (gliding?) stock concepts it looks like they're targeting the automated metro system market, think London DLR or Vancouver Skytrain. With these system top speed isn't really the issue as you'll be constrained by acceleration and stop spacing. Better gains can be had in this space by building better signalling systems, allowing the trains to run at higher frequencies.

All of their marketing materials show the trains going in perfect straight lines. A lot of other monorail systems are constrained by this, because building switches for monorails is hard. Throw maglev into the mix and I can't imagine the problem gets any easier.

They focus a bit on ease of construction with the elevated rail segments being made of pre-cast concrete sections. I'm faily certain any modern elevated train guideway is also made of pre-made sections on a production line. They're trying to sell normal as some kind of innovation.

All the usual gadgetbahn things seem to apply as well. TSB goes bust? Good luck getting new rolling stock. Want to integrate this service with existing stations and track? Nope, it's all bespoke. Want to get rolling stock from a different supplier that can meet your local needs better? Good luck with that one. Nobody else buys this system, so it remains expensive forever? Sucks to be you.

Linux usually gets a pass, because most times you're just deploying it and not mucking with source code.

That would apply for most uses of software, wouldn't it?

This results in refusals ranging from "This is internal for now but we will open it up later" (a fair concern) to "Somebody is worried that exposing it over the VPN to contractors would count as making it public" (IDK, I'm not a lawyer.)

I've encountered variations of this problem at places I have worked in. Education goes a long way to solving this, and this example of simple usage of (A)GPL software is easy enough to explain with examples.

Must be quite the paranoid business, given even tier 1 banks here (in the UK) will happily run GPL software.

Looks very cool, will have to give this a shot.

Why is that unfortunate? Unless you're looking to make proprietary changes to Grafana Oncall and host it as a SAAS, it's the same as running any other GPL software.

People are more likely to avoid doing business with you if you call yourself a pyramid scheme. Calling youself a "multi-level marketing" business sounds far more benign.

Ignoring production, hydrolox would work, not that spacex are going down that road

Not strange if you can read a map, Moscow is directly north of Donetsk. It makes perfect sense that they would share a time zone.

There are vending machines full of SIM cards at Heathrow, so I'd say they're still available.

Mac at work, Linux at home

It's 64,000 'positions' of 32-bit words. That'd be 256,000 modern 8-bit bytes.

But can it be type coerced?

Same, especially since the domain gave me electrical engineering vibes.

I've heard it's a safety thing, in some contexts, as the grounding pin is in the way if something gets dropped onto the plug.

I'm still not sure what difference is between 'no-code' and just using software. If I create a workflow in Jira I wouldn't say I'm creating no-code software, I'd describe that as just 'using' or 'managing' Jira.

Sequel Ace has picked up where Sequel Pro left off, it's a fork.

https://github.com/Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace

But then you'd be obliged to call it Ice Cubed

That's a very charitable take on Ballmer's reaction. The Windows mobile platform may have been more hackable, but from an end user's perspective it was pretty awful.

Sydney airport does this too, with a motorway running under the main runway.

I can't speak to the technical merits of the machine, but I think IBM did a great job with the industrial design. It looks like some kind of alternate history where super-integrated vacuum tubes won the day.