That's hilarious, can I steal the source for my own site?
Only if you aren't a crawler.
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_moof commented on This website is for humans localghost.dev/blog/this-... · Posted by u/charles_f
_moof commented on How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development bscholl.substack.com/p/mo... · Posted by u/flabber
> XB-1 is the world’s first independently-developed supersonic jet, breaking the sound barrier for the first time in January, 2025. It was designed, built, and flown successfully by a team of just 50 people
This is a great headline and very impressive. However, it’s also somewhat puzzling to see the company spend so much investment money to build a small prototype plane that doesn’t resemble a commercial airliner in any way, break the sound barrier 6 times, retire it, and then conclude they’re on their way to delivering commercial supersonic passenger planes in five years
Boom Aero is one of those companies I want to see succeed, but everything I read about them tickles my vaporware senses. Snowing off a one-off prototype that doesn’t resemble the final product in any way (other than speed) is a classic sign of a company spending money to appeal to investors.
Retiring the plane after only a few flights is also a puzzling move. Wouldn’t they be making changes and collecting data as much as possible on their one prototype?
I work in aerospace and I don't find this development strategy unusual prima facie. I don't know if Boom is explicitly doing rapid spiral development, but this is what it would look like from the outside - a development vehicle that doesn't resemble the final vehicle design in many ways, but does have strategically selected commonality to validate and buy down risk on specific subsystems and operational concepts. They may be retiring XB-1 simply because they got the data they needed.
That being said, I share your skepticism of Boom as a company. As far as I know, they still don't have an engine for their production aircraft design.
_moof commented on Dial-up Internet to be discontinued help.aol.com/articles/dia... · Posted by u/Kye
For comments, yeah but to read any of the links would probably take a while.
You guys are reading the links?
_moof commented on Why does a fire truck cost $2m thehustle.co/originals/wh... · Posted by u/Guid_NewGuid
Vote up from me, but even this isn't optimal. As opposed to fire trucks, ambulance vans can be parked almost anywhere in the city waiting for calls. They don't need to wait at their base station. They get faster to a call location than a fire truck.
Ambulance vans are parked all over the city, at fire stations.
Which one contributes more to alarm fatigue, spoken announcements like "bank angle" or beeps and buzzes like the autopilot disengage theme tune? Why is the latter so prominent?
Curious if there's research - I'm sure there's tons, I just don't know that literature - but personally, in my experience as a professional aviator and as a spacecraft operator, the fatiguing alarms are the ones that are triggered in normal situations. If you start blinking red and squawking at me when I'm doing something nominal, you are training me to ignore you.
_moof commented on Why does a fire truck cost $2m thehustle.co/originals/wh... · Posted by u/Guid_NewGuid
but the ambulance crew already has a paramedic, so why do they also need one from the fire department?
Because the fire department can usually get there faster. The goal is to get medical help there as quickly as possible.
_moof commented on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan 404media.co/women-dating-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
Are you being serious right now? No one forced those people to upload their data to this sketchy site. Everyone with one brain cell would know the repercussions of uploading IDs to a no-name site
"No one forced these people to get on that non-airworthy airplane."
People should not have to understand every technical field in order to participate in society. This is what regulatory bodies are for.
_moof commented on What is going on with US weather radar today? atlas.niu.edu/analysis/ra... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
_moof commented on What is going on with US weather radar today? atlas.niu.edu/analysis/ra... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
Looks normal to me, for a poorly filtered NEXRAD mosaic anyway. What's the issue?