There's a lot I don't understand with this, but why pull back airplanes which had already left the gate?
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focusedone commented on Houston, you've got a space shuttle only NASA won't say which one arstechnica.com/space/202... · Posted by u/LorenDB
This one blows my mind.
Discovery was kept in as close to as-flown condition as possible to be the vehicle of record for future research. No museum on the planet is better equipped to handle things like that than the Smithsonian.
Hopefully the title transfer is enough to protect it from moving. Certainly 80 million isn't enough to restore an SCA and construct a building to house the orbiter.
focusedone commented on Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots blog.cloudflare.com/intro... · Posted by u/scotchmi_st
I worked at Cloudflare for 3 years until very recently, and it's simply not the culture to behave in the way that you are describing.
There exists a strong sense of doing the thing that is healthiest for the Internet over what is the most profit-extractive, even when the cost may be high to do so or incentives great to choose otherwise. This is true for work I've been involved with as well as seeing the decisions made by other teams.
That's the impression I get from Cloudflare - it seems like a group of highly skilled people attempting to solve real problems for the benefit of the web as a whole. As both a paid business user and a free user for home projects, I deeply appreciate what they've accomplished and how generously they allow unpaid users to benefit from their work.
I worry about what happens someday when leadership changes and the priority becomes value extraction rather than creation, if that makes sense. We've seen it so many times with so many other tech companies, it's difficult to believe it won't happen to Cloudflare at some point.
focusedone commented on Working on databases from prison turso.tech/blog/working-o... · Posted by u/dvektor
The Lord is doing His work, in Preston's heart. I am very humbled to given a chance to be a part of this.
Reformed?
I think practically everyone is better off with a laptop. iPad is great if you're an artist using the pencil, or just consuming media on it. Otherwise a macbook is far more powerful and ergonomic to use.
I used to think that, not having used an iPad. Now I carry a work-issued iPad with 5G and it's actually pretty convenient for remote access to servers. I wouldn't want to spend a day working on it, but it's way faster than pulling out a laptop to make one tiny change on a server. It's also great for taking notes at meetings/conferences.
It's irritatingly bad at consuming media and browsing the web. No ad blocking, so every webpage is an ad-infested wasteland. There are so many ads in YouTube and streaming music. I had no idea.
It's also kindof a pain to connect to my media library. Need to figure out a better solution for that.
So, as a relatively new iPad user it's pleasantly useful for select work tasks. Not so great at doomscrolling or streaming media. Who knew?
This is awesome! Are there any other things like this?
focusedone commented on Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio nostarch.com/practical-sd... · Posted by u/teleforce
Handy map of online web SDRs if you'd like to play with one while waiting for yours to ship :-)
focusedone commented on Sesame Scheme: Unintended Consequences of Allergen Food Labeling choicesmagazine.org/choic... · Posted by u/hilux
Why are they even cut at all!? Do people not have knives any more?
This one guy wants to throw away the greatest culinary achievement in 100 years, the greatness of which all other accomplishments are judged by.
focusedone commented on Sesame Scheme: Unintended Consequences of Allergen Food Labeling choicesmagazine.org/choic... · Posted by u/hilux
> Why are the fancy ones all top cut instead of side cut? It's just weird that way.
How very dare you. They're the superior cut and it's appalling side cut even exists. To answer your question though it's because that cut originates from New England and is used for "higher end" foods like lobster rolls. So they're perceived as fancier.
But they're just objectively better. Side cut buns are uneven which makes sense for a sandwich where you a thicker top bun but is utterly ridiculous for a top facing slice. Can you imagine a taco where one half of the tortilla was like three times as thick? Like look at this https://imgur.com/tF9uBp7 — absurd. That little flappy thing just falls apart. Also the flat part of the roll is at the bottom so when you top cut your hot dog can stand upright on the plate and not fall over. Typically the sides of top cut rolls are also flat which makes grilling/toasting the roll much easier. You get a delicious crispy buttery on the outside fluffy on the inside roll.
I did wonder if that one provocative statement would even be noticed :-)
You make a good argument. I see the functional point of a top cut. Helps prevent condiment excursions. Less likely to break in half. BUT, it's just so much bread. And the hotdog does want to pop out.
I'm unaware of any baseball park or hotdog stand where top-cut buns are sold. This is clearly an established best practice. Hotdog consumers have made an aesthetic choice here.
focusedone commented on Sesame Scheme: Unintended Consequences of Allergen Food Labeling choicesmagazine.org/choic... · Posted by u/hilux
This impacted my family directly. A family member has a severe sesame allergy. Honestly we weren't aware people could be allergic to sesame before we found ourselves in the hospital after a severe reaction.
Shortly after the hospital incident and after much time spent scrutinizing every ingredient label the law changed. We were excited about this at first. It became much easier to identify things we couldn't have in the house.
The unfortunate side effects of the law were most visible in the bread aisle, where nearly every item now contains sesame. This included all of the store brands and most of the brand-name products. Initially, we were limited to only one brand of bread (shout out to Kings Hawaiian). We also found a few artisan / local boutique options we could trust, but that's a pretty expensive way to make a PB&J.
Our situation has improved a bit. Recently a second, slightly less expensive, name brand sandwich bread went sesame-free. We're still stuck with oddly expensive artisanal hotdog buns. Why are the fancy ones all top cut instead of side cut? It's just weird that way.
Anyway, I expect that eventually more brands will go sesame-free as recipes change and factories go through whatever update process where it makes sense to separate allergens.
We're still happy about the regulation change and how easy it is now to identify dangerous items. Seeing global brands add sesame to a product to avoid whatever cost necessary to change their process was...not endearing. Hopefully their share price went up a few cents I guess.