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sjm-lbm commented on Ground stop at JFK due to staffing   fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_other... · Posted by u/akersten
gruez · 2 months ago
Source? Wikipedia contradicts you.

>Before 1917, the U.S. had no debt ceiling. Congress either authorized specific loans or allowed the Treasury to issue certain debt instruments and individual debt issues for specific purposes. Sometimes Congress gave the Treasury discretion over what type of debt instrument would be issued.[25] The United States first instituted a statutory debt limit with the Second Liberty Bond Act of 1917. This legislation set limits on the aggregate amount of debt that could be accumulated through individual categories of debt (such as bonds and bills). In 1939, Congress instituted the first limit on total accumulated debt over all kinds of instruments.[26][27]

>In 1953, the U.S. Treasury risked reaching the debt ceiling of $275 billion. Though President Eisenhower requested that Congress increase it on July 30, 1953, the Senate refused to act on it. As a result, the president asked federal agencies to reduce how much they spent, plus the Treasury Department used its cash balances with banks to stay under the debt ceiling. And, starting in November 1953, Treasury monetized close to $1 billion of gold left over in its vaults, which helped keep it from exceeding the $275 billion limit. During spring and summer 1954, the Senate and the executive branch negotiated on a debt ceiling increase, and a $6 billion one was passed on August 28, 1954.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt_ceiling#Leg...

sjm-lbm · 2 months ago
That's the debt ceiling, which is a different weird quirk of how the USG is funded. The relevant page for shutdowns is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un...

"Funding gaps have led to shutdowns since 1980, when Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti issued a legal opinion requiring it. This opinion was not consistently adhered to through the 1980s, but since 1990 all funding gaps lasting longer than a few hours have led to a shutdown. As of October 2025, 11 funding gaps have led to federal employees being furloughed."

sjm-lbm commented on Apple Renames 'Apple TV+' to 'Apple TV'   apple.com/tv-pr/news/2025... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
amelius · 2 months ago
Let me guess, I cannot watch this on my Android devices.

Smells like Nespresso selling machines that only accept Nespresso cups.

My personal advice: stay the hell away from this because it can and will only get worse.

sjm-lbm · 2 months ago
just FYI you can watch on your Android device now. It took them a long time (seriously, I think more than four years after AppleTV+ launched), but they did finally release an Android app.
sjm-lbm commented on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades   cbsnews.com/texas/news/se... · Posted by u/pseudolus
sjm-lbm · 2 months ago
Is this true though? Texas has had some well-publicized failures (well, really one major one), but as best as I can tell they are more or less middle of the pack on grid reliability[1].

I mean, you'll need a backup generator anywhere, but the report I found (admittedly with just a bit of googling) makes it seem like Texas is a better potential location than quite a few states (including California).

[1] - https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2021...

sjm-lbm commented on US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees   travelandtourworld.com/ne... · Posted by u/duxup
lotsofpulp · 3 months ago
If each flight leg is a different price, how can the website show you the total until you select both (or all) legs?
sjm-lbm · 3 months ago
FWIW, at least as of today, American Airlines' website attempts to show you round trip prices.

When choosing your outbound leg(s), they show a price inclusive of the cheapest return journey on the day you selected to return using the class of service on your outbound leg. So, there's all sorts of ways for it to be incorrect - maybe you want a different class of service, maybe the cheapest return has a stop but you'd like the direct, etc. - but it's still really useful for figuring out the best options for your flights.

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sjm-lbm commented on PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming   deprogrammaticaipsum.com/... · Posted by u/secstate
bigstrat2003 · 5 months ago
Honestly the author doesn't even make a great case that PHP has improved since 2009. His arguments mostly seemed to be "don't use the old busted way, there's a better way now". But if you have to go out of your way to remember to not use the old busted way, sooner or later you will shoot yourself in the foot. Having good defaults matters, and the author seems to ignore that.
sjm-lbm · 5 months ago
I think you're underestimating how hard it is to shoot yourself in the foot when using the PHP language defaults and the defaults for any modern PHP framework - it's genuinely hard to do.

I still don't think PHP is a good idea for a greenfield project or anything, but they have done a good job of hiding all the footguns.

sjm-lbm commented on Vanishing home field advantage in English football   blog.engora.com/2025/07/v... · Posted by u/Vermin2000
jazdw · 5 months ago
The Goodison Park (built 1892) away dressing rooms are really Spartan and uncomfortable. They are poorly heated, are right under the stand (noisy), there's only one toilet etc.

I don't think Everton's home record can really get that much worse when they move into their new stadium next season though.

sjm-lbm · 5 months ago
Some of the All or Nothing documentaries that cover Premier League teams include a lot of footage in the away dressing rooms, and they are almost all bad (though Goodison was weirdly cavernous and looks more annoying than normal).

Exactly how they are bad changes, though - when you take the Emirates Stadium (Arsenal's home ground in London) tour, for instance, they actually include some details about how the table in the middle of the away dressing room is designed to be uncomfortably high in a way that keeps team members from making eye contact, which is something that the stadium designers thought would be annoying. At one point, at least, the self-guided tour narration actually included a comment that Pep Guardiola hated the layout.

sjm-lbm commented on Kea 3.0, our first LTS version   isc.org/blogs/kea-3-0/... · Posted by u/conductor
Helmut10001 · 6 months ago
I have been using Kea on pfSense CE for a long time — I think it was version 23.0.x. Or you mean 3.0 in particular? I also have OPNsense and I am not completely convinced of their aggressive update strategy yet. For a firewall, I prefer stability over features. Jumping to the newest releases every month can have tradeoffs.

Note: in general, both OPNsense and pfSense are excellent. I have never had any problems with either one.

sjm-lbm · 6 months ago
I use pfSense CE, and rely on DNS entries to be automatically created for DHCP addresses. That worked fine for more than a decade, until they made Kea the default a couple of years ago (or did they just put a bunch of notices in the interface that old DHCPd was deprecated? It's been long enough that I don't remember).

Anyway, at the time Kea (at least in pfSense) wasn't able to do that, which caused things to break for me for a bit. It's a small thing (and, I mean, totally fair with free software) but the fact that they pushed an update to Kea before Kea (again, at least in pfSense) was at feature parity rubbed me the wrong way and has kept me from using it since then.

(edit: on the off chance anyone cares, I decided to check and it looks like this issue has been fixed as of pfSense CE 2.8.)

sjm-lbm commented on Omnimax   computer.rip/2025-06-08-O... · Posted by u/aberoham
rjmunro · 6 months ago
"Back to the Future: The Ride" was also an Omnimax dome system, but with moving platforms instead of seats. It was installed in 3 locations, with 2 screens at each, so a total of 6 screens.

I'm not sure if any later similar rides used a similar system, (for example Disney's Soarin') or if they are new enough to be digital from the start.

sjm-lbm · 6 months ago
It's not at all a similar ride, but Epcot Center's Horizons (at Walt Disney World) used two Omnimax screens back to back as part of a dark ride. There's a map showing what that looked like here: https://parklore.com/main/horizons/3/
sjm-lbm commented on Omnimax   computer.rip/2025-06-08-O... · Posted by u/aberoham
madcaptenor · 6 months ago
I miss the Omnimax they had at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. They closed it during the pandemic and it never reopened.
sjm-lbm · 6 months ago
I sort of wonder how many of them had this exact fate - the Ft Worth Texas one was in the exact same situation. My understanding is that both parts to maintain the projection system and people with the knowledge to operate it were getting very rare, and the people largely retired when the pandemic closed the theater. Since a lot of the Omnimax screens were build during a similar range of time and would have had similar challenges, I wonder if that fate was common.

(luckily, the Ft Worth theater specifically was converted to an LED screen and recently reopened)

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