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Reported an obvious sexual ad the other day and got a very AI generated response that started with "Dear Username" stating that they reviewed the ad and found nothing wrong with it…

I believe I went to high school with the author, so this took me down memory lane. I wrote an FTP client back in 1999 using only the Win32 API and C. Good times.

Yeah, I believe the RAT is automatically deployed when both engines fail or when there's a critical loss of pressure in the hydraulic systems.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GtPFDrnbAAA6c68?format=jpg&name=... It could be the blurry object under the fuselage, just to the right of the left engine.

Here's a Reddit video: https://www.reddit.com/r/ahmedabad/comments/1l9i1ga/om_shant... And here's a YouTube video showing a Ram Air Turbine (RAT) being deployed on a 787 for compar…

There's a better, longer video on Reddit. At the beginning of the video, it sounds like the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) is deployed, which would suggest a dual engine failure.

I believe this is the first hull loss of a Boeing 787.

Great --now it’s going to use even more memory.

I jokingly mentioned something like that to my wife when Trump was elected. Now, given the current circumstances, I may not get another chance to visit the US. Still, I’m grateful …

In 2021 the company received €200 million from the Croatian government and the EU to develop a self-driving car, presumably to compete with US companies. However, they ended up usi…

You don't achieve fault tolerance solely by using Erlang. Erlang does not inherently 'achieve fault tolerance.' Instead, you make your system fault-tolerant through deliberate engi…

I would argue that a lot of public APIs are a mess. We used to joke that instead of firing the bottom 10%, Google just reallocates them to the Android team.

Visual introduction to Fourier Transform from 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY

Reread Dune Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Highly recommended.

This guy sounds like a textbook example of CV driven developer. I've delivered large amount of value to business with boring technologies like Java, Django and made good money in t…

I might be too cynical but what's most likely to happen is that corporations will find a way to avoid paying the tax and it will hurt people who struggle the most already. For exam…

Where would that money go though? Do you honestly believe that given enough money politicians can come up with a viable solution for climate change? Mind you those are the same peo…

We bought an expensive washing machine 3 years ago thinking it will last us a long time. It already broke down twice. It's been broken for almost a month now waiting for parts and …

Well said. I had a misfortune to work on a project where this exact thinking was used to carve up relatively simple system into about a dozen microservices. Turns out referential i…

I am less optimistic. Those plants are *massive*. Shutting them down will not be easy. For example the one in Poland accounts for about 20% of the total power generation in Poland …

5% of the plants; shutting them down will not be easy. For example the one in Poland generates about 20% of Poland's electricity and was recently expanded.

Can someone explain why that button/menu even exists? It shows all the extensions and you can quickly pin/unpin them but is that something people normally do? I believe most people…

admin.google.com is a great example of unnecessary, over-engineered and almost comically bad client side rendering. First off it's painfully slow. Then you go to manage users. Ther…

The part about Amazon reminded me of one of the best quotes from Frank Herbert's Dune: “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. B…

My roommate at work used to give me grief for using MacBook. He used Ubuntu on some kind of Lenovo laptop. His keyboard would stop working at least once a day. I knew because he wa…