During the Apollo program, they wound up awarding the space suit program to a company that primarily made Bras and Girdles. ILC, aka the company that makes "Playtex" won the contract, and produced very high quality suits. Why would a bra maker ever be the right company? Well, as it turns out, building form fitting clothes that are equivolume, close fitting, out of many different materials, is a skill, whether it's to keep a woman's bust under control or keep a pressurized atmosphere in against the harsh vacuum of space.

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Yeah, why would one ever contract with a company that makes bras and girdles to make a space suit? what do they know about aerospace?

Oh... Wait...

I guess ILC Dover doesn't exist.

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt; knowing how to integrate multiple different fabrics and textures is a very valuable skill.

At least for groceries, that's not a big deal if you're living in a walkable place. I have 3 grocery stores within a 5 block radius, plus a couple more ethnic grocers. I don't recall the last time I actually used my car for grocery shopping. Yeah, I tend to only shop for 2 or 3 days at a time (other than when picking up staples) but it's really nice.

This is the whole point of the whole "15 minute cities" thing. Within a 15 minute walk, I have everything I could possibly want. The only time I need to use my vehicle is when I want to go and do something further afield, say go skiing or what not.

On the flip side, it's virtually impossible to clean a USB female socket. Connectors are magnets for pocket lint. With the lightning connector, I can just clean out the connector with a paperclip or a thumbtack or similar.

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There may not be legal requirements, but there are certainly class certifications and standards for these kinds of things, as there is for pretty much anything in the marine industry.

Youtube has a good documentary on building Gabe Newell’s “DSV Limiting Factor” and all the testing and certification they went through to build that.

I was reading your comment and was just about to say that I agree with you, with the exception of certain mushrooms like Morels and Chanterelles which are unique and don't have toxic lookalikes in the same regions. There is the "False Morel" which turns into toxic rocket fuel (mono-methyl hydrazine) if consumed raw, but it's pretty easy to spot the difference if you're even mildly observant.

The MacBooks with the new magsafe connector can still fully charge via usb-C. It’s primarily there because the connector is more robust than usb-c, and being breakaway, less likely to drag your laptop onto the floor if someone trips over the cable.

It’s one of the things that’s causing me to consider upgrading my old MBP, as magsafe is a far superior connector.

Absolutely.

I had this happen to me a couple of times. Was arriving home in Vancouver after a flight via Toronto. Got off the plane, fired up "Find My" and noticed that my bag had been seen in Toronto 5 minutes previous.

Got down to the baggage hall, walked straight to the desk, smiled, was friendly, and said "Hi there, just arrived from Toronto, and it looks like my bag is still in Toronto." "how do you know that? they haven't come out yet." just held up the "Find my" screen and she goes "Ahh, I see." They gave me an amenity kit (t-shirt, charging cable, and so forth), took the report, and sent me on my way.

Got the bag a couple days later.

But yes, absolutely, being pleasant, smiling, non-confrontational... That's the secret. If you're that island of serenity in the midst of the storm, they'll often go to bat for you, because it means they don't have to deal with the shitheads that are going to yell at them.

The funny thing? I've flown with Air Canada a lot, and am a member of their program (aeroplan). It's always dead easy for me to get a flight on UA, especially on short notice.

Back when I was unemployed for a while, a friend asked me to fly down to LA to help him with a sailboat, so I plopped down to the airport in Vancouver, reserved myself a one-way flight for about 30,000 miles, and boarded it 90 minutes later.

Airlines have even cheaper technology, printed barcodes on the tags, and usually stuck somewhere else on the bag too. There are then laser scanners through the baggage system that lets the bag be tracked.

The problem is that the staff that have to deal with this just aren't paid enough to care.

So I always have an airtag in my suitcase as it lets me do their job for them, and make their lives easier.

Hmm? The regulation doesn't affect the bulbs I use, as I mentioned in my original comment. Appliance/harsh duty bulbs are explicitly exempted.

It's entirely possible to get LEDs with a good CRI, they just cost more.

Buddy is a professional architectural photographer, at this point all the supplemental lighting he brings to a shoot is LED. Why? He can put a "hot light" behind a bush or pillar or whatever with an attached lithium power pack, and it will run for hours and hours. But they weren't cheap lamps, as they actually do have a good CRI.

I live in the Pacific Northwest, and have a sailboat that is kept in the water year 'round. To keep the mildew and condensation at bay over the winter, we hang a rugged duty 100W appliance bulb in the main part of the boat. It adds just enough heat to help circulate the air and keep the boat a little bit dryer and less smelly.

The good news? these bans do not include the rugged duty, or other specialty bulbs. These are the bulbs that are intended for places like commercial ovens or saunas, or anywhere else exposed to extreme conditions.

We could go to a dehumidifier or a purpose built heater, but the reality is that a simple bare bulb hanging in the middle of a space, is probably the safest way to achieve what we want.

NORAD has primarily been based out of Peterson Airforce Base since roughly 2006. The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is maintained as a "warm backup."

They're not far from each other, and still are close to Colorado Springs, but pedantry required me to correct you.