Given the rate of "progress" with QC doing prime factorization of arbitrary compound numbers, not only will I be dead by then, everyone who will have known me in my life will be dead. And if you add the criterion that QC must be cheap enough to make it worthwhile to crack my secret messages, there's a fair chance that everyone who would have known anyone who knew me in life in life will also be dead by then.

And no, I do not believe in doomsday prophesies.

Meanwiile, without any form of cheating, a 6th grader will be a lot faster than a quantum computer, and they'll do it for rewards that cost way less than the operating cost of the QC.

Practical quantum prime factorization is all the way up to (some) 2 digit numbers and it only took 20 years. Lately, scaling of quantum computers seems to have hit a wall. MS's meetoo quantum chip turned out to be a mock-up, Google's imminant announcement of the largest QC yet is now a year overdue and silence from the hype machine is ominous.

So I guess this is Aptiv trying to cash in (or perhaps cash out) before the bust.

The lack of a gate on that switch should be readily apparent to the operator when both starting and shutting down the a/c engines. minor point either way either it was documented as a complete inspection or not.

Yes, the switches were moved to cut off, and back to run (just like the emergency procedure calls for in a dual engine failure) why were they moved is the question, I am not aware of any released information that precludes some indication of a dual engine failure prior to the switch movement?

You seem very invested in this event, do you have some connection to it?

A few more bits. That inspection is very simple and does not take any technical skill to perform. Any pilot with enough experience to sit in the front seat should recognize that the fuel control switches were not airworthy if the safety gate was not functional. (let alone an AMT).

It is highly unlikely those switches were moved by accident. They must be grasped with some force and lifted up over the gate before moving down. Then the other one, They are too far apart to move both with one hand, on purpose no doubt.

Also, the underlined immediate memory action steps for a dual engine failure on this aircraft includes moving both of these switches to cutoff and then to run as step three of the emergency procedure.

There is still not enough information released yet to come to a conclusion about the cause of this accident.

Where I live (Kamloops, BC, Canada) the all-time high temperature record for a long time was 42C, set in July 1941. Most of southern B.C. set records that month. No air conditioning. Ugh! We demolished that record when it hit 47C in June 2021. I've never been so hot in my life...

The hottest we've been so far this summer was 36C. I expect to hit the Big Four Oh at least once, but the long-term forecast isn't promising.

...laura

What about LONG term income and price changes?

Wages haven't kept up with inflation for decades. Various social norms pressuring people to have kids have been eroding the whole time due to the simple impracticality of it.

OK, open the hanger, here comes the airplaaaaaane!>/p>

His name is Paul Yura. I'm pretty sure Nick Bannon is not rsilvergun IRL.

Now finish those nummy strained peas.

It's right here in the comments.

The person who would have coordinated the alert with local authorities is gone. His position has not been filled because a lateral move would make the new guy "probationary" (and we know what happens to those under Trump).

But in this particular case, with the chain of cause to effect well established, the names of each of those kids should be tattooed on his face in blood red ink, mirror imaged so he can be reminded every morning when he gets up.

The alerts are supposed to be localized to the area where they can do some good. When I get an alert about something on the other side of the state at 3 A.M. It has missed the mark, unless that ever so rare silver or possibly white Honda drives through my bedroom window (which can't happen for at least 3 hours given how far away it is), there's zero chance I will see it.

Now, if they displayed the alert on the signs over the interstate, they would better target people who might actually see it.

Their pricing is already high for streaming, but that's apparently not enough for them. If you actually try to sign up you find that they pump the price > 33% more with "fees" for various things they advertise as benefits of their streaming, and so push the price to over $100/month.

Somehow it doesn't surprise me that they want even more money under the table after that.

At one point, diquat was used for weed control in lakes because it won't disperse or break down to become ineffective even if just poured in the water.

Imagine what that says about washing it off of fruits and vegetables or it's ability to diffuse into aquifers.

Check prices for Taiwan as well if you like. Meanwhile, where do you think American companies have boards made for them? The big differential in price is mark-up.

But really, there isn't a lot of human labor involved in board fab these days. And certainly not the sort that pays the lowest wages.

Components are just as crazily marked up in the U.S. I wouldn't be at all surprised that the Chinese manufacturers can get even better pricing then an individual could from a Chinese supplier due to volume.