There are many good Marvel movies & shows but there is also complete trash. And the hit ratio has gotten worse over time and it has begun to wear the audiences down. It probably doesn't help that Disney is so terrified of offending anybody or foreign markets like China that the script and characters often become a bland, homogeneous sludge scared to say or do anything.

The preliminary investigation says one fuel intake was shut off and a second later the other - "Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec". This would imply a person turned off one (pull, switch, release) and then the other (pull, switch, release). Then the other pilot noticed, asked why the other pilot did it and attempted to reverse the procedure but too late.

Now perhaps there is another explanation but it seems to me given what is described that a pilot did this unintentionally / unconsciously or they did it on purpose.

As for why it took 10 seconds to notice and switch back to RUN, probably because cutting off the fuel is not an instant shutdown and I imagine if it happened to a pilot during takeoff it might take 2 or 3 seconds for the engines to shut down and the remaining time to wonder wtf happened and focus on the issue and rectify it.

An Amazon "sale" is mostly just Chinese OEM trash. It's not a sale, it's not a clearance of seasonal stock. It's just the same garbage sold under various names where it is impossible to ascertain if there is a sale at all.

I read the initial investigation report. I trust that more than some rando's hot take.

I wouldn't put shoddy aircraft maintenance beyond the realm of possibility for Air India. It's not a country known for unblemished record for corruption and cutting corners. But the cockpit voice recorder has one pilot asking the other why they shut off the fuel, followed by them switching the fuel back on. That would suggest the switches were turned off, and then turned on again. So at best it is likely pilot error and at worst an intentional act.

To switch their state you have to pull up on the switch to overcome a bar and drop it back down in the other position. For each engine. They're designed that way to prevent them being accidentally knocked from one position to another. The switches are also surrounded by a metal guard for additional protection from knocks.

So the most likely reason they both changed state, one and then the other is because one of the pilots did it. Maybe they did it accidentally - some kind of brain fart, or maybe they did it intentionally. Investigators will likely want to know which pilot was responsible and figure out if they had anything going on that would suggest a motive.

... pointless but well done I guess. I assume KDE is doing it because Windows has it and they're always trying to play the same notes without understanding the tune.

Yes, programmed to act like the original hardware. It's not software emulation but it's still imitating the original hardware, i.e. emulating it.

I'd dispute their claims it's not using an emulator - an FPGA is still an emulator of sorts, not of software but of hardware. But it demonstrates more effort than just slapping a cheap Arm board into a case and calling it a day. An FPGA should be capable of running C64/C128 software almost perfectly, aside from any weird video PAL/NTSC blanking tricks that might not work when output on HDMI.

Since there are already FPGA based C64/C128 boards including one already called Ultimate 64, I wonder if this is just an official rebadge of an existing product perhaps with a matching case to go with it.

Concerning portability I wonder why solar panels aren't installed on flatbed trailers and parked in vacant land & parking lots. There are a LOT of vacant parking lots that could serve as temporary solar farm sites.

I think most farms would have ample space to install solar & wind pretty much anywhere on their land, or even on the rooftops of barns and such like. Certainly more than ample to power the household and also to provide heat and light for livestock, & operate at least some machinery.

He has a masters in electrical engineering, albeit one he abandoned for a career in comedy. But he should know better. I think his passion for combustion engines has developed into a hatred for electric motors.

I bet these "partners" are the ones most aggressively interested in squeezing cash out of captive customers. Maybe it's time to review where VMWare is used in the organization and what viable alternatives exist for where it is used. I bet a lot of VMWare instances are costly overkill for the purposes they're being used for.

Hydrogen combustion has to be one of the most comically bad ideas to come out of the automotive industry in recent years. Rowan Atkinson (who is a petrol head and has many terrible takes on electric vehicles) was raving about driving such a car even though its range was in the double digits. But I'm sure it makes throaty broom broom sounds and as a millionaire it doesn't matter to him if it would costs 20x to fuel as a normal petrol engine, or requires extensive engine rebuilds. Still a terrible idea.

The concept has never been promising. Hydrogen is expensive, mostly made from fossil fuels, and it's hard to store / transport. And even if it was made from renewables it takes 3-4x the energy to produce & run a car than just charging a battery. The only reason certain automakers like Toyota have been pushing it is to act as a spoiler for battery powered EVs. Toyota has also been continuously lying about solid state batteries being just around the corner for at least 15 years now - not because they were but to spoil interest in current battery tech. Automakers have mostly pivoted to "synthetic" fuels as their next spoiler for BEVs which solves some of the issues with hydrogen but still sucks. If they had put as much effort into investing in EV manufacturing as they did in spreading FUD, they might not be in this predicament in the first place.