Kudos to the Blue Origin folks. That was solid gold Hollywood level pyrotechnics!
Two thumbs way up!
The mushroom cloud was a nice touch too - nothing says high drama like a nice mushroom cloud.
My grandkids would both be yelling - "Ooh! Do it again!"
[what is everybody looking at me like that for? too soon?]
He was also being, IMHO, extra cute with the amount of gold he 'requisitioned': 303 bars, 1 kg each, comes out to 666.6 pounds of gold. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.
Musk, Cook, Zuckerborg, Altman, Brin, Ellison, Catz, Brockman, Pichai, Nadella, and more that I'm forgetting all have Trump-ass on their breath.
There are a few who seem to prefer democracy, but if you can name a technology company leader of a non-trivial firm that publicly supports the goals of OWS types, please name them - I can't.
So basically what you are saying is that the Mythbusters could have gotten at least as good a result, if not better result, by only having dimples on the car at the point of air flow separation? Like a ring of dimples around the whole car just in front of the front doors? And a second ring around the max curve of the grill area? [Just a 'for instance' - I have no idea if those are the correct areas. IINALAFE].
That's nothing new. In my day we did it with the "Magic 8-Ball". Occasionally it hallucinated, but most of the time it was dead on.
Pilots actually are pretty much geniuses. Especially military ones (and most civilian ones at airlines are retired military ones). 10-100 times more people apply to be pilots than are needed, so the weeding out process is brutal and swift. Must have perfect vision, great physical ability and stamina (and no serious injuries ever - worked with a guy that was washed out of being a pilot for a knee injury - that still healed perfectly, but yet disqualified him). On top of that, they need to understand aeronautics, do heavy math, and the best ones can instinctively solve math problem in seconds that would take the rest of us hours.
So all in all a pretty exceptional bunch. Not an idiot among them.
Negative. The most important statement in science is "That's strange
For starters, your implicit assumption seems to be that "MAGA" == downwardly mobile white folks. That's part of the coalition, yes - but the dominant caste is wealthy suburbanites - we used to call them "white flight" voters. Think car dealership owners and dentists. The kind of people who can afford to fuck up boats at "Trump Yacht Rallies".
The second is that somehow condescension and ridicule somehow uniquely attaches to this segment. Hate to break it to you, but that is most people's normal. It is privileged white folks who are learning what it is like to be treated like everyone else, and are reacting to that.
The third weird thing is an utter failure to notice that these condescending "captains of industry" are all MAGA supporters. Trumpistas who think this way are literally cheering their own subjugation. MAGAts are being led around by the fucking nose. It would be hilarious if they weren't taking the rest of us with them.
Right, that's why this makes sense for Gmail. The spreadsheet says make the free tier extraction percentage number go up, and they value noncomplying users' time at zero. The math should is different for company-internal email.
The operative question should be, how much do you want to spend on employees sorting email instead of writing code or whatever you hired them to do? Because that's how you're buying your disk storage savings.
Different places have different considerations - as I mentioned above, my employer now clearly values reducing litigation risk over my productivity. In the past at startups, my decision was to give folks huge quotas and treat it like any other capacity management problem for scaling/budgeting.
There has to be some limit, and if someone somehow bounces off of it nobody thinks it unreasonable to tell them to fix it. And anyway there's usually a reason like a misconfigured something that infinitely-spams about whatever it is upset about. Otherwise they can worry about work instead of email management make-work.
Of course it'll be a little rough around the edges, and the solar panel won't work, and instead of growls it makes Bart Simpson jokes, but I'm sure it'll be fine.
I also didn't want people wasting time worrying about quotas or other artificial limits unless they were abusive. (The dude who wrote something that was authing against LDAP 10s of millions of times a day got a talking-to.)
A lot of people confuse "I can't imagine doing or needing X" with "there is a good reason to deny the ability to do X." Honestly, I think most people are Doing It Wrong, most of the time. So? If they're getting shit done, none of my business until they are making unreasonable demands that impact operations. And 100G of mail is peanuts.
My current complaint is the opposite - I can't keep mail longer than a year now, lest it be discoverable in some potential future lawsuit. I've gotten better at predicting what I'll need to know later, but still miss things I should have saved somewhere, and that absolutely damages my productivity.
I do agree that they should stand up for themselves, and they have my support, once I'm done supporting causes I consider more important, like toe lint eradication.
Facebook headhunters used to bug me constantly. I put up an autoresponder telling them what I thought of their business model, leadership and general behavior, and that I would wash dishes for a living before working for a degrading, anti-human shithole like FB. Eventually they got the message.
I ended up in a fairly heated argument with some FB employees several years back when I mentioned that. It was obvious they felt stung by someone rejecting the choices they made and kept leaning in to, "but I make more money than you". Which was I was happy to concede, it was true. Suggesting that my self-esteem costs more than theirs didn't seem to be what they wanted to hear..
I wonder if those folks are still there, protesting about their workplace privacy.
At this point I think if a good idea walked up and smacked him on the head, the name alone might doom it. It has been an also-ran in a confusing number of categories, so depending on your age you may remember it as a very different kind of failure than I do. Sort of the converse of trademark dilution - it is clear what the name is and who owns it, what's muddy is what the service is supposed to be.
I was buying drives to add another stripe when the pricing started to ramp up - I try to buy them over time to get different drives from different lots. Now I wish I'd just bought a bunch.
This time last year they were $369, sometimes cheaper. The most recent one I bought was $500. The cheapest I see them right now is $769.
I think I'll be waiting on that new stripe, but at least I have four spares to keep the existing system running.
Happiness is a hard disk.
