> some critics... safe to fly.

That includes me. A random internet nerd.

For columbia, they knew a piece of ice hit the wing, not that it had damaged the wing. What everybody tries to ignore is that during the two weeks in space, there was talk about an unplanned spacewalk to "have a look". They decided "not to have a look" and paid with 7 lives.

What if MicroSoft would this week decide: "ok. As per your request: Throttle it is, no more windows OS for Russa based IPs!" ?

Why is Tesla on the list? Is a car company. How is the entire company that is trying to combat global warming and move to a sustainable future a threat to democracy?

Or are they just talking about its CEO and tarring the entire company for him?

If they hate Musk, X is a more appropriate thing to list. But Tesla?!

So of 11600 MW of newly installed renewables, 10000 or 86% is in those batteries. That's absurd.

Why the F*** when a scientist says he's found a nearly complete bellusaurus skeleton, the reporter says: "A what-o-saurus??, let me get my pencil and write this down". But when it is about batteries and energy, they simply get it wrong. There is probably about 2000 MW, 10000 MWh of battery capacity installed.

There are two supermarkets on my commute to work. Both of them started with a few self checkout booths.

Then one did a big "redesign of the layout", now there are 8 or 10 self checkout points and one or two old-fashioned cashiers. The other one went back to all cashiers at about the same time. I guess they had different experiences.

In the one where the manager found it successful, they have one "self checkout" employee and one cashier most of the time. While before there would be 3 or 4 sometimes 5 working the registers. And for me: The last year or so, there have been two instances when there was a queue of 1 or 2 people for self-checkout (for 8 stations = quick!). To me it is a success and for the shop, as they expanded the self-checkout too I guess.

Apparently experiences differ. Apparently quonset has had a different experience. Or agenda.

So if you run this plant for 2.5 years, you can fly a 747 across the ocean!

Why did the masks work in Kansas? It could be that the masks prevented people from getting infected as you would think.

But maybe there is another mechanism. Maybe the awareness of "an issue with a contagious disease" makes people more careful, and the continuous reminders by seeing people with masks and having one on yourself creates that awareness.... That's what the non RCT studies cannot tell you.

My doctor prescribes me something for "high blood pressure". I call it the "zero F***s were given" medicine. It is possible that the effect is completely psychological. Work not done? No stress, go home. Doctors require RCT tests to prove effectiveness before they will prescribe a medicine. This could pass the tests that way....

The definition of temperature makes for some "weird" corner cases. Apparently the environment in LEO has a very high temperature: The few molecules that there are are moving a blistering speeds.

If they claim that 30k temperature, I'm guessing they do some form of vacuum deposition where due to an oddity in the definition of temperature you can state that the temperature is indeed 30k.

Apparently the American plan is: Sue first, educate yourself later.

When you're a full-time sysadmin, maintaining a "high volume" site, then it is reasonable to replace the hardware and upgrade the OS every one or two years. But if you're "johnson & johnson hardware" who paid a nephew $1000 for a webserver and website a while back, then upgrading every 6 years is not even obvious.

Ehh.... I hava 2.4.32 system still "in production". (Yes, its on the internet, No it doesn't have any ports exposed to the internet, no it doesn't have user accounts).

I'm working to replace it the coming weeks.

It means that you try to control a process without looking at the results. Apply this to bosses having an annual chat with their employees, I don't think that's a good idea.

- I think you're underperforming, I think you should do better.
- But my numbers are the best of the whole team!
- No I can't use that in my Feedforward, you need to do better and you're not getting your pay raise this year!

> .... carbon dating ...

Carbon dating is based on the fact that on EARTH there is a relatively fixed ratio between carbon 14 and carbon 12 in the air. Thus as carbon is included in biological tissues that ratio persists. From there the carbon 14 decays and the less carbon 14 you find the longer ago did the specimen include carbon from the air into its tissues. So when you carbon-date a specimen, you're ASSUMING it grew up on earth. Or you prove you don't know what you're doing.