No, but apparently there’s an electoral mandate for it.

She certainly didn’t…

As in coal-powered steam trains? There’s a moderate number in tourist service around the world.

Diesel or electric trains carrying coal are still very common.

Unfortunately, Project 2025 is a whole book/organisation devoted to getting effective permanent revenge.

The NASA Vehicle Assembly Building is also a contender.

I’m not sure how many dividing walls there are inside Everett, but the VAB is basically one massive empty skyscraper.

I feel dumber having read that.

Banning a whole country because you disliked a company?

Dealing with stuff that’s ‘almost working’ is often harder than starting from scratch; ask any tradesperson.

They also apparently cannot get their heads around the fact that people might give you a discount if you advertise their brand. Ad-supported pricing has been around for a long time; it’s not some voodoo.

Until the day comes that I get a letter in the mail from the government saying, “Here’s how much you paid in taxes, if you’re cool with that then please disregard”, I will not be satisfied.

NZ does that. More accurately, they email you to tell you that there’s a letter available online - I don’t think they send physical mail by default.

Then they pay any refund straight into your nominated bank account.

It’s also torches and everything after the regulator, which run at much lower pressure. At least in NZ

I think it might be because they’re connected and disconnected regularly so misconnection is a common problem, even with colour coding. Gas work on houses involves actually putting the fittings on pipe and is done by people who should be concentrating more on that rather than on what they’re about to weld/cut.

I’ve heard flammable gas uses reverse (left hand) thread to prevent cross connection. At least for welding gases in NZ; not sure about natural gas.

The 737 factory is unionized, and it’s not having any fewer issues.

They’ve just acquired a terrible management culture. Even the military and space contracts have gone down the drain.

As a person in neither Georgia nor Georgia (nor the US at all), I agree that it seems like an easy mistake to make.

But for anyone in Georgia or a neighboring state, it seems like something that should be pretty well known. Especially if you work in marketing.

I’d normally expect these kinds of ads to be produced by the local party branch but this suggests that either the local Georgians don’t know there’s another Georgia, or the ads came straight out of the national HQ or Moscow.

Any hard drive can fail at any time with or without warning. Worrying too much about individual drive families’ reliability isn’t worth it if you’re dealing with few drives. Worry instead about backups and recovery plans in case it does happen.

Bigger drives have significantly lower power usage per TB, and cost per TB is lowest around 12-16TB. Bigger drives also lets you fit more storage in a given box. Drives 12TB and up are all currently helium filled which run significantly cooler.

Two preferred options in the data hoarder communities are shucking (external drives are cheaper than internal, so remove the case) and buying refurb or grey market drives from vendors like Server Supply or Water Panther. In both cases, the savings are usually big enough that you can simply buy an extra drive to make up for any loss of warranty.

Under US$15/TB is typically a ‘good’ price.

For media serving and deep storage, HDDs are still fine and cheap. For general file storage, consider SSDs to improve IOPS.

I don’t remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.

Here in NZ they do a factory reset on your calculator at the start of every exam.

Exercising eminent domain can mean a long and expensive legal and media process. I’m not sure about Texas (or the rest of the US, for that matter), but many projects in the first world do everything possible to avoid using it.

Yes. But my point is that the IRS has a process for declaring and paying tax on income that you got illegally, whether it’s from being a mobster or working without the right visa.

Capone didn’t follow that process, so got done for tax evasion.

These illegal immigrants are paying their taxes, and therefore a) they aren’t exposed to prosecution for tax evasion, and b) the IRS won’t rat them out to ICE.

Boeing doesn’t make many of the parts in the aircraft, especially things like pressurization controllers. Those come from contractors like Honeywell.

What they do is design the systems around the parts, including selecting the desired level of redundancy, and commission the custom parts needed.

The 737 is still mostly a 1960s design built mostly to 1960s rules. There have been plenty of improvements but that’s not the same as a clean sheet design built to be entirely automatic even when stuff breaks.

While immigrants in the country without authorization do not have Social Security numbers, they can file taxes using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN.

Reports about 3m people file using an ITIN each year, and the number of people expected to legally use them is very small.

Also says they see about $12B more paid into social security by illegals than paid out.

As Al Capone found, the government is would rather you pay tax on illegally earned money.

Even 95% is on the low side. Most residential-grade PV grid-tie inverters are listed as something like 97.5%. Higher voltage versions tend to do better.

Yeah, filters essentially store power during one part of the cycle and release it during another. Net power lost is fairly minimal, though not zero. DC needs filtering too: all those switchmode power supplies are very choppy.

NZ’s Parliament was regularly described as “more Westminster than Westminster” until we moved to MMP in the 90s.

It has its bugs but it’s far better than FPP and many alternatives.