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They didn't get a terrian warning because they were landing. Being close to the ground is what they expected. They have both radar & pressure altimeters.

What might have happened is that due to the poor weather they thought they were closer to the airport, or they weren't closely following their glide path, or the aircraft was misconfigured for the RNAV approach. Perhaps a combination of the three.

Mining yellowstone for its geothermal power in order to prevent a volcanic eruption would be a Kardashev Scale Type I accomplishment.

In other words, such a thing is completely infeasible given our current understanding of science and technology.

The time required to develop such a capability would span so many lifetimes that is it effectively science fiction.

Googler here.

L4 requires experience. New grad hires are L3.

When you take off, you're going up at a rate of 500 fpm to 2000 fpm. Even if you go from +1000 fpm to -1000 fpm over the course of several seconds, you aren't going to feel much.

At cruise altitude, you're moving along at 500 mph, which is 777 feet per second. So going from +30 feet to -30 feet in a minute is just an adjustment of only about 5 degrees. You'd barely feel it, even walking down the isle. An acceleration of 33 ft/sec per sec is 1 g.

You experience greater changes in vertical motion on any flight you go on.

*edit: units

Almost all aircraft are equipped with ADS-B transponders, which transmit their tail number and location continuously. Anybody can buy a ADS-B receiver and see info for aircraft flying near them.

In good internet fashion, people figured out that they can coordinate large networks of receivers, which basically centralizes a nationwide database of all aircraft movement.

So, all this account did was tweet when Elon's jet moved from this central ADS-B database.

I can't help but think this is the only sensible approach.

Persistant performance related issues are management's responsibility. It's unfair to withhold their vesting mere weeks from their vest date when management should've addressed the issue earlier.

Take a look at the map. Chernobyl sits right on the border of Belarus, 130km to Kyiv on the western side of Dnieper river.

They didn't take Chernobyl to take the reactor, they took it because it is extremely strategic if the goal is to assault Kyiv.

I think the article was pretty well-informed and sourced analysis. Yes, as you point out, NATO has undertaken offensive campaigns. I think the author made a mistake of saying "alliance" here when they meant to say "treaty".

AFAIK, none of the NATO articles were invoked as part of the operation in Yugoslavia. That is to say, though it was a NATO operation, members were not bound by treaty to participate.

This fact muddles some of the points the author made, but the author speaks broadly of the ramifications of invoking Article 5, so I would say their analysis is well-reasoned.

Disclaimer: am Googler.

Self-hosting is a good option, especially when mixed with multi-cloud offerings.

The big rub is that it's really hard to approach the same level of availability the cloud offerings already give you. Depending on work-load, self-hosting is typically more expensive.

This is why the SRE book talks about availability budget. You can't have 100% uptime, so how much do you want to pay to get close to it?