jballer

I was going to point to Koenigsegg’s Freevalve system and, in the process of looking for a link, learned that it was cancelled.

This cuts both ways: grants are more valuable as political favors when they are immune to cancellation, and grants with objectively-established value are harder to terminate without political blowback.

You have to look up the maximum wattage for the given cabin configuration. I’ve found 30W to be about as high as I can go without it cutting out. Use a phone charger for your laptop.

This is where it’s helpful to have a multi-port charger where they’re not all high-draw.

IMO more important to go with something flat or light that won’t fall out under its own weight.

To the contrary, they think of manual and “low-skill” labor as an essential undertaking that no person or society is above.

You are the one who thinks of the work as below you, that it should be moved out of sight so we can stop caring and make it someone else’s problem.

Right. I think the real risk here is that even a “positive” outcome at 18F would have still been negative in every other context that matters to him. Why stick around and risk a neutral-to-positive experience that could result in labels like “scab,” “collaborator,” and “traitor” by no other fault of your own?

I went to a USDS recruiting event in the Bay Area a decade ago. The whole pitch was that they were Obama’s elite squad of private-sector tech workers, on brief tours of duty, taking orders directly from the White House about what to work on.

To recap: OP resigned because he feared what might happen in a meeting with USDS. It might have required him to kill someone, or explain his work to a contractor. Somehow these are presented as equally-odious propositions.

He openly refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of USDS, referring to it as "a so-called 'department'", and neglects even a cursory investigation into whether it may in fact be a legitimate executive agency established by Obama, staffed by government employees with requisite clearances and authority.

It's wild to me that so many smart people think the White House should be boxed out of the day-to-day operations of GSA and OMB, whether by law or tradition, despite being undeniably responsible for their actions.

Incredible work

Does anyone else remember the online User’s Manual for early iPhones? It was web-based, but had a full JavaScript reimplementation of UINavigationController, UIScrollView, and UITableView.

I always suspected it was part of some bigger project that never panned out (maybe just prototyping?).

Setting aside the question of how we should evaluate content for being “in the public interest” and assuming the programming is as valuable as it could possibly be

How many people still tune in via OTA antennae? How does the value of broadcast TV compare to other possible uses of that RF spectrum?

Probably challenging to sufficiently harden the links and ground equipment, and to guarantee QoS for military applications

They’re optimizing for different priorities. Obviously you need to be conservative when launches cost so much you can only afford ~one shot.

Thanks for sharing. I have the same “bright lights” hypothesis. If I see something bright I close my eyes until it feels like it’s passed. Seems to work, but who knows until I get my next one.

I’m also realizing in my late-30s that I have at least some form of dyslexia - I used to think Ambien made me hallucinate letters dancing on the page, but it’s my eye muscles and happens most when I’m tired.

The better question is why the other 32 did