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Spirit believed it was buying a specific, certified titanium alloy.

Imagine the rabbis at Hebrew National were out sick, but Hebrew National continued churning out “Kosher hotdogs” that hadn’t been properly vetted.

Sure it’s still a hotdog made with kosher ingredients. But it’s a major violation of trust. And trust is what consumers expect when flying.

My experience from west coast wildfires and taking indoor air pollution measurements is if I put 3 air purifiers in one master bedroom and keep the windows and doors closed I can go from code purple air outside to code orange air inside… So it’s not perfect, but it does kind of work if you’re in a situation where you can’t integrate a positive air pressure system.

Yes, 22 horses died at Berkeley in 2020. Several hundred workers also came down with COVID during that time. The sport is hard on labor and horses.

Has anyone just requested access to GitHub’s training data? In other words, maybe GitHub will send a drive with all the data.

Yes, as someone who has done volunteer telemarketing, we mark the call status. For example if you’re angry/rude, non-English speaking, disconnected, etc. Campaign managers can then target call sheets accordingly (e.g. for a Spanish-speaking line, have the Spanish team do a follow up call).

The “quiet car” on medium-haul passenger rail routes (e.g. Acela in the US.) or a sleeper car on long-haul rail or a first class “private room” on airlines like Emirates.

> I have a well paying job now, and I am pretty sure I would throw my marriage into chaos if I told my wife I was leaving my job to pursue a start up.

This is a conversation you should have with your spouse. Many spouses go back to school or pursue a financially risky entrepreneurial path. The other spouse supports the family. I've also seen this blow up, as the fiancee/spouse that supported the partner gets dumped after shortly after success... If you do this, I strongly encourage you to offer your spouse a generous postnuptial agreement (i.e. more than CA family law defaults to.)

In London security will sometimes specifically ask if you or anyone else has made repairs or modifications to any electronics. Depending on how honestly you answer, this could still be a hassle.

I have seen legacy companies with security rules so tight they can’t ship anything cool. On the flip side are legacy companies that ship great user experiences, but apparently just totally ignore the security people. Does the security professions have a “human centric security design” capability? It’s something the non-tech Fortune 500s to desperately need.

I have the latest iPhone 13 Pro Max, shoot RAW and with acoustic filters mounted on my phone and what not. Both my photos and iPhone photos that I’ve seen at “iPhone photography” art exhibits are clearly lower quality.

Now one could argue about whether the tiny censors on smartphones in of itself is just another dimension of artistic expression.

But my personal aesthetic preference as a hobbyist photographer and art consumer is that unintentional censor noise is not good.

I don’t consider myself wealthy, and I make less than half that… But I’m also not poor. I have no problem chipping in or 1 or 2 percent more if it means keeping the masses from revolution… As happened to my step mom’s parents in the Chinese cultural revolution.

Yes, but it sounds like forensic researchers envision this tool being the equivalent to bullet striation. So in other words, law enforcement finds a suspect, captures their camera, photographs RAW images, and then compares the sensor imperfections in the seized camera to known illicit materials.

Of course this breaks down with used sales and camera rentals, especially since those aren’t tracked as intensively as firearms sales.

Most of these jobs hire software engineers, not programmers. The job is more than coding.

Software engineering is writing technical design docs. Gathering business requirements. Gathering technical requirements. Negotiating with stakeholders like InfoSec, legal and accounting. Discussing user research and new features with UX practitioners. Etc.

IME many large, non-tech companies are so bureaucratic they essentially have an async flow. Which perhaps is fine, there’s already a defined process for what needs to be done. But for a startup where even the next two weeks are foggy, async work can be detrimental.