Low approach. Delivery truck was on the public highway. Not a runway incursion. Pilot’s about to lose their job.

A spinning circle requires just two threads, one to do the work and one to spin the circle. And they don’t have to talk to each other.

A progress bar is the same thing, but now the work thread has to periodically communicate the progress to the bar thread, and inter-thread synchronization has to be setup. And how do you know how much progress a single file transfer represents? Or how many progress points is a registry edit versus a file transfer? It’s hard to figure out in advance, which is why so many progress bars are shitty estimates of progress.

And I’m still getting at least 20x speedup on my applications. I don’t know where this 0.001 stuff is coming from.

No, I’m quoting the Constitution because it means something to me, and maybe to you as well. I’m not talking to them.

“They” will only accomplish their goals when enough regular people go along with it. Conversely, the Constitution will continue to have meaning as long as enough regular people are still invested. Despite some serious cracks and strains, it is holding up so far. I hope it continues to do so.

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

• Constitution. Article III, section 3.

possibly the worst Supreme Court decision ever handed down

Perhaps, but you’re going up against the classics. Dred Scott. Plessy v. Ferguson. Korematsu.

The legislature is changing the law to eliminate the entire public office before the election winner can be sworn in.

The political dynamics are that the state legislature is controlled by the (largely white) Republican party, while the electorate of Orleans Parish tilts to the Democratic party, largely on the support of black citizens.

This amendment to state law only affects the structure of elected offices in Orleans Parish, and not any other part of Louisiana.

And they can kick NASA out of the Madrid station on the Deep Space Network.

The types of visas that are available and the rules for them are set by laws passed by Congress. Trump doesn’t have the power to just unilaterally create a new visa category. So if you look at the fine print, this is actually some other already existing category that allows the president to admit individuals at discretion, and the fee is just a donation to the US Treasury. That’s also why it’s not racking up a bunch of court challenges.

I’ve done professional work on an old Unix system where the full build was more than 2 hours, and an incremental stop-rebuild-restart cycle was 20 minutes.

You get to where you really stare at your edits for a while before you hit build.

That’s an implementation-defined behaviour.

Curiously enough, SPLC was known to pass tips they learned from their spying ops to the FBI until Kash Patel shut that down recently.

I don’t know about your definition of “living wage,” but In-n-Out has a long-standing reputation for paying decent and above-market wages, both in 2016 and today.

I would guess that most of the current price premium over inflation is attributable to the current record high beef prices owing to a record low North American cattle herd.

More than an investigation, there’s now a criminal indictment that alleges that SPLC, Inc. defrauded their donors when they paid undercover informants to infiltrate racist and extremist groups. The theory of the case is that SPLC was actually assisting and aiding these racist groups, contrary to SPLC’s public positions, by doing things like paying membership dues on behalf of their undercover informants.

There are also money laundering charges on the basis that SPLC deliberately misstated the purpose of funds when they were transferring money over to the undercover infiltration side of the operation. Because, maybe, you know, they were trying to be under cover about it.

It’s a key component to any well-integrated home air defense system.

You mean the “aid” where we dump off our old military equipment and don’t have to pay to dispose it any more? That aid?

Or is it just the regular aid, where Congress cuts some fat checks to Northrup, Lockheed, and General Dynamics, and all that money circulates inside the United States?

This doesn’t happen “on a distro” because all of the different software functions are at different safety criticalities. The autopilot is (usually) level B, the air data system that delivers altitude and airspeed is level A, the navigation computer is level C (because pilots can still navigate without the aid of the computer). And so on.

At level C, the standard is statement coverage with unit tests. At level B, it’s decision coverage, covering every branch. And at level A, it’s modified condition / decision coverage, which is a lot more complex and expensive to write.

If you mix code for stuff at different levels, you have to develop the whole package to the highest level. Unless you can prove that the lower level code can’t interfere with the higher level code.

The easiest way to prove that is to put the different levels into different computers, so they’re only talking to each other on some digital bus interface. That’s called “hardware partitioning”. There’s also “software partitioning”, but it requires an operating system or supervisor layer to provide the guarantees, and that operating system has to be developed to the highest safety level that it handles.

Final result: you still see a lot of discrete computer boxes on airplanes. Various vendors have developed safety-critical OSes for main avionics computers, but they’re closed-source, and usually not based on Linux at all.

This three judge panel has been quasi-overruled by the en banc court on this case and issue once before. So it seems reasonable to think that might happen again.

There are still a bunch of hurdles to getting close to any kind of real contempt finding, even if that happens. There’s a real argument that the most Boasberg can do with criminal contempt is make a referral to the DOJ for prosecution. And just imagine how much action this DOJ would take on such a referral…

Edit: apparently this is a different three judge panel than the first, but Judge Rao was randomly assigned to both panels.

I believe two of these are naval aviators, and they would take exception with the “army” characterization.

But you’re generally correct. It’s very common that astronauts will not only have a military background, they frequently are active duty military officers on a long term detail to NASA.

The army is not well represented in the astronaut corps, because the US army only flies helicopters under an inter-branch coordination agreement.

Toilet drains into two different containers for each type of waste. The urine holding tank periodically vents overboard. The feces canisters are stored and returned to earth.

The ongoing problem is that the urine holding tank is not venting into space very well when they open the valve. The toilet drains both waste types into their containers ok. But since the urine holding tank is about the size of an office trash can, it can fill up very fast.