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I'm reading a NASA paper (written in Typewriter) that gives the air density in slugs per cubic foot. Fuck if I know what this is. Is there a standard slug? The red one we have in the garden? How many of those fit in a cubic foot? Does it work with snails, too?

12.04.2025 00:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A President should not be publicly speculating about an accident while the recovery effort is still underway and the investigation has barely begun, when there has been no comment from the NTSB. Expressing grief for the loss and support for the investigation should be the entirety of the comments.

30.01.2025 18:28 — 👍 1406    🔁 145    💬 37    📌 3

Apple Private Relay causing mail delivery issues A few months ago, a customer reached out to me and reported that their users running iOS 18 on their iPhones and iPads were seeing an issue where they would not get push notifications for new mails.

Ever since updating to ios18, I have been frustrated that Mail is seemingly unable to fetch mail in my home network, as if it keeps running into timeouts. I was delighted to read I am not alone, and @abdelkader.boui.de has figured out the solution! vowe.net/2025/01/27/a...

28.01.2025 06:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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27.12.2024 18:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There is no possible way the Airpods "conversation awareness" feature was ever tested by an engineer. It's an "AI" feature of iOS 18 that turns down your music when it detects someone talking to you.
That means, when you stare at the debugger and say "WTF?" to yourself, your music stops.

15.11.2024 03:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Peak C++: constexpr friend auto operator<=>(const BaroAltitude& lhs, const BaroAltitude& rhs) noexcept { return lhs.pressureAltitude()<=>rhs.pressureAltitude(); } I know the reason for why every single keyword has to be there and I begin to hate myself for it.

10.11.2024 01:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My son, listening to Holst's Planets for the first time:
-Papa, what was that song about?
-The planet Mars
-Did it explode?
-You got the basic idea right.

13.10.2024 17:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stinson Reliant, if I remember correctly.

28.07.2024 01:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oshkosh 24 - only two days for me but I could never miss it #airventure

27.07.2024 05:37 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm perfectly happy that my car pisses off both sides equally. To the left, I'm an alt-right Elon worshipper, to the right, I'm a tree-hugging eco-terrorist. That's fine, because I couldn't care less. My car is a mode of transportation, not a political statement.

26.07.2024 23:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0