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2 years ago
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on: Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport?
For the past five years, I have a no eating on travel days policy. Not only do I feel like I am avoiding these high costs, my stomach is less active which is great on travel days.
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3 years ago
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on: Dont think of price, think of cost per use
I liked the general idea but found the examples counterproductive. I personally prefer cooking whole foods at home. However, paying $14 for one meal would provide calories needed to live. I do not "need" to touch my phone 32,000 times at 2 cents a piece.
30 years from now I will hopefully retain some my experiential (expensive) travel memories but may not remember/care if I used a value or flagship phone for a given 24 month period.
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4 years ago
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on: Branson and crew reach space, return in runway landing
I think the tilting tail and minimal thermal protection system concept will always remain suborbital. But there are reusable space glider concepts like X-37 and Dream Chaser.
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5 years ago
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on: Julia adoption keeps climbing
Thank you. I will look through both.
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5 years ago
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on: Julia adoption keeps climbing
Any recommendations on beginner (to Julia) books to get started?
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5 years ago
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on: The “menu engineers” who optimize restaurant revenue
I interpreted that part of the article as having nothing to do with prices. Instead it was 7 types of appetizer items or 10 entrees.
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5 years ago
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on: Airbus pilot tries Microsoft Flight Simulator [video]
I heard the same story but it was Bob Hoover and not Yeager.
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5 years ago
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on: NASA Just Launched Its New Perseverance Rover to Mars
I'm excited for Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter Scout!
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5 years ago
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on: Boeing quietly pulls plug on the 747, closing era of jumbo jets
>>The Covid-19 pandemic threatens to leave their manufacturers scrounging to find buyers for the last jumbos built.
This is imply not true. The last 747s built are freighters. Freight demand is at an all time high due to COVID and constraints on supply chians. Even passenger vehicles are being called into freight service (which is far less efficient yet still economical).
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5 years ago
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on: Tim Bray told a union meeting Amazon should be broken up
Do you have evidence Amazon sold books at a loss for 20+ years?
Buying a book for $10, selling it for $12, then spending $5 on a new warehouse is cash flow negative but not selling at a loss. Amazon isn't even cash flow negative anymore.
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5 years ago
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on: Scott Forstall tells story about Steve Jobs, Microsoft, and a dead fish [video]
>If you're a hiring manager and can't even be bothered to >know the most basic facts about me and that I might not like >that piece or pork or salmon for religious or ethical >reasons then that about says it all.
If you are a hiring manager and you are attempting to learn someone's religious or dietary beliefs prior to hiring then then you should be sued/fired.
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6 years ago
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on: In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average
Maybe I'm an outlier being in that age bracket and having young kids. But I am shocked that none of those 30-49 year olds don't have kids that are being escorted to the library to pick out new ones and returning/repeating every two weeks. One adult and two kids ~25x=75 person trips. Finding the equivalent number of movies that everyone would want to see and sit through is unfathomable to me.
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6 years ago
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on: Energy Storage Investments Boom as Battery Costs Halve in the Next Decade
I actually work on reducing emissions tangentially and am absolutely not a "denier", but I have not seen any evidence that our models are so accurate that we can predict the tipping point from halting increases to decreases within 1%.
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6 years ago
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on: The High Price of Multitasking
I love gadgets and sensors, I've looked for a reason to get a smart watch. I have avoided it because once I eliminate interruptions/multitasking, I can't see a good use case for me. I check email/messages too often, I can't imagine a buzz/chime/flash on my wrist helping.
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7 years ago
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on: Why isn’t CPU time more valuable?
This always bothered me too. Both when computers were expensive to me and now cheap. I get paid a good amount of money during the day to use a computer to compute things, display/interface with me, to communicate to humans and other computers. Then my computer is idle/sleep when I am not there. This feels inherently wrong to me. How is that I cannot come up with something useful for my computer to do when I am not there to make real contributions when I resume work? (disclaimer, engineer who programs but not a computer scientist)
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7 years ago
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on: What ABC called "pink slime," USDA now says can be labeled "ground beef"
Significant number of carbs and has added sugar, sounds less nutritious than hamburger to me.
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7 years ago
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on: What principal investigators taught me about my failure to land tenure
"At the age of 41, after working in several postdoctoral positions over the course of 12 years, I started applying for tenure-track and other permanent positions."
Why would you wait 12 years after your terminal degree to START applying for permanent jobs?
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7 years ago
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on: Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final 32-Hour Push
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7 years ago
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on: Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica with Final 32-Hour Push
Carbohydrates are 4 calories/gram. Fats are 9 calories/gram. Frosting does not win.
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7 years ago
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on: IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016)
Why is applied physicist in quotes? Elon has a ivy league physics degree, was accepted at Stanford in applied physics, and has clearly applied a knowledge of physics at numerous companies.
