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Yeah, I was thinking it's like the "Voyager Has Left the Solar System" story - we've heard that several times over the years, and probably will again.

I use this too, and find it better in almost every way.

Swapping @ and " is a mixed blessing since the quote is used quite a lot when coding, but then so is the @. In prose I prefer to use US-style double quotes for quotations and leave single quotes for contractions, possession, etc, so I have to do that awkward shift-2 combo a lot.

Having an extra key is great for us coders since we use most of those weird glyphs (never used ¬) and having easy access to # is chefkiss.png.

ISO layout's tall enter key is great for touch typing since you don't need to be very accurate with your little finger and moving the | \ key next to Z is much more convenient. I like the symmetry of the slash keys, too.

Alt-Gr make loads of shortcuts easier, although occasionally I want that key to be a normal alt instead.

Top one is ISO-UK:

I was responding to "the bean counters running the company need to be replaced with engineers" by pointing out that the man at the top is, at least by training, an engineer.

Let's look at the timeline:

• 1985 - Muilenburg joins Boeing
• Aug 2011 - 737 Max announced
• Dec 2013 - Muilenburg becomes president of Boeing
• July 2015 - Muilenburg becomes CEO of Boeing
• Jan 2016 - First 737 Max flight
• Mar 2017 - FAA certifies 737 Max
• May 2017 - First 737 Max commercial flight
• Oct 2018 - Lion Air Flight 610 crashes
• Mar 2019 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes
• Dec 2019 - Muilenburg resigned

An aerospace analyst writes:

Dennis Muilenburg, whose strategy appears to be to maximize the share price for stockholders, and the executive team that holds stock and options. Having returned nearly $50 billion to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks over the last five years, rather than invest in new products to better compete with Airbus, Boeing’s market share is falling and, given the aforementioned failures, is losing its reputation for quality and safety.

Are you seriously arguing that a man who is qualified to see the problems and dangers of the 737 Max and then chose to ignore them in favour of pressuring regulators and collecting profits shouldn't be held responsible? He was in a senior position while the development happened and was in the top spot when it was certified. If the head of the company shouldn't be held responsible, who should be?

Ignoring his time as president, four years is definitely enough time to see what kind of leader he was, and all of the internal messages coming out show no attempt to change the culture.

For me, it's also a matter speaking louder - I have a (normal, I think) tendency to say things I'm unsure of quieter, so sometimes I've mumbled something that was correct (or correct enough) causing the very communication problems I was worried about.

So Tesla gets that $56 billion back? Kinda funny that that causes their share price to drop.

So far, the keen fridge-runner has raised £4,284 of his £10,000 target.

He should have got the police to sponsor him - like a reverse chugger!

Dennis Muilenburg, the CEO during the 737 Max crashes, was an engineer by training:

He received a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University, followed by a master's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington.

-- Wikipedia

And, of course, even though he put profits ahead of safety and is therefore partially responsible for hundreds of deaths, he walked away with a $62.2 million golden parachute. The incentives are not aligned with safety, aside from how it affects their share price.

Russia is already using chemical weapons in Ukraine, although it seems to be CS gas instead of mustard gas (this is still illegal under the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 which Russia has signed).

Russia carried out 81 chemical attacks in December, according to an official statement by Ukraine's General Staff on December 27th. Ukrainian soldiers have reported attacks with mysterious chemicals, such as a “caustic and flammable gas” described to CNN reporters, and the RG-VO grenade which the General Staff say is filled with an “unknown chemical substance.” This brings the total number of claimed chemical attacks to 465. There is a real threat here, but it is not what it seems.

-- https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/12/29/what-we-know-about-russian-chemical-weapon-attacks/?sh=861601b55455

You want the : before the //: alexandrite.app

Haha, constantly hearing "go ahead" is absolutely my 1 bugbear - I get so irritated and distracted when people keep repeating it that I have to rewind to actually listen to the other words. I've noticed some Brits have started using it to, much to my dismay.

I was using gpg earlier and it told me "Go ahead and type your message".

I see it saying "mostly factual" (since at least December 7, 2023), and you're missing important context.

Overall, we rate The Jerusalem Post Right-Center biased based on editorial positions that favor the right-leaning government. We also rate them Mostly Factual for reporting rather than High due to two failed fact checks.

The Jerusalem Post is currently owned by Eli Azur, an Israeli businessman through Mirkaei Tikshoret, a Tel Aviv-based media company.

Current Editor Yaakov Katz was the former senior policy advisor to Naftali Bennett, the former Prime Minister and head of the far-right political party, “New Right.”

No, you don't need to train it, it's just about the prompt you feed it. You can (and should) add quite a lot of instructions and context to your questions (prompts) to get the best out of it.

"Prompt engineer" is a job/skill for this reason.

That would be good - I often want to see what an unfamiliar instance is about by checking out their homepage sidebar and local communities and currently it's several clicks and involves going directly to the site, effectively logging me out. At least the new versions have the new feature that sends you back to your home instance to subscribe.

The only plus is that sometimes the remote instance has interesting styles or other customisations that I wouldn't see unless i visited properly.

Yeah, as a Brit I pronounce it ɪ́j p ɔ k (ee as in fleece, o like in goal), so this joke took me a bit to figure out.

I didn't even realise those US mavericks would say it like epic. Unless I'd heard it and didn't recognise it - lately I've been hearing a few people mention the "Adam" editor and it took me several different people before I realised they were saying "Atom".

This really put me in mind of Max Mad, so I went looking to find out more.

I was commissioned to create a Mad Max tribute poster for exhibiting at the Sitges Film Festival, one of the biggest and most important film festivals in Europe, specialized in fantastic genre movies. In 2019 they dedicated the festival to Mad Max and, as part of the illustrated tribute to the universe of George Miller, I created this piece.

I wanted to mix Mad Max with one of those classic Miyazaki's cranky, crowded with bad guys contraptions, and this is what came out of that crazy mash up.

It was a lot of fun!

José Domingo • Sitges Film Festival — Mad Max Tribute Poster (larger version of the image at this link)

Brilliant stuff, thanks for sharing.

The busyness of many of these gives me real Richard Scarry vibes.

This is by far and away a better idea. We might even find out that chickens are amazing coders and have been telling us so all this time.

Let me sing you the song of my people
chicken bok boks out a halting problem analyser that runs in O(n)

IPs and access logs, plus email addresses aren't public and are the kind of thing law enforcement wants.

I'm confused since Firefox Sync has been letting you sync/backup your passwords, bookmarks and history for a decade or two at this point, and you can even self-host the sync server.

I don't know the complete FF password manager details (Bitwarden user here) but where does Firefox fall short for you?

I asked the various AIs for help, but no joy there. It doesn't ring any bells to me. I guess the leader takes revenge because it happened in their territory?