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New comment by SteveNuts in "US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says"

SteveNuts — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:46:27 +0000

Mentour Pilot covered the B-52 history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbCeKNcr6Wk

New comment by SteveNuts in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

SteveNuts — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:16:15 +0000

Why can't we just water down the gasoline? /s

New comment by SteveNuts in "United Airlines 767 Returns to Newark After Bluetooth Name Sparks Alert"

SteveNuts — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:34:15 +0000

Logically that probably makes sense, but it would require everyone in the chain of command agreeing to that policy, and there’s no way that would ever happen from a liability standpoint.

New comment by SteveNuts in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

SteveNuts — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:59:36 +0000

Java or Bedrock edition, and have you tried logging into your EntraID Microsoft Teams for Xbox account lately? Make sure to check the box to keep you logged in!

New comment by SteveNuts in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

SteveNuts — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:07:29 +0000

The worst part of Ansible is data manipulation, what would be an easy dictionary operation in Python is a huge mix of lookups in Ansible.

Incredibly frustrating that the data you want is right there but you can't easily grab it.

New comment by SteveNuts in "Copy Fail"

SteveNuts — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:18:52 +0000

There's nothing specific about this related to Python, that's just demonstrating how it works.

This is usable anywhere on an affected Kernel version

New comment by SteveNuts in "Education must go beyond the mere production of words"

SteveNuts — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:02:03 +0000

The “normies”? What does that mean in this context?

New comment by SteveNuts in "Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal"

SteveNuts — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:34:19 +0000

Yeah and that type of work bid usually goes to huge conglomerates. A local mom and pop electrician shop isn’t going to be building a datacenter, it’ll be something like Siemens.

New comment by SteveNuts in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

SteveNuts — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:04:30 +0000

What is the contingency/continuity plan if the single controller becomes incapacitated while on duty with no warning to pilots?

New comment by SteveNuts in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

SteveNuts — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:42:35 +0000

I admit I'm incredibly naive on this subject, but what makes it so hard to track an object as large as an aircraft carrier when starting from a known position such as a naval port?

New comment by SteveNuts in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

SteveNuts — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:35:57 +0000

What is the point of a device like this if the only difference is form factor? Why wouldn't someone just buy a pre-configured gaming PC?

New comment by SteveNuts in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

SteveNuts — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:41:31 +0000

> MacBook Neo's NVMe being slower than the Air/Pro isn't just a benchmark footnote — it compounds with file count in a non-linear way.

The “isn’t just” part is a dead giveaway almost always.

New comment by SteveNuts in "Medical technology company in Michigan hit by suspected Iran-linked cyberattack"

SteveNuts — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:33:52 +0000

It was changed, but not by me. I copied the headline exactly how it was in the original URL

New comment by SteveNuts in "Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)"

SteveNuts — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:11:30 +0000

Not OP but from my experience, the LEGO I had in a bin since I was a kid still fit perfectly with LEGO I'm buying for my kids 30 years later. That's unbelievably impressive to me.

New comment by SteveNuts in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

SteveNuts — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:40:36 +0000

I can’t tell if you’re joking or seriously trying to justify running red lights.

New comment by SteveNuts in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

SteveNuts — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:22:24 +0000

I am constantly amazed at how many people blatantly run red lights now. It used to be that people would sometimes press their luck on a yellow a little bit, but now it'll be red for several seconds and people will still just drive right on through.

I'd love if the police enforced this insanely dangerous behavior instead of trying to catch people going 10 over on the highway.

New comment by SteveNuts in "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets"

SteveNuts — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:04:50 +0000

Seems like you’d get a secondary proxy market popping up overnight. Like domain privacy for degenerates.

New comment by SteveNuts in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

SteveNuts — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:04:10 +0000

> "now what if we wanted to build it in-house?"

"Well I would probably go home and work on my resume because that's a fool's errand."

I hate going to work and reinventing wheels all day because the company I work for thinks it's so special that every business function needs a 100% tailored solution to solved problems. I much prefer working somewhere that's able to tailor business processes to conform to existing standards.

But maybe that's just me.

New comment by SteveNuts in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

SteveNuts — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:52:00 +0000

> Makes me a bit less terrified that untested vibe coded slop will sink the economy.

The difference is those spreadsheets were buried on a company internal fileshare and the blast radius would be contained to that organization.

Today vibe coders can type a prompt, click a button, and their thing is exposed directly to the internet and ready to suck up any data someone uploads.

New comment by SteveNuts in "Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers"

SteveNuts — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:37:47 +0000

Is there anything like this for tech workers? Or is that not a sector Canada is trying to recruit in as much?