Can I get a source for this, and also qualifiers (for what kind of job? In what country? etc etc)

I drive a 1998 Lexus SC, a car that was built to compete with the contemporary 8-series and Mercedes SL. My car is comparable in size to a new Corolla. I'm longer, but I'm 4 inches shorter. Every other dimension is basically the same.

I see the overall effect on productivity as a rounding error. More stuff is happening, but for every improvement in my productivity there's some fuckass slop machine clogging up some part of a system that worked just fine a year ago.

I run them on my 5070. They're moderately useful at that scale I guess.

The question implies you already are. But yes, obviously.

Relevant reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-container_law

tl;dr details vary by state and municipality, but with very few exceptions you can't walk around a random town drinking fireball. Or, well, you can as long as you don't get caught.

I've seen what you're talking about though. It seems like the big trend for millenials has been " but with booze." Barcades. Sip & stroll at malls. Booze in movie theaters. Paint & Sip. The microbrewery craze that's partly just "bars but make them fancy"

If you really want to get thrown for a loop, go read up about the Tavern League. One of the most powerful lobbies in Wisconsin state government is a massive cartel of... bars.

There's still part of me that can't quite believe that the SR-71 wouldn't be an exception. You don't just make a turbojet out of 1965 technology, without something being so wackadoodle batshit crazy as to make comparions to all other planes pointless. Another commenter mentioned something about a "hydraulic computer?"

I'd love to be wrong. It'd be hilarious if some madmen from the 1960s built a Mach 3 jet out of mostly-normal parts, and then that mostly-normal jet turned into American patriotic folklore. And yeah, I'd feel a bit of patriotic euphoria to see a Blackbird in the sky! I'm not above that.

Where do you live? Because I've never, ever lived anywhere that this was true. I go to bars. They're always busy, unless it's a shit bar on a Tuesday night or whatever.

Granted, plenty of de facto standards exist long before they're codified into a formal document. So maybe the Blackbird actually does use it, or something close enough for a dinky little converter box to do the job.

According to that Wikipedia page, out of the first 6 jets to officially use MIL-STD-1553, only one of them was a Lockheed product. That single Lockheed product was the P-3C, which was a retrofitted version of a plane Lockheed started making more than a decade earlier. To me, that suggests that, even if MIL-STD-1553 existed as a de facto standard at the time of the SR-71's contstruction, Lockheed probably wasn't using it yet.

All speculation, obviously. But the timeline leaves me with doubts.

Kinda unrelated: Propositional logic is one of those things I wish we taught everyone in middle school. It's not that complicated, but it's such a powerful thing to have in your literary/rhetorical tool belt. I think a lot of young math nerds and writing/reading nerds alike would have appreciated seeing their worlds collide like this.

Question for people who actually make the engines: is this idea feasible? Like, at all?

I always imagined a plane's engines to be very tightly coupled to its electrics. In my mind, even if the wire harnesses somehow lined up right, the signals inside would be talking totally different languages.