The only time fuel is dumped by aircraft is during an emergency and either 1) needs to land somewhere unexpected and is far overweight for the runway, or 2) there is a situation where the landing is exceedingly dangerous and there’s a need to reduce weight and potential fireball size (e.g. landing gear failures).

For everything the conservatives are bad at, they are somehow crazy good at messaging.*

Their ability to take a positive term, redefine it as something it isn’t, and use it as a hammer is impressive. The reality of “getting rid of DEI” clearly means more discrimination and hiring/firing based on race/sex/etc, but they certainly framed it as “best candidate instead of minority preference”.

This is a repeating trend. Fake news, Critical race theory, woke, cancel culture, marxism, radical left, et – these are all good examples of the right redefining and hijacking terms or language. It wouldn’t surprise me if they try to do it with the word “democracy” to mean something like “far left woke Democrat ideals”.

* Just to clarify – “good at messaging” just meaning that it’s effective at being taken up and repeated by a subset of the population. How people listen to and trust the stuff is beyond me.

And beyond this, solving the problem is just the baseline. Solving the problem well can take an immense amount of time, often producing solutions that appear overly simplistic in the end.

I recently watched a talk about ongoing Java language work (Project Valhalla). They’ve been working on this particular set of performance improvements for years without a lot to show for it. Apparently, they had some prototypes that worked well but were unwieldy to use. After a lot of refinement, they have a solution that seems completely obvious. It takes a lot of skill to come up with solutions like that, and this type of work would be unjustly punished by algorithms like this.

I’m one that finds the GNU/Linux naming annoying. I think calling it that is mostly silly, and am mostly annoyed at people who militantly argue it’s the only way to describe a Linux OS (which aren’t as common as they used to be).

To me, it’s just overly verbose and pointless. For the most part, the GNU part has been implied for pretty much any mainstream form of Linux for decades. And even if it wasn’t, who cares? Like, you wouldn’t say that you run KDE/X11/wpasupplicant/neovim/docker/pacman/paru/systemd/GNU/Linux… Just saying KDE on Arch Linux is simpler and far more informative.

I think it makes more sense to read that it’s a “Windows Subsystem for (running) Linux (applications/programs)”.

Generally, yeah. The way they worked with Mick Gordon last game was awful though.