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I do this, then after the 5 years I feel like I need to start over from the beginning so I know the story. Then I stop just before the end again.

I think a stupidly bright flashlight is preferable to a laser, but the idea of signalling for help with a light can work. Please don't use lasers.

I'm a 737 pilot. Reverse thrust is never calculated into landing distance. You use brakes and spoilers, reversers are a bonus. Airplanes are perfectly capable of landing with no thrust, in fact normally in an engine failure you don't use the working reverser because of the potential of a loss of control from asymmetric reverse thrust.

Assuming worst case scenario, they lost hydraulic systems A and B due to an uncontained engine failure. In that case the landing gear can be lowered with a gravity release and the flaps can be lowered with an electric alternate motor. The right engine clearly is still working on touchdown, you can see the cowl shroud open as the reversers deploy in the video. The problem is that they touched down just short of the end of the runway, probably around 180 knots, with a totally clean plane. I don't know how they got into that position, but it wasn't only a bird strike.

You say that, but once someone on the ground was shining a bright ass flashlight, not a laser but just as bright, at us and they were flashing ...---... (SOS in Morse). Apparently we were the 4th plane to report it to air traffic control. I've never seen that before or since, but at least that time it worked.

I don't know what happened here, but man does that official speculation make no sense at all. At least I can't think of any realistic scenario in which a bird strike causes that.

If you want apples to apples, why the hell is Tesla, a company that makes under 2m vehicles, have a market cap of 1.4T while Toyota, a company that makes 10 million vehicles a year, has a market cap of 233B. No matter how you look at it, Toyota has better numbers in every way, but Tesla is a tech company as far as the market is concerned.

I have a dell power edge 730, which was about $200. It's CPU shrouds perfectly match the GPU intakes so air just flows through both from the server fans. I've seen a few 3d printable fan mounts for jury rigging them into a regular tower too.

I picked up a pair of old Tesla P40s. Right now I'm running a Q4 quant of Qwen 2.5 72B that fits in the combined 48GB of VRAM with 12k context. They aren't as fast as newer consumer cards, but it generates as fast as I can read while costing less than a used 3080.

About 5 years ago FB decided that they wanted to 2FA using my college email instead of the one actually attached to the account. Don't have my college email any more and I never cared enough to figure out how to fix it.

Proton mail unlimited - prob gonna drop or downgrade when the sub is up, a couple of domains, mullvad, some patrons, and that's it. Everything else I self host.

I just use an IP address, they always resolve http and I can type 1.1.1.1 faster.

A few jobs back I was working was on a little learjet that had a .75 thirst to weight ratio. Now that was a fun jet. Now I have 54k lbs if thrust in a plane that weighs anywhere from 100-160k lbs.