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I still think it’s possible to go through the motions subconsciously.

With modern multiplexes, there seem to be a wide range of screen sizes. I started going to movies as a kid when 4 screens was typical of a multiplex and they tended to be fairly big rooms with big screens. Then many started subdividing or new ones built with small auditoriums that might hold...

They have more than that, but I remember them for TicTacs. They own the Ferrera Pan Candy Company, but kind of deny it other than saying they’re “affiliated”. https://www.ferrara.com/us/en/ferrarar-candy-company-announces-fy-2023-performance Ferrara boasts a passionate team of more than 8,000...

Never been to the Grand Canyon North Rim, but thought about it when I visited the area years ago. But I am a big fan of the work of architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood, who designed the lodge. I’ve been in several building he designed, including the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite, the Old Faithful...

Anker claims that their AC portable power supplies can be used in place of UPS. https://www.ankersolix.com/blogs/solar/what-is-uninterruptible-power-supply-difference-from-pps

I remember my small UPS. Don't recall if it was APC or CyberPower, but when the power cut out I was really, really annoyed with the power out warning. I think mine was really only sufficient to power down my desktop, especially since it had a CRT. I don't ever think I found it all that useful...

I don't know if English is really the language they use. They're heavily instrumental and the limited lyrics they use are in a variety of languages including French and Spanish. And obviously German.

I've seen some pretty low flying, including when I was a pedestrian in San Francisco during one of their practices. But not that low that a small error and they take out a public pier. And here's an experience from the backseat of one of the two-seat models.

4096 is too convenient. Seemed more likely to be a bit flip from 0 to 1 in the 2^12 place. It happened in some municipal election in Belgium. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210505103N/abstract In 2003, in Belgium there was an election using electronic voting machines. Mysteriously...

It was considered in the investigation. I’m just saying as a matter of how digital electronics work, it’s always a possibility. I’ve mentioned the case of a voting machine that registered 4096 extra votes. That’s the sort of thing that can happen.

Or public events where demonstration teams miss their target. Haven't heard of maybe crashing into the side of a stadium, but there have been collisions with spectators. Strike that about crashing into a stadium building.

There are legitimate concerns about digital electronics (especially running software) and random failures when things are controlled by computers or electronic paths involving digital circuitry. Obviously the millions of lines of software code and however many digital electronics can fail...

A professional, and a mod. So he could absolutely shut it down if things start going sideways.

I was thinking muscle memory. We all perform complex actions with our hands where we barely have to think about it. But someone who hasn't done it before would find it really difficult to do without clear instructions. Like knitting. Or typing. Sometimes the body and brain just go through...

Just curious if there's any demonstration video of this being done, even if it's just in a simulator. But I would think it's like a lot of things where muscle memory is involved, even if it wasn't an intentional thing. For example, I've stomped my left foot on nothing trying to start a car...

In HS, one French teacher was actually a student teacher, but he had studied French language in France. I think he once mentioned that one of his cohorts in the overseas program was French Canadian and that the group would tease her because her accent was distinctive. But he did bring an LP of...

Obviously ABBA, but that was already mentioned. Roxette was also from Sweden. There are a lot of one-hit wonders like Vengaboys. Maybe not a band, but Celine Dion supposedly barely understood any English when she started out. So would it be OK to include "musical artists" as a category since...

You can look it up, but it was a more senior instructor captain in the right seat and a captain in the left seat. If there was any cultural issue, it would have been about mutual respect where he might not have wanted to embarrass his colleague regardless of seniority or rank.

Yeah - that was Asiana 214. The really odd thing about that one was that it had three pilots in the cockpit, including a relief pilot in the jumpseat. Also two captains seated at the controls, although the senior (instructor) captain was in the right seat. I would think as the senior captain...

That was only the first time it was suggested by the NTSB. Since then there’s been several recommendations that the technology was there where the NTSB suggested such a requirement for commercial aviation.