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On: How a yacht works: sailboat physics and design

[philk10]

https://www.onemetre.net/OtherTopics/Links/Links.htm

On: Small Town America vs. Big Box Stores

[philk10]

Robinson-Patman act of 1936? Wasn't got rid of but they stopped enforcing it?

On: How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat

[philk10]

One of the guidelines from Project 2025 was to do this

[tjarrett → philk10]

Are you sure? I was shocked by this comment and Googled it...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/signal-project-2025/

On: Tesla suffers worst quarter since 2022 as deliveries tumble

[philk10]

see also - https://electrek.co/2025/04/02/tesla-tsla-q1-deliveries-wors...

On: Tesla (TSLA) announces 336,681 deliveries, far worse than expected

[philk10]

and that was Q1....

On: War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged

[philk10]

Pedantically pointing out the difference between doing some exploratory testing "testing outside the test cases" and QA which is setting up processes/procedures part of which should be "do exploratory testing as well as running the test cases" but the Testing is not QA distinction has been fought over for decades...

But, love the story and I collect tales like this all the time so thanks for sharing

On: U.S. blocks Canadian access to iconic Stanstead border-straddling library

[philk10]

Symbolic flex of 'power' and no one prepared to say 'no'

On: Wall Street stocks tumble as investors fret over US economic slowdown

[philk10]

and being fed a diet of propaganda from Fox, FB etc

On: Wall Street stocks tumble as investors fret over US economic slowdown

[philk10]

or have people that played business people on TV shows...

[gsanderson → philk10]

This. He was playing a character. People think it was a documentary.

On: A Letter to the American People

[philk10]

Example: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'”