This is so sad, loss of a good pilot. I only saw Dick fly once, a group of us had flown our LongEz’s and VariEz’s down to Mojave for his brother, Burt Rutan’s birthday.
Dick took out his LongEz, and I realized he had more piloting skills in his little finger than I’d ever have. That plane did things at 100 feet that I wouldn’t be comfortable doing at 5000 feet.
People know him as 1 of the two who flew voyager, and the article on touches on a tiny fraction of the adventures he had in his life. Seemed like a life well lived.
For some reason I have initial charge set to 40%, but even then there’s several chargers in range. At recharges are quick going to 60% which means if consumption is higher you could charge for a free more minutes and easily get to 80%.
I have done the second drive a handful of times. The Anderson Rd and Airport Way Walmarts are your best bet for DCFC.
When temps are above 110, which is at least a month of normal summer weather, you will be lucky to have 2/5 chargers operating at those sites. And they will be throttled to 30kW which is a pitiful fraction of the advertised 350kW rate
EA didn’t install the transformers in the shade. They don’t work, period. This was my experience two summers in a row.
Imagine having kids and a dog in your car for a road trip and having to park for over an hour in direct sunlight at 3pm while you squeeze enough charge to limp through the wastelands of NorCal. And I-5 is still your best route.
I haven’t even tried the ride east through Idaho and Montana. In winter it will be much riskier and you have to put a lot more faith that the station is working as expected. The mountains and freezing temps will also add a huge variance to your estimated range.
We stayed at Leavenworth,WA in a cabin and there were exactly two EA fast chargers at a Safeway on the mountain. Woke up one morning in 20 degree cold with 25% charge and wasn’t sure I could even make it
It's not immediately clear to me from the article, but this is the city of New Brunswick, NJ, USA, domain makes more sense now. It's not New Brunswick a Canadian province which I first thought of.
Was confused as well, and thought what an interesting idea, to do advanced research in he middle of nowhere like that. New Brunswick Canada doesn’t figure in the popular imagination at all other than as the family fief of an industrial fortune, like if the Waltons operated Arkansas as a kingdom. Why not build an Arcadian research campus that far from everywhere?
Take some equity in the results to fund it, do some skunkworks projects, keep it out of the press and politics and away from bureaucracy. Sounds ideal.
On the public side of things, this essentially describes the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which was itself born out of the Hanford Site and its attendant plutonium-specific Manhattan Project-related research needs... took a town of 300 people which ballooned up to 25,000, essentially operating as an Army town in service of the Manhattan Project.
Yep same. Took me a while reading this to realize this is not New Brunswick, the province in Canada.... Had me scratching head (of course it isn't but confused if they were leaving new jersey state or what).
I love when local news tv station websites just say “KXYZ” all over the header and footer and whatnot, and never clearly mention which city and state they are in.
And every single one does this from what I have seen. I have to search the KXYZ to find out which city it is.
Irreverent story: cast members at Disney parks show a hometown on their name tags. On my first trip to Disneyland, I'm very glad my shyness prevented me from asking the random teenager what part of the province they were from.
i think most people know that ontario airport is not in ontario, because the airports that are actually in ontario are better known and not called "ontario airport".
just like most people would understand that if you said "london international airport, airport code CXYU" you probably don't mean heathrow.
Oh do come on! There are loads of towns, cities, hamlets, villages, bergs, burys ... etc that have the same name in many places.
It doesn't help putting New on the front to differentiate either. Its not as though we do that here in the UK either (much): Newton Abbot, Newcastle, New Forest, New Market. I drive through a Newtown on the A303 in the Blackdown hills. Oh, perhaps we do.
Here in the UK, I believe Whitchurch is the most often seen name for a collection of habitation structures (best I can do at the moment). We very rarely have white churches - so I have no idea what that is all about. Perhaps the Whit- is actually wit: "wise/clever" cf: witten and whist.
The first Brunswick was probably in Germany. -wick and similar are a common place suffix in English, German and Dutch (ie the Germanic languages) for a farm or market place. Ipswitch, for example, was once known as gipeswic. Norwich is a northern wick (cf Norvik)
There are only three New Brunswicks in the world, one Canadian Province (American: state, European: Country) - the default Wiki match for "New Brunswick"[0], and two American towns (56k New Jersey, and an unrecorded number in Indiana).
There are many places called Brunswick[1]. Brunswick is indeed from Germany, in honour of George III established in 1784[2]. Yes, your town of forked river/Gifle has a street name origin for the same reason, but it wasn't complete until at least 60 years later, and was originally named New France Street[3].
Bit of a miss on Whitchurch, ringing in with only 14[4] uses in the world, while Newtown[5] can be found 80 in places, excluding variants like Sturminster just down the road from you[6].
Mr Big Bang ... Whitchurch has rather a lot of spellings. Also, relying on WP for all your references rarely works well.
My reference to Whitchurch was UK exclusive in context but there are quite a few in AUS, NZ, CA, US, SA and others.
I'm not sure why you conflate Sturmister Newton with a bog standard Newton. You'll be calling Newton Abbot a Newton next (I went to school there for a while). We have Newtons and Newhams and that pouring out all over the place here but they are largely unremarkable in this discussion because it is effectively a suffix or prefix associated with the real moniker. Sturminster -, - Abbot etc.
On the other hand a White Church generally is just that - a white church. However, some if not most are associated with wit as in wise and not the colour white. Also Church might be Kirk (Scotland) or Chapel (Welsh) and a lot of other spellings too.
I appreciate your research on WP but I think reality is a bit more complicated.
In Germany: US state = (federal) state (No wonder). No provinces :-) Also in German, province directly (mis-)translated to "Provinz" is a little bit of an insult.
Kyle was a fine CTO, and these are the qualities you listed.
CEO is a different role, and without any checks in pace he’s pushed the organization so hard it is where it is today. Even the incident aside, just look at the handling and drip drip of news since going from bad to worse.
> Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State
Which mashed a lot more sense since Waymo, Cruise and Zoox all have L4 autonomous cars on the road today in California operating with no human inside at all.
> Waymo, Cruise and Zoox all have L4 autonomous cars on the road today
Wonder why you can’t buy these L4 cars. No Level 4 cars are commercially available in the US. [1]
What you are describing are pilot programs propped up with a huge, expensive, unprofitable infrastructure of remote monitoring, support vehicles, and backup drivers. Waymo’s technology might be promising, but today these companies are bleeding money.
In contrast, Mercedes is selling retail cars with Level 3 features to consumers and taking responsibility for them.
Left my job in March, after a series of terrible managers I was waking at night dreading coming back from vacation. Being FANG adjacent, it paid well and I have no rush to find new work and I'm half looking and half taking a sabbatical.
I also changed jobs during the .com crash, and this feels by far better. Recruiters are still reaching out and returning messages, companies are interviewing. There's a ton of laughably low ball spam. During .com is was pure crickets. That said, I'm also 20 years on in my career and have skills/experience that are in demand.
Taking a break has been the best thing ever. I get to spend time with my son, I'm learning rust and doing Advent of Code, and took a 1day/week contract with a former employer. They want me to review and better document systems I built for them years ago. This gives me the opportunity to see how they've aged, what we did well and what we should have done better, and I'm being paid to learn this. :)
Then: up at 3am worried about work
Now: sleeping well again
Thoughts on the industry: why does tech have terrible founder worship and terrible sr+ managers. Do we really need a director to be able to code, or should they be focused on the 150+ people?
Meta recruiter just reached out to me this week, so even parts of Facebook are hiring, and my relevant skill set. Of course I don’t care about VR goggles, but you just had large layoffs, why would I work for you? (Plus ok Zuck is ruining your core business, but that aside)
If a layoff is inevitable, It is common in many set ups for managers to hire people new people whom they would want to let go instead of their top dogs who've been rocking their projects for years.
Nah, this role has been open to long, survived recruiting cuts, and it appears even layoffs. I wonder if FB will get so desperate they even stop trying to downlevel.
Do you mean the Microsoft VR layoffs literally announced only 1 or 2 days ago? That's giving BigCo a lot of credit in the agility department, skirting over the edge into conspiracy theory territory.
I’d have to guess, but fake internet points? The ability to say “I’m ranked 5th at blah blah chess website”. Maybe it’s not even to others but just to themselves.
I think there might be an alternate to leet code studying. I did Advent of Code (AoC) in 2019 to learn a new language. I then did some interviewing, and remember a few things on leet code problems "oh, this just like this AoC problem" and applying the same skill set.
So maybe doing AoC and solving funny Elf and Sleigh problems could be more fun? Maybe not as efficient though. ;)
AOC is way more engaging than any leetcode problems I've ever done, but I wonder if that's because I could choose whatever language I want or a feel allows me to best express the solution.
As a counterpoint, I did most of the recent AoC after grinding leetcode for work -- I felt like LC was much more efficient. I wouldn't prep for a serious job interview (FAANG) with just AoC.
Dick took out his LongEz, and I realized he had more piloting skills in his little finger than I’d ever have. That plane did things at 100 feet that I wouldn’t be comfortable doing at 5000 feet.
People know him as 1 of the two who flew voyager, and the article on touches on a tiny fraction of the adventures he had in his life. Seemed like a life well lived.