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Or this?

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_(film)


That’s the one!


Nothing is "perfectly safe". Many things are egregiously, unnecessarily unsafe.


(December 19, 2020) "The consensus view of an international panel of 12 scientists calls for the new cycle, Solar Cycle 25, to be small to average, much like its predecessor, Solar Cycle 24.

But a prominent astrophysicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Scott McIntosh, foresees the sun going gangbusters. The cycle is already off to a fast start, coinciding with the recent publication of McIntosh’s paper in Solar Physics. The study, with contributions from several of his colleagues, forecasts the nascent sunspot cycle to become one of the strongest ever recorded."

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/19/solar-cycl...


Update on the prediction:

(Feb. 26, 2022) "“We have finalized our forecast of SC25’s amplitude,” says McIntosh. “It will be just above the historical average with a monthly smoothed sunspot number of 190 ± 20.”

"“Above average” may not sound exciting, but this is in fact a sharp departure from NOAA’s official forecast of a weak solar cycle"

[0] https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2022/02/25/the-termination-e...



We do. Example from Oregon:

ORS 811.275

(1) A person commits the offense of failure to yield the right of way at an uncontrolled intersection if the person is operating a motor vehicle that is approaching an uncontrolled highway intersection and the person does not look out for and give right of way to any driver on the right simultaneously approaching a given point, regardless of which driver first reaches and enters the intersection.

https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_811.275


There are a lot of state laws that resemble each other, but there are often subtle differences. My point is that there is no overarching coordination other than maybe AASHTO (which can only make recommendations), and legislators are often only interested in the highway department if there's a contract they can steer to a friend.


Similar rules exist in New York as well.

I'd expect they exist in most places in the US.


If you're not familiar with it, recommend to read the story first [0].

Previous HN discussion on the story here [1].

[0] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224835


(off topic)

I read that at first glance as

> Probably not the last, either, those joints ain’t gonna roll themselves.

and thought, hm, I need to remember this debugging technique next time I'm stumped.


Joe is the expert on feature X. When we have a problem in X we ask Joe for help and he invariably provides the insight needed to solve the problem.

When Joe has a problem with X, he should go ask for help, even though he's the one best able to deal with it? Should he ask himself for help?

Can you see the problem with blanket statements like this?


I've been in this situation many times too, but I have to say it feels like a weakness. When a single person works on a problem I see improvements being left on the table compared to when two people effectively collaborate. I've experienced this in a wide range of skill/experience levels so I don't think that is the problem.

That said, I don't know how to change the situation if you have devs with skillsets that don't seem to overlap much, which seems inevitable for some companies


How many times do I need to go down this path:

  ...
  - ask for help
  - try to explain how it's supposed to work
  - try to explain how it's not working
  - Listen to them come up with all the ideas that I've already ruled out
  - Try to explain why their preferred idea has already been
    ruled out or is not actually relevant to the problem
  - conclude they still don't understand the problem or even
    how this part of the system works
  - go ahead and just solve the problem myself
  ...
  
before it's OK to stop "asking for help", and just fix the damn thing?


I could see this the other way, where the reason this path happens is because of a problem with how the team operates so others are not in the loop on the problem or , even worse, the entire system. I think what the parent is proposing is trying to combat that entire issue


> Is it because the combustion takes place in a chambers somewhere inside the engine

Yes, it is. Compare with "External Combustion Engine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_combustion_engine


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