How is that opposite to what I wrote..? It is disabled when there is a weight less than ~65 lbs. 0 is less than 65. There is also usually an “airbag is disabled” light somewhere that comes on when its greater than 0.

Cars since 2003 typically disable the passenger airbag if there’s a weight less than 65 lbs there. The actual number varies on several factors however and isn’t a perfect system. Statistically the safest place is in a rear facing car seat anchored to the middle of the back seat, if possible.

Check out his official website, it’s fascinating. The updates page appears to have been updated weekly for the past 20+ years or so, although the design looks about that old. There’s a chatroom (read the transcripts, absolute gold), poems, random games and his answering machine messages.

I once had a flight delayed for a couple hours for a reported “thorough cleaning” I sort of wondered what exactly had happened on the flight before.

The calculations don’t require much power, speed, or memory to run. The real advances they made though was building a computer that could do the work of flying the spacecraft and be (for the time), small and lightweight. It did the same job that room sized mainframes were doing (of course, those mainframes could do…

All you nay-sayers are probably just using low grade red light.

Yep, that too.

Cheaper to buy from a place that has a factory than build your own factory and then have to upgrade/retool it every few years. It’s why those zf transmissions seem to be in every car - the cost is spread out among so many models the result is cost per unit is lower.

With complex systems it’s often not obvious what some of it does or why it’s done in such a way. You almost need internal design documents outlining goals, challenges and encountered issues to understand some of it. For example, there might be hydraulic passages arranged in a non-intuitive way to mitigate heat issues…

Most (all?) of the Apollo missions had significant technical glitches, even on the missions that didn’t kill anyone or cause an abort (#1, #13). One of 11's radars kept crashing the computer and it almost ran out of fuel as Armstrong took over to pilot the landing manually. They ended up way off course.

Mine only goes back to 2004 when I got a gmail address and bought Tosca’s “Suzuki” album. Maybe before then I didn’t have an account but I definitely bought books and CD’s earlier. It’s fun to see the orders through the years... most were only 2 or 3 orders a year until I got prime ~2014. The recession years of 2009 -…

I believe one is Harrison Ford that has infamously never seen his own movies like Indiana Jones... I understand, it would be weird to watch yourself act.

That you remember it was an Applause is the highest compliment its ever had.

There actually was digital retouching before photoshop. It was expensive. Starting in the mid-70s it became possible and used minicomputers. Then by the mid 80s amigas could do it...

I’m a commercial photographer and have had the pleasure of working with a number of car brands on their campaigns, I couldn’t help but admire this picture! - And mentally disassemble it. A lot of thought and work went into it!

I always try to have my car reasonably clean before taking it in for service. I think the work is done better. I actually had a shop owner tell me it was nice to work on a car “whose owner obviously takes good care of it”

Apollo was pretty good for the time - they actually printed the code, line by line, in tall paper hardcopy stacks. Avoided the issue of bit rot, future obsolete hardware and formats. There’s a project on github that OCR’d the apollo guidance computer code so as to run it in a simulator.

I hope I don’t sound too bougie but hiring bi-monthly house cleaners was among the best time/cost trades I’ve ever done. We still have dishes and laundry to do but this saves approximately 6 man-hours of surface cleaning labor a month - freeing up nights we’re too tired to do it, and weekends when we’d rather do…

This thread has me wanting to reactivate my pandora account. I used to listen to it upwards of 40 hours a week, 7 years ago. Spotify is great for albums but the radio features have always been sub-par.

There’s also Dad wants to be more involved, but mom (or child!) heavily critiques feeding / bathing / putting to bed style so we end up taking on tasks we’re good at, or at least don’t get complained at about.