Yeah I’m never getting in one of these. If I make it I’ll be on a gulfstream.
Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if he thought Ice was the issue.
“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”
“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”
“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary
But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.
So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.
This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”
“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.
These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.
These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.
This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.
The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”
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Highkey not sure why people are upset about this.
Oh no my launcher is twice as fast. What treachery.
We vibe coded the Epic Games Launcher to be faster than the other guy.
Don't believe us? Test it out for yourself in Preview:
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True.
Andrej Karpathy’s point: Many people only use AI occasionally for search or writing and see little value in their daily lives. Even many professionals understand its progress mainly in theory.
People using advanced models extensively for coding and math experience huge capability gains, widening the gap in how people perceive AI.
And this impression has been confirmed here in Paris during my trip. When I talk to people, I realize they're completely unaware of how capable AI already is. They're unaware of the possibilities it offers. They haven't heard that OpenAI solved a Millennium Prize problem, or recently solved 372 math problems, some of which had remained unsolved for decades.
Currently, we're living in an ivory tower.
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@Rovio @AngryBirds Do something now.
Former CIA agent and whistleblower John Kiriakou has lost his 2,879-day consecutive gameplay streak on Angry Birds
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I think this signals the end of an era.
This is effectively:
* unlimited OLED monitors + huge cinema screen
* 3 in 1 devices, acting as a laptop, phone and tablet
* Live recording of important moments + AI access
Buy this instead of a laptop and just bring a keyboard to class.
Meta has just unveiled their new VR glasses.
• Price: $1,299
• Available Spring 2027
• Weight: 100 grams, about the weight of a deck of cards
• Glasses contain the displays and sensors, while a separate puck houses the processor, battery and storage.
• 5K display with micro-OLED panels
• Pixel density: 37 pixels per degree
• Custom pancake lenses
• Dolby Vision
• Dolby Atmos
• No head straps
• Qualcomm Snapdragon Reality Elite chip
• Battery life: Up to 3 hours of continuous high-resolution media playback
• 45W fast charging
• Full-color passthrough cameras let you see your surroundings while wearing the glasses.
• Open-sided design
• Meta AI integrated directly into the operating system.
• Voice commands, eye tracking and natural hand gestures, with no controllers required
• First IMAX Enhanced-certified VR device, supporting select movies in IMAX's expanded aspect ratio.
• Disney+ will offer select 3D movies
• Streaming services: Partnerships with Disney+, Prime Video, YouTube, DIRECTV, AMC+, Crunchyroll, Plex, ESPN, Tubi and others
• Immersive live sports: Front-row viewing experiences with 8K streaming and 180-degree views
• Works with calling apps including WhatsApp and Zoom
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We (probably) are not far off from effective immortality.
In the coming years I believe the field will be so greatly accelerated by AI that cures to all major diseases are invented, and that the mechanisms behind aging are understood and mitigated entirely.
Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-di…
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We need to euthanize these murder hounds on a global scale.
Auschwitz for pitbulls would make the world a better place.
That breed must be destroyed.
Every single one of them. teapawt.net/xym11336600/status/204…
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