> FTA: So we're not only going to be treating (or outright preventing) a number of diseases, we're going to be learning more about the cause of these diseases than we ever did before.

Ultra processed foods (UPF) needs a hard look IMO. It's the leading cause of many diseases stated in the article and several others including cancer and dementia.

In the software world I call this an end user discovered issue. But when the issue involves a plane that is carrying actual souls. That can feel very scary.

I am sure this has been resolved by now since its from 2020.

I don't think airplane software ships updates the way npm packages do. I would be more surprised if this is fixed.

I think from the point of view of Boeing, the FAA and the airlines, "put it in our maintenance checklist to reboot every 51 days" is a fix.

With that framing, this sounds like one of the easiest maintenance tasks imaginable. No wrenches or grease involved.

> I don't think airplane software ships updates the way npm packages do.

I'd ideally like to sleep tonight, thanks.

They do get software updates. Watch "Stig Aviation" "Stig Shift" series on youtube. He's shown how to do updates in a few of his videos.

Scary would be right.

Reminds me of the F-22 Raptor crossing the International Dateline error in 2007. They were flying a squadron of them from Hawaii to Japan. They crossed the IDL and all nav/fuel systems went down, as well as some communications gear.

They only made it back because they were flying with tankers at time, who led them back to base.

Was that a coordinate thing, a timezone thing, or something else?

I'm assuming the former.

That depends on how much code was having trouble, and what you mean by "resolved".

The safe option might be to avoid the situation, and I could imagine that even if there is a code update it might just make the plane balk at getting ready to take off after a certain amount of uptime.

I could suppose it's some of all of this. But my money is on UPF. The author of Ultra Processed People has an identical twin in NJ while he lives in the UK and their weights are vastly different.

UPF means "ultra-processed foods", in case anyone else had to look it up like I did.

How does that cause the rest of the world to also have decades-long steadily increasing obesity rates?

"how would you make StoreJogger?"

That is a systems design question and would have been reserved for Senior/Staff+ level hires. I have learned there is a whole delivery framework for providing that answer and I would not ask that of entry-level engineering. Assuming it was entry level.

Southwest Airlines (SW) has still not made an investment in their scheduling and operations software and infrastructure. They will have more operational failures in the future if say a huge store system forces to many flights to be rescheduled. For something so critical to business continuity I find it astounding how little SW has done in that regard. SW also has lobbied alot to derail high speed rail in Texas. Although I am sure all airlines have done that to some degree.

How do you know what Southwest is investing in internally? Sounds like a large problem to solve that will take time. I haven't seen any info about this.

Also, yeah all companies lobby against competition.

I just made the same comment. The expansion of the season now allows for that.

More days off is better though.

Two sequential 4 day work weeks is a waste though. I would much prefer to have them more evenly spread out. Summertime is great starting with Memorial Day in June, 4th of July, then Labor Day. The Spring has room for something since there's really nothing between Pres. Day and Memorial Day with a two month gap

I disagree. I find that the extra week before the Super Bowl makes me less interested in the season as a whole and less excited for the game when my team is not in it.

Given the expansion of the regular season, the SB is now one week before Presidents day weekend. The NFL could potentially move the season one week back and now have the SB regularly land on the Sunday during presidents day weekend.

Oh man and incorporate it into the halftime show. Have dancing Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, and Lincoln.

Just have all of the rap artists make it rain, then you'll have plenty of the dead presidents covered.

I remember seeing the leaderboard rankings before the prize was awarded. If I recall correctly the top two teams were very close to the coveted goal. They ended merging to become one team and spit the prize once they achieved the goal.