Much of the aircraft is rivets, not screws.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/6312/why-are-ai...

"Airplanes are riveted, not screwed because they are the product of engineers, not lawyers."

If only the SLS seals would actually hold the hydrogen!

What ambient stuff is available at the altitude where a zeppelin typically flies?

there is generally plenty of ambient air in the earth's atmosphere

And how can that ambient air be stuffed into bags to control buoyancy?

An air pump will not compress the air such that it becomes dense enough to overcome the buoyancy of the helium. The idea is ridiculous.

Tell that to the airships I guess

so balloons appear to have negative mass, it's actually just the result of having lower density than the air. the upward force balances out with the gravity where the lbs/in^3 figure of its entirety matches that of ambient air. it's exactly the same as how an empty tank underwater floats, and a water filled tank underwater sinks.

or I guess one could say it's the bottom side getting more compressive load from air than the topside, given the observable effect, whatever floats our zep...

The stuff the Zeppelin/Blimp floats in

And how do you propose that stuff be stuffed into the bags to control buoyancy?

You might as well phrase that as "If your close neighbours have gotten vaccines then you benefit little from getting your own."

We live in a society. Everybody chips in. And each surge protector adds to the robustness of the grid.

Yes, that puts it down perfectly. That’s why some don’t ever see the benefit of installing their surge protector whereas others install one way too small for their situation and find them useless anyway.

The Linux community settled very quickly on the model of a Linux distribution, distributed via FTP, as a safe place to acquire on OS. Some got very popular.

Is there anything like that in the Android world? I'd love an alternative Android distro the supports writing notes with the S-Pen from the lockscreen. Where does one find such a thing?

There are AOSP-based distros like grapheneOS and calyxOS with various "app stores" like fdroid that behave similar to package managers on linux. There are also just run-linux-on-your-smartphone distros like postmarketOS. I doubt stylus integration is good in either.

You argue that a lot of things are likely. Why don't you take the time to check instead of slander?

I just recently read about something that requires - hard requirement - 3 spaces for indentation. Most likely read it here on HN. Makes me sick to even think about.

If I ever NIH a YAML-alike I fully intend to require the mixing of tabs and spaces when indenting.

What is evil about working with the government of the country in which they were founded and operate?

Just beause doesn't mean you support war.

Do you support the current Iran war and the way its handled?

Opposition and critisism (normally done by the independent press and the party not in power) is there to align. With trump you have 'deals' of rich people doing other rich people favours. They do not care about human lives

Of course I support the war against the regime that chants "Death to America" and is building a nuclear bomb. What kind of question is that?

Your regime plays global police and killed the leader of that country instead of talking.

"Death to America" wasn't a action, it was a reaction.

But its great we can stop discussing this anyway if you see war as a black/white thing.

9/11 was one reaction of the middle east to americas behaviour and it will be interesting to see what terrorism will happen in the USA after this war.

You are thanking me for what?

That your simple view of this war doesn't align with my more broader view of the war?

But to be very very clear: fu USA. I assumed, as a young perosn that we germany and USA were allies (you know ww2 etc.) and then I learned how USA sees itself as the world police.

And how the USA controls mmilitary stations around the world, how the USA CIA was responsible for the drug lords in Mexico ,how the USA overthrew Iran and replaced it with a USA friendly person on purpose.

How the FBI? or CIA created the Una-bomber.

How the USA threw nuclear weapons onto Japan (i was there, i saw what that did).

And now how the USA throws a tantrum by voting in the most narcisistic president in the world and just fucks over the world.

Feel free to stand with America, i do not. I do not stand with Iran either though and especially not with Israel.

What is wrong with a company serving the country in which it operates?

Engineering Ethics is a standard required class in any engineering discipline and a whole field of discussion. The ethics of working on military stuff (or even just government stuff) is nowhere near as cut and dry as your question seems to imply.

For example:

- What if the country asked you to develop technology to track and hack journalists or political rivals the administration doesn't like?

- What if the country asked you to develop chemical weapons? Is it different if the weapons would be used on their own population or only on external "enemies"?

- What if the country asked you to personally assassinate a civilian of another country? What if they asked you to create a program that would do that? What if they asked you to simply create a list of targets, and you knew they'd be assassinated?

- What if the country asked you to build something in an unsafe way that you're pretty certain will cause harm to people?

- What if the country asked you to make a public statement lying about the purpose behind what you're building?

Surely that depends heavily on the country.

The country in question is the United States of America. You know, the one that Iranian Islamic Republic officials lead chants of "Death to America" about.

The US is not perfect, but this disparagement of the US for the benefit of the Islamic Republic is disgusting. As is the online bullying of people who stand up for the US.

Just because there one or maybe several bad/worse countries in the world, that doesn't mean anything goes ethically. That's a dangerous line of reasoning.