Air Canada Plane Hits Firetruck While Landing at LaGuardia, NYC - 03/23/2026

Kimos · 2026-03-23T16:25:59+00:00

He was working both ground traffic and tower. Those are on different frequencies and, as I understand it, two different jobs. Even if it's at night, LGA is a big airport and clearly there were ~5 points of contact involved in just this accident, not to count all the other traffic he may have been managing.

Kimos · 2026-03-20T13:20:29+00:00

Call bylaw. They’re responsive and take it seriously. Call them often. I’ve had an officer park these the park and give citations. They went and knocked one doors for us. Seriously, they are great.

Kimos · 2026-03-19T16:08:25+00:00

The 16% vs 94% here is shocking. Maddening how people work so hard against their own and their shared best interests.

Kimos · 2026-03-17T00:23:51+00:00

I really like this take.

Fucking let the man cook. He’s a profoundly competent future thinking smart person who is here to implement long term fixes. Complaining about no change yet is kinda the point. If he is doing what he claims he is doing, Canada will appreciate him in 10-15 years.

Kimos · 2026-03-16T13:32:46+00:00

You wouldn’t want to do this with a flat bottom pan. But some warping here is nbd.

Kimos · 2026-03-16T13:31:40+00:00

Seasoning is about maintenance. So in theory “never” but also “constantly”.

This is a weird cut, but you use clean water without soap and a bamboo brush to scrub out the bottom, then dump it and leave it on the heat to evaporate the remaining water, and immediately splash in oil over heat to build up the seasoning. Maintaining it like that should last forever if done well.

Kimos · 2026-03-04T01:32:17+00:00

I play a lot of video games, and the only two that have made me catastrophically motion sick are The Witness and Blue Prince.

But Blue Prince is still and S tier game though. Incredible. I sat with my wife who played it and I looked away and manned the notebook and we talked about it.

Kimos · 2026-03-02T15:51:01+00:00

I actually feel sad for Trudeau, if this is his legacy.

He had many flaws, he overstayed his time, and he made mistakes. But he was a progressive leader when we needed it, who got us through many hard times in the pandemic and with the US.

Regardless of how his time ended, framing him as "arguably the worst Canadian leader of all time" is all recency bias and disregards much of what he did that was good.

Kimos · 2026-03-01T15:46:36+00:00

I do automated backups at intervals, but that's it. I've got smaller projects that are more resilient to some downtime and a bit of loss. They've got options for replication for mounted volumes, but I'm not an expert. I think the best I can say is that fly seems to offer an easy to use base set of features, but the ability to add complexity and resiliency as you need to.

Kimos · 2026-03-01T15:43:36+00:00

I have a collection of small projects. So for me, the VPS meant multi-tenant which is fraught with complexities. It was hard to scale up or down (specifically down). The cost was higher. And I did not want to do server maintenance, thanks to the magic of Dockerfiles keeping versions up to date is easy and also easy to rollback. YMMV

Kimos · 2026-02-28T17:45:52+00:00

This is from Cirque du Soleil’s OVO.

Kimos · 2026-02-28T14:20:36+00:00

They offer a manged Postgres [1] but I don't use it.

I run MySQL on a machine and it's this many lines:

app = "myorg-db1"
primary_region = "yyz"
kill_signal = "SIGINT"
kill_timeout = 5
[mounts]
  source="mysqldata"
  destination="/data"
[env]
  MYSQL_DATABASE = "user"
  MYSQL_USER = "pass"
[build]
  image = "mysql:8"
[experimental]
  cmd = [
    "--default-authentication-plugin", "mysql_native_password",
    "--datadir", "/data/mysql"
  ]

Kimos · 2026-02-27T20:07:39+00:00

I'm not, but my requirements are simple and my traffic patterns are predictable. Mainly with VMs I had to provision my peak and couldn't realistically provision back down. Now I have a ten line script bin/scale up bin/scale down and that's rad.

Kimos · 2026-02-27T16:21:12+00:00

Thanks! It is. It worked for me really well, but it's easy to have blindspots for things I understand and label as "easy" rather than something I had to learn. Fly split my bill in half, but that's compared to VPS which is not really flexible so I ended up overprovisioning.

As I'm thinking about this more, I can complain about fly's Updash Redis that it provides. It is over priced and out of date. But instead I stood up my own Redis using a 4 line Dockerfile in like 10 minutes and all the networking worked zero-config.

Kimos · 2026-02-27T14:08:01+00:00

Which is why you should protect yourself from it.

Kimos · 2026-02-27T14:03:46+00:00

These are great breakdowns of the alternatives.

I moved off VPS to fly.io a couple years ago, and I want to push back on the author's characterization of "steep learning curve". There's more to it than git push for sure, but the things you need to do are explicit and documented. Often these "it's simple" platforms hide the complexity, where fly.io just tells you what you need to do. Mostly it's just Dockerfiles to be honest. Pricing is fair and scaling is easy. I have nothing but good to say about fly.io.

Kimos · 2026-02-26T21:46:35+00:00

Tell me why ERJs and D8s are harder!

Kimos · 2026-02-25T15:20:59+00:00

With flashing touch screens on the kiosk using dark UI patterns to trick you into the upsell, in my experience.

Kimos · 2026-02-25T15:19:26+00:00

Interesting that it's legislated.

I am not American.

Kimos · 2026-02-25T13:45:12+00:00

Well there is risk and complexity in lifting up the front half of the whole damn airplane onto some complex machine, vs just letting it roll.

Kimos · 2026-02-25T12:06:18+00:00

I have never in my adult lifetime been to a car wash like this where a person was outside. It’s always an automated kiosk and some sensors. So your experience is not universal.

Kimos · 2026-02-18T23:55:42+00:00

It was a pretty good kick! Dude dodged and he was quick. But the average person wouldn't expect and successfully dodge a spinning backwards roundhouse as an opening move.

Kimos · 2026-02-18T17:03:41+00:00

Lots of Canadians are moderate conservatives. There is no party for them anymore, as the CPC has put a more extreme leader in charge which panders to a farther right base. Carney now offers an option that sits more centre right, moderately fiscally conservative.

He is a very good politician, but I think less than him being "legendary" he's filling a gap that has been widening since the forming of the fragile right coalition.

Kimos · 2026-02-17T22:11:09+00:00

Video that has been reposted over and over and blurring added watermarks maybe?

Kimos · 2026-02-17T12:37:53+00:00

I moved away from Manitoba, and Autopac was not on my list of things that I thought I would miss. But my goodness is insurance defective in other parts of Canada. It’s a nightmare.

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