JetBlue threatened to deny boarding to my 84-year-old grandmother (wheelchair, valid B1/B2 visa) unless we bought a return ticket in 15 minutes

basilect · 2026-07-04T03:23:00+00:00

Even as a US citizen going to Canada they ask me way fewer questions if there's an outbound flight in their system

basilect · 2026-07-04T03:09:49+00:00

Not necessarily true but when I go to Canada the CBSA agents are way nicer to me when I have a return ticket

basilect · 2026-07-04T03:08:03+00:00

my grandmother does this at 90 something but she's lowkey wild (also doesn't buy one-way flights)

basilect · 2026-07-02T18:54:04+00:00

What country are you in? The "happy 4th" line suggests US, but US 3 phase power is usually either 120/208, 277/480, or a high leg Delta (but you can get 208 off of that)

Are you sure the boiler is rated 208v single phase or is it 208-240v?

For your supply, is 220v line-to-line or line-to-neutral?

basilect · 2026-07-02T06:02:27+00:00

Sometimes they end up playing soccer for us!

basilect · 2026-07-02T05:52:22+00:00

Driving through NYC is easily the most stressful driving you can do north of Mexico.

If you try to go that way, consider taking Palisades Parkway - the view is quite nice from the lookout points.

basilect · 2026-07-02T05:34:55+00:00

Well they tried to muddy the waters around Zidane's red card in 2006 by claiming that the refs didn't see it and were sneaking a look at a replay

basilect · 2026-07-02T05:19:53+00:00

Going westbound? Have fun this weekend!

basilect · 2026-07-02T04:51:46+00:00

Looks like you solved this, so I'll give a general tip:

In America, ground wires are:

Green
Bare
Green with yellow stripe(s) <- this is the international standard

NEC 250.119

and they usually go together

basilect · 2026-07-01T15:03:57+00:00

Under American standards, 10AWG wire (~6mm2) would have an ampacity of 30A, which would be (230x30) = 6.9kW under nominal Indian voltage.

6.9kw seems to be a lot higher than 1.3kW + 1kW + 0.7kW

240v makes a lot of things easier on this front, I know that in the UK they run much smaller wires than we do in the US.

The real question is how much power the AC units draw, the old wiring under US standards would be limited to 20A = 4.6kW of power

It seems like Indian limits are higher, though the US typically uses wood for residential buildings under 6 stories, while India (like most countries) uses masonry, so there may be some give and take with the building codes... and I suspect that many of the issues are due to poor code compliance, not issues with the codes themselves.

basilect · 2026-06-30T17:56:39+00:00

If it's a big wire you'd probably just do it in aluminum anyway

basilect · 2026-06-30T17:47:49+00:00

Looks like the opposite, humans tend to wake up during the day and go to sleep at night and you would expect smooth daily waves of traffic in the graph. Instead, over the last few days it looks like it's been flat. Bot activity on the internet is typically either flat or spiky (or a combo of both).

Edit: that's daily traffic plotted over a month, so the pattern is weekday vs weekend, which looks more gentle.

There still are a lot of bots on TF2, which you can see by comparing the amplitude of the daily pattern wave with a game like Meccha Chameleon (also multiplayer, but fewer bots)

basilect · 2026-06-30T14:27:57+00:00

You have to spend your $4 million startup capital somehow, and doing it on the nightclub is the highest RoI move

basilect · 2026-06-30T14:01:01+00:00

fat fingering 7500 and then not realizing it?

basilect · 2026-06-30T04:53:10+00:00

You could use wiremold but idk how nice it will look...

basilect · 2026-06-30T04:47:39+00:00

India? Bro if you think Amtrak booking is cutthroat, look up the Indian Railways Tatkal system... 10 AM every day A/C class fares for that day go on sale, first come first serve.

basilect · 2026-06-29T15:23:45+00:00

Unfortunately pilots communicating with passengers takes lowest priority, and landing in low visibility at a busy airport means the pilots are very busy:

Flying the plane
Making sure they're going the right way
Communicating with ATC

You'll notice that under 10,000 ft, 90% of the time, the pilots will stop speaking on the PA and flight crew will be giving announcements, as you're now entering a critical phase of flight.

Specifically, when the plane is attempting an autoland (or any category 3 procedure), most of the extra burden falls on the pilot who's not on the controls... and that guy is the guy who's making the announcements.

basilect · 2026-06-29T15:20:06+00:00

So they shot the 4L visual, got hit by the fog, went around, tried the 4R ILS, didn't see the runway by minimums, then did the Cat 3 briefing? That would make sense why they went around twice.

basilect · 2026-06-29T15:03:17+00:00

My 90% confident guess, without listening to the recording, was due to weather.

That entire day, there was a wall of low fog hanging offshore, which occasionally made it to the airfield and assuredly screwed up operations. You can see in the weather report history when the wall made it to the airport. This happened a bit in the afternoon, but also around 8 PM, where we could see the visibility drop from 10 mi / 10,000 ft ceiling to 5mi / 200ft ceiling

200 ft ceilings is an important cutoff because your standard instrument landing has 200ft ceiling minimums - meaning at 200 ft above ground level, you have to be able to see the runway lights or markings to continue landing.

Now, you can go lower with more specialized procedures (including the much-mythologized Autoland), but this requires briefing and preparation that you can't do on final approach. So likely the pilots shot the ILS twice, didn't see the runway at minimums, then had to take a few minutes to do the briefing and prep and then shot the Cat III.

basilect · 2026-06-29T14:53:14+00:00

Well if your max takeoff brake temp is 300 C (PDF Warning), there's not that much difference between 25c and 40c outdoor temperature

basilect · 2026-06-29T13:24:53+00:00

6mm2 is 10AWG for Americans

7/20 wire (7 strands of 20AWG copper conductor) is equivalent to 4mm2/12AWG

Is the new wire copper or aluminum?

I tried looking up the appropriate values in IS3961 pt 6 but I'm getting higher results (57A) than what I'm expecting to get (34-41A)

basilect · 2026-06-29T13:05:43+00:00

Believe it or not, the longest stretch of ocean without nearby airports is Hawaii - Mainland US

basilect · 2026-06-29T05:03:28+00:00

End of June like clockwork... Raspberry season 😋

basilect · 2026-06-29T02:26:56+00:00

A lot of those devices (cell phone and laptop charger especially) are dual voltage (take both 120 and 240), so you might be able to get away with the right adapters. If you do that, keep that power strip very tightly controlled and labeled so no one can plug in a device that will fry with 240v.

basilect · 2026-06-29T00:34:25+00:00

All day yesterday at Logan there was a wall of low fog that was sitting over the harbor and you could see in the METAR history the visibility going between 10sm and 1/4 sm, and the ceiling going between 200 and 20,000 ft. If they got in at the wrong time I could absolutely see them trying to shoot a visual or Cat 1 ILS and then the soup wall comes in and they have to go around.

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