Peter Yu

@MeadorFTC @united United has very standard 30-31 inches of pitch in regular economy. There’s maybe 1-2 airlines in the entire world with 31+ inches of pitch on a narrowbody plane in economy, but plenty of LCCs with 28-29 inches of pitch.

Hey @United, when you have to cut out indentations from your seat back tray to fit around passengers your rows might be just a tad too cramped. And I don’t think another merger will fix it.

@humantransit This is hugely disingenuous. The 23 and 523 bus lines on Stevens Creek serve ~300 riders a day between Miller and Tantau. Conversely, Apple has an entire shuttle network that runs all over the Bay Area, and they built a large bus dropoff area that you can see on the left.

@RDKLInc @ilyamiskov Unbelievable. Congrats!

@peterxyu @ilyamiskov Thanks for the pic! $600 on eBay

I have finally found the most beautiful computer. New old stock from 1980. Never been turned on.

@lukeanderson_ @dpoddolphinpro Disagree. “An” refers to rocket, not to this class. Imagine if it said first instead of 600th. Could BO come out and say they just performed the “first overall landing of an orbital class rocket”?

@dpoddolphinpro It literally says “an”, referring to a singular example of an orbital class rocket. This is some next level cope and engagement bait. Do better.

SpaceX doesn't think Super Heavy or New Glenn are orbital-class rockets

@dangaron @aakashgupta Are you sure it's going back to 45? The reporting suggests the 36 max is now permanent.

1) United’s investment was not premised on SFO *adding* new flight capacity as there has always been a bottleneck with the narrow runways. 2) the repaving project lasts only six months and reduces flights by 9 per hour 3) the FAA decision reduces VFR arrivals by another 9 (on clear days). During adverse weather, the rule hasn’t changed. 4) SFO is at 54 arrivals per hour now, will temporarily go down to 36 per hour, but then will go to 45 per hour. SFO says it’s working with the FAA to improve that number. This is not good and hurts sfo but the reality is very diff than what you said

United just bet $2.6 billion on an airport the FAA permanently capped this morning. United committed $2.6 billion to expand SFO, grew capacity 20% year over year, hired 2,800 new employees, and added routes to Adelaide, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, and Manila. 300 daily flights this summer. The entire strategy is premised on SFO scaling with them. The FAA just killed that premise. 54 arrivals per hour down to 36. A 33% capacity reduction with no end date. The construction project runs through October, but the parallel landing ban stays after the concrete dries. The physics: SFO's two main landing runways sit 750 feet apart. Most airports with parallel operations have 3,000 to 4,400 feet of separation. SFO was the exception because pilots could fly visual approaches in clear weather, essentially eyeballing the other plane and maintaining separation themselves. The DCA midair collision, the San Antonio near miss, the John Wayne helicopter incident. The FAA looked at the accident chain and decided 750 feet of human judgment wasn't worth the throughput. SFO already had 69% on-time arrivals before this change. One in four arriving flights will now be delayed 30 minutes or more. During fog season, when visual approaches were already banned and staggered landings were already the rule, the effective capacity could drop further. United can add all the routes it wants. The airport can only land 36 planes an hour. You can't repave your way out of a runway that was built 750 feet from its twin in 1960.

@gak_pdx This thing is $627? You know it's crazy when it costs twice as much as the Festool equivalent, which also comes in a Systainer.

@gak_pdx Snap-on's ID feels very Harbor Freight. I think it's a combination of the red, the body-colored logo, the blocky overmolding, and still being a bit try-hard tough. My favorite in this category is the Festool CXS 12 for one reason—it's very stable while sitting upright.

Snap-on Micro Lithiun 14.4V is the GOAT. I have Milwaukee everything, but Snappy is my go-to. Why? 1- Toggle trigger. Incredible! Why is this not everywhere! 2- Magnetic boot. Just stick it wherever it needs to be out of your way, easy access (not here in this pic, but you get the idea) 3- Just look at Snappy’s ID. Clean. Purposeful. Tool-like. Every other tool brand is trying to be a bitchin jr high boy’s gym locker room.

@davidliuxyz Trainsets are the easiest part. The hard part is all the grade separations and tunneling needed below Pacheco and Tehachapi, plus the rest of the 80% of the funds.

can california just buy these from japan and be done with high speed rail

@loriara For SF this has to be all the Bay Area airports combined, but even then 2016 stats show United leading SW by 7% 🤔

Super interesting slide on #United vs. its competitors in key hubs - then versus now

@signulll Pretty sure Global Entry guy is actually CBP. Only the security screening is contracted.

sfo utilizes private contractors & it’s an absolute breeze relative to every single other airport right now. it’s not susceptible to govt shutdowns or these ridiculous messes that happen so frequently now that impact normal ppl’s everyday lives. i mean the global entry guy even said welcome back mr signull with a huge smile on his face. so why aren’t we privatizing tsa with some good guidelines?

@AppleDemoYT That symbol isn’t crossed out, it means don’t dispose in the trash.

Prototype Apple TV Siri Remote Control 2nd Generation (EVT Stage). The remote has a finger groove cutout in the back housing, which production remotes don’t have. The remote also has X’d out regulatory approval engravings, and has an asset tag engraved on the side. #appleinternal

@MehdiHacks There’s only three German tool brands that make the full range of hand tools (screwdrivers, sockets/ratchets, pliers, etc): Gedore, Stahlwille, Hazet. I would say they are all pretty comparable, but Wera/Wiha clearly lead in drivers and Knipex/NWS clearly lead in pliers.

I was today years old when I learned about Hazet tools!! I went to our garage to borrow tools, and noticed they have Hazet tools. I checked, and all were made in Germany! And then checked the price; they're so expensive! I want a few :D The full set in this picture costs ~€10k

@signulll Full service airlines are entirely optimized for business travel, prioritizing schedule, frequency, and network. The empty seats are auctioned off to warm bodies who'd happily waste two hours to save $10. The rest is just noise. See: La Compagnie, i.e. completely irrelevant.

some rich billionaire, can you please create an airline that will destroy every other airline? - charge fair straight forward premium prices - optimize for comfort, food, & premium experiences. - fuck the rewards, credit cards, & points. just clean beautiful experiences. maybe acquire few airlines to do it for gate access.

@RyanRadia @Nowooski Not always. Many newer ones check that the card has a chip in it but I’ve never encountered one that actually authenticates. This is why I carry a few old room keys of various types with me.

@Nowooski This tweet is how I learned you can just put any magnetic card in that slot

Did not expect Texas of all places to have European-style electrical rationing in hotel rooms. Also, a bit of a critical design oversight when the hotel chain aggressively pushes digital keys.

@ohitstarik CAHSR and the NEC have spent something like $15 billion in the last ten years combined, which when divided by the total number of U.S. emplanements over the same period, works out to less than $2 per passenger.

i wonder how much cheaper mass long distance transit would be if we cancelled the budget of every high speed rail project ever & used it to subsidize the taxes of air travel pictured: flight from DC to SF

@usgraphics There are a lot of examples of the latter being better though, e.g. paper sizing, Eurobox/Europallet, Torx drive sizes, IEC wire gauge, CCS2. Even the Schuko electrical plug is obviously the safest and most logical plug design despite being bulky.

I have a strong intuition that when standards emerge from the bottom up, despite the “scrappy” spirit, they have a strong backbone and are based af than some committee of theoreticians coming up with them in a Marriott conference room. Hard to prove it to myself.

Industrial standardization. Not sure if in this case, but I find it fascinating that sometimes these standards emerge automatically with no formal agreement or top down intent. This kind of thing is American coded and has this scrappy industrial spirit to it, but I’m sure it happens all over the world.

@gak_pdx Which version of the Trimos are you comparing against? My biggest gripe with the new Mitutoyo is that it’s way too tall. The 400 mm height is perfect and I literally will never measure anything taller

Mitutoyo is: - More accurate (slightly, basically .1µm across the range) - Has all the same functions - Has a better UI. - Has better squareness/perpendicularity - More robust construction/temp comp - 100% controlled touches/fully motorized - 100% built by Mitutoyo (not that the Heidenhin scales in the Trimos are bad, but Trimos does not make scales) And it is 1/2 the price of the Trimos.

1.1 micron accuracy, 0.4 repeatable. More accurate than most CMMs. And motorized for your convenience!

@McFranchisee The amount of melting is driven by the initial temperature of the liquid and the amount of heat that flows into the cup over time. The shape of the ice doesn’t affect it at all. (standard caveats about equilibrium and steady state apply, but are safe assumptions for cubed ice)

Even the ICE is special. 🧊 McDonald’s uses non-porous ice, meaning it melts slower and doesn’t dilute your drink as fast. That’s why your soda still tastes great even when you’re halfway through the cup. I know people love to chew on pellet ice but it is absolutely the worst ice you can put in a soft drink. It waters down your drink at a faster rate. 5/8

Ever wonder why @McDonalds Coke tastes BETTER than anywhere else? It’s not in your head. McDonald’s goes above and beyond to make their drinks elite. They even have their own division at @CocaCola HQ - no one else does. Let me break it down. 🥤🧵👇 1/8