This article made me reflect on my own upbringing. My parents weren't particularly well-educated, but their parenting style actually had a lot in common with the fictional Andy Taylor from The Andy Griffith Show. While Angela Duckworth's research on grit wasn’t around back then, Andy Taylor modeled many of the traits Duckworth describes—compassion, high expectations, and letting kids learn from mistakes. My parents seemed to naturally follow a similar path, and it served as a kind of guardrail for them—a common-sense approach they likely picked up because it felt right, not because of any research.
I'm not claiming my success today is solely due to this upbringing, but I do feel like it had a meaningful impact. Especially when I see the outcomes of friends who had either very authoritarian or completely hands-off parents. There's something powerful in that balanced, "Andy Taylor" approach: patient guidance, firm boundaries, and leading by example.
It’s interesting to consider that despite all the developmental psychology and theories on parenting we have today, a lot of the fundamentals were demonstrated in simple, accessible ways by a character on 1960s TV. It’s a reminder that, at its core, effective parenting often just requires consistency, empathy, and a healthy dose of common sense.
> NASA issued the following explanation on Monday for the strange noises: "A pulsing sound from a speaker in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station has stopped. The feedback from the speaker was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner. The space station audio system is complex, allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, and it is common to experience noise and feedback."
I can't think of a time I've been to a Starbucks Reserve location and felt that the difference amounted to more than slightly bougier interior decorating. Same as any other Starbucks otherwise, and generally the coffee isn't better
Their roastery in Seattle is quite different though and worth visiting since they do have good coffee, interesting merch, interesting architecture, etc.
I mean, that's also a roastery, not just a "reserve" location, and that's the New York location which might as well be the Times Square Apple Store compared to some small town Apple Store.
Other reserve locations, such as this one in Tokyo https://maps.app.goo.gl/diFWHoByG3783V8u5 or this one in Vancouver https://maps.app.goo.gl/HGWsXsinAparQ7bGA are pretty much "slightly bougier" locations that as far as I know don't really have anything unique going on, with the exception that you can sometimes get shitty coffee made in a siphon brewer.
The roasteries always seem to get that special touch though.
> However, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is “working closely with AT&T to understand the cause of the outage and its impacts, and stand[s] ready to offer any assistance needed,” Eric Goldstein, the agency’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said in a statement to CNN.[1]
like, you could commit a dumb BGP config and break lots of stuff. have done that in the past, actually...
but any time a national-tier ISP has a national-level outage, that warrants a look from multiple orgs. and given the number of threat actors like china, NK, iran, and russia, who are, and have, made aggressive efforts in this space -- and have strong reasons to do so now -- its not crazy for the US fed'gov to want to know a little more, and offer to help. but again, entirely possible it's unrelated.
from the same article above, it seems like it's a critical part of this.
> “Everybody’s incentives are aligned,” the former official said. “The FCC is going to want to know what caused it so that lessons can be learned. And if they find malfeasance or bad actions or, just poor quality of oversight of the network, they have the latitude to act.”
If AT&T gets to decide if they are at fault, they will, of course, never be at fault. So a third-party investigation makes a lot of sense.
I would also suspect that the FCC would not be as well versed in determining if there was a hack or even who did it, which is why I feel like CISA would need to get involved in the investigation.
FirstNet absolutely went down in my locality (western Ohio, near Dayton). I was on shift for after hours support of a public safety answering point (AKA a 911 center) and I received a call at 04:14 Eastern stating that all the law enforcement/fire mobile units on FirstNet disconnected from the VPN and that no FirstNet cell phones could make/receive calls or send/receive text messages.
I know the other carriers are saying they aren't affected, but one look at DownDetector shows that nearly every carrier was affected, and all at the same time.
A user who has a working cell phone could contact a user who is on a network experiencing issues. Because the call fails, that user may decide their cell network is also faulty. Downdetector only works on user reports. Its basically useless for actual measurement because people are bad at troubleshooting.
That site counts mentions over social media, if you said 'T-Mobile/Verizon isn't having an outage' it'd still show up as outage activity on it. Plus people report issues calling AT&T customers.
I'm not claiming my success today is solely due to this upbringing, but I do feel like it had a meaningful impact. Especially when I see the outcomes of friends who had either very authoritarian or completely hands-off parents. There's something powerful in that balanced, "Andy Taylor" approach: patient guidance, firm boundaries, and leading by example.
It’s interesting to consider that despite all the developmental psychology and theories on parenting we have today, a lot of the fundamentals were demonstrated in simple, accessible ways by a character on 1960s TV. It’s a reminder that, at its core, effective parenting often just requires consistency, empathy, and a healthy dose of common sense.