I found this resource which shows that sun intensity in June in northern Europe is similar to that in sub-Saharan Africa (in June).

https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/ua/EarthCirclesAndSunRay...

https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/ua/SunAndSeasons.html

At the equator, the sun is highest at the equinoxes (March and September) and lowest at the solstices. Outside the tropics, the sun is highest at the summer solstice (June or December) and lowest at the winter solstice.

Exactly at the equator the sun is directly overhead (90 degrees) at a single time point (close to 12 on depending on where you are within the time zone) every single day

The only thing that varies over the year is the path it takes to get there. At the solstices (summer/winter) the path curvature is maximal while t the equinoxes (spring/fall) it is a straight line.

Sorry that's just obviously false. It's only directly above you at the equinoxes, so twice a year. Otherwise it has traveled further north or south.

Before everything was an app, people had physical globes at home which could illustrate this very well.

Is it really that hard to assess someone's intelligence after talking with them for half an hour?

That would be an interesting experiment, post-interview ask each interviewer to guesstimate the candidate's SAT score.

replace flag with football team

I'm not sure what specific glass and metal are used in neon sign electrodes, but their definitely built to hold a higher vacuum under decades of use. Their relatively cheap and you can get them with small tubes on the end for pulling the vacuum.

your post on Who's Hiring provides some needed context...

want a Flutter developer who is unusually strong at directing AI-driven software delivery. This is not a traditional "write the code yourself" role.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223956

Not wrong. But my statement is true across organizations I have worked with in the past year, several of them not AI-native.

You've worked as a hiring manager at several organizations in the past year?

I said "with" and not "at". I was tasked with doing interviews and reshaping the interview process as multiple companies within the last 18 months through fractional roles, consulting and co-founding.

They're LARPing

Trolling is typically done on lakes with fishing lines cast from the back of a boat. A trolling motor sets the boat speed. Trawling usually takes place at sea, with larger boats and wide nets.

https://www.trollingmotors.net/

reminds me of a certain car trunk scene in Simon Pegg's "Kill Me Three Times" (although it used a custom foam insert and not vacuum-formed plastic)

This isn't the Albanian people's first rodeo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Albanian_civil_unrest

>> You know, many eastern countries apparently intuitively think in cycles.

"a turtle that retracts its head will later extend it"

fixed it