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Apparently, DOGE is also meddling with FAA's air traffic control system. I wonder what could go wrong here? https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887233566263967812 ht

Apparently, DOGE is also meddling with FAA's air traffic control system. I wonder what could go wrong here? https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887233566263967812 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887233566263967812

defrost 2y ago
The question was raised here 24 hours ago .. and [flagged][dead] fairly rapidly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42957495 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42957495 Which was unfortunate as I asked for technical comments on the wisdom of moving fast and breaking things when applied to a million humans aloft at any moment.
- tomrod 2y ago
  That's a shame. A lot of people seem to respect a man whose family has been old money for a long time, thinking he is somehow self made.
  - Keyframe 2y ago
    on the positive side, maybe these young ones will have a help of Grok when introducing code into critical safety systems!
    - tomrod 2y ago
      What a terrible name the man ruined by choosing, a perfectly cromulent Heinleinian term.
      - SauciestGNU 2y ago
        I think Heinlein ideologically is somewhat a fellow traveler with Musk and Thiel types.
        deleted 2y ago
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        defrost 2y ago
        In his writing persona, sure. Not so long ago somebody on a forum made a half decent case that in real life Heinlein wasn't the turned up to 11 pro gun, anti authoritarian, libertarian, et al he projected. The claim was he kept writing for his fans, paid attention to feedback, and played up the extremes as they sold.
        Gud 2y ago
        What makes you say that? I would guess he would despise these little men with big egos.
  - deleted 2y ago
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emseetech 2y ago
They're going to rewrite it in Nodejs and React aren't they?
- dialup_sounds 2y ago
  Certainly not! They're going to tell a chatbot rewrite it in node.js and React.
- ZeroGravitas 2y ago
  From the insanely rambling Trump description it sounded like they were going to connect it to starlink because: > You can't hook up satellites to land and you can't hook up land to satellites. https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lhjqtveqxc2x https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lhjqtveqxc2x
  - tim333 2y ago
    I think there are two different things. One, Musk said the traffic control system crashed last week and they want to check how it's set up. Two they are looking at making a new satellite based air traffic control system which could be interesting if a bit self serving if it means all planes have to get starlink. Satellite based air traffic control could be quite interesting - there have been people wanting to make a computerised system for ages but it's hard to do because firstly with existing systems the UK one has to talk to the French one which has to talk to the Tunisian one etc and it's hard to make that work and secondly your London - NY flight wants to get permission to land but there's no data signal mid atlantic.

defrost 2y ago

The question was raised here 24 hours ago .. and [flagged][dead] fairly rapidly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42957495 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42957495 Which was unfortunate as I asked for technical comments on the wisdom of moving fast and breaking things when applied to a million humans aloft at any moment.

tomrod 2y ago
That's a shame. A lot of people seem to respect a man whose family has been old money for a long time, thinking he is somehow self made.
- Keyframe 2y ago
  on the positive side, maybe these young ones will have a help of Grok when introducing code into critical safety systems!
  - tomrod 2y ago
    What a terrible name the man ruined by choosing, a perfectly cromulent Heinleinian term.
    - SauciestGNU 2y ago
      I think Heinlein ideologically is somewhat a fellow traveler with Musk and Thiel types.
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      - defrost 2y ago
        In his writing persona, sure. Not so long ago somebody on a forum made a half decent case that in real life Heinlein wasn't the turned up to 11 pro gun, anti authoritarian, libertarian, et al he projected. The claim was he kept writing for his fans, paid attention to feedback, and played up the extremes as they sold.
      - Gud 2y ago
        What makes you say that? I would guess he would despise these little men with big egos.
- deleted 2y ago
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emseetech 2y ago

They're going to rewrite it in Nodejs and React aren't they?

dialup_sounds 2y ago
Certainly not! They're going to tell a chatbot rewrite it in node.js and React.
ZeroGravitas 2y ago
From the insanely rambling Trump description it sounded like they were going to connect it to starlink because: > You can't hook up satellites to land and you can't hook up land to satellites. https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lhjqtveqxc2x https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lhjqtveqxc2x
- tim333 2y ago
  I think there are two different things. One, Musk said the traffic control system crashed last week and they want to check how it's set up. Two they are looking at making a new satellite based air traffic control system which could be interesting if a bit self serving if it means all planes have to get starlink. Satellite based air traffic control could be quite interesting - there have been people wanting to make a computerised system for ages but it's hard to do because firstly with existing systems the UK one has to talk to the French one which has to talk to the Tunisian one etc and it's hard to make that work and secondly your London - NY flight wants to get permission to land but there's no data signal mid atlantic.