27183

11 ms·

121.
by 27183 2mo ago
In the case of a nation state actor, the most recent update could well be the attack vector.
122.
by 27183 2mo ago
That's great! Different take on the opto-isolator.
123.
by 27183 2mo ago
> normal network security The problem is there's no good way to actually enforce this. Every organization has their own idea of what is "good enough". The NSA has some pretty good advice[0]. But as far as I know there&#x27
124.
by 27183 2mo ago
You can't have both secure infrastructure and Internet exposed infrastructure. I don't know if I'd frame it as incompetence, but it does seem firmly outside the capabilities of current engineering practice. If you need a comp
125.
by 27183 2mo ago
What happens to OpenJDK when Oracle dies? That's looking increasingly likely on a 3-5yr horizon.
126.
by 27183 2mo ago
Yeah it's true, and the higher up the ladder you go the worse it gets.
127.
by 27183 2mo ago
"clanker wankers" has a nice ring to it
128.
by 27183 2mo ago
This just seems like it's shining a light on the omnipresent skill issues in tech leadership. You don't get promoted to leadership positions for thinking critically, analytical skills, or necessarily being good at anything. Instea
129.
by 27183 2mo ago
I would not characterize software people as particularly "clear-thinking".. there's a huge buzzing cloud of unexamined cognitive biases and thoughtless herd behavior that swirls around every software organization I've wo
130.
by 27183 2mo ago
There was some truly crazy shit happening in the late '50s-early '60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto https://en.w
131.
by 27183 2mo ago
This is extremely common in urban areas as well, at lower speed. Not necessarily less fatal. The thing that seems similar between flying and riding motorcycles is that even a "small" crash is likelier than you want to have extreme
132.
by 27183 2mo ago
Weird things can happen with big downdrafts and wind shear, but those aren't terribly frequent and probably a spin is less critical to practice than stall recovery. But it's a very different experience to actually feel the forces
133.
by 27183 2mo ago
I wonder what the human factors consequences of having a GPS/chartplotter working almost all the time and then suddenly fail are. Well, I don't wonder that much, but it would be interesting to see the data. It seems a similarly
134.
by 27183 2mo ago
"Hey Siri, find me gas stations along my route" routinely fails now. That worked great for years. Total clown show.
135.
by 27183 2mo ago
There's nothing inherently unsafe or unreliable about old airplanes. Aircraft maintenance and inspections are very rigorous and evidence based as compared with almost any other mechanical systems you might interact with. I flew a 1949
136.
by 27183 2mo ago
That stuff just seems awfully gimmicky to me. I'm glad it worked and saved some lives. I don't think I'd want that system in my plane, though. I just wouldn't be able to trust it. But I also wouldn't want anything t
137.
by 27183 2mo ago
When I was training 20yr ago we practiced stalls, spin recovery, simulated random engine-out scenarios.. do they not do that anymore? I was pretty confident barring some catastrophic mechanical failure I could probably get it on the ground
138.
by 27183 2mo ago
I've been in this situation too. But I was trained for it and had a mental checklist to follow. I never had a GPS, though. It seems from the details of the article, which you rightly highlighted, that the pilots were using their GPS as
139.
by 27183 2mo ago
> Heavy weather and an instrument approach or confounding factors? Not accurate imho. Then what are you supposed to do when your GPS craps out on approach in low visibility and heavy weather? Obviously the answer is "fly the airplan
140.
by 27183 2mo ago
Dunning-Kruger lives!
141.
by 27183 2mo ago
Systems fail for all kinds of reasons, if you're dependent on one SPOF without any backup, bad things will happen eventually. In aviation we're taught to think this way from the very beginning. Always have a spot picked out where
142.
by 27183 2mo ago
It'll have to be pretty much all the ways. One way will stick. The rest will be forgotten failures.
143.
by 27183 2mo ago
Yeah that sounds great! A company guillotine is absolutely something I could get behind. Problem is I don't think there's any way it could possibly happen politically. Whereas we have a really strong existence proof for e.g. the P
144.
by 27183 2mo ago
It was a general purpose computer, just a small one. Anything you could do on a "real" computer could be done on a calculator, albeit with tighter constraints. It might help to have some higher math objective to accomplish, becaus
145.
by 27183 2mo ago
maybe outing myself as a dinosaur, but "back in my day" the calculator came with a book that detailed exactly how to use it. Both the high level basic language and the low level system language. Not knowing how to use it is simply
146.
by 27183 2mo ago
> how else are you going to get there? Sailing would be more fun, IMO. Might take a quarter or half a year though.
147.
by 27183 2mo ago
This is exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote it down ;)
148.
by 27183 2mo ago
> "For a plane to fly as well as a bird it has to be able to flap its wings". > "For a submarine to swim as well as a fish it has to be as light as fish". These are false equivalences. The post you're respondi
149.
by 27183 2mo ago
100%. I don't think "AI" has changed anything wrt to the responsibility of the tech industry in general. Tech has always been pretty much devoid of ethics or a sense of responsibility at the executive level (and therefore
150.
by 27183 2mo ago
You could pack a lot more in if you sedate them and put them in racks like they have at the morgue. TBH I'd sign up for that on a long flight if the sedative recovery wasn't bad.

More ›