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by _moof 6mo ago
Actual lol. Thank you. :)
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by _moof 7mo ago
I design and conduct space missions, and I'm an experienced professional pilot. The answer to your question is "never." Any system that requires perfect performance from any one human will fail.
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by _moof 7mo ago
We do have that on the ground. The truck wasn't participating.
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by _moof 7mo ago
This is my field and the amount of extremely confident nonsense I've read on here in the last 24 hours is going to put me in the cardiac ICU.
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by _moof 7mo ago
There is one. It's called ASDE-X. The truck wasn't participating.
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by _moof 7mo ago
That risk is managed through medical certification. The real problem with understaffing is that one person can't handle all that work.
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by _moof 7mo ago
There's a mountain of evidence. No single controller should ever be running tower and ground at an airport like LGA.
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by _moof 7mo ago
A great deal of ATC relies on automation, such as systems like ASDE-X, which is used at LGA. ASDE-X uses radar and vehicle transponders (among other things) to detect collision hazards on the ground. Unfortunately ASDE-X only works if every
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by _moof 7mo ago
ASDE-X is an automated system that alerts tower and ground controllers to collision hazards on the airport surface. A transponder is a device that either responds to radar pings or continuously broadcasts the vehicle's position. They a
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LGA firefighting truck involved in collision did not have transponder(bsky.app)
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by _moof 7mo ago
> The fire trucks aren't part of the airport traffic management system Yes they are.
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by _moof 7mo ago
There is no "the" issue in airline accidents. There are always multiple factors, and all of them had to happen in order for the accident to occur. Understaffing is absolutely a factor. Had tower and ground not been combined, the e
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by _moof 7mo ago
It doesn't matter what the orientation of the taxiway is. If you can't see when you're stopped straight on the taxiway centerline, you stop at an angle instead. There is never an excuse for not visually clearing a runway befo
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by _moof 7mo ago
TCAS is fantastic - absolutely stellar example of effective automation. But calling a replacement of major ATC functions with software a "simple fix" is a perfect illustration of why this is a bad idea. Nothing about human-rated s
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by _moof 7mo ago
I have over 1,000 hours as PIC in the NY area alone, in all seasons and all weather, and I was in the region last night, awake when the accident happened. LGA was reporting 4SM -RA BR FEW045 BKN090 OVC110 at the time of the accident. The we
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by _moof 7mo ago
Speaking very generally, it's not unusual at all. Tower and ground are combined all the time - at smaller airports. Should they be combined at LGA when both (crossing) runways are in use, and there's an incident on the field? (The
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by _moof 7mo ago
They got clearance and then obviously didn't bother to look outside, which is a dereliction of the basic responsibility of operating any vehicle on an airport surface. Clear left, clear right, then cross the hold short line. (See my
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by _moof 7mo ago
Changing the delivery method doesn't do anything to solve the problem of a controller sending an instruction that creates a hazard.
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by _moof 7mo ago
You can't just throw software at this. It's a complex system that involves way more than just an airplane and someone in a tower. Systems engineering, human factors, and safety management systems are the relevant disciplines if yo
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by _moof 7mo ago
I'm very, very curious about whether the ARFF crew visually cleared the runway and final before crossing the hold short line. It's standard procedure for flight crew to do this, specifically to mitigate the risk of ATC errors.
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by _moof 7mo ago
Please engage with the substance of my comment: I have personally witnessed this tactic being used by anti-LGBTQ bigots for decades.
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by _moof 7mo ago
Good. You don't get to use my computer for a DDoS. I don't care why the DDoS was happening. I wasn't asked, and that's a serious breach of trust.
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by _moof 7mo ago
There was already a way to do that. Cmd-Shift-4, drag a rectangle around what you want to screencap. Cmd-Shift-4 Space, click a window to screencap it. These have been in the OS for so long I can't even remember when they were added.
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by _moof 7mo ago
Hi, I've been openly queer for over 20 years. Using trans people as a wedge to pry apart the entire LGBTQ community is a tale as old as time. This isn't theoretical or a slippery slope argument; it's recent history. It's
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by _moof 7mo ago
Same. It's game-changing - leaps and bounds above every previous attempt to make Python's packaging, dependency management, and dev workflow easy. I don't know anyone who has tried uv and not immediately thrown every other to
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by _moof 7mo ago
I said > on the home page and I meant it
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by _moof 7mo ago
Software developers: I am begging you to put representative screenshots on the home page. This has become a real widespread problem. I know you want to tell us all about the amazing (sincerely!) stuff under the hood, but to users, the inter
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by _moof 7mo ago
This is called rationale and it goes in the design document. As work proceeds, it goes into tickets and meeting notes, and gets fed back into the design doc.
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by _moof 8mo ago
I've also seen these used to add audio to art installations in commuter tunnels.
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by _moof 8mo ago
We aren't talking about "an item." We're talking about an industry that deliberately over-produces because it's better for their balance sheets, which has significant climate implications. This is precisely the sort

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