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by abadpoli 3y ago
Yueh isn’t a mentat and his betrayal is unrelated to mentats. He’s suk, but even this is not integral in understanding that he was a trusted part of House Atreides and then betrayed them. The rest really isn’t needed to further the plot. Mo
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by abadpoli 3y ago
I think it’s interesting how subjective this can apparently be. What I saw in the video was someone standing up for themselves and fighting against perceived wrongdoing in an articulate way. That’s exactly the type of person I want on my te
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by abadpoli 3y ago
I watched the recent movies before reading the book and I disagree. The Shadout Mapes scene had more than enough context clues to understand. Thufir Hawat is very clearly a trusted advisor, and for the purposes of the story that’s really al
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by abadpoli 3y ago
It’s hard for me to think of any one specific scene that is visually memorable, because _the entire movie_ is visually memorable to me. It’s easily one of the most visually and auditory impressive films I’ve seen in the past decade, whereas
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by abadpoli 3y ago
Ok never mind you did entirely miss the point of the article. Shame.
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by abadpoli 3y ago
> You can increase your opportunity, but your luck never changes. Exactly. Congrats, you have realized what the point of the article is.
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by abadpoli 3y ago
Same here, I never have a problem with Amazon. I’ve noticed there are different shopping styles though, even in physical stores. Some people go to the store with no idea what they want or just a vague idea that they want something, and will
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by abadpoli 3y ago
The pilot of AF296 claims the crash happened because the fly-by-wire system preventing him from being able to select TOGA and from pulling up. The official investigation still found the pilot at fault, but there were also claims and later i
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by abadpoli 3y ago
The very first A320 demonstration flight _and_ one of the first A330 flights both crashed and killed multiple people due to issues with the autopilot programming. The whole “if it’s not Boeing, I’m not going” thing was because of distrust a
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by abadpoli 3y ago
The comment that kicked off this chain of comments wasn’t suggesting the past 25 hours, it was suggesting recording all flights, always, and storing it forever to be analyzed at any date in the future.
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by abadpoli 3y ago
Making snap decisions under stressful conditions has nothing to do with recording actions for later root cause analysis. If you can’t see the difference, sorry, that’s on you.
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by abadpoli 3y ago
You’re not seeing the parallels. The original comment suggested recording every action from the cockpit and using it for analytical data. The final action isn’t the goal. The steps and discussion that got them to the final action is. Hence
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by abadpoli 3y ago
That mildly-explosive missile has software running on it too. So do a lot of actual missiles, for that matter. If we record every action of the pilot of a plane, why wouldn’t we also record every action of the developers who wrote the autop
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by abadpoli 3y ago
Sure they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_bugs
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by abadpoli 3y ago
> There's no such thing as "safe to fly" or "not safe to fly." Except the type certificate issued by the FAA for a given aircraft is by definition the FAA saying that the type meets all applicable standards and i
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by abadpoli 3y ago
There’s no “two wrongs” here, per the FAA. There was one wrong (the issue) and then that issue is mitigated by a procedure (the issue is righted, at least partially). Even if you disagree with this mitigation, every time a new MAX 8 rolls o
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by abadpoli 3y ago
I could see this being an argument, basically saying “we’re okay with the size of the problem now but don’t want to make the problem bigger by allowing more planes to fly with this issue”. But if that was the argument, then that would also
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by abadpoli 3y ago
Please explain how this is “normalization of deviance” any more than allowing newly-built 8s and 9s to fly is.
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by abadpoli 3y ago
> allowed it for 8 means that the FAA has to allow it for all plans from here on out? 1, 2, infinity. If the plane’s issue is the exact same issue and the mitigation is the same mitigation that’s already been approved by the FAA as effec
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by abadpoli 3y ago
Yes, it sounds to me like that’s the issue too, but I disagree with it. Either the mitigation is acceptable to make the plane safe to fly, or it’s not. “Well this one already existed before we knew about the issue, whereas this one is new”
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by abadpoli 3y ago
Youre being disingenuous if thats how you interpreted my comment. Of course there are changes, and as someone who does significant research on plane variants, I know that more than most. But it doesn’t take a genius to see that in this part
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by abadpoli 3y ago
I have to disagree with all of the comments in this thread saying this is “insane”. The FAA approved a mitigation for an issue in MAX 8 and 9 planes. The MAX 7 has the same issue, so Boeing is asking for the same mitigation to be approved.
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by abadpoli 3y ago
> defending them because they’re women There’s absolutely nothing in my comment that even implies I’m defending them and their actions, and also absolutely nothing in my comment that implies any of my statement is based on their gender.
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by abadpoli 3y ago
I think part of this was also your classic case of tech industry misogyny, too. There has been a lot of thinly veiled sexism in the discussions about Helen and Tasha vs Sam.
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by abadpoli 3y ago
WiFi calling isn’t always free internationally though, it often gets charged according to your phone plan’s international rates, which is discouraging for many people. Signal, on the other hand, just sees WiFi as WiFi.
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by abadpoli 3y ago
Aircraft windows are double paned. On the inner pane, there is actually a small hole that allows air to pass to the outer pane, and makes it so that the outer pane is holding in the pressure during normal operation. If the outer pane is cra
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by abadpoli 3y ago
Are you using a docker image to run AWS CLI or something? It shouldn’t have anything to do with docker at all if you’re just running the bare ‘aws’ command.
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by abadpoli 3y ago
It isn’t simple at all. You lack nuance. You can stop doing business with Mom&Pop’s coffee shop relatively easily, just like you can move to a different town to get away from your city government authority. But you’re practically never
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by abadpoli 3y ago
I recently replaced a windshield (plus calibration) for a Honda Accord and it was $350.
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by abadpoli 3y ago
The headline of this article is ridiculous and doesn’t match VA’s statement at all. Both British Airways and VA have a direct LHR-AUS flight, and they both are at basically the same time and around the same pricing. BA has much better conne

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