asystole

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1. 121.▲
   by asystole 3y ago

   > Airlines really want to be able to use pilots' existing type-rating on this hulking zombie of a 60s-era airframe with modern engines but it behaves differently under certain conditions, what do we do? let's just build a syst
2. 122.▲
   by asystole 3y ago

   I think they're referring to the `x86_64-clang` part (`clang` vs `gcc`).
3. 123.▲
   by asystole 3y ago

   Am I missing something? grave means very serious, which seems like an appropriate category.
4. 124.▲
   by asystole 3y ago

   Does Betteridge's law apply here?
5. 125.▲
   by asystole 3y ago

   I agree in principle, but I don't think industries should be looking at current-day Boeing's engineering practices except for an example of how a proud company's culture can rot from the inside out with fatal consequences.
6. 126.▲
   by asystole 3y ago

   Right, so that's one transit company in one country. The whole point is that global flight tracking data is standardised and easily machine-parsable.
7. 127.▲
   by asystole 3y ago

   I'm getting little "PaLM2" badges on my Bard responses.