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by dpark 7mo ago
> people are generally optimistic and want to solve problems. This is an amazingly positive spin on the behavior.
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by dpark 7mo ago
Something like that. It feels a bit different because it’s less about overestimating one’s knowledge/ability and more about underestimating the complexity of domains outside one’s expertise. But yeah. Very similar.
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by dpark 7mo ago
I also do not like this persistent tone of “everyone else is stupid; software would easily fix it” that pops up so often. Not all problems are easy to fix with some code. To be clear, though, I don’t even have significant aviation knowledge
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by dpark 7mo ago
That’s such a great idea that it already exists and is deployed at La Guardia. https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/rwsl
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by dpark 7mo ago
> The ATC told them to enter the runway because they were confused or distracted due t overwork. Very possibly. It will be interesting what comes from the investigation. > No one here or anywhere is saying automation would solve or be
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by dpark 7mo ago
I’m not saying we couldn’t move more into automation. What I’m saying is that doing so will not solve all of our air/ground control problems. We still have human pilots and humans driving vehicles on the ground. Switching from humans d
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by dpark 7mo ago
To repeatedly declare something simple to fix, but then have no idea how to fix it, and indeed to declare oneself unqualified to fix it, is kind of an astounding level of hubris. > I'm asking for concrete reasons why it's not
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by dpark 7mo ago
And no fire trucks crossing the runways.
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by dpark 7mo ago
Literally called it “low hanging fruit”.
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by dpark 7mo ago
> Why don't you do it then? What am I missing? I know this was rhetorical but the obvious answer is a complete lack of any actual ideas. “Just automate it” is a common refrain from people who don’t know how to fix the actual issues
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by dpark 7mo ago
What tech do you suppose we’d put in an airplane that would stop a fire truck from driving onto the runway? Gatling guns?
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by dpark 7mo ago
> Every time I've asked what's so hard about automating ATC Why don’t you describe the hypothetical automation you believe would solve the problems then? My hunch is that either your ideas are already implemented (like GP post
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by dpark 7mo ago
Air traffic (and ground traffic) control are not simple problems. La Guardia has 350k aircraft operations (takeoffs and landings) every year. 1000/day. Peak traffic is almost certainly more than 1 plane every minute. Runways are alway
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by dpark 7mo ago
My issue isn’t that they claim the increased congestion comes from additional personal trips. My issue is that they claim this is due to increased capacity which fundamentally seems untrue, as evidenced by the fact that traffic doubled both
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by dpark 7mo ago
> The authors seem to suggest that demand for roads is infinite, as expanding roads merely increases the number of trips people choose to make, thus infinite expansion will result in infinite trips. Agree. They literally claim this with
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by dpark 7mo ago
I have a lot of trouble believing the premise that road capacity is unrelated to congestion. Practically we know that road capacity is only increased when congestion reaches critical levels. We also know that there are some massive empty ro
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by dpark 7mo ago
Is there a meaningful discussion of working conditions here? The article doesn’t have a lot of other context. If this is all that the employee in question said, I would not call it discussion of working conditions.
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by dpark 7mo ago
> I can't remember any occasions where the diagram actually cleared things up though. I would be very concerned about the quality of the engineers I was working with if they couldn’t produce helpful diagrams. It’s not coincidental t
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by dpark 7mo ago
This is essentially a statement that the system shouldn’t be unnecessarily complex. And sure, but that’s not really relevant to the discussion. If you have a complex system, whether due to legacy or due to actual necessity, you aren’t going
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by dpark 7mo ago
> I'd say it's a lossy way to express information. A simplified explanation of the system is by definition lossy. This equally applies to a plain English description. I’ve been in many design reviews and similar forums where so
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by dpark 7mo ago
A picture’s worth a thousand words. A diagram is a dense way to express information. The same information in prose would take much longer for a typical human to absorb. > If you can't explain it in prose, simplify. Simplify what? Th
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by dpark 7mo ago
It feels like a stretch to claim that mocking your CEO (deservedly or not) counts as collectively discussing or protesting working conditions.
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by dpark 7mo ago
Imagine the pearl clutching if he’d used the “herding cats” metaphor.
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by dpark 7mo ago
Yeah. I think your comment is being misunderstood.
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by dpark 7mo ago
This is some really tortured logic to find something to get offended about. > Calling yourself the smartest breed of dog isn't particularly humble Surely “smart as a border collie” is not a high bar for a human.
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by dpark 7mo ago
> It's an MBA with a spreadsheet explaining to a room full of people how much money Apple will lose if they allow X feature to work in Safari. You forgot to mention the long mustache your cartoon villain MBA is twisting while they s
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by dpark 7mo ago
Is it really egregious that Apple doesn’t support everything Google decides to push? Most of these are features I don’t care about, or in some cases actively do not want. I’m also not sure how accurate this page is. They claim Chrome on And
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by dpark 7mo ago
This is a fair point but there’s also truth to the fact that “I feel better” does not automatically mean it’s an effective/good treatment. Lots of depressed people turn to alcohol to provide a mood lift. But you can’t be drunk all the
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by dpark 7mo ago
I wasn’t really looking to argue about who knows the wealthiest people. I’m just curious who you are looking at. If you’re looking at billionaire philanthropists, I don’t know what they do but at that level of wealth it’s probably whatever
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by dpark 7mo ago
I don’t know how you’re defining “rich” but the wealthiest folks I know all go to work physically. They get in their cars, or in one case on their bike, and commute to work like everyone else.

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