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by xenadu02 1y ago
Landing the airplane in a way that you don't damage the airplane or yourself is another matter entirely. You can also easily get yourself killed through a stall/spin, flying into IMC/bad weather, etc. A lot of pilot training
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Flight plans are only required for IFR flights in many countries. The VFR rules vary (altitude, area, etc). You can file a VFR flight plan if you want to but it is not required. On the other hand you can't enter Clasa B airspace (the a
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by xenadu02 1y ago
To be extra clear here: They used an unproven custom-designed sensor + controller system to monitor the health of the hull. The monitoring system detected the beginning of total hull failure in the exact way they intended . They then ign
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by xenadu02 1y ago
On the Kia EV 9 I had to go in and disable lane assist (which you can still disable here in the US). It was downright dangerous, jerking the steering wheel at seemingly random times when it gets confused.
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by xenadu02 1y ago
PDF is a list of drawing commands (not exactly but a useful simplification). All those draw commands from some JS lib or in SVG? Or in every other platform's API? PDF or Postscript probably did them first. The model of "there is s
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by xenadu02 1y ago
It wasn't that they didn't have life insurance at all. It was that they couldn't increase their life insurance on the private market either due to their line of work or "Act of God"-style clauses. Or at least they t
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Our leased 2024 Kia EV9 has similar terrible software problems. Anyone who thinks Tesla's Autopilot/FSD (or any aspect of their software) is bad... much of the competition is far worse. A few issues: * Lane keeping gets dangerousl
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by xenadu02 1y ago
We should consider scale in this scenario. What the Chinese did affected millions of people. This story is about a relative handful of kids. I also find it unfortunate that they bothered with this nonsense. If you're going to do anythi
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Success in anything (sports, politics, startups) has a luck element to it. By that I mean there were N other people who were just as capable or qualified as you and it was luck that selected you above them. Luck of being born in the Bay Are
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by xenadu02 1y ago
For the record I don't think the designers of the switch or Boeing are idiots. The switches have guard notches and the throttle quad has metal guard edges to help prevent accidental activation. As far as we know this is the first accid
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by xenadu02 1y ago
First I am a pilot. Not commercial or jet rated but I like to think I have a tiny bit more insight than average. The point of what GI275 does is as a backup instrument you are much more likely to need it when the electrical system fails or
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by xenadu02 1y ago
There is a relatively short window where dual engine shutdown is unrecoverable. Once you have a bit of altitude (and these jets climb at 2000-3000fpm) you have time for a restart and as thrust comes back sink rate will decrease even on one
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by xenadu02 1y ago
First, the fire handles would override any delay and cut fuel (and other things) immediately. Second: the window of time where you don't have enough altitude (aka time) to restart is relatively small. So this could easily be a temporar
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by xenadu02 1y ago
It could be defective switch springs, fatigue-induced muscle memory error, or something else. The pilot who did it saying he did not may not have realized what he did. It's pretty common under high workload when you flip the wrong swit
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by xenadu02 1y ago
That's true and part of the reason designing for aerospace applications is tricky. That sort of thing is also one of the legitimate reasons the FAA can have for not adopting an NTSB recommendation. Requiring a seat for small children i
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by xenadu02 1y ago
FWIW Airbus has tested a force-feedback side stick. Why they don't already offer it as an option I do not know. Maybe they are calmer now but for decades they took the attitude that "We built an un-crashable airplane because we
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Remember: McDonald-Douglass management (of the Jack Welch school) took over at Boeing post-merger. Widgets are widgets and people are just another kind of widget. Job #1 was to screw labor and engineering out of money so that money could go
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by xenadu02 1y ago
The plugs are designed to be semi-permanent because they are only for emergency exits on certain high-capacity seat layouts not used by most US airlines (or any airline that has first class seats I believe). When you have more seats you nee
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by xenadu02 1y ago
It does mean GF is on the path to long slow decline. The decision was not "we will wait 5-10 years" but "we will not develop any new processes". I don't fault them for failing to predict the chip shortage and huge o
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by xenadu02 1y ago
We should remember that UI conventions are mostly an arbitrary invention or are derivations of prior arbitrary inventions. Users intuitively adapt themselves to the machine and developers adapt themselves to the users forming a feedback loo
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by xenadu02 1y ago
> Would home storage buffers help? Yes. I actually have 20kWh battery storage on my home. It provides backup power and covers our needs during hours of peak pricing. In theory NEM3 in California was supposed to encourage installation of
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Because zero-size types exist which you might want to take the address of. Possibly as a result of macro substitution or templating mechanism that only appears in certain build configurations. It means you don't need a bunch of special
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by xenadu02 1y ago
The market is flooded with cheap garbage LEDs. They have shoddy bare-minimum electronics and poor heat control. Something on the board tends to die relatively quickly. If you go to Amazon and buy a no-name Chinese brand or your local big bo
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by xenadu02 1y ago
This seemed to be a point of confusion in the original story and the video wasn't super clear but: Pretty much all tape backup software writes headers as it is streaming the file to tape. Just more bytes in the buffer. For normal resto
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Rooftop Solar in the US has had such requirements for a long time. More recent systems in CA like mine (IIRC starting in 2018) require an active connection to the grid operator so the operator can override the default exceedance values to p
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by xenadu02 1y ago
> In this example wouldn't Theory A be better, because all else equal it is less likely the product of overfitting and required more insight and effort to discover? No, Theory A might simply be a dead end with no new insights to off
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by xenadu02 1y ago
Was it part of beautiful nature when an asteroid strike killed most life on earth? What does it matter if a bunch of non-sentient animals keep on trucking here on earth? Some disaster will eventually kill most of them just like it has repea
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by xenadu02 1y ago
> The bombs not dropped here today remain available to be dropped elsewhere tomorrow Yeah but humans on the whole are terrible at handling long-term consequences even when they are reasonably certain those consequences a) exist and b) ar
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by xenadu02 1y ago
It's glib and funny but also hilariously wrong. In 1800 the US population was 5.3 million (give or take). Non-industrialized. In 2025 it was 340 million (give or take a bit more). Fully industrialized. In 1800 even if you put every abl
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by xenadu02 1y ago
> Korean is different. You have to convey relative social position in basically every sentence because without that you can't finish your main verb. Sure, by the currently recorded official rules of the grammar. If young Koreans jus

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