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Small micro optimizations do not add up, especially not for something like error handling that does not concern most operations to begin with. Something like this error handling strategy clearly has its own cost in complexity of implementation, such that the whole thing will collapse under its own weight before you even notice a speed up.

You need to make sure that you keep the size and complexity of the language and its specification within reasonable limits. So you can't just add "all of them" with a blanket statement that they will add up.
This is equivalent to a confused deputy variant of a Byzantine failure.

Since you already have allegedly redundant pilots and alarm systems and hopefully sensors, the remaining part is figuring out which failure detector has ultimately failed to work and why.
Also if redundant pilots are failing, it's a systematic failure in training, fatal to airlines and whoever designs training simulators.

The most potentially fatal to Boeing scenario is a systematic failure or negligence in terms of redundancy. Hampering pilot training is bad enough.
Another potential failure point is a software issue which means negligence in safety critical software engineering.
CO2 emissions are essentially the same, but other pollutants are much lower. There are less contaminants in natural gas, so burning it in a cheap and inefficient engine like a bus in a city is better than using petrol.
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> As all junk food, pizza is pretty cheap, so there is little point in this.

Great, since it's so cheap, can I send you my address and you'll pay for my pizza please?

> Also, offering free junk food should be restricted in the same way that offering free cigarettes is restricted.

Junk food is only "bad" because it's calorie dense and most people 1) are sedentary and 2) don't properly portion food. Otherwise, aside from extreme nutrient imbalance or vitamin deficiency, it's just calories in calories out. It's possible to live off pizza and be very healthy. This is very different from cigarettes which are unhealthy in any quantity irrespective of lifestyle.
You misunderstand. I am not making a value judgement on the cost of pilots. I absolutely want somebody who is highly trained flying the plane. However whenever strikes hit airlines it's because of poorly paid flight crews so clearly the airlines are wringing costs out of their operations and safety is being compromised as a result - from scanning the comments here that point is not being made. Instead Boeing are being blamed for not delivering systems can can deal with incompetent pilots. Nobody is stopping to think why the problem is occurring in the first place.
Wars don't happen because people don't get along; they don't happen because people are different and don't understand each other. Civil wars are both common and nasty.

Wars happen because in a set of animals, one member or subset will want the control of, say, the resources of an area, mating rights within the group, etc. Its members will often think that it's acting this way as a form of public service. "Someone has to divide up the meat of the fallen antelope," for example, ignoring what happens with control which is that the spoils, the resources, etc. will start to divide unevenly.

This continues to the point of extreme imbalance, such as just before the French Revolution where the wealthy paid less in tax than the poor, or the leader becomes too weak to maintain control. In all cases, control isn't maintained for long.

Right now, America is the empire in control. The problem that I see is that its generals are preparing for the last war with battleships and big guns (as sort of an "innovator's dilemma", where what has been successful for a company maintains the limelight despite a growing new reality). You can see the control ebbing, weakening. The petrodollar, for example, once so strong and a big part of the country's economic power, is now being replaced with the Special Drawing Right (SDR) -- a diversified basket of currencies.

And that's' the only solution: to diversify control. The peace that's found when an empire has control is temporary; it's the eye of the storm. Until there's world-wide democracy, we will have war.
Modern wars are neither short nor winnable... though they may be short indeed if nukes are involved.

I think all powers know this full well hence why they never engaged in direct conflict since WWII.

Wars since WWII have been limited wars against much weaker enemies and proxy wars.
I was thinking about swarms of small robots that use machine learning to do intelligent work and come with innovative solutions, like the ones in the article:

Use of lasers to kill unwanted plants instead of herbicides,

Planting symbiotic plants near each other,

Providing a interface "like farmville" but the actions are executed by robots, on a real farm
Maybe in the US, here in EU even the newest Ryanair pilot makes 100k.

https://careers.ryanair.com/pilots/pilotpayincreases/
I understand the situation might be different in the US, but in the UK and in other countries a PhD with a hands-off supervisor can be as lonely as your heart desires.
Unfortunately he was likely killed in combat: http://www.historynet.com/world-war-i-wasted-lives-on-armist...

> On November 11, 1918, Armistice Day, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front in France suffered more than thirty-five hundred casualties, although it had been known unofficially for two days that the fighting would end that day and known with absolute certainty as of 5 o’clock that morning that it would end at 11 a.m.
But apparently it was still possible to put the plane into a mode where it crashed. A lot of previous conversations about this topic were related to airbus flight control laws.
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Enpass was worth the cost for mobile access. But that's all I had to pay. I can now use it on every Win/Lin/Mac/Phone system available to me. Sync seamlessly in the background with my preferred cloud provider, which also requires 2FA to access. So I feel reasonably secure.
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That analogy doesn’t hold up. All Airbus and most Boeing aircraft have systems to push the nose down in event of a stall.

The problem here is: in the transition from the -NG to the -MAX, Boeing added this protection and didn’t tell anyone.

Imagine someone added Adaptive Cruise Control to your existing car without telling you - the first time the car braked on its own, you’d freak out. The car is suddenly behaving in a way it should be able to.

If you know the system exists, you can recognise what’s happening and deal with it. If you don’t know it exists, the behaviour is going to be absolutely baffling, and no in-flight diagnostic procedure has a step for “did the manufacturer add an important safety device and not tell me?”
Rookie pilot here. Large airplanes have drive by wire systems where the plane pretty much flies itself. But when certain instruments like the Pitot tube don't work then the control is handed over to pilots and they operate in alternate law, where they are responsible for the actions.

If instruments cannot measure key environmental indicators such as velocity, temperature etc - no amount of automation will save the plane.

Instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) / Instrument Flight Rating (IFR) flights are when the plane is flying through darkness, or through conditions that do not allow for a judgement of the visual elements and therefore pilots can easily make incorrect judgement calls on the position of the plane, leading to a crash.

The pitot tube is a primitive equipment to measure wind velocity and easily can be jammed by ice, insects etc. I think it was the Pitot tube malfunction in this plane that caused the incident.
Like educational videos from the 50s, its neat to be able to go back and see them. But these subjects get continuously recovered. Sometimes just to spice it up, and sometimes the material does change. Its not the end of the world.
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> Except I think the model has very recently changed.

It hasn't, at least in the way you describe.

> In the past it used to be about “chasing the centre”

It wasn't, at least not anything like recently; that turnout determines elections and even unaffiliated voters are just as consistently partisan in how they vote as party loyalists has been well known by both political scientists and political campaigners for decades, and deeply integrated into political strategy; it's he reason behind both GOTV efforts and selective voter suppression, neither of which are new elements of the political playbook.

> Now, instead of parties following the relatively centrist positions of the majority of people

They don't do that because there is no such thing. Distribution of political opinion doesn't have a central peak.
ISP DNS servers will always be closer, eg have less latency then third party DNS servers. And after one query, the result will be stored locally, eg no DNS servers will be used for following lookups. The thing with expensive DNS solutions is they only speed up the very first lookup, which might be cached on your ISP anyway. DNS is already a distributed system, which is much larger then any single private entity. Some third party DNS services might also sacrifice resiliency for performance, they will for example not try secondary DNS if primary is down. The reason why private organizations want you to use their DNS service is because they want to know every site you visit, then sell that information.
Far more likely that the observer interpreted it the wrong way, happens all the time.
I don't think the standards of evidence demanded by those that authors of controversial articles fear are stringent enough that "equivalent to a polygraph" fails them.
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Ah, I got confused - it's a stock TP-LINK AC1750 Archer C7 that I have now, and it was an older TP-LINK I'd tried OpenWrt on. I forget the model, but I had been specific about the hardware I bought, making sure it was in OpenWrt's list of supported devices.

Strangely, the C7 I have now advertises itself as 'v2/v3'!
Tbh, having a state of very frequent wars wasn't an exclusive to Europe.
The most common filament used (PLA) is labeled as non toxic and is made of mostly corn. So yes it would be surprising if that was found to be toxic.
I'm actually looking into UK PhD programs, especially since I already am recieving a joint masters in CS and Biology
> The problem here is: in the transition from the -NG to the -MAX, Boeing added this protection and didn’t tell anyone

Totally out of my depth here, but how is it possible that they "didn't tell anyone" about a feature so crucial, how could pilots not know how the plane's computer will behave in such a fundamental, non edge-case scenario?
Do you trust brands that have experienced data breaches?
Tom and Jerry weren't far off that when I was a kid. Or the Roadrunner. I'll admit that I haven't seen any of the newer videos that people seem to be complaining about, but what is so much different about them from what we got 30 years ago?
I've written a book about a domain I know about - Music Technology - and self-published it about 5 years ago , using lulu.com. It sells for £24.95 [1], and I get about half of that in a lulu sale. This is a 650 page text book which has a LOT of content - it would take hundreds of hours to go through it all for a beginner.

If it sold on Amazon, I would get about £4. I guess I should have gone via Amazon direct? (given that the author mentions 40%?)

Lulu makes about £4-5 on a sale (going on the printing costs that I pay, and me factoring in a bit that I would pay even on a copy that I'm buying myself), whereas Amazon would be taking more like £12-13 going on those numbers.

So, that's why my book isn't available on Amazon - I'd have to sell 3 times as many to make the same money, and that seems unlikely to me. If it was more even, I would sell it on Amazon as well as Lulu as I'm sure I'd get -some- more sales, but not drastically more.

The book is a reasonable seller and a useful source of side income for me, but it's certainly not an 'earner' - I've spend about 3 weeks of very full time work updating it for the latest version, and that will be in print for a year before the next x.5 version comes out (and usually this means changing a large amount of content as lots of little things change). Dividing the year's earnings over the time taken to update it means I get a reasonable rate for that time, but certainly not a good one.

I've thought about writing another book (going into more depth on the same subject, and being a Cubase 'expert'), but I remember that it took about a year of spare time to write the first one, and while it's been a reasonable proposition over that time, it was only because it got picked up by the software company's education rep that it went anywhere and reached any kind of 'critical mass' - for about a year it sat and literally sold only copies to students I was teaching (which was the initial reason for writing the book as there was no text book of worth available). Just to be clear, I didn't enforce purchase by the students, I'd say under 10% of them bought the book.

[1] - http://www.lulu.com/shop/darren-jones/the-complete-guide-to-... (latest version of the book, until Cubase 10 gets released, then it will be superseded)
Trains and planes are different transport systems and relative safety records have little to do with the skills of human drivers and more with the nature of the systems.

This 'roads are so dangerous' is part of the self driving crowd scaremongering program. That 'humans can't be trusted' but their tech can obviously.

But when looking at the global picture and the sheer number of cars in all sorts of traffic conditions on roads everyday without incident this narrative falls apart.

We need far more facts, data and critically 'contextualization' than sweeping disingenuous statements by parts of the tech community motivated by self interest and greed.
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This is useless to me because I have a website, not a web application. I got a 46/100 on PWA which is astonishing because the site being tested is not a progressive web application at all. Imagine vim getting a 40/100 score in the category of web browsers. Weirdly good score.

The accessibility audit is garbage as well. Apparently I should add an image to the site just so I can put an alt attribute in it. I should include audio so I could have a transcription to go with it. Not sure whether Lighthouse decided that 16px or 20px is less than 12px but apparently one of them is and makes up over 60% of the page.

I understand this is not made for people who serve static HTML files and handmade CSS from ~/sites/ but I'm pretty sure I hate the kinds of sites this is designed for. Should have a custom splash screen? Respond with 200 when offline? What's next, I get points for breaking the back button too? Why is using HTTPS and redirecting HTTP to it a PWA thing?

I'd hate to see the site that aces this audit.
Because its not a industrial revolution people acknowledge in the industrial revolutions.
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I have this kind of problem regularly, especially if I want to run versions of software newer than 3 years old.

Also, compiling software is quite normal on Linux. Often it's just `make && sudo make install`, and everything works - but sometimes you've got to go on a goose chase to fulfill dependencies, tinker with compiler flags etc.
It's like you have no respect for people's agency at all.
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I'd like to work on the control system for a travelling wave reactor or the operating system for a space station.
Possibly to deter leverage from a competitor, among other reasons?
I can't read the article due to the pay wall but if what you said is accurate then I don't believe it's an accurate reflection of the real complexity of a modern airliner.

See http://www.b737.org.uk/flightcontrols.htm

The pitch trim can be controlled by a number of different systems for different reasons, see the section on mach trim for an interesting one. I would be shocked if the inputs here weren't disabled by switching thd stab trim - autopilot switch to the off position.

I've mentioned in previous comments, this sounds like a trim runaway incident. The mechanism may be new but the underlying fault and the symptoms would have been the same.
Then why ever use C

Because some platforms I've used it on did't have proper C++ support. Or because a project I contribute to is already written in C. Or because of limited resources. Etc.

I'm not really understanding how wanting one little thing from C++ implies diving all the way in.

It's just an example of a possible train of thought. And I wouldn't call something like templates 'one little thing'. So suppose there's a choice between both, and no limit on resources etc, and I could go for everything C but templates could make everything easier then just going for C++ instead is an option. Even when not going 'all in' and writing what looks like standard C + template support.
It is not the first "this doesn't make any sense" deal from SAP IMO. What is the significance of a family held survey company to SAP portofolio. I hope I'm wrong, but there is something that is really phishy going on with some SAP acquisitions.
at least for some functionalities, you can run it on your computer and observe the same behavior
These are pretty good tools for 'grepping' on file systems:

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
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I don't get this line of reasoning that revolves around the idea that nationalizing corporations is this magic incanation that makes all dreams come true.
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Can you define 'decent'?
> Easily discoverable

Ensure users can find your site easily through search.

> Installable

Be on users’ home screens with no need for an app store.

It's nice that they educate devs on the rules they themselves came up with. I just wouldn't call it "how to build a better web" then.
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It would most likely to be lost, as most youtubers would not be able to set up and run streaming video servers on their own.
A few observations and thoughts after reading the article:

1. The European's ideas of racial superiority may have directly led the deaths of millions of soldiers from the machine guns. The colonial powers, had experience with and new just how devastating the machine gun when they used it against the indigenous peoples of their colonies. However, many commanders felt that it would not be that effective against well-trained European soldiers. That proved to be a huge mistake and millions of young infantry paid the price as their commanding officers sent them in mass assaults against machine guns.

2. More than any change of heart due to morals, it was the economic and manpower losses of WWI and WWII that made the European powers unable to hold onto their colonies. For example the British had faced unrest in India before, for example the Sepoy rebellion. However, they were able to brutally crush the rebellions and maintain their hold on power. However, in the aftermath of WWII, the British had neither the resolve, the manpower, or the money to continue to try to hold onto India in opposition to the independence movement. Without these World Wars, there is a good chance that India would still be a British colony.

3. The reason that "white" people oppressed so many others was not because they were necessarily intrinsically more immoral, but simply that they had much more power than the others.The examples of the Armenian genocide and the Rape of Nanking from WWI and WWII respectively by people that would not be considered "white" illustrates the sad state of human affairs in that the strong will tend to oppress the weak. This has been going on long before any notion of "whiteness" and will likely go on in the future whatever the status of "whiteness".

4. The post WWII peace in Western Europe was probably due more to the overwhelming superiority of the United States and the Soviet Union vis-a-vis the European powers than of any awakening. Whereas in WWI and WWII, the European powers could imagine beating their neighbors and taking their territory, after WWII, they knew that aggression against their neighbors would lead to a conflict with either the United States or the Soviet Union and they had no hope of winning.
Yes, you would need to adjust for that. Might be the explanation for why the guys from the future shows up in spaceships. I guess it would be dangerous calculating slightly wrong and instead end up inside earth or inside a building's wall.

Better to appear some distance out into space and then fly the last few hundred miles to earth.
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"in a universe like ours, almost all first contact events will consist of relativistically expanding spheres of von Neumann machines impacting planets populated solely by nonsapient life."

You talk as if that's a certain fact. (Even estimating a probability) I'm no expert in the area, but why? Is that justified? What's that based on? (Not to mention the last sentence 'reminding me' of another odd 'fact'.)
How can possibly things be indexed so that exact grep is slow but "intelligent grep" is instantaneous?
You're making the big assumption that this potential buyer is rational.
I would seriously love being able to play Xbox 360 games on my PC. I really miss Crackdown. :(

Why can't Microsoft just work on this? Expand console games to PC too. Ugh.
3. Human cruise ships (and airplanes) have bright lights too. What if it's just an "alien" cruiseship entertaining a bunch of interterrestial holiday makers?
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> A puppet government? Hardly. We simply replaced Sunni for Shiite and slightly shifted things in a millennial old civil war.

When I read these type of comments I get truly scared on how the lives of non-western people don't really mean anything to lots of people.

There wasn't as slight shift in a conflict but an all out invasion causing hundreds of thousands of deaths in a few years. Millions if you consider the last 20 years.

> But the US also acts through a democracy, while the countries mentioned above do not.

Crimes committed by a democracy, a theocracy or a dictatorship are crimes all the same. That is how the rest of the world sees it and it's time for the west to start seeing it too.
I don't even understand the 'idealistic' part. Without proprietary software, software as a distinguishing feature falls away, and scale and hardware seem to become all that matters, and nobody can compete with the big players on cash.

It's no wonder large companies have become fans of open source with the advent of cloud computing. People are throwing software at their magical money making machines entirely for free.