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Maybe this is a naive question, but why can't the automated controls on plane be designed such that:
1. They can be independently disabled?
2. For MCAS in particular, disabling it will automatically revert to the previous trim level before it shuts off?
3. They can rely on sensors that are kept in enclosed storage (thus much less likely to fail due to freezing, etc) and immediately deployed when there is a problem with the usual sensors? Like the RAM air turbine? Most auto-pilot malfunctions seem to be due to sensors going bad.

Edit: Sorry I wasn't clearer the first time, but I meant the enclosed redundant sensors would be brought outside when needed, and retracted when not in use. Even the pitot tube could benefit from such a scheme
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Really the only "solution" is to ensure that you have some way to establish trust in all the software libraries you use.

For commercially provided libraries that could be a contract specifying security requirements, with some specific measures of how to do that.

For Open source the only real option I can see is to curate your own package repositories and get a level of review that you're comfortable with. Definitely fixing versions and insisting on review before upgrade would help.

The problem with automated scanning is that they can't really find backdoors or just generally insecure code, they can find known vulnerabilities. They could use static analysis to find insecure code, but my experience of SAST tooling is that it takes a lot of manual effort to tune, it's not a pure automated scan option.

That's not to say that automated scanning provides nothing, but that it has limitations.
It's worse than that. When they refitted the 737 with newer, larger engines to create the 737 Max there wasn't enough room, so they were shifted forwards (look at the pictures - the engines are almost in front of the wings). This created a setup where the thrust could make the plane pitch up in certain cituations - the system isn't in balance anymore. Thus the sensor to detect pitch-up and the software to try to compensate for that. A hack to fix a hack. The whole airplane should be redesigned to balance as an 'old' 737.
I for one won't set my feet in any 737 Max, whatever software or sensor upgrades they put in. No way.
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Oxygen isn't default on Plasma for quite a long time already. It's Noto.
They are not necessarily contradicting statements. Google and Amazon have near monopolies on another thing than fiber optic cables. Neither is trying to monopolize fiber optic cables. But of course them using their wealth and power as a near monopoly in their own fields to basically work around another near monopoly from telcos so they can create a cost advantage to re-enfore their own monopolies is kind of not really a free market any more. In the same way coercing city, state and country governments into giving them tax advantages also helps them compete unfairly.
I'm fairly certain you'd need a user base before Snap were even remotely interested, or at least prove the idea.

Build an app, get it out there, see whats up
i did a apprenticeship here before the SOC was set-up, not to bad.
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Yes. It would be expansive though.
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Under the law as I read it, this would not count, as it was not filmed by the person committing the abhorrent violent conduct (or who arranged/aided/counselled etc the act).

An example that might illustrate what you are considering could be a police officer murdering a civilian. The footage captured by their body-cam would be unable to be shown or shared. In this example, whether it was murder or not would be (likely) up for debate, but perhaps during a protest you agreed with, some people were killed. This would be a challenging situation for the law.
> Even if you get rid of all regulation and taxes, it'd still be orders of magnitude more expensive

Are you sure about that? There is a company in upstate New York [1] that quietly builds about one nuclear reactor per year. You don't hear much about it because that reactor goes to power a submarine. The safety record of these reactors is unbelievable; after all some people spend weeks at a time within meters of them. Here's a quote from a US Navy spokesperson: "We have never had an accident or release of radioactivity which has had an adverse effect on human health or the environment" [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knolls_Atomic_Power_Laboratory
[2] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/jun...
I disagree. This shows some of the worst flaws of modern journalism: The smarmy tone, writing the story about personalities rather than facts, the narcissistic urge of the journalist to insert himself into the story.

It's a travesty.
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I would've assumed the US and Europe may be a large part of the demand for poached animals.
Currently we are quoting an Ethiopian Transport Minister.

We should be worried that they are setting the narrative before the report is released.

What people hear now will override what the report actually says tomorrow, a normal tactic of politicians.

And even if you think capitalism means the airline will be world standard, at 114/179 on the corruption index I'd not trust their politicians.

We get to check when the report comes out I guess.
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Go look up some of the recent airliner incidents. It doesn't appear that parachutes would have helped very many, if any. To make matters worse, such a feature would greatly cut down on passenger numbers per plane, which means more flights, which means more accidents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
Nobody cares about pirating, it's when the masses are able to do the pirating easily and get the content easily that is when things break down.

That is what DRM is about preventing.

If some knowledgeable people can copy it and put it low-fi on some competitor of Youtube and Google doesn't show in in search results. That isn't that bad. That means the general public won't easily find it.
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Literally the only thing I miss from Bookwalker is their sales. They frequently have sales of 50% off + 30%+ cashback (mostly on Kadokawa published books, but sometimes from other publishers as well), which fueled a lot of my past impulse purchases that I've now come to regret.

The best I've seen so far on Kobo has been a 30% off coupon that requires a 10k yen minimum purchase. If you're price sensitive then used physical books is probably still the way to go. I couldn't recommend Bookwalker in good faith to anyone until their DRM becomes trivial to break, because if they pull what Microsoft pulled here all of your purchased eBooks would disappear without any possibility for recourse.
> I just sounds like nobody really thought about the consequences of MCAS triggering due to faulty AOA sensor input.

They did know at least two years before the first crash and decided to not do anything about it.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-regulat...
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Maybe just jettison wings+engines+cargo?

Though I agree that broadly safety is solved. And obviously we must heavily reduce air travel to combat global warming.
It wasn't "past practice". Linus' rants were a rare event, in case of major "sins" commited by core contributors. They are what made it out in the open, but a lot of Linus' messages in the mailing lists is actually a sane, technical discussion.
(Edited) They had training (and sundvor didn't say otherwise), but still, remember Boeing's decision that little or no re-training for the Max was needed for pilots already having 737 training.

See e.g.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/22/politics/boeing-737-manua...
The libertarian answer would be that government requirements mere represent a necessary minimum. In any case, it would seem irrefutable that no matter the requirements, there is always room to go above & beyond, and to have such efforts certified by a third party to maximize their use for PR purposes.

In a wild application of signaling theory, certification may even be a useful signal without regard to the actual substance of that certification, as long as it is expensive. Just like a peacock shows his abundance of resources by wasting some of them on jazzy plumage.[0]

I think you’re sort of sympathizing with the airlines here, who are somewhat pressured into spending that, from their perspective, is wasteful: after all, they know they are doing all that stuff they are getting certified for.

I would say (a) don’t anthromorphize corporations—they may be people, but not ones deserving sympathy. And, (b), certification schemes are one of the many often disregarded frictional costs of a market economy. They are unnecessary only in a mythical benevolent economic system that has so far eluded us.

[0] also a good reason to justify flying only with airlines that offer free peanuts.
What's wrong with landfills? The petroleum was taken from the ground now the plastic returns to where it came from. Unless Recycling is economical, it will release additional CO2 into the atmosphere.
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>A small increase in temperature significantly increases the amount of energy radiated,

The temperature in the formula is given in Kelvins, so for all practical purposes (300K less than 10°K variation), the 4th power means every degree increase the amount of energy radiated by ~1.3%
If I can doomsay for a moment:

Let’s assume that this is another step on the slippery slope that leads to a totalitarian Australian government. What recourse do we (aus citizens) have? I have tried the political route, and my calls and emails have simply not been answered by my representatives; I have tried to raise awareness in my peers, and Australians are simply the most politically apathetic group in western civilisation.

I could move to another country, but it seems that among all developed countries we are or will be seeing the same trend. I could move to an undeveloped country, but would be making a sacrifice in quality of life.

I genuinely cannot see a way out of this system, am I self-deluding?
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I'm not aware of a single case of this being true. In any case, this guy's biography is so full of verifiable factual inaccuracies it can't be trusted.

So if Exocet had such codes, and given that the French gave the UK full and thorough support and assistance throughout the conflict including secret intelligence information, how come so many British ships were damaged and sunk by Exocet missiles?

Either the French had such codes and deliberately did not give them to us, stabbing us in the back in a way in which we would know for a fact they had done it to us, or the missiles never had such codes in the first place.
Is anybody here capable of calculating the force required to move the trim tabs on a 737MAX at 310 knots at low altitude?

I imagine at that speed there would be quite some force on the elevator and trim tabs.
If I'm not mistaken, interpolation methods existed before the invention of calculus. Interpolation was used to reduce astronomical data before calculus, afaik.

Would it be possible to find the speed on any given moment without calculus? Is it just easier with calculus?
The prototypical example being getter and setter methods, which Java IDEs generate.
Also (on some runtimes):

- Sandbox code modules

If a library doesn't need any permissions, and it's not granted any, then attempts to e.g. access the filesystem or network will throw exceptions. The JVM can do this, but it's not well documented how to use it.
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Even if you handle negatives it will be intentionally tricked by curious people.

Yeah I #wannaGoOut. Actually Not, just wanted to see who you are.
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I'm really surprised they didn't go ahead and blame the pilot's "ethnic culture" like the did with Asiana 214 [1]

1. https://www.cnbc.com/id/100869966
Google translate says "budding goblin" ... I'm just going to use that in English
The official report will make for interesting reading. The speculation over the last few days is starting to fill in some questions I've had:

- Why didn't the pilots identify the issue as MCAS malfunction and follow the guidence?

They did and it didn't work for some reason. Possibly because of the air loads on the stabilizer.

- Why did the AoA sensor on a new aircraft fail?

Suspected bird strike.
> Require two-step verification for all commits for packages with over 1000 downloads.

Just require 2fa everywhere. We're way past the point where password-only is enough if you distribute software.

Package distribution platforms could also ensure that your package comes from a tagged/signed commit in a selected repo. Reproducible builds could help here too. Finally package signing itself and possibly WoT for authors. (Where either the author has to trust the dependencies or you have to explicitly trust all of them)
With such new evidence, how FAA which refused to ground the 737 Max should be allowed to walk away from all these for nothing?
The question then becomes are can a plane fly with each of those attached by structural bulkheads & explosive bolts.

The remaining ‘crew and passenger capsule’ would need to remain sealed.
Try evaluating pros and cons for TDD on your current project and make a decision together based on them.

Currently you're just proselytizing and thinking about only what you like and how you want to work.
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Rear exits aren't absolutely unheard of: the 727 and the DC-9 family had rear stair exits, and the 727 one was used in flight at least once (by 'DB Cooper' - probably not successfully though).

I don't fancy the chances of the crew getting the whole cabin of a 737 out of a single door, in flight, after fitting parachutes, but without parachute training, before hitting the ground, though. Even leaving aside the weight and bulk of the parachutes.

As you say, not a great idea.
Please explain how doing away with staging will handle my workflow. Right now I'm using staging area to prepare commits. Usually it's all the changed files, but quite often I want to commit only some of the changes - as I prefer to commit a minimal set of changes that is standalone - and thusly:

* introduce several related changes in several files
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I can't say I care. In fact I couldn't care less.

Parents or custodians should be responsible for the kids, adults for themselves.

If you think some content is toxic (whatever the hell that means), don't watch it. If you watch it, it's your responsibility to deal with what you've seen.
>> It's disgusting when men pretend to be women just to have a record on their name

When has that happened?
Exactly.

I find it embarrassing for the society as whole how many people these days comment on articles or posts by just reading the title.
its about layers which includes real security and sometimes trickery. the statement is true though about 100% and the attacker only once but some tack maybe would be in order. there are procedures that can reduce vectors and so minimizing damage and minimizing successes.
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Network scientist Zsolt Barabási said [1] that in his latest book that networking is one of the most important thing to do, if you want to be successful.

Of course, first you need to get some valuable skills, but especially in careers where the performance can’t be ordered (e.g: art, design) the only thing that matters is to know people who are well known.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Formula-Universal-Laws-Success/dp/031...
It sounds like something advanced manufacturers were doing in the late 1970s and that the laggards were talking about in the mid 1990s.
> But a couple days later, when I thought about turning it on, I figured there's no point because I have seen it all.

I just had the same experience with Pathfinder Kingmaker, but came away with the opposite sentiment.

I am super glad to have an easy mode. I don't want to waste more time than I already do playing video games. I want to see what narratives and mechanics they have to offer, not reload the same level for 20 hours.
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I want a wingsuit on my ticket. If I die at least I'll be superman-like for 30minutes
His channel is worth following. He often posts insightful stuff related to incidents with 737s or just general information. He had a nice video about emergency procedures with a total engine failure in (probably) the same simulator just a few weeks ago.
It was more entertaining, and also working to figure out others' mistakes is more rewarding if you get to berate them in public, so not being allowed to rant reduces the incentive to do the work and thus makes more likely that mistakes will remain unnoticed.
I'm not really a fan of either on their own ... but kofola mixes well with tuzemák (local "rum"). One evening after a few drinks we started referring to this as "kofuzemák" to the amusement of the staff at a local pub.
Sure, that's the theory. The practice is that people won't, and you either have to accept the bad implementations or make sure that everything is as explicit as possible. (And that you don't contradict yourself) If people implemented specs 100% correctly, we wouldn't have bugs.

Even without malice or incompetence, people will make mistakes.
AFAIK, VC doesn't support line numbers in macros. If you want better line numbers generated code, you can generate #line pragmas.

Typically, I don't debug any generated code though, because it's only boilerplate that has been tested a million times already. So that's a bit of a non-issue in the real world.
Has your company made this position in a public statement? Because I hear a lot of talk but little proof, I need proof to show people if I have a hope or swaying opinions when I talk with people about this kind of thing.
You could help to decrease the prevalence of the attitude whose extreme form was responsible for the passage of the law in the first place. Ever give that a thought? There is no totalitarianism here its Law & Order.
Oh god, this brings back memories of Istanbul drinking Vefe Boza with nuts on winter evenings and Ayran in the summer when it's too hot. Thanks!
I thought IBM was more famous for layoffs than it is for employee retention.
They don't change the configuration every 5 minutes and often times you reserve multiple blocks but the dishes are always moving anyway to track whatever its they're looking at.

they only pick them up and move them 4 times a year.
The main driver of pop growth has been Asia where pops have tripled since 1950. That’s a lot of growth for one region in such little time. India won’t stabilize till 2060s. That’s scary. Also 100 million along one fertile river valley in Egypt.

Any fluctuation in resources can have dire consequences.
The java security manager is a cool concept but sadly not very ergonomic to use.
How does copyright work on lost data?
Maybe solid forms could be explosively or electrically welded off.
Can you please explain why "new schedules do take some bedding" ?

Cant u sort of simulate the expected scenarios and get sort-of expected performance?

I realize there is unexpected events, but these will occur anyway in old and new schedules

Also - does real train software has nice graphics or do u get a boring excel ? ;(
Yes, that splitting up would be one of the follow-up questions.
Some ratings count events regardless of whose fault it is unfortunately.
Ok so run up an embedded OS and application on a system with limited resources so that all the memory is being used. Now run your pure functional program. The system crashes. Using memory is a side effect. Consuming CPU time is a side effect. Heating up the environment and drawing power due to that CPU usage is a side effect[0]. These are not trivial either, actual real systems used for critical activities fall prey to this sort of thing all the time. It just depends on what you are willing to consider as a side effect.

[0]https://xkcd.com/1172/
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If anyone wants to do something like this offline in an AD environment at work, Safepass[1] does some pretty cool things to get better password coverage.

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For me it's not a matter of bandwidth, just the cost of the number of SIMs needed. I have hundreds of devices in the field, many in locations with no wifi or wired internet available. They all have sim slots, but the cost (in Belgium) makes it an impossible venture.
MCAS can be disabled, but pilots says this may not help in some situations:

> On the simulator when the stabilizer was "on a dive" at maximum angle, me and my colleagues weren't able to recover a plane.

> If you follow Boeing bulletin, but start the procedure too late, it will only make things worse. Simpler solution (in case of problems right after takeoff) is to release the flaps at least to the first position. This will disable MCAS and give you an additional time.

Source: https://denokan.livejournal.com/204046.html (Russian)

Google translate: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=https%3...
Some yes, others no. Sadly HIB has a lot of games that are available DRM-free outside of Steam, but they only provide Steam keys.
> it seems hard to find something reliable enough, free

I’m sure if you decide that your privacy and the health of the Internet holds value to you (as in, you’re willing to put your money where your mouth is), finding good options will be much easier.

Personally I use a paid FastMail-account which I’m super-happy about, but I’ve heard there are other good options out there too.

But if you don’t want to pay for a core service you use every day, for everything, you can’t complain about that service degrading, now can you?
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