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by stouset 4d ago
Umbrella insurance is intended to give you coverage in excess of those numbers.
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by stouset 5d ago
It really is. That's why anyone with an aviation background is absolutely stunned that it happened. So, so, so, so, so many opportunities to avoid this accident were actively ignored and/or bypassed. I said it elsewhere but these
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by stouset 5d ago
The thing I’ve come to appreciate between my first few days in a sim, a lot of sim time, and then actual time behind a yoke is that like a lot of things, landing is peaceful and easy if you’ve done all the prep ahead of time. Which is pre
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by stouset 5d ago
There were quite literally multiple warning alarms that went off that should have automatically triggered this exact response.
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by stouset 5d ago
Yeah, time in this type could be argued as a reason they weren’t properly configured or on a stable approach, but that is exactly why go-arounds exist. Mistakes happen, errors get made, so you go TOGA, fly a holding pattern until you get so
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by stouset 5d ago
My response was to your point about “fighting over the controls”, as if there would have been a tug of war on the yoke as the FO tried to wrest control of the plane from the captain which is nonsense. If anything, it would have been yet on
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by stouset 5d ago
Including the complete failure of the FO to act assertively, order a go-around, and to take the controls when it was clear the captain was not responding appropriately. If this had happened and the captain had fought over the controls and s
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by stouset 5d ago
“My controls” is something every single pilot has heard since day 1 of training and has a learned, immediate response to.
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by stouset 5d ago
“Go around. My controls.” Four words said by the pilot monitoring that any pilot flying will understand and react automatically to.
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by stouset 5d ago
If we don’t create the torment nexus first, someone less responsible will build the torment nexus. The only ethical choice is for us to create the torment nexus before anyone else.
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by stouset 5d ago
That was quite literally a realistic threat we by all accounts narrowly avoided. There were multiple cases where a single person overrode procedure and used their judgment to avoid nuclear catastrophe.
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by stouset 6d ago
> I think we'll find throttling to G-A and then aborting the G-A caused the crash. Not even a chance.
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by stouset 6d ago
This sounds about right to me, so I upvoted.
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by stouset 6d ago
Nope! Far, far longer. I don’t know the specifics that the GP used but Andromeda is about 2,500,000ly away. An observer on Earth must perceive you as taking more than 2,500,000 years to get there, as you would have to have exceeded the sp
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by stouset 6d ago
People who voluntarily choose to get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle while intoxicated are not, in fact, good people.
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by stouset 6d ago
In any aviation incident, it’s generally a good idea to wait for the full NTSB report before drawing any firm conclusions. That said, it is exceedingly difficult to find any explanation for what happened in this case that doesn’t boil dow
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by stouset 6d ago
If I understand correctly, the only thing you need to do for correctness is express your axioms and your theorems faithfully. For standard purposes, I assume most of the axioms you want to use are prior art and can be easily reused. These a
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by stouset 6d ago
Relativity is weird. If you keep accelerating, at some point the objects stop accelerating toward you faster but the distances get shorter. To an outside observer, the trip might have taken you millions or billions of years while to you i
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by stouset 7d ago
I would argue that the tech being top notch doesn’t mean it isn’t what’s holding it back. The tech just isn’t there yet. Apple tends to wait until it is.
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by stouset 7d ago
Bordering on zero human drivers fit that profile. The competition to AVs isn’t a mythical race of flawless humans. It’s the drunk, speeding, distracted idiots who currently operate motor vehicles (e.g., us).
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by stouset 7d ago
Okay, so it’s functionally identical. Got it.
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by stouset 7d ago
Again, you sound absolutely hysterical. This isn’t on all the time. It’s on in 15 second increments and clearly chimes when enabled. This is literally just the equivalent of saying “one sec while I get a pen to write this down” and then tak
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by stouset 7d ago
It makes a chime when enabled and only stays on for 15 second increments. The degree to which people are going apeshit over this is absolutely absurd. People need to get a grip.
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by stouset 7d ago
How utterly depressing.
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by stouset 7d ago
If we’re going there, cars are a leading cause of death and the leading cause of death for children and young adults. That said, the masses have had noise cancelling earbuds for years at this point and while there definitely are cases o
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by stouset 7d ago
I'm reminded of a quote: "the best camera is the one you have on you." People ditched their digital cameras en masse when smartphones became popular. Not because the smartphone cameras were better, but because they were conv
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by stouset 7d ago
The AirPods, AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, HomePod, MacBook Neo, and AirTag are also all devices that have had well-received (if not always breakout) 1st-gen releases.
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by stouset 8d ago
I’m way more often than not on the side of refactoring but there’s risks on both ends with a mission-critical service like this. Neither side is zero risk, the choice is about which option will result in fewer and less severe outages.
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by stouset 9d ago
Again? There is authoritarianism currently .
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by stouset 9d ago
While I think the goal of Prop 13 is laudable, a few reforms would cut some of the biggest downsides: it should be be for primary residences, where the named owner is the primary resident. This would eliminate the tax break for commercial p

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