Somebody has been watching Ballerina

Is this a chicken egg joke?

Half of them are! (biggest percent uptake in the western world!)

I often mix languages in comments elsewhere and I find (found) it infuriating (I'm resigned to it). I am quite certain that pre-trained transformers have no effective ability to predict what I intend to say in those cases either.

Good point. An army that sees all others as subhuman and sees only the next death is one that has to keep fighting. It has no choice. It's the only thing it knows. It can keep conquering more territory outwards, or it can slaughter its own government inwards. History shows those are your two options.

Whether or not Russia conquers Ukraine, it will attack other countries - vast numbers of bored, underpaid soldiers would seek entertainment elsewhere if they didn't.

This is what I'm going by:

The report said that in December 2018, the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a special airworthiness information bulletin based on reports from operators of model 737 planes that the fuel control switches were installed with the locking feature disengaged.

The airworthiness concern was not considered an unsafe condition that would warrant an airworthiness directive – a legally enforceable regulation to correct unsafe conditions.

The same switch design is used in Boeing 787-8 aircraft, including Air India’s VT-ANB, which crashed. The report added: “As per the information from Air India, the suggested inspections were not carried out as the SAIB was advisory and not mandatory.”

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

...because Disney rehabilitated him?

...but was she eaten by coconut crabs?

I am guessing you meant deprecated and not depreciated

It's a common problem nowadays with AI automatic spell checking just about everywhere. It's easy for a person to type a long paragraph and to find that one of the words typed has been surreptitiously replaced by the system. AI slop at its finest, making human authors say things they didn't actually say (probably) since 2022!

Figuring out exactly where some hidden setting resides that can disable this behaviour is futile: It's a full treasure hunt just to find it, and there's no guarantee that future updates won't change where/what the setting is.

It's just another aspect of the enshittification of the software industry.

You're wrong. Those costs are distorted by tariffs. Trump is putting his thumb on the balance, to confuse you and take your money.

If you want to discuss physics, then use physics arguments.

1. Were the safety guards, which were optional, installed?

2. We know investigators are looking into the computer system, does this mean the computer can also set the switch settings?

If the answers are "no" and "no" respectively, it was likely an accidental bump.

If the answers are "yes" and "no", then one of the pilots lied.

If the answer to the second one is yes, then regardless of the answer to the first, I'd hope the investigation thoroughly checks whether the software can be triggered into doing so through faulty data or the existence of software defects.

The US prides itself in applying its own laws to its citizens all around the world. There's no reason to expect it couldn't charge a US company a tax on satellites in space. Frankly, a lot of satellites are owned by Elon, I could totally see Trump signing an executive order just to fuck with Starlink.

Thanks for the correction, you're right I was too quick to interpret your comment in the usual way. In a previous era the non-competes would prevent the CEO from being hired immediately by Google, but the changes in the law regarding enforceability are clearly making that move a new possibility.

Google is also not a software company. Their business is spying on you and auction algorithms.

Not every manufacturer thinks like that. For example, Tesla likes to have a 5 year old design its trucks to save costs. That directly translates into savings for you the consumer. Just don't shoot the car with real bullets (soft rubber bullets are fine, if using a slingshot).