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Comment Two simple questions. (Score 1) 112

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.

Comment Duh (Score 4, Insightful) 37

Above a relatively low complexity level, reviewing code for problems gets much harder than writing correct code from the start. This has been known reliably for a long, long time. And it means that as soon as you exceed that complexity, AI use will make you slower if you go for the same quality level. And that is before taking into account that AI code is generally bad for maintainability as it is harder to read and will increase technological debt as avoiding that requires actual insight.

The whole "AI coder" idea is a dud. Again. It must now be the 4th or 5th time that has happened.

Comment Re:Simple: Having kids is a crappy idea (Score 1) 253

Well, 30% of those that married get a high-effort divorce. That probably means >50% are unhappy and some of the rest will just coast along. Essentially a fundamentally failed idea. No idea whether the unmarried ones have better numbers, but somehow I doubt it.

The problem is that most people do what they think is expected of them. So they marry and have kids with no idea what that actually means and then they are nicely trapped.

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