There's also the idea of keeping things longer when you know they might be needed. It would be like a legal hold for email.

Yep. What Boeing is saying has gone past unbelievable into unthinkable. Even in general aviation everything gets logged.

As a follow-up, I prefer sources that I pay for. They still have an incentive to keep me, but less so to do it second by second with hits of adrenaline. Look long enough and it's possible to find scrupulous truth tellers in many political positions.
Sigh. Craigslist is good, but when newspapers could pay reporters from advertising, that stabilized things.

Aviation culture has resisted criminal penalties in general. Yes, prison can make people afraid of screwing up, but it can also make them afraid of revealing mistakes so they can be fixed and learned from.
It sounds like the investigation is for breaking the non-prosecution agreement rather than for making a flagrant blunder.
Speaking of getting people to own up to mistakes, there's an anonymous reporting system where people can safely describe a situation even if they screwed up. Then the reporting system issues a tracking number. Then if there's ever enforcement action, the tracking number turns into a get out of jail free card.

I was a parachute rigger. No repack or patch was complete until logged and signed off.

What Boeing is claiming is unthinkable. It's much easier to believe that they are doing a coverup, which I hope can be prosecuted.

Some correlations are really persuasive.

There was a worldwide drop in violent crime, consistent across places with different policies, but always 16-20 years after each place phased out leaded gas.

Amplifying that, I will never forget the Field Day (q.v.) when the guy with the key made way more contacts than the voice people.

This is an *excellent* summary of the tension between being welcoming to new contributors and staving off maintainer burnout. Because if there was a bug / deliberate nefarious thing hidden in that "innocent" 300-line refactoring patch, the maintainer's the one who's gonna be on the hook for it, not the contributor who may be long gone. :\

Whereas, if you take work *off* a maintainer's plate by doing a "thankless" task like improving docs or writing test cases, it's good things all around.

Yep. That is exactly the point of Codes of Conduct, so that **everyone** can just have fun and not worry about being harassed, berated, singled out for some immutable trait, and so on.

If having fun for you necessitates having the freedom to do this to other people, maybe carefully sit down and consider your life choices. ;)

Sometimes you're too immersed in things and forget what assumptions you're making! :)

I actually think the comment by Pseudonymous Powers at https://developers.slashdot.or... does a *fantastic* job of laying out some of those pitfalls, but to be more explicit, I've now added a new section towards the bottom of the article that itemizes them more explicitly: https://webchick.hashnode.dev/...

Hope that helps, and thanks again the candid feedback!

No parole in Federal prisons.

Go back far enough in time and it wasn't even cameras. The AGM-86B "terrain following" IIRC used the radar altimeter and compared the rises and falls to the stored terrain map.

The reason you may see AC described as better is that low current is more efficient, which means high voltage, and AC lets you step voltages up and down with only Victorian technology.

If you have the tech to step DC up and down, it's got a key advantage on the high voltage leg. If peak voltage is average voltage, as it is for DC, you have less problem with corona discharge.

It always raised my eyebrows that company personnel could sign off on things, but fact is it worked well for generations. Boeing has lost the culture that made that possible.

Immunotherapy has its own nasty effects. I hope the vaccine is gentler than CAR-T, which genetically engineers T cells to attack cancer cells. Hospitalization from the effects is common and my friend who had it was warned to stay within a short drive of the hospital.

At that cost, it offers a 50% rate of actual cure. Sadly my friend was in the other 50%.