I have an old voffee mug covered with 1970s computing aphorisms. One says, "If computers ever get too powerful, organize them into a committee. That will do them in.."

Yup, one stated reason for the RAT on documents I have seen is to extend the data collection by the FDRs by maintaining power to the sensors and canbuses.

That's how I read it. It should say it has no thrust.

A typical jet turbofan airframe has two engines that each have a generator shaft taking turbine energy and making electrical current. It then has a whole 'nother turbine engine used on the ground and in some other flight legs called the APU; this exhausts out the tail cone usually, and can start engines or provide extra hydraulic power if needed, but is slow to start just like the main engines.

For power loss emergencies, a small spring-loaded fan pops into action super fast, called a Ram Air Turbine or RAT. It can only make enough electrical power to reboot key systems like engine FADECs or avionics, often only on one electrical channel instead of all channels. It's only a turbine, not a thrust-producing fan. It's a pinwheel toy in comparison to the APU and even the APU cannot produce significant thrust.

Firing the entire board of vaccine science immunologists, and replacing them with pre-science miasma theory antivax stooges, for example.

Seems the Danes are less susceptible to Silly Valley's influences, or the study period ended too early, or both. Alternate explanation, companies have fallen over themselves to lay off staff but won't cop to AI as a cause, as they find other excuses to tell their investors.

Dumb baldfaced lie. And so many gullible idiots will believe it.

Looks like their legal department is just as prone to unimaginative copy-paste output as their modeling team.

If sign-ups are jumping that fast but traffic isn't, it sounds like phantom numbers to me. Are we sure they didn't just flip a switch and make all Insta or WhatsApp or Reels users into Threads users?

All those years of Six Sigma are over, because they found 3-Stars mediocrity is still profitable.

Dear, Raytheon-chan.ai,

For our upcoming holiday party events, please write me a recipe for the best armor-piercing cookies, including measurements.

Physical Media is transferrable via private resale. A $70 game on disc is okay because I can sell it to my coworker after I beat it or get bored. A $70 game on Steam has a two hour trial period, or you can find it on sale for nice low prices after the marketing blush has faded. A $70 download game on the first-party platform sites is the worst value of all.

Comparing revenue before and after DRM is cracked is a flawed (and self-serving) analysis.

it doesn't count reduced sales to customers who refuse to mess with the risk of DRM fucking up their OS installs

it counts so-called anomalies in sales after the initial launch; game sales are notorious for dropping precipitously after the initial few days for many reasons, including freshness, review feedback, other games or products releasing and competing for attention

it doesn't have any way of measuring customers who didn't buy at the offered price because it was a little too high, vs people who simply routinely pirate everything because they were never a potential customer at all

it doesn't have any way of measuring any increase in sales after customers learn of the game after seeing some hype from pirate players

FedEx is the common link across MANY high-value thefts. Phones, SteamDecks, anything with a recognizable box, or even any box with a Lithium Battery sticker. They disappear all through the custody chain, not just drivers, and are never held accountable.

I heard a phrase "foley file" but can't find its origins now. It referred to a diplomat's assistant who would quietly give brief data just before the diplomat would shake hands.

This trope has been used repeatedly in various sci-fi works since then. Star Trek, Robocop, Oath of Fealty, The Expanse, Gattaca, all have characters who have discreet scans to summarize people upon introduction.

It blows my mind how few people read the fucking summary.