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Comment Re: how REAL gamers game like real gamers (Score 1) 41

When I got my first computer that supported a mouse, Apple II GS, for some bizarre reason my mother used it tail down so I did the same. I drove both axis inverted all the way through college and well into my first real job before I relearned how to use a mouse like a normal person. I remember having a horrid time of it for 2-3 weeks before my brain finally flipped over.

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Comment Re: Giving blood and plasma reduces blood PFAS le (Score 2) 68

Quite possibly. Not all donated whole blood is transfused that way. It is frequently separated into red cells, platelets, and plasma.

Also, if a person needs a blood transfusion, a few extra PFAS is likely the least of their worries. The donations of four people saved my life once. I was in no shape to complain.

Comment Re: Not a crash (Score 2) 73

to the 4digit ID

I disagree. A fail safe is much better than a hard crash, particularly if it causes a crash loop. A fail safe can allow for manual recovery and processing while the system is still up and moving flights around, albeit slowly.

If the system had hard crashed the primary and backup, recovery would likely have required dump analysis before the system could have been brought back up to any sort of functional state in production.

I would also argue failing safe is highly preferable to a hard crash that may leave an entire system in an unknown, and potentially dangerous state. Iâ(TM)m pretty sure being unable to communicate is much better than a plane crash.

Failing at all due to failure to sanitize input is always a Bad Thing(TM). However missing a real edge case is almost unavailable. This seems like something that should have been caught though.

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Comment Not a crash (Score 4, Informative) 73

The system didnâ(TM)t crash. If you even read the summary all the way through you would see the system failed safe. The system got an input it couldnâ(TM)t deal with and âoe⦠suspending automatic processing âto ensure that no incorrect safety-related information could be presented to an air traffic controller or impact the rest of the air traffic systemâ(TM)..â

Everyone should want something as critical as flight routing to fail into a safe mode so planes donâ(TM)t crash into each other.

Was the failure mode a huge inconvenience? Sure. Still better than being dead.

Could the incorrect input have been handled better? Probably. Now that an edge case has been found, people can investigate the reason that type of input caused a full halt of automatic processing, and work on dealing with inputs of that nature and dealing with them in a way that doesnâ(TM)t cancel tons of flights.

Iâ(TM)d still rather be stuck in some airport for 2 days than being a smudge in the ground after a catastrophic air crash.

Comment Re: Picture perfect? (Score 1) 125

Ok, youâ(TM)re kinda comparing apples to GPS guided missiles there. The starliner and dragon both return via parachute, and we canâ(TM)t control wind. Landing .5 miles from target is pretty good.

The falcon boosters, on the other hand perform powered and controlled landings with some serious guidance control. Of course itâ(TM)s going to be more accurate.

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