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Comment Re: Pilot error (Score 1) 106

In the kind of plane in question the auto-throttle system will move the throttle handles themselves, so it's normally irrelevant where the pilots leave them. So standard procedure is often to move the throttles forward a bit manually first, then press the to-ga button to set takeoff mode which tells the auto-throttle to move them the rest of the way

Comment Re:Airborne femtcells (Score 2) 90

Without that you'd get only range deduced from signal intensity and you would need multiple helicopter carrying these cell towers to triangulate the source.

Considering how mobile a helicopter is, you could almost certainly get away with just the one. Just take several readings from different locations.

Comment Re: Yay! Lets blame the pilots .... (Score 3, Informative) 78

It was entirely avoidable because Boeing never should have put MCAS on the plane in the first place. The max wouldn't have been dangerous to fly without it, it would just handle differently than the earlier 373s. Which would mean a bit of pilot training.

Comment Re:*facepalm* (Score 2) 151

In this case it doesn't even seem like it was a case of bad or biased training, but rather hidden instructions and limitations.
In addition to the examples in the summary, I also saw ones where if you asked for a picture of a family, it would produce several pictures of diverse families (so far, ok). But if you started asking for the family to be of specific races, it would happily return black and and others. However if you asked for a white family, it would flat out refuse to give you *any* image with some boilerplate response.

Comment Re:There goes my legacy subscription. (Score 1) 70

You can add them from other sources but now we're into a time value of money discussion. I have to go find the subs, fire up ffmpeg, play enough of the episode to make sure the re-encode is good, upload it to the media server.... It's a massive time suck.

Why would you go through all that trouble? Reencoding?
If your client/player can't read and render subtitles without them being embedded in the video stream you really need to find another server and/or player.
And while I can't speak for what plex can do, I know other similar systems even feature the ability to download subtitles right in the video player.

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