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Comment Re:No good options here (Score 1) 92

If you're in a "crisis" now, you've been in a "crisis" for 2 decades with the exception of only a couple of years.

The rates are bad, we don't focus on using the least bad estimate we produce, and we stave off crisis to a degree with mediocre public assistance programs which struggle to cover needs for lack of funding but which really amount to can-kicking. That's better than nothing, but still leaves us poised for disaster. If Cheeto Benito successfully terminates these programs (as he has been trying to do, and he has successfully been interfering with them) then the looming crises become immediate not quite overnight, but in literally more 10-30 days.

Comment So we're all past accepting it doesn't work? (Score 1) 64

The cope has been nauseating.

It works. Everyone onboard now?

Now it's about how it scales and how we optimize use and lower release cycle time.

Everyone agonizing over token costs doesn't understand the exponential cost decay.. and how are you going to compete with hyperscalers who have essentially unlimited, near-free tokens.

Buckle up.

Comment Re:The best outcome... (Score 1) 113

Today I'm mostly avoiding working on cars, but I do have some ongoing projects and they suck. I can't wait for "every" vehicle to be an EV, which isn't practical for me now, but hopefully will be in the future. But I really don't want everything phoning home with information about me constantly. That information could be used against me, so I don't want it to be collected. Nothing prevents it here except opting out by not buying the whatever-it-is, but sometimes you need the thing.

As vehicles age, they tend to get first cheaper but then more expensive to maintain, so just staying in the past forever isn't realistic. It would be nice to have some options without the constant oversight.

Comment Re:Would a Spar be Repairable? (Score 1) 60

Woah... Dumb question, but would a wing spar be repairable or replaceable?

Coward said, because when the wing falls off at 30,000 feet, rest assured - it's okay, because Airbus has good documentation. All fixed.

No, of course a broken spar is A Very Bad Thing when it happens in midair.

Is this changing-the-timing-chains-in-an-Audi difficult, or is this replacing-your-spinal-cord-without-killing-you impossible?

Are these planes repairable? I think it's a reasonable question.

(Of course, with the Audi, if has anything more than a loose gas cap it's not economically feasible to repair, but that's what you get with European engineering.)

Comment Re:Would a Spar be Repairable? (Score 1) 60

Replaceable? No. Reparable? Depends on the extent, but even that's hard: the wings are full of hardware, and if you have to spend a year and invent a process for dismantling everything to get at the damage, it becomes financial infeasible. Even if you pull it off, you have new inspection requirements, operational limitations, etc.: it's not the same revenue generating plane after something like this.

There is a lot at stake. Emirates operates these with over 500 passengers. If that manifest burns to death on takeoff because a wing folds there will be hell to pay.

Comment Re:Interesting (Score 1) 105

Oh look, modded down by a clown, it must be a day that ends in y.

I know the tower near my home that I normally get signal from doesn't have a generator because it went out after the batteries ran out when we had our last quake, and Verizon promised to bring in a generator but didn't. They wouldn't need to bring one in if it were already there.

I know the tower near my work has a generator because I can see it. I could poke it with a stick through the cyclone fence.

There's a bunch of trolls on here who are mad that I know things. It's very fucking weird.

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