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Comment Re:What was the argument against Airbus? (Score 2) 23

As I recall one pilot held their stick back to keep the nose up the whole time, which doomed them. Airbus averages the inputs from the two pilots. Boeing produces a "dual inputs" warning.

Because he held back the whole time, the other pilot's efforts to level the aircraft and gain speed were ineffective. As you say, it was noticed at the last minute, but too late.

That always seemed like a very weird design choice to me. But also, the crew should have noticed sooner, and they should have made it clear who was flying and that the other pilot needed to let go of their controls.

Comment Re:given enough eyeballs... (Score 3, Interesting) 27

Seems to be more a case of enough AI tokens and the source code, and all bugs become shallow.

Presumably Microsoft has Copilot doing the same for Windows, and Apple has some AI working on MacOS and iOS, and we know Google has been using Gemini AI for Android.

They just quietly fix stuff before it becomes public knowledge, but Linux is open source so can't really do that.

Comment Re:The movie looks pretty bad (Score 2) 63

On the upside, AI lets anyone make a movie.
On the downside, AI lets anyone make a movie.

Including people who have terrible taste in plot, style, and everything else.

There's some genuinely good stuff out there - Gossip Goblin's work for example. But this is....

I'll just say, there's far better things that one could have spent half a million dollars on...

Comment Re:Austerity (Score 1) 185

Almost every time there is an X causes cancer, do Y for a longer life or cut out Z for better health paper published and you look at it, yes, they are technically correct within certain confidence limits. But the amount of that effect is almost more important: if you can live another week out of your allotted 3,000 to 4,000+ by cutting out something you enjoy and look forward to, why would you bother? The last week is not much fun anyway, from what I have seen.

Doing what researchers think this month is best for longevity will not make you immortal but it might make you unhappy. Much of what is promoted as positive and healthy is actually statistically risky in terms of accidental demise, such as running, cycling, etc. but we accept that in the belief that it makes us fitter, which if you are a survivor, they do...

Comment Re:Cost (Score 1) 38

I'd think so given it appears to have a monochrome low resolution LCD screen and controls that while I'm sure are functional, are far from "gaming grade".

The most interesting part will be what radios it has. The CC1101 in the original Flipper Zero is a great chip. I started using it long ago for work and soon realized it is extremely flexible.

Comment Re:should have been dead ten years ago. (Score 3, Interesting) 185

Ironically it was exercise that screwed up some of my joints, due to undiagnosed health issues. It's hard to know what is best to do.

Stressing about it is probably worse than the damage a lot of this stuff is doing. Plus I need coffee, life isn't worth living without it. I'm not joking.

Comment POTS advantages (Score 2) 120

AT&T added that transitioning from copper will save an estimated 300 million kilowatt-hours annually

Yepp, one of the reasons being that POTS will work even during power outages, as long as the central switches are powered. Your VoIP will be down if your house has no power. It probably is more efficient, but that "saving" is also simply shifting some of the power usage to consumers.

Comment Re: Investing = Polymarket betting (Score 1) 120

I've seen some people who claim to know what they are talking about say that the thermal emissivity scales by the fourth power, so the hotter you let your satellite run, it scales considerably.

I'm not a physicist, but that would make sense -- the hotter you are, not only do you emit more light, you also emit a broader spectrum. If that wasn't the case, I think the sun could be infinitely hot and would only emit infrared. Or to put it another way, the more thermal energy you have in a system, the more it wants to dissipate. Ties into the second law of thermodynamics.

Maybe, but the problem is that the electronics have to run at those temperatures and not have solder joints start popping, or other fun failures.

Comment Re:That's a problem (Score 1) 130

My guess? I doubt it saw or recognized the intent of the hand gesture, but it almost certainly recognized the flashing red. I assume the "thought" process was "well, nobody else is going. We all stopped at roughly the same time. Yeehaw." but who knows. Doesn't Tesla have some sort of "playback" feature where it can show you what it saw? Or is that only a real-time view?

As far as I know, it is just real-time. And it didn't even slow down at the flashing red light. So either it recognized that someone was waving it on or it didn't see the flashing light at all.

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