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Comment Re:AI text (Score 4, Interesting) 21

> ... you are welcome to submit it to any of the many "ai detectors" online.

Quillbot: AI-generated: 0%; Mixed: 0%; Human: 100%
Grammerly: AI text: 15%; Non-AI text: 85%
GPTZero: AI-generated: 86%; Mixed: 14%; Human: 0%

Determining the degree of AI participation doesn't appear to be quite that simple...

Comment Re:AI text (Score 2) 21

To clarify, you're claiming that "Janet Harrison", the listed author of the article linked from Startup Fortune magazine, is actually an AI? Or that the human Janet wrote the article with excessive AI assistance?

I'm not necessarily arguing, just asking for your evidence. I wouldn't have recognized the article as such.

Comment Re:What was the argument against Airbus? (Score 2) 43

The excerpt here says:

...a combination of technical failure involving ice in the plane's sensors and the pilots' inability to react...

So your question seems to be answered, at least in principle. "What was Airbus' fault?" Sensor issues, apparently.

Recall that faulty AOA (Angle Of Attack) sensors and/or related software have also been identified as an issue with previous Boeing crashes.

Comment California Civil War (Score 2) 71

I sense a civil war brewing on the Left Coast! In the south, we have Los Angeles, trying to ban single-use printer cartridges. In the north, we have Hewlett Packard, headquartered in Palo Alto (halfway between San Jose and San Francisco), and the king of "Only Our Cartridges!" One of the largest metropolitan areas in the country versus one of the most established Silicon Valley originals. Who will win? (Spoiler alert: the party with more money...)

Full disclosure: After having used HP printers for decades, I recently sold my last one and vowed never again to support that company. They have become infamous for retroactively and deceitfully bricking printers via stealthy firmware upgrades that prevent the use of non-HP cartridges. "You paid for that hardware and think you own it? Well, we're going to disable it unless you obey our rules, even if they've changed since you bought it..."

Comment Re:and so did UPS and the FAA (Score 5, Interesting) 57

I concur fully! This clickbait headline takes advantage of the current plethora of failures that have plagued Boeing products following years of poor upper management.

Look at the Wikipedia article on past Boeing leadership, specifically the entries covering the two decades from 1996 to 2015. If you start following links, you'll begin to see the root causes of many of the later disasters. And contrary to what you might hear from the mainstream media, the company has been turning itself around under the leadership of the CEOs hired in 2020 and 2024 respectively, who have prioritized ridding the company of the irresponsible practices and poor management that came to dominate during the "bad years."

Disclaimer: I am a retiree who did work for Boeing for a number of years, but as a mathematician and software engineer in R&D, not on production systems.

Comment WA State or DC? (Score 3, Insightful) 16

PSA: When composing titles, please use either "Washington State" or "Washington DC" (or "D.C."). Otherwise, those of us in the affected locations have to read through the article to determine whether the information applies to us. (In this case, it was the original NBC News post that first committed this faux pas, neglecting to disambiguate between the locations until the tenth paragraph!)

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