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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Trois-Rivière is competing with Montréal for biggest pothole
Here we see a wild Nissan Rogue(?) in its natural habitat, taking a bath. /Attenborough
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@djls45 I do all my coding in mOcKinGSpoNgEbObCaSe
The Evil Ideas thread is
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@hungrier That's a really long gif for something that happens in seven frames...
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@Tsaukpaetra Absolutely, but it was the
firstonly gif I could find of the event
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hold a viewing party for friends and family, including some of their children.
Their kids are going to need a lot of therapy.
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@loopback0 Next time they'll make the Svaginahorpe mistake instead?
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"...President Nicolás Maduro has ordered a deployment of ministers to ensure the Venezuelan people are attended to," Information Minister Jorge Rodríguez said
He's deploying government ministers to fix the power lines (or hydroelectric generation plant; nobody's quite sure what the problem is)? I'm sure they're all expert electrical engineers.
Maybe if they all join hands, they can bridge the gap in the wires.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Maybe if they all join hands, they can bridge the gap in the wires.
That seems like the best case scenario.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Maybe if they all join hands, they can bridge the gap in the wires.
That seems like the best case scenario.
Only if the President is taking a leading role in this.
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"Porn doesn’t represent normal women, the actors and actresses they use mislead kids.
Kids aren't the target audience
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup
“We removed the ads because they violated our policies against use of our corporate logo,” a spokesperson told Politico. “In the interest of allowing robust debate, we are restoring the ads.” Facebook’s policies limit the extent to which advertisers can reference Facebook or Instagram in the text or imagery. Whether Facebook’s brief censorship “shut down a debate” is questionable: numerous other Warren advertisements with a similar anti-tech message remained active during the brief block.
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Microsoft
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Not sure if this should go in the Florida Man thread, this thread, or the Nope thread, but...
Yeah, that's not ok.
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From the comments:
So if you bought an overpriced phone expecting to upgrade with an awesome camera, you now just have an overpriced phone?
Not only that, but it's an overpriced phone from a camera company. Out of any measure of smartphone quality, you would reasonably expect that even if the fancy pants camera addon wasn't ready yet (or never, as of this article), the built-in camera would be pretty good. But apparently, the $1500 or however much phone from the company that makes professional digital video cameras has a regular phone camera not even made by them. Womp-wah.
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@hungrier
At least you saved the time and energy of setting up a Bitcon wallet. Much more efficient way to get scammed.
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@izzion It would be ironic if the blockchain phone had a better camera than the Red camera phone
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@izzion It would be ironic if the blockchain phone had a better camera than the Red camera phone
After they access your phone to steal your shitcoins they want to get a really good picture of the face you make when you discover it.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Microsoft
Do they have to enter a magic key combination to not upgrade this time?
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Microsoft will pester Windows 7 users to upgrade to Windows 10 with pop-up notifications
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@hungrier For interest's sake I compared the two
(HTC Exodus 1, the blockchain phone, on the left)more megapixels on one of the HTC cameras"12 MP effective" whatever that means- higher framerate in videos on the HTC
- whatever H4V holographic video is, the Red has that
So if you want smoother video, the HTC looks better. Also, that 16 MP "12 MP effective" sounds like maybe they're doing some resampling magic to give a higher quality 12 MP image. But on the other hand, the Red will let you ask Obi Wan for help because he's our only hope.
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Software patch coming to avoid crash
https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-to-make-key-change-in-max-cockpit-software-11552413489
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
"12 MP effective" whatever that means
"Actual".
The 16 MP figure is arrived at by interpolation.
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@TimeBandit
Hat tip the ZeroHedge article I had to find the old fashioned Google way since soooooooomeone direct linked a paywalled article:
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@izzion
And one of the recentish comments on that ZH article:"A company spokesman confirmed the update would include a change to use multiple data feeds in MAX’s stall-prevention system—instead of the current reliance on a single sensor."
Good Lord - an auto "dive - nose down" stall avoidance routine that takes it input from only one sensor? What idiot thought of that? The one sensor input decision making is what brought down the air france airbusmobile!
I was thinking that there was an overboard hysteria thing happening - but this is nuts for Boeing to do something this stupid. Geez and I think I have to take a ride in one next week!
Which, having now finally found the root of the change, I completely agree with the commentor. Mega Yikes.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
I had to find the old fashioned Google way since soooooooomeone direct linked a paywalled article
Just pay $0.50/month and stop complaining you cheap ass
FileUnder: I'll never pay to access WSJ
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@TimeBandit So it's a crash patch to avoid a crash patch (or is that splat)?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Software patch coming to avoid crash
And it's not even from Tesla!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
And it's not even from Tesla!
Just spent the last 5 minutes in GIS looking for a plane crashed into a firetruck, but no luck
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Software patch coming to avoid crash
https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-to-make-key-change-in-max-cockpit-software-11552413489
I guess an Apple-like "you're just flying it wrong!" is not going to save them a second time.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Looks like she's a frequent flyer:
She was taken to jail, held there until she was sober and released. The next day, however, around 11:15 p.m, police spotted Holwager walking down the middle of the road and waving her arms in the area of South Gateway Drive and Warrenton Road. She again was arrested for public intoxication.
At least the cats are out of the bag now...
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit
Hat tip the ZeroHedge article I had to find the old fashioned Google way since soooooooomeone direct linked a paywalled article:Is that his real account or a spoof?The genuine account is 'realdonaldtrump', weird.Commercial aviation, as a whole, is safer than it's ever been. Overall, automation is making huge jumps for safety.
The jury is still out on if automation is causing some problems by inappropriately narrowing situational awareness, which causes lack of ability to respond appropriately to problems. Last study I saw found that it helped overall situational awareness by reducing task-loading.Poor training and poorly designed systems are nothing new in aviation though, that could definitely use a shake-up. For example, many airlines prohibit pilots from flying manually except when it's unavoidable. Hence they lose the feel of the aircraft in the different stages of flight, and muscle-memory is exactly the thing you want when problems occur. That sort of thing should probably be regulated better.
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https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/3282366/passagiers-tui-boeings-opgelucht-na-overdreven-landing
Boeing 737 max planes deviating to the weirdest places as countries close their airspace one after the other while the planes in question are in flight. I'm getting the impression most of Europe banned the plane now.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
They're banned in all of Europe since 20:00 CET.
“If it's Boeing, I'm not going!”
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@Cursorkeys However, the problem in this case was a software solution which the pilots could not know about. Because Boeing told no one about this - probably to make the plane more attractive because telling the airlines about this feature would also mean that the pilots would need additional training.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
“If it's Boeing, I'm not going!”
It's an improvement over the (suspected?) MCAS issue, where the tagline is more like
“If it's Boeing, I'm not going up!”
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Cursorkeys However, the problem in this case was a software solution which the pilots could not know about. Because Boeing told no one about this - probably to make the plane more attractive because telling the airlines about this feature would also mean that the pilots would need additional training.
True originally, it's apparently in the FCOM now. And I don't think any 737 MAX pilot wouldn't have heard of MCAS after the first crash.
The more interesting thing is that it's basically a runaway-trim situation and pilots are already trained how to deal with that, for some reason they were either unable to identify it, or unable to deal with it the normal way (cutout switches).
I'm also really interested why there's apparently only one sensor. The usual arrangement is dual-channel (fail-safe) or quorum-voting (fail-operational). For some reason this system got though the FMEA as not safety-critical.
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@Cursorkeys Yeah, the single sensor also struck me as very odd.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Not sure if this should go in the Florida Man thread, this thread, or the Nope thread, but...
Yeah, that's not ok.
The Bad Ideas thread seems to me to be the best fit.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Microsoft
I'm holding out until they pay me to upgrade, since the free upgrade apparently got un-reserved (how the fuck...) on my holdout PCs...
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Good Lord - an auto "dive - nose down" stall avoidance routine that takes it input from only one sensor? What idiot thought of that? The one sensor input decision making is what brought down the air france airbusmobile!
Actually, no, Airbus never uses one sensor input only. The AF447 case was that the sensors failed, the system detected it, announced it, and turned itself off, but the pilots then screwed up the procedure, because they were too used to the system always working. There was also one accident and one incident when two of three sensors failed the same, because Airbus does use two-of-tree for sensors (not for the controllers though; those are fail-over), but there was nothing caused by one sensor only, because Airbus doesn't do that.
Using one sensor only was indeed stupid. The case is supposed to be handled by the runaway stabiliser procedure, because they need that anyway, but that procedure cannot be considered particularly reliable for human factor reasons as it requires quick action in highly stressful situation.
It should be noted that at least one crew of the PK-LQP did manage to handle the situation using the runaway trim procedure before the accident flight—but maintenance failed to find the cause, in part due to lack of information in the maintenance manual.
I was thinking that there was an overboard hysteria thing happening - but this is nuts for Boeing to do something this stupid. Geez and I think I have to take a ride in one next week!
Which, having now finally found the root of the change, I completely agree with the commentor. Mega Yikes.
Yup, they've totally botched the risk analysis on this one. And so did FAA. It's not the first time.
- They've spread all the FUD about Airbus flight systems for years, but Boeing had more accidents where the system logic was too complicated for the pilots to correctly handle in critical situation than Airbus. Until recently the main culprit was the throttle logic, most spectacularly in this Emirates accident in Dubai where the Aircraft ignored the go-around command because the wheels momentarily touched the ground.
- FAA is getting some serious critics for neglecting fume incidents, their danger clearly shown by this case of fatal poisoning by fumes.
@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
I'm also really interested why there's apparently only one sensor. The usual arrangement is dual-channel (fail-safe) or quorum-voting (fail-operational). For some reason this system got though the FMEA as not safety-critical.
There are three sensors all right. It is the specific controller that blindly uses one instead of cross-checking. That's why they can fix it by software update.
They apparently thought the runaway trim procedure is sufficient to handle failures, so the system is not that critical. The difference from “normal” trim runaway is that this system activates upon retracting flaps, while pilots probably only train the case where they operate the trim switch and it gets stuck.