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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Reduce size, or just put a proper bra on a female character for a change?
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
They had a lapse in C++ updates
Yes, but their C support is way more partial than that.
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Rejoice
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Reduce size, or just put a proper bra on a female character for a change?
RTFA
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Yes, but their C support is way more partial than that.
Yes, it is. They do exactly zero updates for plain C except as required by newer C++. They don't write any new C code, though they may have some ancient one still in use, but they only ever do minimal bugfixing on it.
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Is it April 1st
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About time, and surely they would have learned some lessons from the weird mess they've made with dark mode across the rest of their apps.
Specifically, Gmail version 2019.06.09. brings with it a dark mode feature in settings, although it’s not available in the main window or sidebar. Further, dark mode only turns on intermittently, with no way to manually control this setting.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Is it April 1st
boeing_certification_simulation_tests/Is this necessarily a bad thing? Is it possible, for example, to effectively simulate wing-load testing?
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@jinpa It wouldn't be a bad idea to start with simulations. But nothing beats testing things in the real world, because simulations can be buggy and wrong.
Between this and the 737 Max, I wonder if I should try short-selling some Boeing stock...they're a very experienced aerospace company and they ought to know better than this.
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@jinpa Boeing, if I'm not mistaken, are currently in the dog house a bit for not properly testing their shit. You'd think they would be increasing the level of testing, if only to allay recent fears, rather than pulling a stunt like this. Regardless of whether it's better or worse in actual terms, it certainly doesn't give the right impression.
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@Seppen said in In other news today...:
Boeing, if I'm not mistaken, are currently in the dog house a bit for not properly testing their shit.
To put it mildly. They had a non-overrideable autopilot function that relied on a single angle-of-attack sensor with no redundant sensors. Everyone in aerospace is still shaking their head that someone signed off in this. Rule #1 in avionics is Everything Must Be Redundant. Some planes even have triple-redundancy on their sensors or LRU's.
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@mott555 I was deliberately putting it mildly. This is one of those English sense of humour things. We deliberately understate something, and leave the observer or reader to fill in the blanks. Done well it can be very funny, but non-English people often don't even notice it.
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@Seppen said in In other news today...:
You'd think they would be increasing the level of testing, if only to allay recent fears, rather than pulling a stunt like this.
I'm waiting for the !!fun!! that comes the next time they try to get a new plane certified to fly. Either the FAA are going to try waving it through as they've done the past few times, and the rest of the world's aircraft regulators are going to find it hard to stop laughing for long enough to tell them that they don't believe it, or the FAA are going to be excruciatingly thorough in order to at least start the process of getting their own reputation out of the gutter. And Boeing execs are going to be furious the whole time and will deserve every bit of it!
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@Seppen said in In other news today...:
Boeing, if I'm not mistaken, are currently in the dog house a bit for not properly testing their shit.
To put it mildly. They had a non-overrideable autopilot function that relied on a single angle-of-attack sensor with no redundant sensors. Everyone in aerospace is still shaking their head that someone signed off in this. Rule #1 in avionics is Everything Must Be Redundant. Some planes even have triple-redundancy on their sensors or LRU's.
I forgot where I read it recently, but the autopilot function does have a manual override. However that manual override requires an amount of physical strength not all airline pilots can be expected to have.
And making things worse, that exact same manual override applies to the 737-NG as well (though I'm not sure what for).
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@PleegWat I am not an expert, but here is my mildly informed belief:
The stabilizer is a control surface that adjusts how much lift the tail of the plane provides by default, which affects whether the nose of the plane gets pushed up or down relative to the center of thrust. It's supposed to be adjusted to balance out differences in where the cargo is loaded, so that the elevators (that the pilots usually control) have the greatest efficacy.
- There's the stabilizer trim manual control wheel, It's mechanically connected to the jackscrew that moves the surface. This used to be the only control, back when the stabilizers weren't the size of barn doors and didn't have to deal with multiple thousands of pounds of pressure. Currently it is the backup control if there's a problem with the others.
- There's the stabilizer trim tabs, which are small levers on the side of the yoke. These control hydraulic or electric motors that drive the jackscrew. This is the preferred method for adjusting the trim mid-flight, and in some planes on the ground after the plane's been weighed. If there's a problem, a circuit breaker can be pulled to disconnect the motors, leaving the pilots with the wheel.
- There's the new autopilot safety-ish system which prevents the plane from climbing too steeply. It does this by acting as though the pilot is adjusting the trim with the tabs, driving the same motors. While pilots can temporarily override it, the only way to permanently stop it if there's a problem is to disable the same breaker as for the tabs, which makes it so they can only use the wheel.
I know most of this stuff because failures in that jackscrew caused a plane crash near my house in 1991.
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You're holding it wrong
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
If you own a MacBook Pro, you are
very luckyan idiotFTFT
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@Seppen Well, since they didn't even read what's in their precious Bible, does it surprise anyone that they cannot read at all?
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Grauniad said:
There were some surprising non-returns: wallets dropped off at the Vatican and at two anti-corruption bureaus were among those that never made their way back to the rightful owners.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Grauniad said:
There were some surprising non-returns: wallets dropped off at the Vatican and at two anti-corruption bureaus were among those that never made their way back to the rightful owners.
But you see, the one which was lost and found in the Vatican was a miracle!
And the anti-coruption bureaus are all about honesty, so you've got to understand that taking a wallet home is just an honest mistake.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Seppen Well, since they didn't even read what's in their precious Bible
Where did you get that idea from?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
But you see, the one which was lost and found in the Vatican was a miracle!
And the anti-coruption bureaus are all about honesty, so you've got to understand that taking a wallet home is just an honest mistake.
"If we was any kind of decent, we'd remove temptation from their path..."
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Reduce size, or just put a proper bra on a female character for a change?
@dkf said in In other news today...:
their C support is way more partial than that
Support for C isn't critical. Good support is much more important for D, DD and larger.
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@Seppen said in In other news today...:
I've had phones returned and wallets returned (or given to the Lost and Found of our public transit).
The wallet, I wouldn't have cared if the cash was taken, replacing, cancelling cards would be so much a hassle. But the cash was returned as well (and a relatively small amount).
I did read somewhere wallets are more likely to be returned if there are baby pictures in them. When one of my phones was return the woman mentioned the picture of my daughter.
I do always try to give the returner $20. Compared to the cost and hassle of replacing the phone, it is a bargain. So I truly want to express my gratitude and no matter how many times I thank them, it doesn't feel like enough.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Reduce size, or just put a proper bra on a female character for a change?
@dkf said in In other news today...:
their C support is way more partial than that
Support for C isn't critical. Good support is much more important for D, DD and larger.
C needs some support (which I've been much of my life). Going to work (at least one that doesn't allow topless) without a bra, is at the very least extremely awkward. Even walking around with a lose T-shirt I have been self conscious.
To wear this and many summer dresses don't works for us:
There are some fancy "strapless" bras that can work, they are costly. Though sometimes IDGAF and just wear a regular bra and the straps and back are visible (which is generally considered tacky and sloppy).
Strapless is in scare quotes because the fancy ones have straps that wrap around your torso in various configurations. A strapless bra that is simply a strapless bra doesn't stay in place.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
C needs some support (which I've been much of my life).
I'm reasonably familiar. My ex-wife was B when we met, C after baby #1, and varying between D and DD after baby #2 and, um, being sufficiently well-off that there was never a lack of food. Her bras definitely got more substantial as time went by. Yes, C needs some support, but .
@Karla said in In other news today...:
Going to work (at least one that doesn't allow topless)
I'm not even going to comment on that.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
My ex-wife was B when we met, C after baby #1, and varying between D and DD after baby #2 and, um
I'm twelve and why were you giving her grades?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
FAA is pretty much lost case unfortunately, so there is a real risk they'll sign off some crap, but I hope either EASA, MAK or CAAC won't have it. Because aircraft must be certified in all countries to be useful and while normally the other countries accept the type certificate issued by the country of manufacture, they don't have to do it if they think the tests done are not satisfactory.
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@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat I am not an expert, but here is my mildly informed belief:
The stabilizer is a control surface that adjusts how much lift the tail of the plane provides by default, which affects whether the nose of the plane gets pushed up or down relative to the center of thrust. It's supposed to be adjusted to balance out differences in where the cargo is loaded, so that the elevators (that the pilots usually control) have the greatest efficacy.
- There's the stabilizer trim manual control wheel, It's mechanically connected to the jackscrew that moves the surface. This used to be the only control, back when the stabilizers weren't the size of barn doors and didn't have to deal with multiple thousands of pounds of pressure. Currently it is the backup control if there's a problem with the others.
- There's the stabilizer trim
tabsswitches, which are small levers on the side of the yoke. These control hydraulic or electric motors that drive the jackscrew. This is the preferred method for adjusting the trim mid-flight, and in some planes on the ground after the plane's been weighed. If there's a problem, a circuit breaker can be pulled to disconnect the motors, leaving the pilots with the wheel. - There's the new autopilot safety-ish system which prevents the plane from climbing too steeply. It does this by acting as though the pilot is adjusting the trim with the tabs, driving the same motors. While pilots can temporarily override it, the only way to permanently stop it if there's a problem is to disable the same breaker as for the tabs, which makes it so they can only use the wheel.
There are two cut-off switches that allow turning off the electric trim adjustment if it starts acting up. In the earlier models one cuts off the electric actuator, leaving the pilots with the hard-to-turn trim wheels only, but the other cuts off just the automatic adjustments, leaving the trim switches active.
However apparently on Max they just chained the two switches in series and both cut off the electric trim actuator completely, leaving the pilots with just the poorly usable option of manually spinning the trim wheels if the automatic systems start acting up. It just shows how badly they fucked the risk analysis, because they should have noticed how poor the usability of that backup is over the time it exists.
And since risk analysis is essential input for test design, I am not sure how anybody should (and how they expect anybody to) trust them with redesigning important tests.
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@Cursorkeys That is indeed the main reason. He often gets called 'Jeremy Rhyming Slang'
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In the olden days, we used to have Kingdoms, and they were run by Kings
Then we had empires, run by Emperors.
Now we have Countries, and the UK is run by the Tories.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Rejoice
So Not-Edge already runs in the platforms they didn't care about Edge running in. That's amusing.
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That sounds pretty cool, although I'd like to see what their
selection of popular Kindle books and comics
looks like
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Oceanographers have discovered that the different shapes of left and right shoes mean that they often take different routes because their asymmetry affects how they respond to wind and currents.
This means that the Nike trainers that are thought to have been swept from the cargo ship Maersk Shanghai on March 3 last year have been sorted into different routes as they were taken in a northeasterly direction from Cape Hatteras on the coast of North Carolina.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
In case anyone wonders and/or missed the article's date: after 11 years, still no sign of any development.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Seppen Well, since they didn't even read what's in their precious Bible
Where did you get that idea from?
Easy: By calling themselves "Christian" and then taking only the Old Testament stuff to heart.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Seppen Well, since they didn't even read what's in their precious Bible
Where did you get that idea from?
Easy: By calling themselves "Christian" and then taking only the Old Testament stuff to heart.
It's only easy for you because a) it does not support your previous assertion and b) there is nothing in the article which supports your brand new assertion.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Seppen Well, since they didn't even read what's in their precious Bible
Where did you get that idea from?
Easy: By calling themselves "Christian" and then taking only the Old Testament stuff to heart.
It's only easy for you because a) it does not support your previous assertion and b) there is nothing in the article which supports your brand new assertion.
Naw, I can smell those hypocrites from a mile away. Because it's only the hipocrites who get all hot and bothered about topics like these.
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@Rhywden step one. Be maliciously, falsely offensive. Step 2: claim that people are only getting offended because of the truth. Smooth. And super . You're the absolute worst offender about leakage, you know.
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@Benjamin-Hall "Offensive"? That book is nearly 30 years old by now. And "malicious". Please.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
This means that the Nike trainers that are thought to have been swept from the cargo ship Maersk Shanghai on March 3 last year have been sorted into different routes as they were taken in a northeasterly direction from Cape Hatteras on the coast of North Carolina.
Hey, we can exploit this natural phenomenon to sort our garbage so it can be recycled!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Step 2: claim that people are only getting offended because of the truth. Smooth.
Classic Christian values.
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