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I found the timeline of events from the flight data recorder to be fairly suggestive of a likely conclusion.

Though that's as a lay-person; I am not a pilot but would love to hear if the seemingly obvious issue is the likely root cause.


This one is blindingly obvious. Appalling airmanship, just like it reads.

Touching down 2/3rds of mile down the runway at around 25 knots over Vref. That was never going to go well.


Well yeah the report is not a bunch of nothing also. NTSB usually takes 12+ months to complete their investigation so they release a preliminary report within a month of the incident usually to share relevant factual information. But the investigation remains ongoing so they have the time to check all angles and come up with final conclusions.


I've only personally utilized it for code _review_ and always ignored the suggested result code instead to understand the source of the issue and try to arrive at a resolution I find satisfactory for my mental model of the issue and solutions I'd prefer.

My take is that the main difference is the approach to problems the coding agents have. They optimize towards presuming a fully working invocation environment, yet checking everything anyway, and then rolling back any changes and re-testing that such changes worked. Which is great for normal types of software but incredibly tedious for anything aimed at less than a fully hands free automated environment.

In other words, AI is very awesome at scope creep of assigned problems and targeting the validation prompts baked into the review system.


Is Jet Fuel really the best use of coconut oil? I'd imagine it's far better as a lubricant or ingredient in things more directly adjacent to human rather than mechanical use.


It takes a village is so true. Children are something society as a whole should invest in, and fails to do so at risk to it's own future.

By society, I mean every one of us that plans to grow old instead of an early death.

Wouldn't it be nice to have two or three or ideally more generations of well adjusted people that grew up not fearful of hunger, nor lack of basic shelter, medical care?

Also, providing quality child care for any time the parent(s) are working frees up quality workers to do that... though a better work life balance would also help society.


Laser printed boarding passes are so much more reliable anyway and you never have to worry about recharging them.


Really shows how approachable it would have been to have just a tiny bit more added to the API of 'PC BIOS' to make for an extremely portable driver platform system to allow OS independent arbitrary hardware drivers as Forth that the system BIOS could compile at boot and run beneath the OS. Though of course the PC BIOS API from when that mattered isn't in anything like a modern protect mode operating profile.


PC BIOS was mostly just for DOS and bringup, it also helped in moving stuff across the barrier during 32 bit boot but afterwards the only thing you would normally use it for is to call hardware specific ROMs for instance for mode changes and such. The rest of the time you'd avoid it like the plague (also because of the expensive switch back to 'real' mode).


For all the theories about how covid might have been some conspiracy in China... (I'm more inclined to believe a hybrid, they didn't have a program to develop any weapons out of it, but would EASILY buy a coverup to try to hide the shame of yet another seasonal virus that turned out to be more)

What if this sort of research leads to some prion like disease that either works like a slow acting (fast to spread) neuro-toxin, or a scenario like the Children of Men movie?

Containment and risks need to be considered.


Another possible answer to the Fermi paradox.


I sum it up with: give me an error message rather than undefined or unintuitive behavior.



Ah thanks!!


My condolences. I read that other hacker news post (was it a couple months back) from the (ex?) engineer...


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