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That's correct (even though he did mention "watch the height" and could have followed up on that). If I remember correctly, even the left chair pilot also applied nose-up inputs at…

> Air France 440 was also shrouded in mystery (but nowhere near this degree), and turned out to be very poor airmanship by one pilot. It was poor airmanship by two pilots (and othe…

> That's laudable, but countless examples show that not everyone is that diligent. Sure, then again I would guess that the ones who are not that diligent are not likely to apply th…

> An interested party could find stuff that you're not aware off by looking at HEAD. Well, that goes without saying. But I don't think that security argument is a very poor one com…

> You grant that permission to the person legitimately checking out code, but not to the person finding or stealing a laptop with a clone of a repository. The latter is a side-effe…

Well, you do that anyway when you allow people to check out a local copy of the code. Just as in most VCSes, you can set up a git server to only allow checkout of specific branches…

> I call that filter bubble. I like using git for local commits, but 15 out of 20 persons here don't even take their laptop with them and I bet that 17 out of 20 won't touch code o…

Agreed. I usually like JLGs commentary, but he's no expert on processor technology, and this time his analysis falls short.

My biggest gripe with the Pi is a lack of proper USB power, so if you add all the stuff you need, especially for a wireless setup it's not so cheap and compact anymore. I'm happy t…

Here are a couple of use cases: - Stick it on the back of your 3D printer and run OctoPrint on it to give a nice web interface for your 3D printer (and a web cam for time lapse cap…

Didn't the tobacco companies also spend money to discredit scientists and peer-reviewed articles and seed misinformation about the real risks of smoking, all while they were sittin…

Thanks, I hadn't read this before. For those that haven't read it, here's Levesons article on the Therac-25: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf

If you had taken the time to also read the words preceding your quote, "but just like with new,", you would have realized that I was making a comparison instead of believing I was …

It's not so much that it's intrinsically bad, but just like with new, man-made chemical compounds that has never existed before, there's a possibility that there are adverse effect…

No, they're not. If you want to, you can buy an iPhone, sync it with iTunes, and apart from downloading apps and OS upgrades, that iPhone doesn't have to speak to the Apple cloud a…

If you Mac loses power and doesn't get to do a normal shutdown, you're eventually going to get file system errors that you can only fix by booting from a recovery disk. I've had th…

We don't know what he would have said, but what he did say before he passed away was that he explicitly didn't want people at Apple to ask what Steve would have done, he wanted the…

I'm not willing to bet anything on that, one week before WWDC in a year where Tim Cook has already gone on record saying that Apple is going to launch "new product categories".

The difference is that people in the know (for Apple, the kind of people on HN, for Beats, the kind of people on Head-Fi) would say that the characterization is wrong for Apple, an…

Then again, what did we see before the iPhone launch? Not much more than incremental improvements to Macs and iPods. We'll see next week what they'll have to announce.

Well, for certain definitions of "working" it did. I remember not so fondly trying to do emergency work with SSH over GPRS back in the day, with incredible lag and connection freez…

That's not really true at night though, CCD cameras can change their light sensitivity quickly, something human eyes can't do (after a bright flash, you'll lose your night vision u…

Continued glared isn't even necessary, losing the night vision (a problem that the camera doesn't show) is the real problem. It's not likely to directly cause an accident, but it m…

I find it interesting how many people here discount the risks of laser pointers, and trivialize the stories of pilots. The very same people probably encounter the same attitude fro…

Agreed. It might be quirky, but I many of the things he lists here must be things he has experienced (like people buying parrots because they heard he likes parrots) and doesn't wa…