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> Downvoted. Cool, good for you. random person on internet disagrees with other random person on internet. Ethiopian airline stats from here: http://aviation-safety.net/database/db…

> You've gone from "they flew a broken aircraft" to "alight, so they repaired it twice, but you cannot ever trust a malfunctioning aircraft again." If you think I've changed my arg…

The preliminary report from the investigation of LNI610 disagrees with you: https://reports.aviation-safety.net/2018/20181029-0_B38M_PK-... The AoA attack sensor was replaced prior…

Can something be obsolete if it is still extremely widely used? IIRC, Linux and FreeBSD both use a buddy allocator for physical memory, and I'm pretty sure it is used (in addition …

The comment you are responding to addresses the claim that the 737 max is not passively stable. It is less safe than other aircraft, but not because it requires active control for …

But they neglected maintenance when serious issues with the plane were apparent. The pilots of the flights prior to 610 noted that the two AoA sensor readings differed by ~20 degre…

The procedure that pilots are taught to override auto trim was unchanged, but I think that previous auto trim systems could also be "out muscled" just by pulling back on the yoke w…

> deflecting to something unrelated I don't think it is unrelated that the only accident thus far of a plane with a failure mode that is more difficult for pilots to respond to was…

> criminal charges Boeing informed the FAA of the changes, and the FAA decided that the pilots and airlines did not need to be informed. Criminal charges for Boeing would be extrem…

This is a seriously misleading characterization of the 737 Max. If you read https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/what-is-the-boeing... (the source of the article that 'acqq is…

No, it doesn't. The 737 max has software to prevent stalls in situations outside of the profile of normal flight. As does e.g. the A320.

It's interesting that you reach that conclusion. I'll fly 737 max. I won't fly Lion Air or Ethiopian Airlines. Southwest: fleet size 754, founded 1967, total of seven accidents wit…

The new system (MCAS) was not intended to take action in normal flight. It was intended the trim in certain scenarios (roughly high AoA + steep turn + high g + near stall), but on …

There already is a switch to disable auto trim. The pilots on the flight prior to 610 used it, as trained. The pilots on 610 did not.

> because Comcast has -bribed- donated to way more congresspeople than google Is that true? [1] indicates Google spent more than Comcast in lobbying in q1 2015. I have no idea how …

Discrete optimization and automatic differentiation.

Apple started opencl too, and that didn't last very long.

Thus >> Whether that would be worth it for instruction decoding, I don't know There would be significant overhead to design a decoder such that it could switch between legacy and a…

"ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm vs. Intel CPU comparison" https://blog.cloudflare.com/arm-takes-wing/ Maybe you don't consider those "real" benchmarks, but they look like benchmarks to m…

> That's... not the way hardware works. Regarding transistor / area budget, sure. Regarding power budget, that absolutely could be the way hardware works. Modern chips can and do p…

"Hey AI, is this a hot dog?" "You've asked me that a billion times - I'm sick of looking at all your pictures. Figure it out yourself." Maybe that's how we will know.

No, it isn't supposed to be ironic. The title says "should," after all. Who says every programmer should knows these things about memory? Obviously not you. Ulrich Drepper does - I…

If you are objecting to "every," then sure, not every programmer needs to know anything about memory. You can program without knowing that there is such a thing. But it's a fun tit…

What would be a breaking change for Linux that would justify a major version increment? Linux doesn't break userspace, and there are no stable internal APIs or ABIs.

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