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I wonder if the corruption could have been caused by a cosmic ray bit flip. It would be funny to think that one single tiny subatomic particle knocked down our entire flight system.
I wonder if the corruption could have been caused by a cosmic ray bit flip. It would be funny to think that one single tiny subatomic particle knocked down our entire flight system.
Somebody inadvertently put a poop emoji in a text field.
On a positive note, you could have been on Amtrak: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/us/amtrak-delayed-va-fl.h...
Quote from FAA: "Our preliminary work has traced the outage to a damaged database file." UK news source The Independent is reporting that Nav Canada's NOTAM system also suffered an issue.[1] Speculation: corrupting input, either international or North American? E.G. UTF-8, SQL escape, CSV quoting. edit: Better reporting of Canada's issue from Canada's CBC (and frankly, better reporting about the US, too). [2] "In Can…
Lil' Bobby Tables strikes again!
I wonder if the corruption could have been caused by a cosmic ray bit flip. It would be funny to think that one single tiny subatomic particle knocked down our entire flight system.
My guess is some input system was updated and now allows Unicode, but the backend systems do not. Somebody inadvertently put a poop emoji in a text field.
On a positive note, you could have been on Amtrak: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/us/amtrak-delayed-va-fl.h...
I'll take a book to the observation car and read next to the Mennonites doing their knitting and love every minute of it, no worries from me.
Now if their ATC software ran on Emacs lisp they wouldn't have had any problem.
On a positive note, you could have been on Amtrak: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/us/amtrak-delayed-va-fl.h...
I will always elect to be stuck on an Amtrak than stuck on a plane or in an airport. I'll take a book to the observation car and read next to the Mennonites doing their knitting and love every minute of it, no worries from me.
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I will always elect to be stuck on an Amtrak than stuck on a plane or in an airport. I'll take a book to the observation car and read next to the Mennonites doing their knitting and love every minute of it, no worries from me.
What is stopping you from doing that in an airport?
A personal preference.