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Re: Why you've never been in a plane crash

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Post by thomastjeffery »

mikrotikker wrote: post #281
thomastjeffery wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a lot of factors that really complicate this system. Enforcement focuses on the wrong parameters. Police love to remind us that, "Speed is always a factor." Well, it's certainly the most easily measured one. The trouble is, what speed is wrong ? Is it the 5 cars who want to drive 90mph on the freeway, or the 2 cars who want to drive 65 in both lanes? By obsessively enforcing speed limits, police have manage…

> People don't want to drive. People have to drive I want to drive. I love to drive. It's one of my favourite hobbies. What better way to get out and see such a diverse amount of the countryside? I frequently drive 4 hours through a mountain pass to the other side of the island and it's absolutely breathtaking. Road trips are our preferred holiday. There is no public transport in these places and if there was why wou…

I love driving in the country, too. What I hate is driving in the city.

There is no need to completely eliminate the highway system. The need is to provide viable alternatives so that people who participate in the system do so by choice.

Besides, public transit doesn't need to involve any interpersonal interaction. You could have a private compartment and still be more safe and more efficient than commuter traffic.

Re: Why you've never been in a plane crash

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Post by maxcoder4 »

rpmisms wrote: post #264
MBlume wrote: post #262

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I would never recommend this methodology to a friend or a family member. Drivers are vindictive, violent people and the risk is too high to be worth it. Still, I appreciate the people who do it.

And I hope they all go to prison. Used to be you'd be hanged for stealing a horse. Taking a person's means of transport is evil. I am, indeed, a vindictive and violent driver, apparently.

You just wished prison and positively mentioned hanging people in response for relatively harmless activism (tyres can be inflated again, you know). So yes, I think you are violent, at least when cars are mentioned.

To be clear, deflating tyres is illegal, but most successful activism campaigns are. I support the cause they're fighting for, unnecessarily huge cars hurt our environment and neighborhoods.

Re: Why you've never been in a plane crash

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Post by alfanick »

HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #266
izacus wrote: post #33

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TBH having software engineer output in general be liable to some minimum safety, correctness and quality standard would be a god send for the world. But of course the developers will revolt against that.

> and quality standard This is my life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_62304

Oh I also unfortunately know this standard by heart, hi!

Re: Why you've never been in a plane crash

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Post by fortran77 »

ibcj wrote: post #208
fortran77 wrote: post #183

But I have been in a plane crash! An overshoot of the runway at Burbank airport that narrowly missed hitting a gas station. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1455

Wow, I remember this! Glad you were a-ok. Would love to hear more about your story and your method of egress from that bird. For those that don't know, LAS to BUR is the best way to get from LA to Vegas (save private) and always has been. I've been on that Sunday afternoon flight from LAS->BUR many times; with the afternoon flight informally known as the Hangover Express and the morning flight known as the Stripper E…

The slide inflated inside the airplane! Rescue workers laddered uninjured passengers out.

I signed an NDA to get my modest settlement. I still fly Southwest. The pilots were fired.

Re: Why you've never been in a plane crash

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Post by rpmisms »

maxcoder4 wrote: post #302
rpmisms wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And I hope they all go to prison. Used to be you'd be hanged for stealing a horse. Taking a person's means of transport is evil. I am, indeed, a vindictive and violent driver, apparently.

You just wished prison and positively mentioned hanging people in response for relatively harmless activism (tyres can be inflated again, you know). So yes, I think you are violent, at least when cars are mentioned. To be clear, deflating tyres is illegal, but most successful activism campaigns are. I support the cause they're fighting for, unnecessarily huge cars hurt our environment and neighborhoods.

Wishing prison is morally correct. If you read what I was saying as "we should hang people for deflating tires", there may be another issue here.

I think my reaction highlights the clear issue in their thinking. I will never support anything these people want, because they hate me personally. Taking away people's transportation is a bad thing to do, period. If I go kick a bunch of puppies to campaign against people dying, I'm still a bad person.

Re: Why you've never been in a plane crash

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Post by berniedurfee »

Mentour Pilot on YouTube, fabulous channel BTW, talks about the Swiss Cheese Model.

I’ve started to use this model when talking about software testing.

Unit tests, integration tests, functional tests, UAT, etc are all layers that help prevent defects from reaching production.

Those testing layers are deliberately redundant.

When we do a postmortem on a defect, it often turns out there was only one layer of testing between the defect and production and the incident would have been less likely to occur with multiple layers in place.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

Re: Why you've never been in a plane crash

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Post by nayuki »

rpmisms wrote: post #305
maxcoder4 wrote: post #302

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You just wished prison and positively mentioned hanging people in response for relatively harmless activism (tyres can be inflated again, you know). So yes, I think you are violent, at least when cars are mentioned. To be clear, deflating tyres is illegal, but most successful activism campaigns are. I support the cause they're fighting for, unnecessarily huge cars hurt our environment and neighborhoods.

Wishing prison is morally correct. If you read what I was saying as "we should hang people for deflating tires", there may be another issue here. I think my reaction highlights the clear issue in their thinking. I will never support anything these people want, because they hate me personally. Taking away people's transportation is a bad thing to do, period. If I go kick a bunch of puppies to campaign against people d…

> Taking away people's transportation is a bad thing to do

Drivers have been taking away transportation from non-drivers for decades. Look at suburbs without sidewalks. Look at winding suburban culs-de-sac that massively increase travel distance and make walking and cycling impractical. Look at the drivers who shout down any attempt to install bike lanes, or those who refuse to fund public transit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQw05Mr63E

> they hate me personally

Sounds similar to drivers who want to run cyclists off the road. "Get off the road!" "You don't even pay insurance and road tax!" Also sounds similar to drivers who deny pedestrians the right to exist.

Overall, rpmisms, I don't think you appreciate your privileged position as a driver. Society has spent the last century bending over backwards to serve motorists like you. I hope you can develop a sense of compassion for those who are not in a car and are continually subjected to verbal and physical aggression from motorists.

Re: Why you've never been in a plane crash

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Post by rpmisms »

nayuki wrote: post #307
rpmisms wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wishing prison is morally correct. If you read what I was saying as "we should hang people for deflating tires", there may be another issue here. I think my reaction highlights the clear issue in their thinking. I will never support anything these people want, because they hate me personally. Taking away people's transportation is a bad thing to do, period. If I go kick a bunch of puppies to campaign against people d…

> Taking away people's transportation is a bad thing to do Drivers have been taking away transportation from non-drivers for decades. Look at suburbs without sidewalks. Look at winding suburban culs-de-sac that massively increase travel distance and make walking and cycling impractical. Look at the drivers who shout down any attempt to install bike lanes, or those who refuse to fund public transit. https://www.youtub…

I want better walkability and bicycle paths. I ride a motorcycle, I also have issues with cars acting awfully.

It's still wrong to damage others' property, even if your feelings are hurt. Motorists are the majority of the country, especially geographically. Don't you think more people would appreciate the privilege of being close enough to ride a bike? The real display of privileged behavior is injurious action against moral enemies. I have a lot more tolerance for someone losing their temper, as opposed to what is essentially gentle terrorism.

Re: Why you've never been in a plane crash

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Post by ricardobeat »

ta1243 wrote: post #286
ricardobeat wrote: post #248

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> revenue wouldn't be lost if you had a 100ms outage If that little blip cascades briefly and causes 1000 users to see an error page, and a mere five of them (0.5%) to give up on purchasing, boom you just lost those $700 (at least in the travel industry where ticket size is very high). Probably much more.

So I invest all that time deciding where, when and how to travel and don't press refresh when I see an error which is more than likely on my end?

An error page can be enough for a handful of customers to decide to “come back later” or go with a competitor website.

If you think about experiments with button colors and other nearly imperceptible adjustments, that we know can affect conversion rates, an error page is orders of magnitude more impactful.

Re: Why you've never been in a plane crash

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Post by averageRoyalty »

How does the United States "lead the world in air safety" with only one of their airlines (and not one of the major ones) even making the top 10 from a US source[1]?

Looking back over the years, the US has never hit this metric. Have I misunderstood how it's being calculated?

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2024/01/03/ran...

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