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A comment on Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737 Max pilots unprepared. Parent comment

Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737... by allovernow on Sunday December 22, 2019 @02:50AM (#21855839)
Programming was a different game back then, when every kb counted. The bar was much higher. Niche PhDs chasing the cutting edge of technology. Now we have web dev.
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Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737... by __m on Sunday December 22, 2019 @04:29AM (#21856136)
What’s wrong with controlling spacecrafts with JavaScript?
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Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737... by johannes1234321 on Sunday December 22, 2019 @06:03AM (#21856472)
Lack of a built-in integer type makes it clear that measurements are inaccurate, so there's a good reason for using JS in that domain :)
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Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737... by allovernow on Sunday December 22, 2019 @09:14PM (#21861034)
You know, you're right. We could even connect it to the net via satellite for real time updates from a headless browser.
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