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Re:Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit by wrp on Saturday December 10, 2022 @10:10PM (#33939674)
I think there is some confusion here about "automation". The benefits referred to involve providing greater access to information. The problems referred to involve putting more layers of abstraction between you and what you are controlling.
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Re:Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit by iso1631 on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:09AM (#33942191)
I see this in system admin. It's not a popular view, but automation is not always the best way forward. maintaining your terraform/ansible/etc ecosystem to run a single service on a single raspberry pi that sits in an office running a ticker above reception is far more work than a 5 line instruction manual. Chances are you'll never have to touch that box again until it comes time to move office, and when you do all that automation fails anyway.
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