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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by LastTrain on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:32PM (#50396342)
The presence of bureaucracy doesn't mean safety isn't the main consideration, it also isn't a give that bureaucracy is a negative in this instance. The safety record speaks for itself: you are safer in a commercial airplane than just about anywhere else you can go.
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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by lp92 on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:07PM (#50400609)
And yet with the 747MAX we saw that bureaucrats at the FAA were heavily influenced by Boeing.
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Re:FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Tra... by throwaway173738 on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:22PM (#50400700)
The adage is that “you can’t test quality into a product.” The FAA stands as a final test that you attempted to rigorously engineer for safety, but that is no substitute for a company culture that prioritizes safety. It’s like when you release a bug to production and you turn around and blame QA. Yes they missed it but so did you.
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