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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by pests on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:41PM (#50490232)
That is true but nowadays the control rooms are separate from the actual antennas / areas being served. These are wired up with more modern comms.
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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by NateEag on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:20PM (#50490833)
"modern" -> "we stuck digital computers into a purely analog pipeline to make sure it's capable of a wide range of harrowing, incomprehensible failures."
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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by TacticalCoder on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:03PM (#50491392)
> "modern" -> "we stuck digital computers into a purely analog pipeline to make sure it's capable of a wide range of harrowing, incomprehensible failures."

"we stuck digital computers into a purely analog pipeline, now with software containing a near-infinite amount of lines of code generated by LLMs, to make sure it's capable of a wide range of harrowing, incomprehensible failures."

And everybody here on HN applauds.

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