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Yes i fully agree with you, because of the warnings i was very hesitant to listen to the audio and after learning it was a woman pilot i was even more hesitant. But i have now heard it and it was absolutely awful but not any worse than some of the other crash audio i have listened to. I believe its important for the living to carry the burden of the dead. The dead deserve to have their story told and listened to and the living owe at least that much to the dead.

It seems i combined two different incidents in my memory, the one where the pilot controled the plane via engine throttle was united airlines flight 232, out of 285 passengers and 11 crew 175 passengers and 10 crew survived the crash landing.

The other incident with loss of rear stabilizer control was alaska airlines flight 261 and all 88 people on board died when the plane crashed in the pacific ocean.

Meh, variety is the spice of life.

Yeah, usually i listen to stuff like that. I watch a lot of those youtube videos where pilots break down plane crashes from their perspective and sometimes you hear the audio from inside the cockpit. Usually that stuff doesnt affect me too bad but im fighting to resist the urge to listen.

I think the worst crash i learned about was when maintenance let a rear stabilizer go 20 years without so much as a checkup and the screw that controls the positioning of the rear stabilizer ran out of lube and stripped all the threads off mid flight causing the plane to lose all pitch control.

You could really hear the emotion in the pilots voice as they realized they were now riding a terrifying rollercoaster with no control over their altitude.

I actually think they may have survived which is insane, they had to try to control the pitch of the plane with the engine throttles, if you start going down then increase engines until you start going up again and if you go up to fast then decrease throttle.

Absolute insanity, i think they lived but if that had happened in the middle of a thunder storm while the plane was covered in ice there would be no chance.

Im not a pilot or meteorologist but from what others have said it seems that the plane would have been very cold from flying at 30k ft and if you fly into a thunderstorm like that where they have super saturated air just looking for any place to condense on, all that water would turn to ice immediatly on contact with the wings and as soon as the wings lose laminar flow they would stop providing any lift and the ice would increase weight and shift the center of gravity/rotation.

Im not sure how high the top of a thunderstorm can reach but if they could have gotten up and over the top above that 100%+ humidity before it had a chance to condense on the plane then i think that would have been the more prudent choice.

Generally in aviation more altitude is more safe. I think the only mistake was waiting too long to try and climb out of it rather than trying to climb over it to begin with. But im not a pilot so idk.

How do you write to the sdcard while its packed in its foam helmet? If you put a little computer in there then it would have more mass and metal to smash around on impact. Maybe like a tiny usb card reader and a long data cable?

I wonder if running the data cable through the foam would cause problems like letting fire/fuel/water through the helmet and disolve/melt the plastics or if you whip a cable hard enough it can cut right through things like a weed wacker.

341mph or 500ft/s

That is something i can really get behind, dont assasinate politicians thats a waste of time. You have to put the fear of god into these evil corporations. The ceo of flock should regularly wake up to find a guillotine sitting in his front yard. Same goes for all the c-suite bankers who walked away from 2008 with multi million dollar bonuses.

Those banks should have been nationalized or auctioned off and those executives should have gone to jail and had all their assets confiscated to help pay for the bailout.

Im not advocating the use of the guilotines yet mind you, its just a little reminder for now.

Lol the real problem is the duopoly. Ah this republican sucks i have to vote democrat ah this democrat wants to allow sexually deviant teachers to castrate my children and then call cps if i object so ig i have to vote republican. Ah this republican wants to make everything illegal to fill their private prisons for more slave labor. Ig ill vote democrat.

When you have two choices and the rich decide what those choices are they will always ensure than half the population hates one of the choices and the other half hate the other one and then you vote based on which candidate you hate the least which means the rich always get what they want and you always get screwed.

If you ever want anything to change then you need to treat both parties like the parasitic treasonous scum that they are and make it clear to all americans that anyone who puts a party before their nation is a traitor.

Then you vote for actual people, not a party, not whoever your favorite celebrity was paid to endorse.

IF YOU WANT TO VOTE, FIRST YOU LEARN THE CANDIDATES, THEN YOU LEARN THE POLICIES THEY PROPOSE, THEN YOU CHALLENGE THOSE POLICIES WITH THE BEST STEELMAN YOU CAN FIND.

only then should you even consider voting. But thats way too much responsibility for americans. They prefer to be given a binary choice, heads or tails their both the same except one fucks you left the other fucks you right, unless you happen to belong to the class of people that own the politicians in which case you dont actually care which way the election goes because you paid both sides so you win no matter what.

Yeah here in america everyone votes, citizens, immigrants, illegal immigrants, dead people, everyone. Thats why they just made it illegal to even show your ID when you vote in cali. Cant have some silly rules slowing down the most important process in the country. Hell if you really care about the country youll go and vote at every single polling location, its literally not even possible to get caught since nobody checks IDs. If they bother to ask your name and check it against voter registration then just go on facebook and find the name of someone who lives in the area its not like they have any ID they can check. If that person already voted or comes in to vote later they will just assume it was a mixup and let them vote again.

That doesnt help when a natural disaster cuts power to an area for more than 24 hours. Cell towers dont have multi day battery capacity and with everyone calling their loved ones in the effected area they will be even more congested than normal. So even if they do have power your still likely to lose signal when the towers get ddosed by everyone trying to use them at the exact same time.

You see the same thing happen when theres a mass shooting and you get tons of people calling 911 and then you get a ton of people calling their loved ones to find out if theyre okay.

The cell towers also rely on an internet backbone so if you lose power long enough to lose internet then you lose cell towers even if they have all the power they need.

You could try putting all the communications infrastructure on a high priority circuit or something but unless your going to build out a hardened power grid parallel to the existing one, that would only cover you from load shedding not from natural disasters or even just power lines sagging on a hot day until they short circuit and blow the grid. So im not sure it would be worth the cost.

Look into the evolution of pigeon dialects into actual languages if your interested in this topic.

A bunch of workers from various countries are thrown together on a ship or some other international workplace and they develop a pigeon dialect of all their different predominate languages mashed together.

That pigeon develops and gets used for workplace needs but then these workers have families and their kids pick up that same pigeon language to talk with their friends except they need to talk about everything not just workplace stuff so they develop and advance the pigeon language and it goes from a basic rudimentary language into a full featured and complex language in a single generation even with just a few hundred speakers.

Honestly as someone with faily little experience in pentesting or photoshop but who has dabbled in both back in highschool. I think they would both take a similar amount of practice and skill to develop those abilities. They are complete opposites so i suspect the kind of person who is naturally good at photoshop to be bad at pentesting and vis versa. But if your going to dedicate a few hours of every day to learning a skill i dont think it matters which one you choose, a bit of time, practice, and natural interest and you will be able to do the kind of work that people ask these llms to do.

The major difference being that it usually takes longer to study code because projects can be massive but at the same time the llms are looking for everything and anything while a real attacker is usually looking for specific vulnerabilities in common libraries and such so i wouldnt exactly call the amateur hacker on par with an llm but i would say they could do a similar amount of damage without llm assistance. And photoshop is basically the same. Spend a few hours every day dedicated to one thing and you will learn how to do it.

I stopped visiting when they banned me from every subreddit on the front page for asking a question about covid masking policy.

Thats a helluva strawman.

Did you read the post you replied to?

Are you just being pedantic about the definition of monopoly or did you fail to understand the problem as it was explained.

Do you use ios? If so do you like using broken websites? Do you have no desire for things to function as intended?

Id imagine its very annoying as a developer to have your things broken for no reason other than pure corporate greed.

If you do use ios then you probably enjoy paying more for an inferior product so ig this is more of a feature than a bug.

The right to protest and peacefully assemble doesnt give you the right to do it in private property. The church is church property its open to its members and generally the public but that doesnt make it a public place or public property. If you want to protest a store, you are free to do so on public property outside the store. You are not free to do so inside the store disrupting the purpose of the establishment. The store is private property they are within their rights to refuse your business as long as it isnt based on a protected class.

A church really isnt any different, their business is worship and offering a peaceful place for contemplation, reflaction and prayer. If you disrupt that they can and should ask you to leave and should you refuse that becomes the crime of tresspass.

If you want to be empowered by your rights then you should first take the necessary time to understand them.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants"

Tyranny of government invites terrorism from its constituents.

We have all heard the argument that when corporations intentionally make the legal option worse it drives otherwise law abiding customers to pirate the content instead because piracy provides a better service than paying the corporation for their kneecapped product.

I dont see how the same thing doesnt apply to governments.

The people tell you over and over they dont want to live under a surveilance police state. So natually the corporations and government work together to create a fascist police state and they expect the people to be good little slaves and simply sell their souls to their government.

Especially in the day of ai when they could just fake those images incredibly easily to frame someone. They dont need a patsy the next time they jfk someone they just find some sucker with a weak alibi from a list of potential suckers and then fake some cctv images and cell phone data and they can put you where ever they want to.

The only real defence is to buy your own body cam and document every moment of your life so you can have competing evidence.

At this point im surprised damaging the cameras is the only thing these activists are doing.

I wouldnt be surprised to see flock employees and corrupt politicians finding bombs under their cars. Which will likely be used to justify more cameras which will only intensify the terrorist activity.

The tree of liberty is long overdue for a good watering.

The mouse utopia experiment is nothing like having a pet mouse. Its more like exploring the way mice react to being institutuionalized. Its been a while since i read about it so i dont recall how much excersize or enrichment the mice had access to.

But from what i recall id call it more like a prison where all their needs are met and they have absolutely zero responsibilities, thus their current choices have zero impact on their future quality of life.

In people id expect that to lead to depression and mental illness which is basically what we saw in the mice. Im not convinced this experiment could be considered a utopia any more than a coed prison which also provides, food water and shelter but not entertainment or enrichment/stimulus.

Without entertainment/enrichment/stimulus even humans develop all sorts of problems like dementia, just look at nursing homes/classical assylums for the human equivalent/example.

Im confused, are you saying the famous mouse utopia experiment never occured and was simply imagined?

I have used my deck (multi hour sessions) for a long time from the couch, bed, and gaming chair and i found them all very comfortable. As long as your chair has arm rests then it shouldnt be too bad. The only place i havent used a deck much is at a table or from a bench with no arm rests,and i could see how either might be uncomfortable.

I really hate how heavily these comments get moderated. In my opinion if a site moderates user comments this heavily then the site should lose section 230 protections and be considered a publisher and be held responsible for any comments that you choose not to moderate. If the site functions as an editor but it tries to present that editorialized section as user opinions then the entire site may as well be astroturffed, your better off going to wikipedia to see what "regular people" think

I personally still feel like the sky could be the limit, i have so many insane scifi fantasy type ideas for the future of tech but honestly i dont really want to see any of them become a reality because i know that with our current political socioeconomic system that tech would be used to abuse a large amount of people. The way i see it society is headed towards techno feudalism and the better the tech the more difficult it will be for the serfs to escape.

Ive got so many crazy tech fantasies though, im actually afraid to describe them for fear of giving the ruling class more ideas.

I just found HN not too long ago and i really like the insightful discussions, it reminds me of reddit before they started banning and censoring everyone for any disagreement with extreme left politics.

I remember i was banned from every single front page subreddit for asking a question about mask policy during covid. I think one week they said masks provided very little protection and they were in limited supply so individuals should stay home and save the masks for healthcare workers and then the next week they said everyone should wear a mask even if you have to reuse an old one for a week straight and even if your entirely alone. So i asked why the sudden change from one week to the next and might have said something like the previous advice made more sense to me and got banned from basically all of reddit.

And that was when i finally managed to kick my reddit addiction. So now i stumble across HN and it seems just like an early reddit except with one main community instead of a bunch of smaller ones. But i see a very similar trend already in the few months ive been lurking and the few weeks ive been commenting, ive seen what looks like political based moderation rather than conduct based.

Im all for keeping discussions civil and engaging but when you try to control which arguments are allowed to be made or block anyone from making a decent argument to favor one side over another then i lose all interest in anything discussed there because you cant have a discussion when one side cant speak. Thats why reddit is so empty today. You can have empty memes and pointless joking around but you cant talk about anything real unless your just a ranting raving lunatic because thats what you become when you dont have anyone to push back against your crazy ideas. Echo chambers are full of lunatics because echo chambers create lunatics. So if you want to keep this space full of actual discussion then dont allow it to become an echo chamber which means you have to defend the right for people you disagree with to have a voice in this space even if its just so that others can explain to them where they may have overlooked something when forming their argument.

Politically i find myself in the center because i tend to disagree with democrats about as often as i disagree with republicans but i can understand where they are coming from and often agree with the idea but i disagree with the implementation. But in my experience the only people who try to stop me from speaking are democrats. The only sites which have a censorship problem are run with a clear democrat bias. Personally id rather have a hate filled platform where people are free to discuss and associate than a locked down platform with no disagreement or hate or mean words where people arent allowed to talk freely.

I value civility but i value the freedom to discuss and thus the freedom to think about and articulate ideas far more.

Your only human (i think), it happens to all of us at least some of the time. If your willing to acknowledge and admit it then your already doing better than most. In addition to giving yourself a break we should all try to give others a break because you never really know what a stranger could be dealing with.

That probably seems like a decent analogy if you shallow enough understanding. I think the analogy would fit better if the boulders created and followed traffic rules on the way down. You know like some kinda actual coordination. These systems are obviously much more than just rocks falling where they will. You could at least compare them to those falling marble machines where the marbles do jumps and interact with each other while traveling down the machine.

Less than one third of eligible voters vote. Your espousing a self fulfilling prophecy.

The only reason party politics exists is because of you and people like you who keep spouting this lie that keeps them in power.

So instead of lying just say that you fully agree with everything both parties do and thats why you keep them in power and refuse to vote for someone rather than against.

The parties arent actually opposed its just that democrats want to change everything and republicans dont. Dems propose something and reps oppose it. Thats generally how its supposed to work but usually there is a debate that should accompany the proposals.

The general difference between a liberal mindset and a conservative mindset is the difficulty in making things work. Liberals believe that things usually work and the hard part is getting them to work exactly how you want them too. The conservatives think that things usually dont work and the difficult part is getting them to actually work.

This actually really matters when your talking about renovations whether its a building or a government you have to choose between the new fancy shiny thing will all the options and the old beaten up reliable thing that only does one thing and does it really well.

When dems propose something new, all the reps see is every way that it could go wrong or even be worse than the last thing.

When reps oppose something new all dems see is stupid old people afraid of progress.

And thats assuming that everyone actually has good intentions before we get into partisan bs and outright corruption.

The dem-rep balance would actually be really great in the politicians gave half a fuck about the country but they arent trying to make the country better in good faith they are trying to win politics which isnt even possible, a win for one party means the end of the country no matter which party the country needs the balance i just laid out above. You need long term trusted institutions and you also need to change and update things over time. Both perspectives are necessary if you want a functional government this petty infighting serves no purpose besides allowing politicians and their corrupt friends to loot and pillage the country from the inside while the stupid population argues over men in womens sports or when child sacrifice is okay.

There arent any real politics by design. Most people in this country agree on most issues, those issues are the things that you will never hear or see mentioned by any party politician.

The parties only maintain their power by making you vote against your own interests they do this by playing parties off each other. They pick the most divisive topics they can and they run on that. They will run polls to learn what people disagree about the most, like abortion. Then they will run the entire election on abortion. So the democratic candidate says you get abortion up until the week after birth which is literal baby murder which no sane democrat actually supports but it enrages republicans and makes them want to vote against the dems so the reps run someone the exact opposite and run on banning abortion entirely which is mostly supported by the extremely religious. So now instead of voting on numbers and plans and policy your voting entirely on emotion and fear and you have to choose between killing babies and the handmaids tale.

Party politics is designed to force every election into these awful games of would you rather instead of thinking about options and then choosing the best one.

All we have to do is put country above political party but thats asking way too much of your average american who actually believes in all the silly scripted political theater nonsense. If your an american and you only blame one party then your not just part of the problem but the whole entire problem. Your the girl who always cries about her abusive ex but absolutely refuses to leave them.

And i get it i totally do, your party is very good at saying exactly what you want to hear and when they tell you next time will be different you really want to believe. When they blame the other party you really want to believe and give them another chance.

Maybe your party actually does some things that you like. I just dont think its worth selling out the entire country for the crumbs they toss out.