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Re:Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:47PM (#49972315)
This happened with Google Glass and the product line was dropped. Glassholes was the term if you need to check the history.
Re:NTSB Preliminary Report: Prime Air 767 Runway Overrun [pdf] on Saturday October 03, 2026 @12:01PM (#49945400)
The fundamental question is why they pressed on and what we need to look for in other airlines to avoid this. Why was the FO so unassertive? Was this a common pattern at that airline? Was there pressure from the airline to minimize go-arounds?

Is this an issue with the re-training of rotor to fixed wing pilots?

Sounds like a quick legal solution: heat and cooling are now the landlords problem. Sort of like the kitchen.
By switching from burning Russian hydrocarbons for heat to heat pumps so you can heat and cool while being more efficient? This isn't a rebuild, it is a moderate adaptation to the actual requirements to live in the Europe of today.

For steam based heat systems there is also cooling options, so that is a fix for those cities with central heat service.

Re:Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @02:30AM (#48655971)
Corporations have money and money attracts lawyers. Some discipline would have been required for the trademark stuff because you have to be very careful about it or lose your job.

Now, did something cause other issues that converted this from formal "don't do that, use the official process" and nothing more? Sounds like something caused this to escalate. It could be toes were stepped on, could be a bad reaction to the warning, or could just be wanting to cut employee numbers in a shortsighted way.

Re:Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @01:58AM (#48655730)
The answer is not that it matters, but as a matter of financial and legal controls they need to know and approve. Do they care? They probably are delighted, but also want to get all the paperwork set up to avoid problems.

The space this comes from is the legal undue influence side where they need to give notice to shareholders about potential conflicts of interest, and it needs to be in the form of having a clear positive audit trail that they have told people to follow a clear policy with no grey area so that any deviation is an accident not willful failure to get people to tell them.

It depends, flowcharts are great for defined processes, but troubleshooting (which vulnerability research mirrors) is not a flowchart or checklist or task list.
Re:Chimpanzees Are into Crystals on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:46AM (#47263927)
The Tom Scott video(https://youtu.be/2tdiKTSdE9Y) did a pretty good summary of the Percy Spencer microwave (a giant commercial oven) and the later parallel development by J. E. Lovelock of a small microwave to reheat small mammals for experiments with cryorevival (replacing lamps and hot paddles).
ATC is hundreds of functions and dozens of responsibilities like checking that the runway is safe to land. "Clear to land" is not just a turn of phrase, it is a check and verify that an aircraft with hundreds of people is relying on.

Air traffic is not a deterministic system, it is squishy and significantly more complicated because it involves humans, complex mechanical systems, and weather floating on top of a sea of limited resources.

Also remember that ATC is vital for emergency situations. "Your distress call is important to us, please continue screaming into the void and hopefully a miracle happens.
The bigger comment is that these people are not documented or undocumented. To be either would require due process where such documents could be produced.
There are vastly different scales where the approximation is correct for newton vs general relativity. Perhaps you can define the scales that you are calling relevant so we understand what you mean.
So spacetime (interactions between mass, space, and time) are required for any sort of precision explanation. If "extreme" means planet size masses, I guess, but I generally consider our solar system pretty normal. However we cannot explain the planetary motion of mercury without relativity, so define your extreme.

But sure, newton is good enough to handle most ground based scenarios where we only care about forces at low precision.

Re:FUTO Warrant Canary on Thursday August 08, 2024 @09:07PM (#41197948)
The Roberts court is fine with compelled speech, so long as it is as antiabortion. So I assume the same can be applied here.
Re:Hydrothermal Explosion at Yellowstone National Park on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:28AM (#41066231)
And never forget excelsior geyser (crater) just up the road.
Re:Hydrothermal Explosion at Yellowstone National Park on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:27AM (#41066219)
What is the accuracy of the mapping you do and is it destructive? Do you deal with hot systems (steam/water equilibrium matters)?
Re:Hydrothermal Explosion at Yellowstone National Park on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:24AM (#41066195)
Honestly, I would be more worried about an elephant rampage, as it is significantly more likely.
I think they may still have a few tickets to go visit the ship while she is in drydock (as in walk under the ship).
Re:COBOL on Wheelchair: Micro web-framework for COBOL on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:49AM (#37997183)
Mainframe ecosystems include things like non-relationship databases and other I/O abstractions that may or may not be in use.

It resembles a combination of every Microsoft component (IIS, SQL), alongside dozens of separate proprietary products that are a fever dream of products to do simple tasks like write "files" to disk.

Re:Google Outage in Europe on Saturday November 13, 2021 @01:22AM (#29207868)
"Impact: fixed processes that led to 8 hr outage" seems like an easy case to make.
Part of the issue is that many vitamin and other health indicators are highly correlated with other things like income status, race, and other significant conflating factors.

D3 also is related to being outside , which would influence the means of infection: lower initial viral load changes outcome.

Generally you are correct, a work unrealized is mostly a question of might have been. This is probably more special than most, as it isn't a hidden work. Instead we are seeing changes made to emphasize a different aspect of the sitters. It is also interesting because of the dual nature of the pair: hated tax collectors and beloved scientist who fundamentally created modern chemistry.

The changes like removing an ornate hat from the lady and emphasizing the scholarly work of Lavosie are interesting as they show the concerns an aristocratic couple had about their public image on the eve of the French revolution.

Re:SHA-1 'fully and practically broken' by new collision (2020) on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:42AM (#28850156)
I believe it let's you substitute an entire chain of commits based on some starting commit.