1. berti Nov 29, 2025 parent

   You do get an audible "DUAL INPUT DUAL INPUT" warning and some lights though [1]. It is never allowable to make sidestick inputs unless you are the single designated "pilot flying", but people can sometimes break down under stress of course.

   [1] https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/app/themes/mh_newsdesk/docume...

2. berti Nov 29, 2025 parent

   The 777 and 787 before it are true fly-by-wire designs like the Airbus in question here; the 737 MAX isn't and never was. It just had a computer that was supposed to add artificial inputs under a very specific condition, so it could continue to fly like the older models under the same type certificate and not require extra pilot training. It turns out that the condition could be triggered erroneously, and the logic to determine the artificial inputs was deeply flawed.
3. berti Nov 29, 2025 parent

   That's applicable for one specific model of ADIRU (basically determines where the aircraft is in 3d space in terms of position, rotation, velocities, and accelerations) from a single manufacturer (Litton). These aircraft have dozens of computers for different functions, many of them with multiple manufacturer options. There are at least 4 different ADIRU makers that airlines have been able to specify at different times including the Litton.

   The ELACs (controlling the elevator and aileron actuators according to the demands computed by other functions) are made by Thales specifically for this aircraft type and probably have a quite different design.

4. berti Jul 12, 2025 parent

   You can turn the ignition off. The reversers will not unlock on an airliner that's airborne either.
5. berti Jun 23, 2025 parent

   I’ve run into this exact issue several times with group projects at university in the 2010s, and each time recovery was copying chunks of plain text from backup copies into new documents as you say. Luckily by the time we got to the final year capstone project the whole group was happy to go with LaTeX. Not sure if these Word issues have even been fixed since.
6. berti Jan 25, 2025 parent

   That’s exactly the problem “Dev Drive” is intended to solve I believe. I haven’t tried it myself.

   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/

7. berti Dec 2, 2024 parent

   Certainly not just down to luck across the industry as a whole though. That particular type was exempt from a bunch of regulations, written in blood, that all the other popular types comply with.
8. berti Aug 25, 2024 parent

   I could not install the Italian train app while travelling in Italy due to this.
9. berti Aug 5, 2024 parent

   It works well enough for trains too. On those you get to stay onboard for multiple legs though, and I believe that’s quite rare for flights.
10. 50 points Feb 25, 2021

    News site Stuff left Facebook – traffic is just fine and trust is higher

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11. berti Nov 4, 2020 parent

    The extradition case is made in the context of New Zealand though.
12. berti Oct 7, 2020 parent

    It works fine for McDonalds. They just print the number in a huge typeface on the receipt. They don’t have to pretend to care, and I don’t have to mess around spelling my name out.
13. berti Oct 7, 2020 parent

    That may be so for the camera division but not for PlayStation. My PS3 takes a standard 2.5” drive. Not sure about PS4.
14. berti Sep 17, 2020 parent

    Designated initialisers for structs and unions are a really nice readability improvement. You can use comments if you have to of course.
15. berti May 16, 2020 parent

    Qt licensing can be problematic depending on your project. They also no longer publish LTS releases under an open-source license. Swift UI would presumably not be encumbered in this way.
16. berti May 9, 2020 parent

    > players will leave and not buy any hats and other accessories.

    They might go buy another game though... A healthy community built around a self-hosted server tends to hold people for long periods of time.

17. berti May 8, 2020 parent

    > Some people think that in C, the integer literal 0xff is more "byte-like" than 255

    When I'm doing bitwise arithmetic, or poking hardware registers, I think in hex. 0xff/255 isn't a good example because that's easy offhand but a lot of other values take longer to "parse" in base 10. It depends on the context whether base 10 or 16 literals are easier to read and parse for humans.

18. berti Apr 23, 2020 parent

    Specint benchmarks conducted by Anandtech show the A13 going toe-to-toe with the 9900K [0], although x86 still has a decent lead for floating point.

    [0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro... (scroll down to the 2nd last plot, look at the right half)

19. berti Apr 22, 2020 parent

    They already created Red Pro for business use, and market it as "Designed and tested for RAID environments 8-16 Bay NAS", at a 37% markup relative to the Red in my market. My quick Google sleuth indicates those are not SMR. The Red line is marketed as "Designed and tested for RAID environments 1-8 Bay NAS", which implies they're for more than just a 2-bay Synology box.
20. berti Apr 22, 2020 parent

    > Firefox supports it

    Only if you use their built-in DoH resolver. The public keys for ESNI are distributed by DNS records and as I understand it there's a bunch of work to be done for Firefox to retrieve these records from classic DNS servers. That work has been classified P5 (we won't do it, but might accept patches)[0].

    [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500289

21. berti Apr 20, 2020 parent

    The Python.org 2.7 branch is unmaintained so that’s hardly a strong point. That last commit, barring some exceptional circumstance, will be the last ever received by that branch.
22. berti Apr 20, 2020 parent

    If you're looking to continue running old codebases without testing and patching this isn't it. There are various incompatibilities with CPython 2.7, some noted in the readme, some noted in issues e.g. [0], and no doubt others unknown. It also doesn't appear to be actively maintained..

    [0] https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/issues/22

23. berti Apr 16, 2020 parent

    I use this idea in embedded work, where the code is split into "modules". The same firmware source is shared amongst various differing pieces of hardware, each of which utilise a different subset of modules.
24. berti Apr 16, 2020 parent

    Read your way down this thread and note that every defence of Nix is merely shifting the blame in it's entirety to some other part of the ecosystem. Rightly or wrongly that's a big problem for Nix if it intends to gain widespread acceptance.
25. berti Apr 9, 2020 parent

    > “this installer will run a script _to determine if the package can be installed_”

    Why would the user expect that script to install the application, or even modify their system in any way?

26. berti Apr 9, 2020 parent

    I feel like there are a handful of people on HN we could call "NUMA scientist".
27. berti Mar 31, 2020 parent

    Mazda began doing this last year [0]. If anything Honda are jumping on the trend they started, and I'm really happy to see it.

    [0] https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=20200335

28. berti Mar 23, 2020 parent

    Top Gear actually did that experiment too [0], and you are proven correct.

    [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUZJVY-sHo

29. berti Feb 29, 2020 parent

    When new, before a couple of the clips on the rear cover get broken etc.
30. berti Feb 3, 2020 parent

    This case works well with iOS' built-in Apple TV remote, at least with 1password. Any text field selected on the ATV brings up a keyboard on the iPhone, and if it's a password field 1password works as it normally would for any other phone app.

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