This is the calculus that shows why our current civilization is unlikely to pass the filter.
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> The NTSB found that the Key Bridge, which collapsed after being struck by the containership Dali on March 26, 2024, was almost 30 times above the acceptable risk threshold for critical or essential bridges, according to guidance established by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, or AASHTO.
> Over the last year, the NTSB identified 68 bridges that were designed before the AASHTO guidance was established — like the Key Bridge — that do not have a current vulnerability assessment. The recommendations are issued to bridge owners to calculate the annual frequency of collapse for their bridges using AASHTO’s Method II calculation.
Letters to the 30 bridge owners and their responses https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/sr-details/H-25-003
Between making money, perceived culpability and risks offloaded to insurance companies why would they?
> The problem is that there are a thousand merchant marine vessels operating right now that are all doing great
Are they tho?
I generally think you have good takes on things, but this comes across like systemic fatalistic excuse making.
> The recommendation to inspect the whole ship with an IR camera had me laughing out loud.
Where did this come from? What about the full recommendations from the NTSB. This comment makes it seem like you are calling into question the whole of the NTSB's findings.
"Don't look for a villain in this story. The villain is the system itself, and it's too powerful to change."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_colla...
Ground water is not fungible economic value. When its gone it is gone because the aquifers collapse. The CA central valley dropped 9M from 1925 to 1977 [1]
The space the water was in, is gone. Datacenters pumping groundwater will do the same exact thing.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1jby06/this_is_the_im...
> Does it make sense to include this water evaporation in the share of water consumed by data centers? I think it’s debatable.
You don't use it open loop, you take what it output (you can have give you a search vector as well) and you corroborate what it gave you with more searching. Shit is wrong all the time and you wouldn't know it. You can't trust any of your sources, and you can't trust yourself. I know that guy and he doesn't know a god damn thing.
I briefly thought of canning a bunch of tasks as an eval so I could know quantitatively if the thing was off the rails. But I just stopped for awhile and it got better.
How much did it help? Did you notice a change in your personality? How long did it take to recover? Did you lose vision in one eye?
This is gonna get a bot stuck :)
I am addressing your comment and eru's question about drivers.
The hardware that would normally need drivers should present itself over a fixed, well documented protocol. Think virtio, or usb device classes but more comprehensive. This would also allow for said hardware to rigorously tested before it ever sees an OS. As it is now, because the hardware is shit and requires a driver, you can't really test the hardware in a way that an OS would expect because it requires the OS driver to even start to function. The job of the OS is now to repair broken hardware.
https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.3/virtio-v1.3.h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_communications_device_clas... (the only good thing to come out of usb)
When you comply in advance, you not only let "them" win, there isn't even a them here, just an idea of a possible threat. Fuck that. Anyone can sue for anything, you can't "do stuff so you won't get sued". Frankly, this is cowards take that lets an nebulous idea pollute your world.
We don't have to Joan of Arc or Don Quixote, we can just do the little stuff that changes culture in the direction we'd like to see it changed.
Humans are incredibly valuable across many many dimensions, not letting them know how they can improve is a massive waste and harmful to both parties.
Who is paying him here?
From your comment, you can't even tell the topic, let alone the actual idea he is putting forth.
Saying the quiet part out loud. What kind of engineering org outsources this? 80% of engineering is confirming your design works, otherwise it is just LARPing.
I'd want someone to do the same.
They aren't trying to get reboot to work, they are trying to get their version of kexec to work so their hobby os reboots faster.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kexec
The biggest scam in the OS world is drivers, we should demand more out of our hardware. Drivers shouldn't be necessary.