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I'd recommend reading this article about it: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/fly-by-wire-the-crash-of... :

> This camp believed that the A320’s computers had detected that it was in a landing configuration at low speed approaching the ground and had entered landing mode, preventing Asseline from going around. This wasn’t how the landing mode worked, (landing mode is not a flight envelope protection and can be easily overridden by the pilots using the TOGA switches) and investigators had conducted live flight tests to show that the computers wouldn’t go into landing mode anyway

The pilot was flying low and slow, over a different runway than they had originally planned, at 30ft instead of 100ft, without knowledge of the trees at the end of the runway, with a flight full of passengers, right at the edge of the flight envelope. It was incredibly irresponsible and dangerous, and that's why they crashed.

Another choice quote:

> the A320 went on to be the second most popular airliner ever built, and not one has crashed due to a failure of the fly-by-wire system or an erroneous activation of the flight envelope protections

I have no idea why the crew in the back didn't let the pilots know.. you'd think there would be a culture of overcommunication when it comes to airline safety. Esp. as the pilots kept ascending..

But the only time that should happen is if there's an immediate danger that needs to be avoided. If we're going to have this awkward level 2 style self driving, it should at least be predictable, and preferably inform the driver what it wants to do well ahead of time (e.g. in this case, maybe it wanted to change lanes for an upcoming right turn..?)

I would definitely not risk using this thing in a city yet..

And even then you'd have to consider the serious long-term health affects that a multi-year hard lockdown would have on people.

I prefer not rebasing / editing unless I have to.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-republican-push...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...

Valhalla is the model VST developer that err body should take notes from. In another life I'd have paid more attention to my electrical engineering courses so I could actually work at companies like this but what can you do.

Full disclosure: I'm not responding to you. I'm responding near you.

So for me, its performance completely lives up to the hype. I don't think I'll need a new machine for a loooong time.

If you really think that they're capable of completely falsifying results of multiple studies performed by various governments and research institutions around the world by way of bribing _everyone_ involved, you have a lot more confidence in their ability to successfully pull of a giant, complex, illegal operation without getting caught than I do.

This isn't to say that pharmaceutical companies don't engage in shady tactics when it comes to performing their own studies and bribing doctors, but this is a vastly different circumstance. They don't control these studies.

Probably has to do with the fact that the booster is effective.

My code is almost exactly:

err := doThing()

if err != nil {

  return err

err = doAnotherThing()

if err != nil {

  return err

etc.

There's no need for me to "start fresh". Each line of actual stuff doing might return an error which needs to be returned. That's it. It's a complete waste of space and inhibits readability to absolutely no benefit. And this is extremely common across our code base.

This is such a weird hill to die on.

IMO if Go didn’t have its tooling, no one would care about it.

The whole point is that buying a Tesla doesn’t involve this pointless, anti-consumer, borderline lying, slimey process. People shouldn’t have to worry about being scammed when making one of the largest purchases in their life. The traditional dealership model is terrible for your average consumer. Why on earth are you defending that?

But expecting something like breaking through the inevitable plateau that happens in the development of almost any skill, especially one that practically requires muscle memory, after the FIRST lesson, is silly.

No one is calling for lockdowns now, especially now that we have a safe, working vaccine and that we're seemingly close to actual treatments to reduce the death rate of COVID. Vaccines are free. So how is a vaccine mandate fucking over the working class? Or are you just disingenuously using them a cudgel to argue against policies which have the potential to save lives?