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New comment by berti in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

berti — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:38:51 +0000

I kind of have the opposite experience, and really only use maps to find streets within the city limits. The country is easy to navigate with the road signs you see along the way, and it's more enjoyable to navigate that way than following a nagging app.

We might be kind of lucky in New Zealand with the yellow AA signposts at every intersection in the country telling you the nearest towns/communities and their distances in every direction.

New comment by berti in "Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes"

berti — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:58:46 +0000

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...

New comment by berti in "Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight"

berti — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:43:59 +0000

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.

New comment by berti in "Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight"

berti — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:39:34 +0000

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.

New comment by berti in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

berti — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 02:10:52 +0000

You can turn the ignition off. The reversers will not unlock on an airliner that's airborne either.

New comment by berti in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

berti — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:16:15 +0000

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.

New comment by berti in "Wild – A fast linker for Linux"

berti — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 06:08:50 +0000

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/

New comment by berti in "US airlines transported passengers over two light-years since the last crash"

berti — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:57:40 +0000

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.

New comment by berti in "European iPhones are more fun now"

berti — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:50:55 +0000

I could not install the Italian train app while travelling in Italy due to this.

New comment by berti in "Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers"

berti — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:01:38 +0000

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.

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

berti — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 04:52:12 +0000

Article URL: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/news-site-stuff-left-facebook-seven-months-later-traffic-just-fine-and-trust-higher

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26259834

Points: 50

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New comment by berti in "Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US but can also appeal"

berti — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 19:11:19 +0000

The extradition case is made in the context of New Zealand though.

New comment by berti in "Lessons learned from onboarding emails with no HTML styling"

berti — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:57:57 +0000

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.

New comment by berti in "PS5 Teardown [video]"

berti — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 19:29:19 +0000

That may be so for the camera division but not for PlayStation. My PS3 takes a standard 2.5” drive. Not sure about PS4.

New comment by berti in "Kirc – A tiny IRC client written in POSIX C99"

berti — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:37:03 +0000

Designated initialisers for structs and unions are a really nice readability improvement. You can use comments if you have to of course.

New comment by berti in "Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions"

berti — Sat, 16 May 2020 10:52:22 +0000

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.

New comment by berti in "PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers"

berti — Sat, 09 May 2020 15:26:54 +0000

> 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.

New comment by berti in "0xF Rules"

berti — Fri, 08 May 2020 14:43:00 +0000

> 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.

New comment by berti in "The 2020 iPhone SE"

berti — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 04:25:48 +0000

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)

New comment by berti in "On WD Red NAS Drives"

berti — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 02:14:25 +0000

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.