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New comment by flashback2199 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:10:03 +0000

I mean you can believe what you want but NTSB literally had a guy at a podium say into the mic last night that there is so far no evidence "the bolts were ever there", around the 17-18 minute mark if you have nothing better to do. Good luck with your investments.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:43:20 +0000

> the overreaction to this is bordering on insanity

Not an overreaction. Not bolting on a door on a brand new plane is past bordering into full-on insanity.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:40:21 +0000

NTSB are doing that lab work right now in Washington D.C.

You seem to not know the meaning of suspect, so here is the definition:

Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more sus·pect verb 3rd person present: suspects /səˈspek(t)/ 1. have an idea or impression of the existence, presence, or truth of (something) without certain proof. "if you suspect a gas leak, do not turn on an electric light"

Have a great day sir.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:31:11 +0000

> Nobody is saying that this isn’t a serious fuckup

TIL half the people commenting here are nobody :)

New comment by flashback2199 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:28:32 +0000

I'm pretty sure if you personally drove a new car off the lot and the door fell off you would not believe that quality were unchanged from your prior impression of that car company.

Just because it's happening to other people doesn't make it okay to hand-wave away safety.

And by the way, so far NTSB believes it's not a fabrication error but an assembly error. NTSB suspects 4 bolts were never screwed in.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:24:36 +0000

So enormous that musk won't touch it. He's said a plane company is something he wants to do but can't. And that wouldn't even be large airliners.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:19:06 +0000

We'll have to agree to disagree. I don't believe in blaming the user for manufacturing and maintenance errors. I think that makes a bad programmer too, actually.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:17:44 +0000

What do you mean "if", anyone can choose what plane to fly on anytime.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:16:30 +0000

In a brand new plane? Yes it is.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:15:35 +0000

It is trivial to see how someone sitting there not seat belted could have perished. You do understand that long stretches of flight allow you to be unseatbelted right?

New comment by flashback2199 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:02:54 +0000

The only reason nobody was injured this time was nobody was sitting in the seats next to the door plug that blew off. The seat was destroyed.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Is my plane a 737 MAX?"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:55:39 +0000

It doesn't matter. Nothing will change unless enough people begin voting with their feet.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Things engineers believe about Web development"

flashback2199 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 02:47:55 +0000

No, not usually. In my experience anyway, most random engineers in the semiconductor industry that you would run into who know both C and Verilog would be just using those tools to do their job. There is a lot of ECE stuff to unpack in your question, but the subfield of ECE in question is called VLSI. You'd want to talk to someone who works in VLSI, or did VLSI as their focus in ECE undergrad or grad school.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore, Stratcom Chief Says"

flashback2199 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 01:25:02 +0000

Yeah, sorry, I don't believe for a second that Russia has failed to maintain their only playing card. What a joke. US military industrial complex folks will make up any story to excuse their audit-free slovenly spending.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore, Stratcom Chief Says"

flashback2199 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 01:21:15 +0000

The country that is still launching the same platform for manned space that they did in the 50s can't figure out how to do that but with warheads -- doubt! Makes a good story though!

New comment by flashback2199 in "Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of assembly code"

flashback2199 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:35:01 +0000

Actually no, it's not "as simple as that" when everyone except you doesn't take lunch hour and schedules meetings at noon. We have a right to the lunch hour.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Things engineers believe about Web development"

flashback2199 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:24:10 +0000

Ok, I guess that's fair. Having worked at one of the large chip makers, I can tell you there are plenty of people who know C and Verilog, you just weren't talking to any of them. Those who need to do, and those who don't, don't. It's certainly an industry with high degree of specialization.

New comment by flashback2199 in "Things engineers believe about Web development"

flashback2199 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:50:50 +0000

We're not gobsmacked when you don't know Verilog, so I'm not sure why you think you can be gobsmacked some chip designers don't know C...

New comment by flashback2199 in "Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS"

flashback2199 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:37:09 +0000

This, and too much padding/margin

New comment by flashback2199 in "Ask HN: Do you have a problem you'd pay to have taken away?"

flashback2199 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:20:49 +0000

These examples for the flutter rpg game engine seem to run great on my old pixel 3, under the hamburger menu > mini games:

https://bonfire-engine.github.io/examples/bonfire-v3