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Captainant

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  1. It definitely looks like early flap retraction as the cause of the stall, but I wonder what the puff of smoke on takeoff was indicative of a critical loss of power. Jeeze, what a nightmare
  2. Coming back to this - I think it's a really interesting reflection of society that so many people think and live this way. In business, it doesn't matter how unsustainable and shitty your business model is - only that it's perceived as strong. Managers don't care about how much work gets done by workers, they only care how much is seen getting done. It's a very hollow way to go through life, and makes a ton of sense why genAI is so popular. It's effective at improving the perception of workers as being productive - just as long as you never take a critical look and what's being made. It's how MBA's earn their nut while gutting the future stability of a business - they're perceived to be experts, and so nobody bothers to challenge their idiocy and antipatterns become self reinforcing
  3. The nazis literally supported the creation of a Jewish state so that they would have a place to ship them all off to.
  4. Not kidding - restart your devices before going through customs if it's a concern for you. Cell phones will encrypt the device info within the secure enclave, and bitlocker or whatever other system encryption will kick in on your computer. Absolutely absurd that's where we're at, but thankfully there's legally compliant ways to protect your own privacy
  5. From the footage it looked like the flaps were not extended, so it's probably likely pilot error unless 787's history of poor workmanship really struck at the worst time
  6. Pseudo-coding is very very important and useful during the ideation phase, when you want to try and explore a large possiblilty space of designs without committing to any specifics. You can do that because you don't have any integrations or SLA's or customers to satisfy - it's "greenfield". As soon as the rubber hits the road and you've got business partners who need commitments from you towards reliabiltiy so they can author a business plan they can sell to the board to get funding.... It's exceptionally risky to offload all your development to vibe coding. As someone who lives and makes a living in the operational space where consequences exist for shitty and unexplainable code, I don't see that going super well for anyone. It's effectively the same thing as offshoring all your coding development to contractors, and then wondering how you ended up with such a brittle tech stack. I've been the sonofabitch unwinding that on a production outage call before, and when your only expertise for the code your business relies on is a friggin language model, not even humans a dozen time zones away.... That's not gonna result in a very resilient business model. I'm very interested to be proved wrong, so that I can stop being responsible for that sort of thing, but there's such a titanic degree of trade secrets and organizational information classification that I just don't see a training dataset getting pulled together to train such a model. It's not that it's technically impossible, I just don't see how you get there as someone who is a technical specialist in LLMs and machine learning generally, and who actually has to realize tangible and deliverable outcomes
  7. Rockerfeller also accomplished those lofty industrial achievements on the backs of an ironclad monopoly. His exploitation of government via regulatory capture was what held the door open for his monopoly to flourish. The Reckless Decade is a wonderful read covering a fascinating time in American history
  8. ICE is kidnapping people who are appearing for their court hearings. That's a great way to encourage people to stop showing up to court.
  9. The funny thing is the outright honesty of that blank filing for their table of authorities that they're citing to build their opinion. Trump is hoping to have it both ways and get the good parts from the Posse Comitatus Act and from theoretically invoking the Insurrection Act, while ignoring all the safeguards attached to those laws. But hey, if the courts rule against him we just have to hope the Executive Branch faithfully executes the law as interpreted by the courts. Gee, who leads the Executive Branch again?
  10. lol yeah, lotta riots happening there! WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE INSURERS??? Weird how you don't give a shit about the private property of folks being criminally assaulted by police officers
  11. Just wait till ICE finishes up at Home Depot gets around to agricultural workers
  12. inciting? What are you talking about? Trump is showing LEADERSHIP!!!!
  13. You're effectively arguing that someone who plans for the building to burn down is a great planner. He's not leading anything - he's destroying systems and agencies and the actual mechanisms that the government had to serve its citizens. It's not good leadership, it's letting his minions off the leash and letting them run amok. When your only desired outcome is chaos and suffering and destruction, it doesn't take an Eisenhower to make that happen.
  14. Captainant

    LBGTQ

    Yeah slorch, we know. You're happy to use any excuse to never change and always be the biggest peice of raider trash you can. Now go lay off some employees
  15. Tell me you dont do your own shopping without telling me
  16. Governor Newsom delivered an address this evening, posted below in full
  17. Destin was on an episode of Search Engine on this a few months ago - he had some other interesting details and anecdotes in that conversation on this same journey https://www.searchengine.show/the-puzzle-of-the-all-american-bbq-scrubber/ I was also wondering the right place to post this video - nearly put it in the 3D printing thread what with the company that's figured out a way to 3D print tools and dies for injection molding
  18. Bad Batch is another must-watch. Its a nice bit of context for Kanan's experience surviving Order 66 just in the pilot episode, and there's some really great stuff in every season
  19. The "clear distinction" that johnson is referring to:
  20. For those hoping to see LA burn, unfortunately for you it's actually a relatively small protest. It's just good fodder for uncritical people to latch on and say "those godless commiefornians had it comin"
  21. Goddamnit we all know shit is fucked. I'm tryna keep actual news updates in this thread! Take it to the surly megathread of DOOM 2: electric boogaloo.
  22. In other news, this domestic deployment of combat equipped troops has so far run up a $134,000,000 tab. https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-congress-hegseth-signal-hearings-c53cd37c2eae4327dd74e4c717057469 After persistent questioning about the cost of sending National Guard members and Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests over immigration raids, Hegseth turned to his acting comptroller, Bryn Woollacott MacDonnell, who said it would cost $134 million. Hegseth defended Trump’s decision to send the troops, saying they are needed to protect federal agents as they do their jobs. And he suggested that the use of troops inside the United States will continue to expand. “I think we’re entering another phase, especially under President Trump with his focus on the homeland, where the National Guard and Reserves become a critical component of how we secure that homeland,” he said.
  23. I mean, if we want to argue that simply being photographed over a decade ago means you're associates and complicit in their crimes... I don't think you're gonna like where that leads. Just to reiterate, the accusations made in parliament that you are highlighting are simply repeating the old claim from Israel. There is no new information or data to back your assertion, and Birawi has won monetary judgements over those unsupported accusations of him being a terrorist.
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