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Captainant

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  1. For only being designed to fly a few times, Ingenuity had one hell of a run.
  2. IMO, MS bought Acti-bliz for their IP and properties. MS, despite buying a glut of gaming studios, still can't seem to put out a decent game with staying power. Redfall was worse than bad. Starfield was polished, but pretty hollow after the first act. But also, I don't think that Battle.net is the largest PC gaming entity - that would HAVE to be Valve with Steam right? Hell, even Activision was moving COD and Diablo 4 to Steam because they weren't getting enough users in bnet alone.
  3. Yeesh yeah that's another terrible story of accumulated technical debt that eventually blew up in their faces. It's one hell of a powerful cautionary tale - got a few of my customers to finally prioritize fixes that they had been kicking the can on for years. IMO SWA suffers from the same businessbrain that Boeing does. Both ignored accumulating long-term risks in favor of easier short-term profits and gains. SWA at least hasn't directly killed anyone, but both have lost quite a bit of trust - for whatever that's worth these days.
  4. IMO there's an element of "well everyone else is laying folks off right now, let's cull the herd" happening. If companies are making record profits and doing well enough to close massive acquisitions, they should not immediately be in the position of NEEDING to fire tens of thousands of people. But then again, that's the system we've built for ourselves. Hooray.
  5. That shareholder value ain't gonna increase itself, dawg. Companies have social cover to lay people off to cut costs. Plus, there was a bit of a glut of over-hiring when money was free during COVID - because nobody in business believes in looking more than a couple quarters into the future to consider the consequences of their actions. I wonder if this signals a shift in MS gaming strategy though - they've been dying to have their own games developed for xbox, and Phil Spencer's big bets have pretty much all flopped. This could be the start of cutting bait for them
  6. It's almost like it's not an actual free market, but we are nonetheless allowing the costs to be socialized (too big to fail) while boeing reaps and privatizes whatever gains and profits there are to be had.
  7. It sure is fucking annoying that when the supreme court issues a ruling that harms civil rights and democracy, we all must grin and bear it. But when the fascists get the most mild of rulings against them, it's socially acceptable for them to mobilize their state national guard to defy them.
  8. It's less about the number of dead people, and moreso if we can make the cost of the dead people high enough for Boeing to place their lives ahead of their shareholders profits
  9. yeah my bad, I wasn't thinking airline code and was just shorthand abbreviating the plaintext. I'll correct my post, ty
  10. eh? I said that Alaska is lucky that nobody died because they exposed themselves to the risk that Boeing had let through their swiss cheese Q/A process. If someone had died, AS's liability would be through the roof, but they got reeeeaaallllly lucky to have no deaths in an incident like this. United however had nothing to do with that series of fuckups. I only mentioned UA because since they also found the same sort of problems in the same model airframes, it makes it more likely that the root cause for both is manufacturing defects - not a series of distributed maintenance errors.
  11. Property rights being placed over human and civil rights reminds me of the 2020 summer of love
  12. Because the topic of that thread isn't "women and children drowned by the state of Texas in 2024"? And the disagreements are over opinion and not matters of legal fact like if the state has been blocking federal officers from accessing a drowning mother and children on the US/Mexico border. Sorry that you don't like to talk about facts? Maybe stick to sports or something? Idk man. You're incorrigible.
  13. Oh there's absolutely culpability on Alaskan Airlines - it seems that their maintenance procedure for the pressurization errors was to clear the error and keep on flying. They've been known to have poor maintenance practices too. But the airframe in question was delivered to them as an airworthy certified plane in November 2023. A plane that new should NEVER have those sort of problems that early on. A lazy, or more likely, undermanned maintenance and inspection team could definitely skip this every now and then, because "it's not like they'd deliver us a broken plane right?" Alaska is lucky as hell that nobody was seriously injured, because their ass was in the wind on this one. Boeing however is fuggity fucked. Ain't no """pilot error""" causing bolts to be missing and under torqued coming off the Boeing lines to customers. The fact that multiple airlines have found the same errors on their airframes is STRONG evidence of deep and systemic issues in Boeing
  14. yeah but what if you deepfry it first?
  15. With no fucking opinion to clarify their reasoning either. The supreme court is wiping its ass with the basic concept of law and jurisprudence.
  16. An interesting theory I've seen kicked around a bit is that since Spirit delivers the 737 fuselage to Boeing with the plug door in place, but not fully affixed/fastened so that Boeing can have easier access for final assembly, but that planes were worked on without removing the door, so they never got re-inspected and properly torqued before passed onto customers. A couple of loose or even missing bolts, and a simple static pressure test may not turn anything up or find failures. But put some dynamic stresses on that airframe and send it through a storm front to give it a good shake, and I could see the sort of "clean" failure that the door plug seems to have had
  17. The toxic part of today's internet is the microtargetted algorithmic EVERYTHING. A big part of what made Google so useful back in the day was that everyone got the same GOOD utility out of it, and content was not written for the sole pursuit of getting clicks from Google for selling ads. Now the Internet is mostly just SEO optimized bullshit click farm pages that put alot of ads between you and the information you're looking for. I think if we had a US GDPR that would go a long way to tamping down on the rampant microtargetting, but I'm not sure if the content ecosystem is recoverable - especially with the advent of generative AI
  18. A lot of their users moved on - that's what the last nerdrage was about. Also, I really don't understand the contempt for net neutrality. You should be charged the same for data no matter it's origin. It's a utility.
  19. Brick and mortar retail is finally catching up with the online model and using their stores as mini distribution hubs. It's definitely made the in store shopping experience worse (especially at HEB, goddamn big ass red carts) but it's allowed most every store to offer an "amazon-like" next day shipping offering. Sears is SUCH an interesting case study in a powerful business failing to keep up with the times. Those motherfuckers used to sell entire houses by mail a hundred years ago! It's crazy that they couldn't keep up with the times
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