My dad used to make bread as Christmas gifts. December 23-24 the kitchen would just be a bread factory. And honestly, his freshly baked loaves were super impressive and they felt like personal gifts, something that someone actually put time and effort into.

Also, I think the holidays were stressful, and the process of making bread brought some zen like calm.

This falls in the same category as the MCAS crashes. An automated system wrested control from the pilots, and the system evidently could not be disabled. That is the exact scenario that caused the MCAS crashes.

The only thing though, is that is absolutely not what happened here, at all.

Here’s a quote from the (quite short) article:

Autoland “automatically engaged exactly as designed when the cabin altitude exceeded the prescribed safe levels” and the pilots “made the decision to leave the system engaged,” Townsley said

The pilots saw the warnings and presumably could have taken over by doing just about anything, but with no passengers to put in jeopardy, they decided to sit back and see what happened.

There is no flaw here, no bug, this is not a problem. This is what happens when everything works.

Edit: Well, not everything was working, that beechcraft does have to have its pressurization system checked out for sure.

So did the space shuttle most of the time. For the first few years the shuttle was piloted manually, but that changed at some point and I believe the majority of flights were landed automatically.

The buran on the other hand only actually flew at all once.

What bug? It worked as it was supposed to.

There was a loss of cabin pressure (a real emergency) and it decided the pilots were unresponsive. The pilots could have taken control back, but by not doing that, they were functionally unresponsive. I don’t see a bug here.

This almost belongs in the “f* AI” sublemmy.

Yeah I think that’s going too far.

Look, the fact that this has never been needed before is a testament to how often all the redundant safety systems work the way they’re supposed to. It’s not like there’s a problem here.

That said, when the auto-land system was triggered it worked as it was supposed to, landed the plane safely, radio’d its intentions, and nobody was injured. Keep in mind it was triggered during an actual emergency, exactly when it’s supposed to. If the pilots weren’t familiar enough with the safety systems on their plane to disable the auto-land functionality, then they’re functionally ceding control of the plane to the emergency systems, and at that point it’s correct for the automated systems to take over. In this case it seems the pilots decided not to take control back. So really, this was just the safety protocols working as intended.

I’m glad everyone including the pilots were fine though, that really is the most important thing.

I think that’s the joke. Honestly I feel like this whole thread is a huge woosh… Did everyone miss the joke?

Did he actually make any references to trans issues? Are there recordings of this comedy festival?

I ask because that line "my anti-trans jokes went over very well in Saudi Arabia” sounds to me like an intentional troll, a way to say that he got to talk about whatever he wants while poking fun at the controversy he stirred up a few years ago. As a joke in and of itself, that works even if he didn’t actually have any trans jokes in his set.

If you like his taste you should totally listen to his podcast, triple click.

It’s basically the only way I find out about new games. And it’s honestly super insightful.

You had multiple AI subscriptions…

Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact could be written more simply as Hunter^2 : Nen x Impact

Just a suggestion, both are technically correct.

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… and it destroyed their company right? Their entire business model broke down and it impacted the security of their customers who complained constantly about the decision. Right?

Right?

We should boycott them

How? They aren’t selling to us anymore, remember. They’re ramping down their consumer products because the AI specific products are more lucrative. Hell, not buying their consumer products just proves that point. We’re beyond fucked at this point.

Just grab some popcorn?

I would assume, not Russians.

One of the now public films is the war film “Hell’s Angels” (about fighter pilots, not bikers). It’s directed by Howard Hughes, I thought “that’s odd” because he was an airplane designer, not a director; so I looked it up on Wikipedia. The more I read the more Hughes’ project sounded like a parallel to dumb shit Elon is doing, buying a social media outlet… okay, making a major motion picture… sure, firing a third of the company and running it into the ground… predictable, getting several people killed during filming and never recouping the cost of production… wow.

Hughes has a reputation as an eccentric reclusive genius, he designed some great aircraft, he made a lot of money, but he was problematic whenever he stepped out of his lane. We’re probably lucky he never got into politics.

But here’s what really caught my eye, (I’ll quote from the Wikipedia page).

When Paul Mantz, the principal stunt pilot, informed Hughes that a stunt in the final scene was too dangerous, Hughes piloted the aircraft himself, but crashed; he suffered a skull fracture and had to undergo facial surgery as well. Three stunt pilots and a mechanic died in accidents during filming.

I’m not sure if Hughes really “learned his lesson” from that, but I’m willing to bet that coming that close to death would affect anyone. How do we get Elon to do anything that would actually give him pause? How do we get him a life altering experience (not necessarily a near death experience, but I’m not oppressed to that either)?

I don’t know, I think I’m still calling the outcome a win for Kirk. He really got what he wanted, guns are readily available to all the white right people.

Actually, I think everyone got what they wanted, conservatives got to pretend to stand on moral high ground for a month, and progressive got one less Charlie Kirk. Win, win, win.

It’s held on there with zip ties. Why, you could probably find something to deal with that right at home Depot.

Which you can do starting at like 15! So it all works out.

Honestly NASA has had worse administrators over the years, at least isaacman seems to care about the success of the agency. If nothing else, we can say for certain that this is a guy who loves everything about space, so I expect he’ll do his best.

Totally, totally no doubt.

But first, they should give me a ride in their mig-29. Zoooom!