ExoticPearTree

When it comes to computers and software, yes. They need to do a better job not letting others screw them over.

I have this view when it comes to computers and software, not physical property or people.

I have this view when it comes to computers and software, not physical property or people.

I grew up in a country where every kind of software was availbale on a CD - usually a collection of whatever could fit on a CD. And paying for software was a considered a blasphemy.

My first software purchase was I think after 2015, and it still felt weird compared to the usual process of finding a keygen somewhere.

Nope. It means the people running it did not do a good job configuring and securing it.

My point was that it should not have happenned in the first place. It should have just rejected the flight plan, sent a notice to whatever coordination center would have been in charge of the flight and kept running.

The fact that it entered in maintenance mode still ruined a lot of people’s days.

I don’t think any flight crew or passenger cared about semantics back then.

A few years back, NATS went down because a flight plan waypoint confused the system and it crashed. They had to manually find the problematic flight plan, remove it and start the whole system back up.

Considering the last issue they encountered, it looks like in more than one place, there is no error catching and graceful resolution for those errors.

I would assume a system of such importance to handle issues without hiccups and alert the operators of what did not work. Like “this input caused this problem”, not just crash.

To add a bit more context: owning a car in Singapore is extremely expensive, basically meaning that if can afford that, “you made it”.

Well, to be petty, people living in Orchard Rd. don’t care about 15 dollars (be it US or SG).

Icebreakers are not military vessels and they have nuclear reactors.

Probably initial cost is the reason this did not become something more common.

Well, this is how the world found out that Google AZs are just different rooms in the same building on the same floor.

We need to start fitting nuclear reactors on cargo ships.

The technology is proven and reliable. Not to mention no emissions.

Unless you have a synchronous like setup where you don’t acknowledge data writes unless the remote has aconowledged them first, you will lose data in case your datacenter is hit by a warhead.

Now, there are a few things to consider:

- AWS best practices recommend multiple AZs for workloads and cross-region backups for things like databases and other “stateful” data

- You have to read the fine-print on what AWS offers in terms of recovery: do they reffer to their own infrastructure when they say “you won”t notice” or your data

When Google’s Paris colocation facility was flooded and all AZs there went dark, they sent an email saying “restore from backup in another region and if we can restore your data, we will make it availbale to you”. They did not even issue credits for the downtime.

Yes, it was nice in the 99s snd 2000s when they were building a better EU. And then it devolved into regulation after regulation, strings attached to everything and so on.

Now we’re in 2026 where I can’t buy a platic fork and knife, I have to drink everything with a paper straw and so on.

The dream was nice but it was hijacked along the way.

The unhappy investors can sell their Meta shares and invest in something else if they don't like it, no? Now, since they are just unhappy but don't sell, it means Meta still makes money for them.

> Your talking points are misinformed and pretty ridiculous which makes me think you're a troll rather than having a faithful argument. But on the off chance you are trying to have a real discussion: The Council and Parliament both get elected and the commission cannot do anything without them, so it's not like the system is not democratic.

No, I really believe everybody with a shred of power in an office needs to be elected, especially at the EU level where their decisions can affect hundreds of millions. Again, second- or third-hand democracy is not really democracy.

> I don't see the US asking for their attorney general or supreme court justices to be democratically elected. At some point you have to trust that the people you actually elect will appoint people who know what they're doing.

Well, maybe they should. And should also limit their mandates from life to maybe 4-8 years. And no, it does not mean that if I vote for someone I will trust that someone completely. They will, at some point, take some decisions that are contrary to my interest but in their own political interest. So they do not really have a desire to represent me fully, just enough.

> Just because there's someone in the chain you're not doing a round of elections on doesn't make the system bad. You need the system to have agency at some point.

No, they need to be voted in. This is how we get in situations where unelected officials, like the EU commission is, make decisions that affect my life without any consequences for them.

The system needs to be tied to the people's wish at every corner, and if the people don't like someone, they should be able to vote them out on a recall vote just as easy as ordering pizza.

I would like to see a system where confidence votes are cast every six months or so for everyone (parliament, president, prime-minister - you name it). And if they fail, they get booted out the next day and fresh elections are held in the next two-three weeks. And the cycle repeats. Either they work for the people to keep their jobs or not. Super simple.

> You keep spreading this, but the eurocommssion president gets appointed by the European Council, which consists of democratically elected heads of state.

It does not matter who elects the EU commission, there needs to be a popular vote across the EU for every commissioner job and the EU Commission head. What we have today in EU is pure BS: every country gets a commissioner based on that country's influence within the bloc and every time a new country joins the EU, a new commissioner role just happens to be created.

I want to be able to choose from a number of candidates who should run the EU, not the prime minister or the president of a member country.

Everybody who holds even a little power in the EU construct needs to be voted by EU citizens, not appointed by who knows who.

This second- or third-hand "democracy" is not a democracy at all.

> I don't see how the vast majority of founders can realistically expect others to fund their companies and still let the founder have the final say on all company matters.

By not selling the controlling majority stake in their company, or retain super-voting rights. Anything to not give anyone the possibility to take their company from them.

No, I said it would be better for the founder to not be put in a position where he/she can be fired.

This and previous submission about the Automattic board attempt to fire the founder should be used as a lesson that you should never ever give up control of your company to anyone.

Facebook is a good example on how to structure your company to keep control of it.

Your advice is along the lines of “if you’re homeless, buy a home”. Very useful.

Most jobs are imoral. If we were to do only the moral ones… we’d have probably 75% unemployment or something like that.

We fed models all our literature, news and so on. Why is it a surprise models lie and cheat when needed?

We do the same, why would AI be any different?

Or something newer, like this one: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/166298/#specs

The Yemeni report is interesting.

- How is your missile so accurate?

- We're using a vibe coded app on an iPhone that does terrain matching and target finding.

The thing is that OK, Anthropic may block it, but nothing says they can't use an open model hosted in a friendly country that has access to GPUs. And yes, this will most likely happen pretty soon to be able to create whatever you want without the AI provider blocking you.

> If you accelerate at 1g constantly for 1y you travel 0.5 light years

Can't we accelerate past 1G constantly? Or do we expend so much energy doing it that we can't realistically do it with today's technology?

The "phone network" nowadays offer high quality sound. Things improved drastically with VoLTE and other technologies which allows much more bandwidth for calls than the old networks could support.

> I recommend ripping your car apart and putting sound insulation panels everywhere you can! Also replacing your sound system...

Ripping the car apart to install sound insulation might void your warranty.

I have a Bose sound system in my car with 11 or 13 speakers (they're everywhere), but the car is so poorly insulated that I have to turn up the volume quite a lot at highway speeds, or even after about ~ 35-40MPH.

You are right.

There is a difference between ANPR and what Flock does.