danaliv

This is an absolutely disgusting suggestion.

As someone who has worked in a few different fields, this x 100. There is nothing "special" about programming.

Oof, this takes me back to the day I learned about RAM the hard way. I was typing out a program from a magazine. It seemed like it took forever, even then. About halfway through the computer rudely informed me that 4K of RAM is not, in fact, enough for everyone.

The fine README says it builds and runs on Ubuntu 20.04.

I can't find numbers on the power system or materials so I can't speak to the thermal side or how much flight time that affords.

EDIT: Apparently there's enough energy to fly for 90 seconds (!) per sol.

(Not /s, but also not not /s?)

That's bizarre. CIFP has every approach in the country. They'd have to actually remove approaches to be missing any.

I deleted my account a while back. (Well, whatever Facebook calls “deleted.” Incidentally, did you know you can’t delete your HN account, even if you email them and ask?) Curious whether there’s any data for me at all in this breach.

No they aren't. They're being completely transparent about this and giving you the option to keep the old behavior with a one-time settings change. So what's the problem exactly?

I’m sorry, what? Who are you hiring, Pablo Escobar’s lawyer?

I'm a professional flight instructor. I also sit two desks over from a non-FAA-affiliated flight surgeon at my day job. I watch student pilots go through the medical process all the time. It is infuriating to see the outlandish and expensive hoop-jumping nonsense that these folks get put through. I'm talking thousands of dollars of exams in some very common cases that have absolutely no evidentiary basis for increased risk. And those are the ones that don't just get denied outright, with no avenue for appeal.

On the rare occasion when aeromedical does see the light, it's pulling teeth. It took years for the American Diabetes Association to convince the FAA that they were wrong about diabetes. And when they finally relented, they dragged on their feet on actually issuing the medicals.

The aeromedical division has become so hostile and ossified that Congress has had to tell them to cut it out.

It's a problem. And it's exemplary of what happens when an authority has the kind of incentives under discussion here. They will never get in trouble for saying no, even when saying no flies in the face of all actual evidence.

This seems like a common failure mode of bureaucracies. It reminds me in particular of the FAA's medical division (just because that's one bureaucracy I butt heads with a lot). They'll never get in trouble for saying no; "comically conservative" doesn't even begin to describe it.