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picadores··on A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now
With the service per lifetime measurment stick, its still increddibly cheap. We are definatly poorer if you take the Terry Pratchet boot economics yardstick.
picadores··on A world where people pay for software
Concrete printers can?
picadores··on A world where people pay for software
Luck us, templatable CAD exists. Tailor the dishwashers to the end-users.
picadores··on A world where people pay for software
I wonder, if the "tax-funded" model could work for software. The state raises money from the public, but the public determinates directly via usage (minutes spend with), usefullness (money gained) how much of that tax goes to what developer. Cut out the monopoly buisness middle man, but also remove any political moral meddlers in various "round tables" as they are omni present in public media systems.

The idea has problems though. How to pay for background ("invisble" layers). How to prevetn "hyper transparent citizens". Etc.

picadores··on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
Makes one wonder. Fuel is measurable, not only via fuel sensors, but as inertia expected vs inertia actual by laser gyro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_laser_gyroscope). There must have been some pretty deviant values on that screen. Unless the system just "calibrated" those deviances away..
picadores··on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
You can restart by sacrificing height for speed and "propelling" the engines up to speed.
picadores··on 40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
There are procedures, but they are to general and to emergency-manifold to help. Its basically aviate, communicate, crew-resource management applies kind of rules. In this case, discover how the plane flies, glide it towards a landable location, while communicating your intentions and location. Do not get panicy, do not get burdened with to many things (the pilot monitoring not telling about people on the runway counts as such).

It makes no sense to capture all the permutations of that. Just get it down somewhat safe.

picadores··on Thoughts on the fading away of the age of IE
They just cultivated the same howling mob of die-hard fans to shield themselves from valid criticism. Its way cheaper to run a hype-cult then produce good products or perform a clean up after a PR-Disaster.

Meanwhile they absurdly managed to make people beg for technological innovations fromt he main group at fault for technologic stagnation aka huge undefeatable monpolies.

To be emotional towards a company, means to become a p3wn.

picadores··on Europeans Are Becoming Poorer
Let them eat environmental fanatics
picadores··on Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
The idea, that the public, in violent surges, could reject the most outrageous violations of the almende, it seems to be to alien to comprehend for some market liberals. The beast of burden just has to take it and thats the end of the story.
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