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16bytes commented on NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]   ntsb.gov/Documents/Prelim... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky
wat10000 · a month ago
Airlines operate to a much stricter standard than one in a million. If one in a million flights ended in a fatal crash, the US alone would see about 3 airline passenger deaths per day on average. The actual average over the past 10 years is under 0.02 deaths per day.

It's true that you can never get to zero. There's always a chance of some catastrophic failure. The lesson of modern airline safety is that you can get extremely close to zero by carefully analyzing and learning from the failures, which is exactly why these thorough investigations are done. The lesson from UA232 was to make sure one failure can't take out all of the hydraulic systems.

In this specific instance, "the engine fell off and took out another engine, leaving the aircraft with insufficient power to climb" is definitely not in the realm of "probabilities will get you eventually." It's very much in the realm of a mechanical failure that should not happen, combined with a bad design flaw that turns that failure from a mere emergency into pretty much guaranteed death.

Cargo is held to a lower standard than passenger service, but I suspect this will still spell the end of the DC-10 and MD-11, at least in the US. Engines will fail, and for an aircraft of this size, that needs to be survivable in all phases of flight just for the safety of people on the ground.

16bytes · a month ago
> Airlines operate to a much stricter standard than one in a million. If one in a million flights ended in a fatal crash, the US alone would see about 3 airline passenger deaths per day on average.

I think you conflated flights (several 10Ks per day) with passengers (several million per day).

One in a million flights is one accident every few decades.

> at least in the US. Engines will fail

As per the report, this appears to be a structural failure, not an engine failure.

16bytes commented on Mark Zuckerberg Had Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. Neighbors Revolted   wired.com/story/mark-zuck... · Posted by u/randycupertino
googlryas · a month ago
He purchased each plot for between $5 and $15M. The article describes the residents as "Doctors, lawyers, business executives and Stanford University professors".

I would not call these "regular people"

16bytes · a month ago
Doctors, lawyers, business executives are closer to "regular people" than those people are to billionaires.
16bytes commented on Just let me select text   aartaka.me/select-text.ht... · Posted by u/ayoisaiah
simianparrot · 3 months ago
Yet I can't select text on this very blog.
16bytes · 3 months ago
Given that text is selectable elsewhere on the site, I suspect that the author is trying to make a point by that.
16bytes commented on ASCIIFlow   asciiflow.com/... · Posted by u/marcodiego
numpad0 · 4 months ago
20 20 78 78 78 ... Looks ASCII to me, Firefox on Windows. Could be OS.
16bytes · 4 months ago
" xxx"? That's the same in ASCII and UTF-8.

OP is asking what are the line-drawing characters encoded as e.g: "┌" and "┐".

Since the charset returned by the app is UTF-8, these will be interpreted and encoded as UTF-8 and not whatever "ASCII - Extended" means.

16bytes commented on Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow   github.com/bgreenwell/dox... · Posted by u/w108bmg
w108bmg · 4 months ago
I honestly don't get the name hate? It's 100% intentional wordplay! "Exposing" word documents in the CLI.
16bytes · 4 months ago
It's a very pejorative term that is used with malicious intent. You don't understand why folk find it off-putting?

What about something like mdocx?

16bytes commented on Wired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display   airgradient.com/blog/wire... · Posted by u/sklargh
edent · 4 months ago
If you got food poisoning from a restaurant, would you recommend it to your friends? After all, food-borne pathogens and poor hygiene are just a fact of life.

How about if they gave you a voucher for a free drink to say sorry?

Reviewing products is like interviewing people. You have to go by what you see on the day. Your can't review (or interview) based in what could have happened; only on what did.

16bytes · 4 months ago
Did the product result in physical harm? No. A better analogy would be ordering a med-rare steak, but it coming out overdone.

If that happens once and the restaurant makes good on the mistake, I wouldn't hold it against them.

Sending something back to the kitchen is a way better product analogy than food poisoning.

16bytes commented on White House loyalty rating for companies   axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas
unclad5968 · 4 months ago
Im uninvolved in politics. Can someone explain to me why it's facist that the government is recording who is cooperative and who isn't? That doesn't seem malicious to me, unless you assume it will be used for punishing poorly cooperative companies. Even then, lawmakers know who cooperates and who doesn't, they don't need a spreadsheet for it. I'm willing to be enlightened of my ignorance here.
16bytes · 4 months ago
I think this is a good question that shouldn't be down-voted.

If you look at various definitions of what facism means, you may see something like: "characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition" (from M-W).

A "loyalty rating" implements both economic regimentation (the insinuation that higher scoring companies have better favor) and suppression of opposition (that companies actively avoid being seen as opposition).

So this is text-book fascist behavior.

It's not hyperbole to envision the justice department looking the other way for high-scoring companies, and actively persecuting low-scoring companies. You're right in that this is already happening (like with e.g. Harvard), but implementing a score in the open makes it shockingly easy to carry out fascist directives across the government bureaucracy.

16bytes commented on Wired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display   airgradient.com/blog/wire... · Posted by u/sklargh
edent · 4 months ago
Ultimately, you shipped a broken product.

That points to a lack of QA on your part and, I think, it is fair for a reviewer to point out.

Even if you have an exemplary warranty process and easy instructions, that's still a hassle. Not everyone has the confidence or the time to repair simple things.

As for the objective/subjective nature of reviews. Are your customers buying air monitors for their 100% precision or for "entertainment" purposes / lifestyle factors?

I have a cheap Awair air monitor. I have no idea if it is accurate - but it charges by USB-C and has an inconspicuous display. That's what I wanted it for.

It is perfectly fair for a reviewer to point out their personal preferences on something like this. They aren't a government testing lab.

16bytes · 4 months ago
If you sell a physical thing, some percentage of them will have defects. That's just a fact of manufacturing.

It seems unfair to move to "not recommended" due to a single instance of a hardware failure, especially if the manufacturer made it right. And repair-ability is one of their core values!

At most this should've triggered a "this happened to me, keep an eye out if this seems to be a thing." note in the review instead of moving to not recommended.

16bytes commented on Cert Expired HTTPS://Hckrnews.com   hckrnews.com... · Posted by u/guyinblackshirt
guyinblackshirt · 5 months ago
I love hckrnews.com due to the simple layout but its cert expired, any way to contact the owner to fix?
16bytes · 5 months ago
I agree, it's the primary way I consume front-page content. There is some contact information on the site:

"If you have any questions or requests, please mail me at wayne@larsen.st"

16bytes commented on Material 3 Expressive   design.google/library/exp... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
onli · 7 months ago
That's a mixed bag.

Have a look at the linked https://m3.material.io/blog/building-with-m3-expressive to get a better impression of what this is about. From the guidelines given there, many parts of the design make sense and will help designs work better - grouping objects properly, be aware of contrast to highlight important elements, more options for good typography (instead of basically none, Android/Material offered nothing by default), helpers for highlighting buttons etc. It's also still simply a good idea to focus on good animations that actually work for the UI, instead of being superfluous baggage, and then to make them feel nice. I'm not saying it's groundbreaking, but it's helpful to have something like this as an official guideline, and be it to reign in rogue designers.

But it's still a flat design, and thus does not properly transport clickability. And their weird approach for the color schemes still leads to an ugly mess, pastel with weird contrasts and color combinations that just are ugly. I haven't seen a proper analysis what's going on there, but it sucks. Also, this whole design system is very far from leading to a consistent system, but that seems to be a non-goal, just some standard component building blocks are there to foster familiarity.

Better than nothing and probably a step up, but M3E doesn't convince me totally so far.

16bytes · 7 months ago
Can you recommend another comprehensive design system? As an engineer, that's the most valuable thing about MD3: the figma design kit and per component design guidelines. It lets me offload a ton of workload I'd otherwise have to do myself (poorly) or outsource to a designer.

I haven't seen another design system that is as comprehensive to material. Express seems like an evolutionary refresh with some things I could use right away, but otherwise most of the content is MD3. It's valuable to me as part of the larger ecosystem.

u/16bytes

KarmaCake day748June 2, 2011View Original