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RyanOD commented on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash   cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/ala... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
MostlyStable · 4 days ago
Journalism's failure to adopt linking to sources etc in the internet age is kind of infuriating. I get it, back in physical newspaper/magazine days, linking wasn't possible, and it takes a while for new norms to change and habits to form, but articles have been internet-first for well over a decade at this point. It should be completely unacceptable not to have linking to sources whenever relevant. I'm not sure I have ever found a news article that makes finding the original source or subject of the article easy. Certainly not on mainstream news outlets.
RyanOD · 4 days ago
Sites with no external linking are like highways with no exits.
RyanOD commented on Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/geox
jmcphers · 6 days ago
I read for pleasure every day and watch very few movies, but on an airplane I often wind up watching a movie. I think it's because it helps distract my senses from the grubby discomfort of modern air travel (people packed in tightly, loud jet engines, etc.), and because in my everyday life I'm always obligated to consider others' preferences for a film -- the airplane is one of the only places I can watch something I'd actually choose for myself.
RyanOD · 4 days ago
Yes, being able to choose a movie you (and only you) want to watch is a definite win.
RyanOD commented on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash   cnn.com/2025/08/27/us/ala... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
dfox · 4 days ago
The article is somewhat sensationalistic. If you read the actual report you will find out that:

The pilot was not part of the conference call!

What froze was not hydraulic fluid for actuators (in some hydraulic line), but hydraulic fluid in the shock absorbers.

The last paragraph of the article and seems to be missing a few words and reads as the investigators blaming the people directly involved, which is essentially a complete opposite of what conclusions of the report say.

RyanOD · 4 days ago
And, of course, CNN only links to their own articles. Why bother linking to the actual report? The rise in sites that only link to themselves 99% of the time really frustrates me.
RyanOD commented on Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/geox
RyanOD · 6 days ago
I flew from Detroit to Seattle last night. I used that time to read 170 pages of Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad (easy, entertaining read).

Though I obviously didn't walk the entire plane, looking around from my seat / when walking to the restroom, everyone I saw was watching a movie.

RyanOD commented on What is going on right now?   catskull.net/what-the-hel... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
busssard · 9 days ago
for my last project i could not have finished it without AI doing coding. it set up the entire repo for me, it wrote bad code and the PoC worked. I dont have experience in Django JS or webdev. now i have a working thing that i can slowly go through, improve and understand.
RyanOD · 9 days ago
That's one way. The approach I take is more of a "Hey, AI, here is what I'm trying to accomplish and here is the approach I plan to take. What do you think of this approach? Does it support my broader goals? Etc."

But, much of what I spend my time on are already solved problems (building retro video game clones) so AI has a LOT of high-quality content to draw upon. I'm not trying to create new, original products.

RyanOD commented on What is going on right now?   catskull.net/what-the-hel... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
RyanOD · 9 days ago
For me, AI is just a tool. I'm not a high-level developer, but when I'm coding out a personal project and I'm stuck. I present my ideas to AI and ask it for feedback. Then, I take that feedback and move forward. What I do NOT do is ask AI to write code for me. Again, these are my own projects so I can develop them any way I like.

Having AI write code for me (other than maybe simple boilerplate stuff) goes entirely against why I write code in the first place which is the joy of problem solving, building things, and learning.

Edit: Typo

RyanOD commented on All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair   terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/matheusml
RyanOD · 9 days ago
As a former teacher / coach this is definitely the approach I took to build strong relationships with kids. Too often such relationships are all about "I'm the infallible leader...you are the flawed pupils" and that doesn't support really connecting and understanding their unique needs.

In any situation, I've always believed it is better to let people we're all human and it's ok to take risks and make mistakes.

RyanOD commented on Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back   promptql.io/blog/being-co... · Posted by u/tango12
therobots927 · 9 days ago
Yeah I think our jobs are safe. Why doesn’t anyone acknowledge loops like this? They happen all the time and I’m only using it once a week at the most
RyanOD · 9 days ago
But still under pressure in the short-term, no? As companies lean into AI as a means of efficiency / competitive advantage / cost savings, jobs will be eliminated / reduced while companies find their direction. The potential gains are said to be too big to sit on the sidelines and wait to be a late-adopter.
RyanOD commented on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness   yro.slashdot.org/comments... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
Aeolun · 17 days ago
He got (maybe) ripped off by Jobs, but at the end of the day, what did that get Jobs? Jobs is dead, and Woz is still here, apparently perfectly happy.
RyanOD · 17 days ago
The death of anyone from a disease like cancer is tragic.
RyanOD commented on 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015)   mashable.com/archive/sovi... · Posted by u/us-merul
georgecmu · 17 days ago
As bonus trivia, depiction of Bilbo was based on the "short, round stature, expressive eyes, broad and open face" of the famous Soviet actor Yevgeniy Leonov (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Leonov).

In this video Leonov mentions this fact before reading an excerpt from the book: https://youtu.be/z7hEJxTBsTs

RyanOD · 17 days ago
Inconceivable!

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