Readit Newsagsnu commented on My five-year experiment with UTC timestripe.com/magazine/b... · Posted by u/adamci
Anyone remember Swatch internet time?
agsnu commented on Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer pbs.org/newshour/show/sou... · Posted by u/thund
Many countries find that imprisonment is an effective remedy.
She wrote an update last year about the frequency changes: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/why-so-few-articles-late...
Definitely worth subscribing to email updates!
I think since then it was announced that the alluded to paid gig is script work/research for https://www.youtube.com/@MentourPilot
agsnu commented on Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport cbc.ca/news/canada/toront... · Posted by u/jaredwiener
>Regulators in the US and EU don't seem especially concerned
Presumably because a bird strike at TO would prompt an immediate go-around and land. With landings the runway is right there.
Not an aviation expert at all, so I am talking out of my ass on this.
Doesn't help you if the pilot flying is incapacitated by the toxic air in less than a minute, or crash in to mountains, as in the scenario posited in the video. Climbing out to an appropriate height to join the approach, reconfiguring the plane for landing etc, takes several minutes; an immediate forced 180 teardrop back to land is very challenging to execute successfully (see the tragedy at Jeju just before new year).
agsnu commented on Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany electrek.co/2025/02/05/te... · Posted by u/ZeljkoS
Where I am, the UK, it's definitely a topic of conversation, similarly Tesla's have been popular. However, the Tesla brand is increasingly being perceived as being toxic here. I'd attribute that entirely to Musk.
It will be interesting to see how it unfolds, particularly amongst current Tesla owners, as if that base shrinks the company could be in real trouble.
Tesla parked near me has a bumper sticker to the effect of "I bought this before Elon went crazy, sorry"
agsnu commented on Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf] govinfo.gov/content/pkg/F... · Posted by u/kalu
That's a legitimately good reason. Are the entirety of those remaining 1700 documents redacted? If so, then they should just redact parts that would uniquely identify those last surviving people and release the rest of the documents.
Sounds like a bunch of work. I thought the priority was reducing waste of taxpayer dollars?
agsnu commented on Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport mediaite.com/news/breakin... · Posted by u/mzmzmzm
Right.
Helicopter was on Helicopter Route 4, per the map, apparently on course.
Aircraft was on approach to Runway 33, apparently on course.
That helicopter route crosses the approach to runway 33.
That's controlled airspace. How did they both have clearance to be there?
We'll know more tomorrow as all the audio and radar recordings are examined.
They were almost certainly both cleared to maintain visual separation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXThttps://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi24/presentation/chen-h...