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cvoss commented on United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure liveandletsfly.com/united... · Posted by u/makaimc

kccqzy · a day ago

It’s not a buried sentence. It’s a section heading in large font saying “ The 777-200 Problem Is Not Safety. It Is Economics.”

Then there’s a whole paragraph stating “The Boeing 777-200 is not an unsafe airplane. As far as I can tell, that is not the issue even after the incident over Dulles over the weekend.”

Then just in case the reader jumped to conclusions, the first sentence of the conclusion again says it’s safe.

cvoss · 20 hours ago

You are explaining exactly why the headline is clickbait: The article does not support the conclusions implied by the headline.

> just in case the reader jumped to conclusions

The author is correcting a problem of his own creation. He has already misled the reader with his headline. He means for the reader to misunderstand... and click.

cvoss commented on United 777-200 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure liveandletsfly.com/united... · Posted by u/makaimc

cvoss · 21 hours ago

Any headline which reads "X after Y" is clickbait. Such a headline is constructed to imply that Y caused or led to or is in some way related to X. But then you read the article and find no connection at all. In this case the article confesses (rather late):

> The Boeing 777-200 is not an unsafe airplane. As far as I can tell, that is not the issue even after the incident over Dulles over the weekend.

X after Y headlines are always technically correct. Sure, X is presently true. And remember scary/salacious/enraging thing Y that happened recently? So X is after Y. Click me.

cvoss commented on US Tech Force techforce.gov/... · Posted by u/purple_ferret

ulrashida · a day ago

Figures this comes from the National Design Studio (https://ndstudio.gov/) which ironically also ignores the government's own advice on web standards and correct use of identifying headers.

One can assume the US Tech Force will perceive itself as also unfettered by those silly rules and good practices.

cvoss · a day ago

My actual first thought was "Is this a hoax?" precisely because the website did not identify itself as a US government website in the usual way for executive branch sites.

cvoss commented on EFF launches Age Verification Hub eff.org/press/releases/ef... · Posted by u/iamnothere

cvoss · 5 days ago

> we must fight back to protect the internet that we know and love.

This is not compelling. The internet I know and love has been dying for a long time for unrelated reasons. The new internet that is replacing that one is an internet that I very much do not love and would be totally ok to see lots of it get harder to access.

cvoss commented on Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics quantamagazine.org/what-a... · Posted by u/ibobev

YetAnotherNick · 13 days ago

Such a bad (AI written?) article. These kind of introduction to advanced topics feels like how to draw an owl tutorial where they spent so much time diving into what group is.

> The group of all rotations of a ball in space, known to mathematicians as SO(3), is a six-dimensional tangle of spheres and circles.

This is wrong. It's 3D, not 6D. In fact SO(3) is simple to visualize as movement of north pole to any point on the ball + rotation along that.

cvoss · 13 days ago

The quality of this article is par for the course for Quanta Magazine, sadly. I do not need to accuse the author of using AI to explain the data I'm seeing here. It feels like every submission on HN from Quanta garners the exact same discussion: The article is almost worthless because it presents complex ideas in such a cheap, dumbed-down, and imprecise way that it ceases to communicate anything interesting. (Interested readers can fare much better by reading other sources.) It's been this way for years. The phenomenon is almost Wolfram-Derangement-Syndrome-like.

cvoss commented on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost nbcnews.com/politics/poli... · Posted by u/jnord

throwaway21321 · 17 days ago

1 in 8 incoming freshmen at UCSD (a leading institution in the states) cant solve "x + 5 = 3 + 7"... Why would I pay 30k a year or whatever it is to get a degree from somewhere like that?

cvoss · 17 days ago

What does your (dubious) example have to do with the quality of post-secondary education? If it has any relevance, it's for the quality of secondary education.

cvoss commented on Underrated reasons to be thankful V dynomight.net/thanks-5/... · Posted by u/numeri

abrookewood · 19 days ago

Hadn't thought about this one previously ... "That if you were in two dimensions and you tried to eat something then maybe your body would split into two pieces since the whole path from mouth to anus would have to be disconnected, so be thankful you’re in three dimensions"

cvoss · 19 days ago

Another option is endo/exocytosis. No rule that says the path between ingress and egress has to be open all at once.

cvoss commented on We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs lalitm.com/fixits-are-goo... · Posted by u/lalitmaganti

ChrisMarshallNY · 23 days ago

I love the idea, but this line:

> 1) no bug should take over 2 days

Is odd. It’s virtually impossible for me to estimate how long it will take to fix a bug, until the job is done.

That said, unless fixing a bug requires a significant refactor/rewrite, I can’t imagine spending more than a day on one.

Also, I tend to attack bugs by priority/severity, as opposed to difficulty.

Some of the most serious bugs are often quite easy to find.

Once I find the cause of a bug, the fix is usually just around the corner.

cvoss · 22 days ago

The article addresses your concerns directly.

> In one of our early fixits, someone picked up what looked like a straightforward bug. It should have been a few hours, maybe half a day. But it turned into a rabbit hole. Dependencies on other systems, unexpected edge cases, code that hadn’t been touched in years.

> They spent the entire fixit week on it. And then the entire week after fixit trying to finish it. What started as a bug fix turned into a mini project. The work was valuable! But they missed the whole point of a fixit. No closing bugs throughout the week. No momentum. No dopamine hits from shipping fixes. Just one long slog.

> That’s why we have the 2-day hard limit now. If something is ballooning, cut your losses. File a proper bug, move it to the backlog, pick something else. The limit isn’t about the work being worthless - it’s about keeping fixit feeling like fixit.

cvoss commented on Why don't people return their shopping carts? behavioralscientist.org/w... · Posted by u/ohjeez

cvoss · a month ago

Are we talking about bringing your cart all the way back to the store entrance, or about placing your cart in one of the cart corrals located out in the parking lot? At a large store in the US, the latter are typically provided, and they are nearly always near at hand (maybe 5 spaces away). It's not a far walk.