this article is absolutely brutal to read, was it written by ai? how did this even get upvoted enough to have comments on the first page?
Readit Newsir77 commented on Spending too much time at airports thezvi.substack.com/p/spe... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
people here keep saying that this is targeted at big companies/corporations. the big company that i work for explicitly block uploads of data to these services and we're forbidden to put anything company related in there for many reasons, even if you use your own account, we don't have 'company accounts'.
so no, i can't see companies getting all excited about buying $250mo/user licenses for their employees for google or chatgpt to suck in their proprietary data.
ir77 commented on ChatGPT could never get a PhD in geography garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/garymarcus
last week i broke down and bought the 20$ subscription because i was excel lazy and wanted to see what supposedly state of the art AI could do to help me parse my kids baseball team's statistic... and boy am i confident more than ever that humanity is not doomed and there won't be AI taking over jobs anytime soon.
the amount of time i spend typing out "you've changed something i didn't ask" is incredible, the only positive i get is that it's fun to verbally abuse AI for how inaccurate and deliberate with errors it is.
i would not take a single answer from chatgpt without actually doing a sanity check. if it throws up on an excel that has 12x30 data matrix of one dimensional data, i couldn't imagine the garbage it spews out if you're using it to modify something actually business essential.
My favorite application of dead reckoning is the early 80's Honda system to display the car location on a map. While testing the system, there were times where the car showed itself off of the road. After looking into it further, they learned the map maker had taken some liberties with the exact position of the road, and the vehicle was correct.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38135979
that's literally no different than what Google Maps does in my car while in CarPlay mode. It's like Apple neuters it and don't give it full gyro/compass data, because when driving it constantly moves the "car" anywhere from 90 to 270 degress and keeps it there for a few seconds until it figures this out again. I checked all possible permissions and still can't figure it out.
Never happens on the Apple Maps, although I have 0 trust in siri and apple maps, especially when we travel to europe, i feel like i'm an experiment for apple to see how much off straight forward route it can make me take.
ir77 commented on More people are getting tattoos removed gq.com/story/why-is-every... · Posted by u/speckx
all the tramp stamps and terrible back tattoos from early 2000s?
i see more aging hipsters than ever with sleeves and they seem to keep adding, so i wonder if this is "genre" specific.
ir77 commented on The F-35 as a Subscription Service xxtomcooperxx.substack.co... · Posted by u/sorokod
Probably not negative, but component maintenance is a huge longtail revenue stream for avionics. Pretty much every electronic and mechanical component has to be pulled periodically and tested, which costs, and replaced or refurbished. My first proper job, that's how they made the majority of their revenue. They lost money on the development effort, maybe broke even after initial sales, and profited off the fact that aircraft are kept around for decades and every 5 years their part had to be pulled and sent back to them for testing and replacement.
The more Airbus or Boeing own inside the aircraft, the more they can play into this model. 787 is a great example of Boeing hurting themselves through their outsourcing, but greatly assisting their suppliers.
yes, what you're talking about is true for the supplier side, but it's still not accurate for A/C mfg. operators own the a/c and all the associated bits that would end up getting sent out for service, and they're the ones that are paying service fees to those OEM suppliers that supplied the A/C in the first place.
these day's there's not many "parts" outside of fuselage and flight IP that someone like Boeing/EMB, etc. owns that wasn't outsourced:engines, air data system, actuations, cabin, flight controls, landing gear, etc.. THere's nothing really that the A/C mfg could "service" to ever make back a 300mil airframe. the A/C sell for the fixed cost, sometimes the operator gets to select their own engine, but othewise they buy it for cash, not for future services. boeing and other A/Cs would not survive on maintenance plans because there's very little they actually maintain.
ir77 commented on The F-35 as a Subscription Service xxtomcooperxx.substack.co... · Posted by u/sorokod
I have read that the base price of a Boeing/Airbus jet is typically negotiated below zero, based on the decades of maintenance contracts and spare parts that will have to be purchased over its lifetime.
the above is absolutely true on the commercial engine side, especially for government subsidized companies such as RR... there is a big contention against RR's practices but most mfgs still give the engines at a very large discount, not negative. i don't think it's true for the actual airframe, the numbers would be completely off and airframe does not have the same going back to the factory for refurb requirements.
ir77 commented on The F-35 as a Subscription Service xxtomcooperxx.substack.co... · Posted by u/sorokod
The part I thought was interesting was how Israel “secured rights to modify” their F35 deliveries. Like… what kind of airplane that costs 100s of millions requires additional contracts for “replace component” rights? How insane is this contract? Its so unreasonable to assume that the value of the fighter to the manifacturers is only in the maintenance. Its like the BMW heater subscription, only for national defence.
in past life i worked on the engine...
during development and going into first flight, it was fairly open discussion that israel 'was' an original partner whom was funded by usa, and thus why israeli flag was not on the a/c during promo but israel and their tech companies had input into development.
many times it was also discussed that israeli pilots would ask to have their engines deliver above spec thrust, sort of like tunning your turbo car... it created a whole logistical black hole but it certainly was technically possible. perhaps 15 years later someone finally figure out how to cater to that market.
ir77 commented on TV+ Losing $1B Annually as Apple Services Falter macrumors.com/2025/03/20/... · Posted by u/Tomte
this is another distraction product from apple's core that took away resources, time and overall effort of maintain the base product at the expense of branching out and growth chasing.
i never understood TV+ and used to get it for a long time, until the latest price increase, as part of the apple one package. and we still never watched it. it seems there are some hard core fans of the limited content, but to me apple was always like 'disney' and disney already has a phenomenal family-wide content for relatively stupid cheap, why apple would think they can take that on was beyond me.
ir77 commented on Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers · Posted by u/Hold-And-Modify
It happens to me a lot, I just created a small automation to use https://cobalt.tools to download the content. Their loss, not mine.
why is your tool so hard to use on ios? the website instructions say you need a companion siri shortcut, but no where is there actually a shortcut listed.
combing and coming through searches and reddit all comes up with non-working siri shortcuts that complain that the url is not found.