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It's more that they have the ability to control the pressurisation manually in case the automatic system fails.

Ultimately the pilots have to be able to turn anything off that might malfunction.

Also even if you (try to) take capabilities away they are by definition quite smart people and could probably figure a way round if they really wanted to.

The difference between Science and Religion is not proof, because nothing is ever really proved in Science. The difference is that for Science there are clear criteria for dis-proof. A science fact is a fact not because we proved it but because we have repeatedly failed to disprove it.

So if there is an answer to the question what would it take for you to disbelieve in X. its Scientific if there is no answer it is religion

There is an answer to the question: what would it take for you to stop believing in the 1st law of thermodynamics? Everyone pretty much agrees what it would take and it has never happened.

So to thw case in point. What would it take for someone to disbileve that we are in a simulation. Answer Nothing because you can always assume a more complex simulation. Ergo it falls in the realm of religion.

Not really. It depends on the quality of the measure and any underlying assumptions. If the target is knowing who is the fastest then a simple stopwatch (measure) is 100% aligned with the target. So the measure becoming the target is completely fine.

I am thinking of how runners all lean forward just before the finish line. This must slow their overall speed but gets a part of their body to the measurement datum slightly quicker.

I admit its not a huge deviation between the measurement and the target but still it is an attempt to affect the measurement by means other than running fastest

For example I am trying to figure out how I would split each line on a delimiter. I cant figure out what the syntax is

dt [ "," split ] pls prints split

dt [ "," split ] map pls prints stack underflow

I think I could definitely use this if it had better docs and I could figure out how to.

in the 90's one search engine after another went this way. Each new engine worked for a while then advertisers started to game it and it gradually became useless.

It actually impressive that google has managed to avoid this flaw for so long.

The only thing I am not sure of is have advertisers finally found ways to game the system or is google doing it to themselves having forgotten why we all started using it in the first place.

I reckon that chat GPT will end up like the Douglas Adams HHGTG dystopian elevators at some point too :)

You can add site:twitter.com to the google search to restrict the results.

"1957" china balloon site:twitter.com gives 677 results so that might explain why you don't get the result you want with a general search. without a _site_ filter its going to have to pick only one or two tweets

Surprised by this error from time and date .com the earth does not rotate once every 24H of course, that's the time it takes for the sun to be back in the same position (mean solar day) the earth rotates once every sidereal day 23h 56m 4s (minus the 1.55ns)

I am thinking this could be like DNS serial numbers. Possibly the code was written with a integer serial number (ok using signed is wrong) but then someone else thinks to make things easier for humans we will use this date format for the serial. Its quite possible that was never in the spec given to the programmer.

DNS serial numbers are 32 bit unsigned and the convention is to use YYYYMMDDNN

So this _convention_ breaks in year 4295, or if someone forgot to put unsigned 2148. It is only a convention though DNS only cares that the serial increases.

Blaming users for clicking links in emails I also agree is stupid. Many company systems require (or at least offer) the users to click on links in emails, Jira, service now, workday, gmail meetings.

So if you don't want people clicking on links in emails then stop sending email with bloody links in them for everything

PS. I always get my annual security training by a link in an email

Look at English. US vs UK vs Australia vs South Africa. These were all once the same language. Cypriot Greek is another good example with some millennia of divergence.

It amuses me when we brits complain about US spelling when in some cases it’s we that changed and not North America.

I was able to get into the backup and determine the password manager used an unencrypted sqlite DB with English column names and I was able to give my wife her passwords back.

WTF? No wonder it got pulled!

I am curious as to why you don’t just use the native password manager?