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Comment Re:Why?! (Score 1) 100

Wireless controllers have a reliability rate SUBSTANTIALLY lower than wired controllers.

They picked carbon fibre that was past it's best by date from storage.
The "source" wasn't fine if it's cast offs. Details matter. If it were a prototype used for evaluative testing without live occupants, all good. But that's not what we're talking about here.

Have you ever actually worked with wireless electronics or protocols? Here's a hint: Bluetooth and WiFi are not protocols that should be used in any life-or-death situation. There are ways to use them, and to do so safely; this wasn't even CLOSE to that.
RF interference can come from many places, in an emergency situation a partially faulty motor can saturate RF bands and block transmissions. I've worked in environments were a failed electric motor wiped out an entire network. You can;t eliminate all risk, but you can certainly increase safety margins. Now imagine a minor failure eliminating their control system.

Comment Re:Nightmare Workplaces += AI Bullshit Story (Score 1) 140

What did you expect Biden to do about the massive purges of chickens? Hatch more himself? Why is Trump getting credit for the natural recovery of the flocks? Why isn't that the proper response?

"Fraud" in Medicaid" Show it. Go ahead. Come up with REAL BILLIONS of fraud found in Medicaid. I'll wait for your sources.

You are simply dodging the original question with some made up bullshit, like MAGA always do.

Comment Why?! (Score 5, Insightful) 100

Why?!

I truly find this story uninteresting after learning enough regarding decision making on the project.

The decision making was so poor they used a wireless controller as the only real controls.

They not only picked questionable materials to build it from, they picked questionable sources for that material, skipped doing any real testing of the material while ignoring legitimate concerns.

Pushing the limits is one thing, but so many of these decisions were just simply daft.

Hardwired controls with wireless for convenience; override the wireless in an emergency.

Check the sub before and after each launch, looking for material issues and documenting any changes. Not a cursory glance at it, but using equipment to actually scan the surface for defects as is used in related industries. (Ultrasonic, radio isotopes/xray, etc)

These two things alone would have increased the safety factor of this project immensely.

But ignoring them all? Boring. You made a coffin with a randomization factor

Comment So? (Score 1) 133

Someone still made those songs. If people like them, why should it matter if they are AI or not.

People have cognitive dissonance if something they like changes to something they don't like based on whether it was based on AI, I think.

It just seems really weird to me to be like, "Oh, I like this". and then go to "Made with AI, bleh". if you learn than AI was used in creating it. You didn't even know.

Comment Two different things (Score 1) 66

I agree that there shouldn't be chatbots that say they are licensed therapists.

On the other hand, I see nothing wrong with people talking to AI about their problems, as long as their privacy is respected.
Of course, you are *really* putting your trust in the company for your privacy. I personally would just use a generic model, there's too much stuff going on for them to care about me in specific.

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