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Comment Re:Regulations written in blood (Score 1) 137

Did you just claim that assertions made based on facts presented in preliminary report as well as references to another mishap in a similar culture and cultural references are all "not evidence"?

P.S. Why do you think Indians and Pakistani would behave like that in a restaurant?

Comment Re:Regulations written in blood (Score 0) 137

Correct. Because those are countries with very similar culture of corruption that used to be same country within living memory, who both base their current systems largely on this heritage.

As this is looking like suicide (due to one second discrepancy in switch off of fuel to each engine, i.e. "click - click", not "double click" (unless reporting resolution is 1 second, and whichever one did it hit it just at right time where one hit previous second on the tracker, and one on the next).

Summary: this raises more questions than gives answers. Wait for final report, as that will involve Boeing and FAA to a much greater degree and there will be more time to ascertain documentation and identity of pilots among other things.

Comment Re:Regulations written in blood (Score 1) 137

Granted. Lots of modern accidents are about just that level of a freak mishap. For example last year a US military training aircraft death came about because a pilot unplugged his harness after landing at specific time, in specific order, while bending in a specific way. Which led to it grabbing the ejection handle, and due to the order of things he was doing, he straitened up before noticing the problem, ejecting himself while no longer attached to the chute.

Comment Re:Regulations written in blood (Score 0) 137

Again, I remember the report from Pakistani crash. Very similar culture. They found that captain didn't even have a license after they dug through enough paperwork. It was forged. They also found that a very large percentage of all pilots had similar licensing issues because of pervasive culture of corruption.

P.S. If you browse my history, you'll find me reading 300+ page reports for relevant data.

Comment Re:Regulations written in blood (Score -1) 137

Problem is that subcontinental culture isn't that trustworthy when it comes to these sorts of checks. It's not quite as bad as other main state that came from the Raj, which found a massive plurality of pilots flying on forged licenses a few years ago after an accident investigation, but I would still be VERY careful in trusting preliminary findings.

So I'm going to wait for final findings in terms of figuring out what pilot experience is.

Comment Regulations written in blood (Score 2, Informative) 137

Someone probably accidentally poked a wrong set of switches, or they got caught in clothing or muscle memory of pilot was bad.

Unless it was clear unqualified pilot case or something similar, we'll probably get a new training regulation how to avoid this, or if this was a problem with switches themselves some kind of a fix (maybe a switch cover or similar) that will be deployed.

Comment Re:It's almost like... (Score 1) 74

AI comments are garbage, but I was on youtube since before it was bought by google. I've seen it being much, much worse. But this isn't really relevant to the topic, as topic is AI generated content, not comments.

If you get "AI stuff" you don't want to see, just keep telling youtube to recommend less of this (triple dot > not interested). I've found this working quite well. But best thing is to literally just consistently scroll past and ignore. It will go away very quickly.

Comment Re:It's almost like... (Score 1) 74

Addiction isn't a problem. It's a mechanism. Normal people are addicted to delicious food, drink, normative sexual attractors, etc. None of these are pathological.

It becomes pathological when it becomes damaging. Making tasty food is fine. Massive overeating is bad. Normal sexuality is good. Being a far activist nutbag fucking 20 strangers a day in unprotected manner and then claiming that HIV is a social construct to oppress gays is pathological (bonus points if you know what extremely well cited far left activist/philosopher I'm talking about).

Same thing here. Normal consumption of youtube offering videos you'd want to watch is perfectly fine. It becomes not fine when you allow yourself to go to the extreme.

It's why a large plurality of people do not get addicted to anything throughout their lives in spite of being constantly exposed to a lot of addictive things and impulses. And then there's a minority that gets very easily addicted. And the rest are somewhere in between.

So in the end, it is in fact a "you" problem. If you have a personality type that makes you easy to addict to things like youtube, it's a you problem. Rest of us normal people don't need to be heavily constrained just to keep you from addicting yourself. Just like we don't ban tasty food and drinks just because some people kill themselves before 40 though overeating, because they just get addicted. It's why we don't ban gay sex even though gay left wing activists have a tendency of being utterly incapable of controlling their desire to just fuck strangers every day with no protection. Etc.

Principle is that we don't put onerous limitations on normal people just because a tiny minority of people with a specific pathology have a problem with that something.

Comment Re:It's almost like... (Score 1) 74

There are two ways around that. First is being very active in hitting "not interested" after adding songs you like to a playlist (or just ripping them to a local storage). This will mostly remove it from the recommended page.

Second is to go to a song you like, and then scroll through recommendations on right side below the video. As in really scroll, for a few pages. You'll probably find something similar.

Comment It's almost like... (Score 3, Interesting) 74

It's almost like your feed is what you like to watch. Mine has "AI slop" only in the specific music genre I enjoy. As in specific type of music from themed from a specific sci-fi universe. And this "AI slop" is mostly excellent quality stuff. Good enough to grab the audio and put it on my phone to play in my car.

Everything else is still the same as always - channels I enjoy watching and their popular videos.

Now if you're a low memory persistence, medium IQ dopamine addict, you may actually get a lot of AI slop in your feed. As in actual slop, not the good stuff. Because that's what you actually like watching in short term, and then your low memory persistence means you fail to recognize it in before enough of the next video is watched by you so that algorithm assumes you'll click on the next one too. Which it is correct in assuming, as your low memory persistence will get you to click on it again and again.

And just because you hate yourself for liking AI slop, doesn't mean that youtube has a problem with AI slop. It's a "you" problem, not a "youTUBE" problem.

Comment Re:Same scandal, different country (Score 1) 18

No, actual special ops guys. The people who actually need to be fit, because they did overwhelming majority of work. So they needed to do daily runs etc, and tend to be very competitive with each other. So they all used same couple of fitness apps that tracked them so they could compare performance to each other.

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