Society for Prevention of Ümlaut Abuse 🇨🇦 🇩🇪

Aviation and Photography enthusiast, Hiker. Retired IBM technical support for mainframe compilers.
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@mundis223 @airmainengineer There's a flag across the landing area from the couple in the right foreground that suggests it's gusty. Stall could have initiated with a sudden drop in wind: failure to provide sufficient margin in approach speed.

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@HalcombeL @RSE_VB A similar--though admittedly less pleasant--effect of annual refreshers with the same text each year leads to recognition of the text without much actual refreshing.

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@Salty_Sea_Dog1 @TRobinsonNewEra Ordinarily they'd use baseball bats, but have learned you get arrested for possession of a weapon for carrying one.

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@DaveWallsworth Stopped there in '57 on the way to Canada in a Super Constellation. Sadly too young to remember it...

[Zara Zhang @zarazhangrui]

This paper gives a fancy name to a problem you can already feel in your bones

"The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons." Checking AI output requires deep expertise. Deep expertise comes from doing grunt work for years. And grunt work is the first thing AI eats

So we're building systems that need expert supervision while dismantling the only known process for making experts

The paper calls the shared pool of human expertise the "cognitive commons." Every profession drinks from it. Nobody's refilling it.

By eliminating junior roles, each company is acting totally rationally, and the collective result: a profession that can't catch AI's mistakes anymore because it never learned to do the work in the first place

Who checks AI's homework in 15 years?

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@clark_aviation I've been wondering if translation of posts is diluting the "For you" stream with posts not previously seen.

Have switched to the "Following" stream for a better experience.

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@UntoldWarFacts Here's a 33 minute documentary of the Willow Run plant produced at the time:

https://t.co/XyWduGM1Av

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@ThinkingAtheist Give him a break, staging a proper disaster takes some practice.

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@ImtiazMadmood Had similar experience at the now defunct Osaka Rail Museum back in the early 1990's.

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@GoonerDaxx @Rainmaker1973 He's apparently at 6600 feet, cabin altitude in an airliner is higher.

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@elon_marz @integrity_to @ezralevant This used to be how the LCBO worked.

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@WolfgangRichtEU @PebbleEgg Actually they're supposed to use stones, so early in the morning is recommended to avoid burns.

[Society for Prevention of Ümlaut Abuse 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @bwrataj]

@Turbinetraveler And typically the Minnow MOA (Military Operating Area) in the middle of Lake Michigan stays closed for the week to avoid flight routing issues.

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@ATexanFirst @hjluks Same here. Quickly learned how to move my knee so the meniscus stayed in place, and 50 some years later don't think about it much.

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@mgmidget @lauriewired You do have to buy the adjunct processors. They run "eligible" code which includes not just bytecode but jitted code as well.

In mixed code like COBOL+Java, it will switch between adjunct and regular processors at dispatch boundaries.

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@InsideLucysHead Went to dinner in an Indian restaurant with a colleague, who asked if they had any fresh peppers. Momentarily puzzled, the waiter apologized and said they only had yesterday's Toronto Star or Globe and Mail.

[Society for Prevention of Ümlaut Abuse 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 @bwrataj]

@lord_nougat @mechanical_4u Indeed. The handle is attached to a shaft via helical slots and pins, so if you stop cranking, the handle is ejected. If the pilot is managing the start, the ejected handle is shown to the pilot.

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@AIMuhammadUK @TRobinsonNewEra Now do the per capita offense rate.

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@flightradar24 Martinair Toronto to Amsterdam in the late '80s before they went freight only.

Slightly delayed departure due to a "stowaway" who changed seats during the passenger count and was counted twice.

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@CraigBaird The pictured aircraft is a Supermarine Stranraer, not a Catalina as suggested by the text.

(The Catalina was referred to as a Canso in Canadian service.)