It doesn't sound like GP is saying we have to do away with audio, just that it's absurd to stick to _just_ audio. Great to have a screen that shows "Clear for option 25R etc etc". I think I saw the latest Cirrus planes have something like that, doing live transcription of tower/ATC calls.
EDIT: I will add I get that adding something like that to a general aviation cockpit is much easier than putting it on a commercial 787, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
it isn't really just audio though. The pilot is staring at things while talking, and there are automated systems like TCAS that provide alarms and visual indications as well. And a lot of commercial airliners have HUDs.
If anything, the helicopter needed more avoidance technology from the sounds of it. And that has more to do with the lack of integration the military does with civilian systems.
This was a perfect example where audio fell short. The ATC couldn't know if the heli was referencing the same aircraft. Some sort of digital display + highlighting would fit here.
It's really sort of the opposite. You don't see 727s or MD-80s at the terminal anymore (freight somewhat excepted). Airliners are used constantly, wear out and get replaced/sent to other countries. Buying another computer is a negligible cost in a new 787 or retrofit into anything an airline currently flies.
But there are tons of flying general aviation planes that are from the 50s/60's, and a long tail going back even further than that. Some of them don't even have a radio to talk on. Or an electrical system to run it.
Mandating ADSB took many years, and still has exceptions carved out. And that's a fairly simple technology. There are companies that build it all into a replacement tail light LED "bulb" to provide compliance for ~$2000.
Still that might be 5-10% of the value of your 1977 Cessna 152. If you take the cheap airframes out of the sky, that makes new pilots getting their 1500 hours more expensive before they can go get a job on the big boy planes.
I attended Northeastern from 2010-2013. Fundies (the freshman-level functional programming courses) was fundamental (ha) to my growth as a software developer. It taught me how to reason about data and how to design programs (the literal name of the textbook).
I know a lot of students hated it—frankly those were mostly the students that it seemed were only doing computer science programs because they’d heard they could make a lot of money in the field. The “real nerds” all seemed to love it, and now nearly 15 years later those are the engineers in my network who have built the most impressive systems and products.
I guess I’ll have to update my default instructions for recruiters from “automatically interview anyone with a degree from Northeastern” to add “if they graduated before 2025”
I can't find a person who didn't initially make the fun-dies joke, then later come around to it, myself included. Sometimes you don't realize someone helped you until years later.
That's a good thing. I don't know whether your assertion about the breakdown between "real nerds" and the other camp is accurate or not, but I think this point stands on its own regardless--learning is hard. It's uncomfortable. It's unpleasant. If it isn't, you're not being pushed hard enough. So what's the point of asking students how they feel about it? Why make strategic decisions based on those data?
I'm genuinely curious, not trolling or anything. It seems completely baffling to me that educators behave this way, and I'd really love to understand why.
My take: if a given task is not fun, then it is work. People on average do not enjoy work. They do not like doing work, let alone doing it well. Training kids to do work well, without any pleasure, necessitates heavy accountability enforced by management, which brings a slew of its own requirements and complexities.
Schools already handle many cross-competing concerns across stakeholders (PTA, Taxpayers, Town Government, State Government), so I suspect they would want to reduce their enforcement & oversight load. They'll choose a teaching style that makes everyone happy or at least complacent, even if they know "fun is not learning".
I’m scheduled to donate one of mine to a stranger in a few weeks. Similar story here—saw Scott Alexander’s story, did some research, decided it was something i had to do.
I’m donating through the national kidney registry, which means that I (and five close family members) will pop to the top of the transplant list if I ever need one.
How long do you stay at the top of a transplant list?
My spouse recently had a kidney removed due to cancer (she's fine, caught it early).
If she ever needs a new kidney I've been hoping I'm compatible, we share the same blood type. However, if I can give up my kidney to move her permanently up the list, that's worth considering for me.
You'll want to confirm before you donate -- it depends on what hospital/organization you're donating through. In my case, I'm prioritized for being a donor and five of my family members are also prioritized. If a one of those family members receives a kidney out of need then I am still prioritized (effectively giving me/my family two kidneys for the price of one). Note that you can designate five family members to be prioritized, but only the first one in need will be prioritized.
This stays in effect as long as the NKR exists -- there's no expiry.
If you need to donate to your wife and aren't compatible, separate from the NKR vouchers, there are "kidney exchange" programs where pairs of people in that situation are matched with each other. So you'd donate to someone else, and at the same time someone would donate to your wife. Actually calculating the match among all those pairs is a fun NP-hard optimization problem.
It's a match-criteria-based list, so you stay at the top until you die or receive a matching transplant. If you are at the top of the list but don't match an available organ, the organ goes down the list to the highest match that can be brought to an operating room in time.
Edit: Geography is important too. The kidney can only survive outside of a (cardiovascularly-functioning) body for minutes at a time. If you are at the top of a list but the kidney is across the country and you don't have access to a private jet, it's going to someone else. This is the "loophole" that Steve Jobs used to get a liver transplant - Since he had a fleet of private jets available to him, he could be simultaneously listed for transplant on multiple lists.
No, organs for transplant can't be stored that way. They can only exist outside of a functioning human body for a handful of hours; they measure the times in minutes.
Was yours a living donor or deceased donor? In my case, they brought several recipients of different organs together in the same hospital so that the transplants could be carried out quickly. This was a deceased donor case though, so they may have had a tighter window to meet.
off topic: do you have a name or a link for the paper referenced? My company just moved to a new office that's "coincidentally" closer to the CEO's house, and I'd love to send it to him.
I have long considered building a code generator that only serves "nice" codes.
The standard implementation would use a hard coded set of patterns. The enhanced version would pair automatic random code generation with a public site where members of the public can decide in real time whether a given code is "nice" before it's sent along to the intended recipient.
(note @tptacek if you're reading this, I swear it's (mostly) a joke)
Hmm for 2 digits you only have one "nice" code (69). For three digits it's the same (069). For four digits you do get two (0069 and 6969), but I think you need a lot of digits before "nice" codes are effective.
I've always been under the impression that popular TOTP implementations were specifically designed to produce "nice" codes. They always have repeated digits, like 202838.
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