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  1. To compound the issue, the Captain was extremely sleep deprived, and the two flight officers(who were in the seats at the time of the crash) had been out doing drugs and drinking alcohol the night before, so they were all mentally impaired.

  2. Two things:

    First, as Dunkelfalke said, doing delta comparisons between ground and air speed as an indicator is not reliable at all, due to winds etc.

    Second, GPS isn't very reliable during storm conditions, like what AF447 flew through, so would thus not be trustworthy.

  3. Re:could be a technicality on VMware Touts Dismissal of Linux GPL Lawsuit (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    As someone who's developed and/or adapted drivers to be compatible with the hypervisors, there were some major architectural differences from the start, and those only grew larger. One major difference was that in ESX, the Linux kernel ran in parallell with the hypervisor, while in ESXi, the Linux kernel runs on top of the hypervisor, which makes a huge difference.

  4. Re:could be a technicality on VMware Touts Dismissal of Linux GPL Lawsuit (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    One factor that was highlighted in the original lawsuit back when it was filed was that Helwig aimed his complaint at ESXi, based on alleged claims of infringement in ESX. The thing is, ESX was already discontinued and no longer distributed at that point, and the underlying architecture is significantly different between ESX and ESXi.

    So basically, it looks like Helwig and his cronies tried to hijack one software, based on an alleged infringement in another software

  5. Because you may be able to discern a pattern that is not revealed in any single isolated study. To turn around an old folk saying, instead of seeing individual trees, you suddenly start seeing a forest. Each tree will still be its own entity, but you suddenly have a large pattern that each individual tree didn't provide a clue for.

    There was something similar in clinical psychology and in psychiatry a few years back, regarding autism. A team performed a meta-study of various autism studies, and found a pattern of across-the-board reduced life expectancy for people with autism, around 5 years lower than the global average life expectancy. None of the individual studies had shown a hint at such a large pattern, but all of a sudden there it is. None of the follow-up studies currently being done is showing any signs of refuting that. If anything, it looks like it will get worse, as we get more data from less developed nations.

  6. That depends entirely on the telecom.

    If Telia or Tele2 says something is beneficial for me, I'll be skeptical. If Bahnhof says something is good for me as a consumer, odds are about 99.99% that I'll agree with them, since they have a history of going to court to try and protect consumers, and protest against other corps and government etc.

  7. Re:Dubyah Tee Eff? on Adobe is Considering Whether it Wants To Design Its Own Chips (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you're missing out on actual industry jargon. Rendering is the process of assembling all the bits and pieces together, and it can be a very time and resource consuming process when done in high quality. For a movie, you might easily be working with 40 to 50 layers, describing shadows, lighting, motion tracking, depth data, then you're applying all the effects(such as noise, blur, colour changes etc etc etc). In some few cases, you still do it at twice the resolution you intend it to display at, and then scale down to the desired resolution, for maximum quality. Now repeat this for every frame. Wait a while. Might have to wait a bit longer. Ok, this looks good, now we encode it. Which can take quite a few hours too, for the desired quality.

  8. Re:Mouses have their uses, but are WAY overused. on 'I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse For a Week and It Was Amazing' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you work with individual files or directories, or if they are sequential. However, if you need to copy, for example, those 3 images, that one image, those 2 images, from within one photoshoot, and they are not sequential with each other, the mouse is MUCH faster, especially if you get up to more than 20-30 files that need to be selected and copied. Only if you use something like Midnight Commander or similar, does the keyboard approach the speed and ease of the mouse in such a situation.

  9. Re:How long will you have to watch vacation pics.. on 15 Years After Announcing the 1GB SD Card, Lexar Unveils 1TB SD Card (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The weekend is not just about the 6 hour race, but the support races, qualifying, open pitlane, meeting drivers and other fans etc

  10. No risk of missing track action(better to have tried to take the shot, and have a data failure, than to have stood there like an idiot, flipping cards, while the action happened), no fiddling with cards while in a crowd, no fiddling with cards while your fingers are frozen stiff etc.

    But yeah, since your reference case was a wedding, your use case is different. Around a track, we can't exactly ask the drivers to hold up for a minute, just because we need to swap a card :p

  11. Re:Frame by frame? on VLC Passes 3 Billion Downloads (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for smooth seeking back and forth. No matter what hardware or OS, using the timeline to seek back and forth is choppy and clunky.

  12. Oh, these cards will be used in cameras too.

    Like I said in another post, a couple of years ago, I filled up multiple 128GiB cards with images and videos of the 6 Hours of Spa race weekend(recordings, still image sequences of the cars in motion to try and get that perfect shot, HDR shots of the cars when standing still etc). And, since you're limited in just how much you can bring in at many races, you can't exactly setup external HD's etc etc.

  13. Re:How long will you have to watch vacation pics.. on 15 Years After Announcing the 1GB SD Card, Lexar Unveils 1TB SD Card (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just like the 256GiB and 512GiB cards changed usage patterns for those of us who snap a lot of photos, so will this card. Like you say, you can take long high-quality recordings, and still fit a lot of still images.

    For example, a few years back, I filled up multiple 128GiB cards with photos and recordings of the 6 Hours of Spa weekend(and let me tell you, trying to take good photos of cars going 250km/h or more is not easy, hence a lot of 15-20 image sequences etc). Just needing 1 card for the weekend will be nice.

  14. Re:Why local privilege escalations matter on New Linux Crypto-miner Steals Your Root Password and Disables Your Antivirus (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You forget the people who install a user friendly distro on the advice of their supposedly tech competent friends or relatives, or have had Linux installed by them. The same people who then come and say "I've given them a default setup, and I no longer get any virus calls, because they have Linux now", in a very arrogant manner.

    And even competent people make mistakes in configuration.

  15. Why local privilege escalations matter on New Linux Crypto-miner Steals Your Root Password and Disables Your Antivirus (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is an example of why local privilege escalations should never be scoffed at. You can blather all you want about permissions etc, but only one slip is required, and you're shit out of luck

    The sad thing is that I've had to argue this point for 20 years now

  16. You mean the data a totalitarian surveillance-espousing company has gathered and funded via massive invasion of privacy through mass surveillance, scraping of public sources and hiding behind a paywall, trespassing etc. Given all that, Google should rather pay back every damn bit they've violated both civilized behaviour, as well as democracy.

    Oh, and in your Google cheerleading, you forget that Google has a business presence in the UK too, so yes, UK laws and policies do apply to those entities.

  17. Add in effects, virtual instruments, all of those requiring working RAM too. Oh, and while actually creating and editing, you can have way more than 8 channels too.

  18. Re:Trump fingerprints on Elon Musk Pulled Out of Settlement With SEC At Last Minute (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Then you're wrong. Corporatism, with the corporate leaders as part of the power elite, was always one of the five pillars of fascism, and you saw it in Italy, in Spain, in Nazi Germany, in the various banana republics etc. However, due to ignorance, a lot of people in the 60's and later effectively redefined it to become something generic, basically anything they didn't agree with.

  19. Re:I'll tell you how they made it just be watching on How the Weather Channel Made That Insane Hurricane Florence Storm Surge Animation (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't do it in real-time with Blender, not with that detail level.

    So no, you do NOT know how they did it.

  20. Quite a lot of people fail to appreciate just how bad, and how sudden, burnout can be. How you can go from something you love one month, and the next month, you suddenly start feeling physically ill while doing it. You lose what spark drove you and everything starts to become by rote. You start to only care about getting it done, no matter how, instead of getting it done right/safe, for example.

    Note, I'm not talking about Linus here, but in general. A colleague of mine went from loving what he was doing, to noticing that he was just starting the trend of going through the motions, so he quickly decided that either he could continue working in the field, with a diminishing spark, or he could keep coding as a hobby, and perhaps, in the long run, retain the spark. He chose to keep it as a hobby, and is now switching career.

  21. Re: Fixing open source... on How Can We Fix The Broken Economics of Open Source? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is, you strongly limit yourself to a very small niche of people who either choose to remain with the same-old, or are mentally locked to it due to having a hard time dealing with change from what they grew up with(autistic people often have severe problems with that issue, for example). So, how do you get that business to sustain itself when you lose a large part of the initial customer base?

  22. Re:Sisu vs sissy on Regular Sauna Users May Have Fewer Chronic Diseases (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    If the saunas are 50C, there's a big problem with them, they've essentially become incubation chambers for bacteria and viruses.

  23. Re:Sisu vs sissy on Regular Sauna Users May Have Fewer Chronic Diseases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But it's not right without some steam from time to time :p

  24. Re:Sisu vs sissy on Regular Sauna Users May Have Fewer Chronic Diseases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The benefit is of the really hot - > very cold -> very hot -> very cold cycle is that it stimulates the circulation really well, it's very effective at getting your skin really clean. Also, the hot temperatures are too high for many viruses and bacteria to survive. Unlike 40-50C water.

    And that's really the secret to the nordic sauna, properly done, you wash yourself really thoroughly, and rinse off with cold water. Then you go into the sauna for a while, use branches of birch or asp or similar to scrape your skin, then you go out and rinse in cold water(in the winter you go out and roll around in the snow, or take a dip in a hole in the ice on a lake. Really enjoyable, and you feel absolutely renewed.

  25. Re:Sisu vs sissy on Regular Sauna Users May Have Fewer Chronic Diseases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, the person just introduced him to the way us nordics enjoy it, instead of the cater-to-anglo-saxon-swine-ahem-I-mean-anglo-saxon-tourists saunas.

    A number of hotels I've been to here in the nordic countries have 4 saunas, 2 for men, 2 for women, one of each set to tourist or children level, one for nordic style(minimum 90C etc), complete with signs identifying them, and yet, wouldn't you know, there's always some subhuman from the UK, the US or Canada that goes into the nordic sauna, then leaves the door open because "it's too hot, I couldn't enjoy it".