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I guess in some cases lowering altitude could result in flight into terrain or possibly entering airspace where collision with other aircraft would be more likely ?

Not these days, with detailed terrain maps and GPS + GPWS.

The chances of colliding with anything else would be tiny. In case of other commercial jets zero, thanks to TCAS at the least.


GPWS = ground proximity warning system

TCAS = traffic alert and collision avoidance system


You are mean to lead - it solved serious issues with engines back then and enabling their use in many useful way, likely saving more people than it poisoned.

The fossil fuel industry really doesn’t need a devil’s advocate, they’ve got more lawyers than you can shake a stick at already.

Do you have evidence that it saved more people than it poisoned?

Well, if its GPL you are supposed to provide the source code to any binaries you ship. So if you fed GPL code into your model, the output of it should be also considered GPL licensed, with all implications.

Let me introduce to the awesomness of the BOSL2 screw module:

https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/screws.scad


This is amazing but the first time I needed to make a screw I needed to make one that used the NPT standard which this module still does not cover :)


BOSL2 is SO nice and powerful, can also highly recommend it! :)

Non corporate VR is actually doing some interesting things - but yeah, what Meta did with it was pure garbage.

I didn't mean it as VR being useless - I'm sure it can be useful for some applications or fun for gaming - my point was that you shouldn't fear getting left behind just for not having an Apple Vision Pro app or a land in the Metaverse :)

Another way to see this: Hammers can be useful, the Internet can be useful, but this doesn't mean that as a hammer manufacturer you should make your next hammer an IoT product ASAP or you will be left behind.


Well stated, agreed. :)

Just wanted to note that even after the bad publicity that companies like Meta (ugly avatars, unusable bland virtual spaces) or Apple (overpriced device with no software or content) have given to VR, some people tend to regard it as dead even though there is quite a vibrant user and creator community doing some incredible things (even just what people do with VRChat is amazing!). And there are even companies that seem to get it (Valve).


Yeah, that's like having a browser without without support for blockchain, semantic web or UML! No one would use it without these absolutely critical features!

Add to that various hardware shortages caused by the AI mania or more examples of AI missuse and I wonder where we might end up eventually if people will get even angrier.

I’m quite sure that these shortages aren’t caused by mania, but oligopolies, and unpredictable countries. In undistorted markets, these should be way shorter. A year, or two maximum. At least that what supply side told us in 2020, and early 2021. It seems and predictions also say, that the shortages are with us long term. It’s even more telling that some companies leave markets where these “shortages” are, ie huge profit margins.

Yep, Anubis-chan is super cute! :)

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