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"unbecoming" is the first word that comes to mind. Can't say it really surprises me, though.

It's a bit of semantics, sure, but there's a subtle difference. In something like Java, there's a very distinct complication phase, the compilation is successful (type checks pass) and the bytecode is shipped off, and someone else runs that bytecode later. In PHP, you ship the code itself and the compilation phase is essentially the same as runtime. There is no distinct phase where types are pre-checked and analyzed. In PHP, all the syntax and type checking happens during (a phase of) runtime.


> So they are useless. My car warns me even if i don't look.

No, they serve a very specific purpose -- (attempting) to ensure the driver is at the controls and paying attention.

Don't confuse the FSD attention "nag" warnings with collision warnings. The collision warnings will sound all the time, with and without FSD enabled and even if you're not looking at the road. If you don't start slowing down quickly, Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) will slam on the brakes and bring the car to a stop.


I remember a lot of, 'a sad lad had glad fad'. And then yes, it descended into nonsense from there on out.


Probably a subtle push to sell the cloud-hosted Enterprise version. I bet the on-prem Enterprise will slowly stop getting all the latest-and-greatest features. Producing and supporting the on-prem version has extra costs, but probably doesn't bring in enough (extra) revenue to justify working on it as much.


Here's a good follow-up video from the same news org: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ICG0iaHqw

Spoiler: They ended up dragging the husband through the (raging, debris filled) river after he hiked himself down the mountain, instead of letting the helicopter pick him up. Not 24-hrs later, they were asking for private helicopter pilots to go do exactly the same sort of thing. According to the video above, the pilot had checked in with incident command at the Hickory regional airport, and they were only selling fuel to pilots who joined the rescue mission with them. The town manager in this video is stretching to defend the fire chief.


They make millions of dollars every year. They can afford the training, they'd just rather have better metrics and not pay for expensive training, just to make the stock look better.


The also spend millions of dollars every year. I don't think many airline companies are actually very profitable right now. Take a look at any airline stock for the last 10 years, they were at a plateau before the pandemic, they are just at a lower plateau after.


I don't know much about US airlines but Cathay Pacific made a record breaking profit this year and they aren't even at full capacity https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-13/cathay-pa...


They must have other problems then because they are doing more poorly than US-based airline stocks:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Cathay+Pacific+stock&oq=Cath...


That's not really how the stock market works. Also Cathay pays profit to its shareholders in the form of dividends.


It was their first profit/dividend since the pandemic:

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/cathay-pa...


The COVID restrictions here were only removed last year so that makes sense.


From Southwest 4Q and Full Year 2023 results [1]:

> Full year 2023 operating revenues were a record $26.1 billion, a 9.6 percent increase, year-over-year

> Full year net income of $498 million, or $0.81 per diluted share

I'll say again... They have _plenty_ of money (record-breaking, even!) to train their pilots on the differences between two aircraft models. It's not that they can't afford it, they'd just rather not spend the money unless absolutely forced to, because a better stock price is their primary goal/motivation.

[1] https://www.southwestairlinesinvestorrelations.com/news-and-...


They must be bleeding somewhere because their stock is doing horribly. Record profits and yet investors are not optimistic about it for some reason. Also, I'm not sure if we are taking into account inflation? Like I recorded record income this year personally, but I don't feel very rich. If you look at their google page:

https://www.google.com/search?q=southwest+airline+profit&oq=...

Look at March 2023, they are way up until you hit the bottom : operating income is really down and they are bleeding cash like crazy.


That would match with the leading mis-navigation theory. She and her navigator were fine and healthy, as was the plane. They were looking for the island to land on, but had messed up the navigation and were sufficiently off-course. There were US Navy boats in the area of the island that heard their radio calls. There was no emergency -- they just reported to be searching for the land that they should've found. Presumably they flew until they ran out of fuel and likely set it down in the water as gently as possible.


You missed the joke. It's been so long now since HL2 that the joke is to find any implication of "3" (or even work back to three via vague associations between random things) and say "HL3 Confirmed!".


How do you make "organic detergent"? Was it grown without synthetic pesticides, or...? I'm pretty skeptical of the word "organic" getting thrown around in marketing... so I'm really curious what makes a detergent qualify as organic.


Apologies, I got the USDA certification wording wrong: it is a USDA Certified Biobased Product.


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