Clifford Richardson

So This is something that should be understood more: there has been a larger push to make CICs (Controllers in Command) standalone across the US. There was even some screenshots floating around of pi charts that would show red for any CICs that also worked a position. Midnight shifts or other low traffic times have often been staffed by two people in a cab. However also historically you'd have the CIC working some positions. Now this had its own caveats but one thing that certified controllers (CPCs) were torn about was the idea of keeping two on roster for a shift but essentially only having one control combined positions. Many thought it could lead to disaster eventuay and while it's easy to point at this ofc we need to wait for all the potential factors to be reviewed and assessed. What I instead want to clarify is this is something that was intended and is directed from higher levels of air traffic management. Now policy shifts slowly so it's not like the trump admin was the one that initially floated the idea and a lot of this is in the general theme of doing more with less that really has been the case since even as far back as Reagan. Still it's worth noting that such decisions like this can be undone by a single secretary on their authority. So why does Duffy not do that and fix this? the caveat is they really don't have enough people to make each shift three people (2 CPCs on position and an OS as CIC). There are some pushes to get more staff but it's complicated by the fact that the OKC academy is the single bottleneck for training. They tried to add more academies but it's been shut down in Congress (needs congress approval and OK congressmen won't want to relinquish a big benefit to them even if it makes things safer long term because jobs losses). This is a complicated issue and is not one sided but since people are talking more on the control side i want this to get more attention to get real meaningful fixes that CPCs are comfortable with. Yes they have a union, no that union is not helpful atm and Nick Daniels has shown them to be completely impotent in leadership ability against the current challenges. To preempt what normally comes up: yes i live in Sweden, but I'm American and have had strong ties to aviation through friends and being a licensed FAA pilot that also understands the air traffic side and listens to the controllers impacted by these issues. I don't try to talk out of my ass and instead just listen to the actual controllers working the job. We need to listen to the controllers more. They are the real data points not a shitty pie chart pushing for more standalone CICs (or CICs that just work CD). Staffing issues are not new. Duffy is absolutely inheriting the issues that really have been ramping up since the late 80s but he's the one with the role. As we say elsewhere: comes with the title, he can fix things.

@lexetscientia @paulg Fair enough we will probably not benefit arguing it since we disagree fundamentally on the scope of the issue. I don't agree it's as broad as life itself. And I don't think you agree it's smaller in scope. Have a good one

@CorvusCrypto @paulg That’s not an opinion. That’s an inability or refusal to understand the issue. And “pain” and other feelings are irrelevant. The issue is life versus extinction for a specific life form.

Some very simple math: if a country has 5% of the world's population and ability is evenly distributed, then 95% of the people who are best at any given thing will be born abroad.

@e0syn Same i guess. Didn't realize having AC in Europe was so special. Go Sweden i guess

mogging Europeans by using AC

Nothing. But outrage at a scary number is not a reason to legislate. Start with real problems. And I am of the opinion a replacement of one number with another is not itself a problem. If it causes cultural pain, or misalignment of values, or otherwise puts others in a problematic position i think it's best to look there and all other shouting of "this number is becoming bigger" is meaningless. You're free to disagree but that's my opinion and I do have real examples to point to of immigration leading to both pain and achievement of communities both to point at for this. It's just weird when the most outspoken cannot do so.

@CorvusCrypto @paulg There are no relevant “experiences”. This is a matter of simple math. What is wrong with you?

@TrisH0x2A The algorithm is funny. I have never seen anyone talk about NaNs and now i see this after this post x.com/corvuscrypto/s… Love it. More people using the standards to their fullest please!

NaN boxing IEEE 754 says a 64-bit float is NaN when all 11 exponent bits are 1 but it leaves 52 mantissa bits undefined and modern 64-bit pointers only use 47 bits LuaJIT, JavaScriptCore, and SpiderMonkey all exploit this every value in the language nil, true, false, integers, strings, pointers is stored inside a single 64-bit double one 8-byte field carries any type if the double is a real number it is just a normal float if the upper 13 bits are all 1 it is a NaN and the remaining bits carry the type tag and the payload this is the actual layout from LuaJIT's lj_obj.h

So you personally haven't experienced any problems with this? Interesting. I mean i do talk to people that have had issues with e.g. language or cultural clashes especially in NM. Weird you have zero but have this take. I'm not gonna demonize your experiences like I haven't others that actually shared. It makes you look muck more genuine than just repeating outrage sound bites

@CorvusCrypto @paulg Personal stories? The replacement is a biological fact. There are no feelings involved, and no stories to tell other than the story told by immigration data.

Great example of this where a mobile plumber mentioned the most annoying thing is customers don't show up on time when he needs to start a job. Good luck getting AI to fix that lol

One thing I'd love people in tech to understand is no, your typical plumber or electrician doesn't care about building a website or coding. They want to help their customers and just get things done. Don't try to push things that add friction and act like it was warranted in all cases and people that don't care are "luddites." Maybe instead ask them what their biggest problem is and go from there.

@paulg no. I don't give it that much thought i just select whatever button is closest. I'm sure in some apps i am an 80 year old woman that heard about a website from a newspaper

If a site or app forces me to answer some unnecessary question before I can continue, I always give a wrong answer. How did you hear about us? Radio. Does anyone else do that?

@thintechgodhead This is just the point where my partner and I just turn on the AC when it gets too hot. It's as simple as that here in Sweden 🤷‍♂️

end to the europe heatwave discourse should be that i, a man born and raised in texas and very used to dfw summers, am currently sprawled on a cooling mat made for dogs fighting for my life in germany

reminds me of some of my experiences. Me and another data platform dude sat with a lawyer who made it very clear that we could simplify a lot for us and customers by just simplifying how we mention data use. Then we tried, following internal rules on how to bring up such things, documentation etc., and got told it would disrupt too much of operations to do so🥲sometimes the call comes from within the house

"Whoever designed the cookie banner should go to jail." A founder friend said that to us recently. It's the blunt version of what most people building in Europe actually think. GDPR was designed to be risk-based. Somewhere along the way it became a compliance tax on building. The definition of personal data has been stretched so far that almost any dataset qualifies and almost any use is regulated. The legal basis for training AI on European data is so unclear that founders are routing around it or leaving entirely. The fix is not radical. Make GDPR reflect what it was designed to be: proportionate to actual harm, not theoretical risk. The Digital Omnibus is a real opportunity. Europe has the talent, the research, and the ambition. The political will is the only thing missing. Together with @jschildt, @petersarlin, @villigm, @joelhellermark, and @SabinaWizander, I wrote about what reform should actually look like in Sifted.

github.com/birdhalfbaked/… Gonna see if chrome accepts it in the web store. I doubt it, but here's the github link anyway

Just whipped this anonymization extension up for fun. Doesn't remove ads, does not intend to change core interaction features, only used by me to see if I interact differently when I can't see who posted something. Link in the comments

I think one thing that would help corroborate that is hearing actual personal stories where things actually happened. I'm sorry to say that at the moment it seems to be many up in arms over remote experiences that don't add up and thus becomes perceived as a feeling that people jump on rather than an actual problem. People generally like to hear about people's story not their thoughts about what has happened elsewhere once and is shared ad nauseum through the media outrage circuit. Tell us your story how your family or you were wronged and people will listen. Talk about how immigration has hurt you and your descendents. That's the way you make a point imo otherwise it does come off as just feelings yes.

@CorvusCrypto @paulg It's not about feelings at all. It's about life. This territory is for us, and for our descendants, not for the other 8 billion humans and their descendants.

generally I have found 11 to be incredibly stable and much better than 10. Of course experiences vary, but I generally am an optimist and believe things do improve over time, however I ALSO know that many people despise the UI pushes for things like ads and the Copilot integration. I just ignore them tbh and I haven't had issues

Windows 95 and 98 were certainly better than 3.1. No contention. Windows 7 was also better than XP. Windows 7 was almost impossible to bluescreen. XP wasn't. And 7 had massive security improvements over XP. Windows 10 was worse than 7, but not drastically. Definitely better than Vista and especially ME. Those sucked. I have used all of these operating systems. Except ME. Friend had it and hated it.

@t_blom maybe we all just let the internet be for bots and take coffees and such together again :)

The majority of replies on this platform now seem to come from AI 😞 We’re just speedrunning a future where it’s just AIs tweeting at each other.

Hmmm today I learned not enough people know you can add your own errors into the NaN class of values within IEEE-754 float implementations :P Nice to feel clever, but wasn't my idea! Thanks to a good standard

As the models get better and better (or rather the training set gets cleaner and cleaner I guess) using them to build out my autopilot has proven much easier. I still review all the code and correct some small mistakes but it's nice. I feel like we are reaching a good equilibrium

@samdotb Would be possible with something like this applied to language functions unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-i…

llms should really learn to copy code with tool instead of using tokens it's insane

@sdxsdx_ @BAMhkp Njä men så är det i USA också utan med "swamp coolers" som inte fungerar när det är värmt OCH fuktigt. Inte alla som bor i nybyggda hus (från 80-talet vidare) heller.

@BAMhkp Det är dock fortfarande sant att klimatet inomhus under den varma sommaren är alldeles för varmt på alldeles för många ställen. Det är således helt sant att det ofta är bristfällig eller helt frånvarande luftkonditionering. Exvis i princip inga lägenhetshus har fastbyggd AC.

Hela denna uppblåsta AC/Europa/USA diskussionen måste vara det mest hjärndöda ämnet på X någonsin.