Re: does this affect more aircraft than the ill fated 737 max?
On my one and only glider flight I noticed a piece of wool taped to the outside of the canopy.
Now I know what it was. The AoA sensor.
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I was interested to see this raise so much attention. I'd thought the pretty printer tools meant you could code how you liked and then format it how your organisation, or team leader, or girlfriend's dad, would find acceptable. Me, I like the vertical alignment of {}, but I'm old enough now to realise that's just me, I can't instantly see the opening brace that goes with a particular closing one unless its directly above. But modern editors solve that, highlight one brace and it highlights the other, however aligned. And if I have to work on something for long I can always pretty-print it "my" way to make it easier, and - theoretically - re-pretty-print it with a different set of preferences afterwards.
I'm left with only one major gripe, and that's Python. Where indentation is part of the language, well, I thought that was a bad idea in makefiles, and see no excuse for it anywhere. Mr Python wanted to impose his own indentation preference, and didn't like that fiddling punctuation noise, well, IMHO a crappy set of requirements for a language. I'm disappointed to see it hasn't faded into the obscurity it deserved.
While I'm here, I have a minor aversion to anything "optional". Semicolons in scripting languages, that sort of thing. To me there should be just one correct way to write the syntax, not a lot of woolly alternatives that produce the same compiled code. Names excepted, of course. I used to like Java til it got over-bloated (around Java 2 or so), I liked Pascal and Modula once-upon-a-time, and now I like Erlang, which has the nit-pickiest compiler I ever met, but once you know the syntax it's trivial, and there's never any doubt about whether you need a punctuation character or can get away without it.
I like to keep the entire language spec in my head. Good luck doing that with C++
After years of flaky DIY and cheap-shop put together PCs, running various unsatisfactory flavours of Linux, I finally bit the financial bullet and shelled out for a Mac Pro. The cylindrical one, completely silent - I hate fans - for the 2 things I really want - movie editing and sound recording - satisfied (mostly) by GarageBand, Audacity and iMovie. Instead of struggling with odd gremlins deep in graphics cards motherboards and PSUs. And the fans, did I mention the fans? Choice between constant roar and creepy haunted-house rising and falling wooooo - woooo noises, depending on what it was doing at the time. Useless for recording with a microphone in the same room as the computer.
I know this doesn't help the unfortunates who bought maybe-badly-spec'd assemblages of components to run Windows, or Linux. But it's something that Apple seems to have got right.
Seconded, why? Orion in this article at least is billed as something for going to Mars. I've seen NASA videos suggesting a return to the moon using Orion, and a trip to Mars using it. But it's got return-to-earth heatshielding, so it's clearly (also? instead?) good for returning from (say) the ISS to earth.
That doesn't make it a ship for going to the moon or Mars. The notion of several vehicles seems to have been forgotten along the way. What about Buzz Aldrin's Mars Recycler concept?
Which all leads me to believe that Orion is just an overpriced earth orbit round trip crew container, and all the rest was added to get the funding. It will never go to the moon, never mind Mars. Or Venus, for those still keen.
I'm surprised the original article didn't mention Kim Dotcom. A Bond Villain if ever there was one, though perhaps more suited to Austin Powers or the David Niven spoof of Casino Royale. Though someone took him seriously enough to send in the helicopters. Don't know if they were black.