[-] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago

Put the newest intern in charge for a year. They couldn't do much worse than the last 4 CEOs, and would be much cheaper.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

They're not really though.

Brazil's complaints are about misinformation being actively spread on the platform, andTwitter not only failing to moderate it on their own, but refusing to moderate when the accounts are specifically pointed out either.

The TikTok ban fundamentally goes back to the Chinese government controlling the company. Regardless of what TikTok and the government claims, only an idiot would believe they don't have control over a social media platform based in China. Even if the servers are US-based, the Chinese government will have access whenever they want.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Oh look, he caved already. Guess that's what happens when your accounts are frozen and you can't make money in the country.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Starlink is a separate company from SpaceX. They use SpaceX as a launch provider, and there's a lot of vertical integration between them (Just like SpaceX uses a lot of Tesla stuff), but they are a different company.

There's several things Elon has done with Starlink that's questionable, like the current Brazil stuff. Refusing to block access via Starlink after their Supreme Court approved blocking X in the country because it's not following their national laws. After Elon said that they will follow national laws.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

SpaceX hired Gwynne Shotwell shortly after being founded, and she has been COO/President the entire time. While Elon may be the face of SpaceX like most of his companies, and may be responsible for major goals, he hasn't really been in the driver seat, letting Gwynne handle operations.

It seems clear that this is the difference between SpaceX and his other ventures like Tesla and Twitter where he has been directly making changes to daily operations. Even with a separate CEO at Twitter, it's clear he's still making daily operating decisions.

Elon sucks at operating a business directly, he needs someone else to actually handle daily operations, to filter his thoughts and decisions for how realistic they are to implement.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Not in the UK, but Arizona in the US. A lot of low energy materials have linings that block signals significantly. They're meant to help insulate but a lot of the properties that do that also block signals. It's all EM radiation, just different wavelengths.

Modern Low-E windows linings meant to help insulate will block phone signals quite substantially compared to the past. Saw the changes happen firsthand over the last 20 years selling and repairing phones.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

That sums up my thoughts pretty well honestly. It is a generic Ubisoft open world game, with all the same tricks. But the story is decent, different than the traditional Jedi stuff usually made, and some aspects of the game play are pretty fun. Others are the generic Ubisoft formula, which is to be expected.

It's better than I expected, nowhere near worth $110 or whatever for the game and season pass, but worth the U+ subscription for a month to try it out.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

Why remove the option we know for a fact was extremely effective?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

100% in most cases.

On the flip side, there are some employees that also seem to just not take pride in what they are doing.

There's a similar major issue with home building in the US, and has been getting a massive viral spike from TikTok and YouTube Shorts posted by Cy Porter in AZ. He just posts short clips showing what he finds on a daily basis doing new home build inspections. The obvious complete lack of care about the end product from the builders is honestly astounding.

That's not building an airplane where hundreds of people's lives are relying on your job, but just the bare minimums not being followed and the attitude when it's called out reminded me a lot of how it seems Boeing responded to all these whistleblowers when they tried to follow internal processes for quality control.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Ah the assumption that it was tested first before being deployed to prod. Given what we know now about Boeing's "testing" and "certification" processes, or lack thereof, that may be a big assumption.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

I would like to point out that MCAS was only a thing because Boeing wanted to certify the 737 MAX as just another variant with no additional pilot training or certification needed. But the differences made the plane maneuver and react to input differently. So MCAS was developed to try and compensate for that. And then they didn't train pilots on the new system, because it was being certified as a regular variant that should not have different flight characteristics. The FAA accepted their explanation at face value and rubber stamped it basically, and in the process saved Boeing Billions of dollars of additional development costs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_certification

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

3 could be a minimum. And the issues won't be similar, they'll be just as random as anything else coming in. And their system to actually look up info and make changes will likely only work on one account at a time. It's possible, but unlikely that the system could use tabs to switch between accounts for chats. That would have required AT&T to actually do something to make the agents job easier, and would cost money to develop.

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