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Strumms · 25-11-2021 12:29AM

i don’t think you’ll commercial aircraft piloted remotely.... if you do it won’t be in our lifetime... or close... that’s a century away...it’s an industry I’ve worked in and the primary, secondary and sometimes tertiary checks that need to be completed for various actions on the ground in a preflight scenario require people and no automation can duplicate it.

What happens if there is a system failure in flight, autopilot for instance as happens time to time... without humans, to hand fly that aircraft it becomes a human and fuel laden missile.. there 100% needs to be human backup...

what happens if an aircraft depressurization does not release Oxegen masks ? Again a system failure, unless there is human assistance and expertise....

25-11-2021 01:03AM

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Yep, we would need a whole load of rendundancies with back-up systems for that, which we won’t see for generations to come. But as Michael O’Leary once suggested a senior flight attendant might be trained up to manage the master flight system should automation not go into full gear 😂 but I wouldn’t be giving him ideas. Even air traffic control has a lot of manual procures in place.

I used to fly small aircraft when everything was entirely manual, from the pencil in my hand to re-calculate vectors when thrown off course by changing winds, often when the aircraft was bumping about so much the pencil was making funny shapes in my flight pad. If ever anything was multitasking that was it - one hand on the stick, feet on the pedals, ears to the headphones, an eye out the window, another eye on the instrument panel, and a third eye looking at the calculations my other hand was making. Took one’s mind off worrying about other things 😂

Capt'n Midnight · 25-11-2021 01:59AM

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It's hard to wreck a nice beach.

riclad · 25-11-2021 06:41AM

If a program is trained on American accents or UK accents its not surprising it does not understand regional accents Irish or Scottish accents . People in the South and North of England speak differently and say simple words differently. I watch some YouTube podcasts theres a lot of people who drop all the gs from words, eg running is pronounced runnennn i think we are 5 to 10 years away from simple voice recognition I wonder died alexa work with someone who has a strong cork or kerry accent people tend to have too much faith in Ai programming

Look at tesla self driving cars videos it' keeps trying to drive into trucks or cars going the other way

I think in a few years time it will reach the stage where every office worker will have to be an expert on social media twitter knowing how to use microsoft word will not be enough.

It turns out now its simply cheaper now to employ people to work in warehouses and do simple jobs

Robots with complex ai are hard to build and expensive to maintain to do simple jobs that any human can do

25-11-2021 08:47AM

I took a couple of helicopter flying lessons, out of my fascination for aviation. Before taking the lessons I had read up extensively on the operation of the rotorcraft, so that I could make the very most out of these very expensive lessons. I had understood the complexity of flying choppers, and one pilot likened it to playing the violin where you are very much producing the notes and the flow of the music. However with a helicopter you die rather than offend ears if you get it wrong.

The future of rotorcraft looks to be in more automated personal VTOL aircraft that still require airmanship, but fewer hands-on skills as more functionality is automated. In other words, a “drone” you sit in. I saw on Twitter and Flying In Ireland, where at the recent Dubai Air Show it was showcased that Ireland is presently the lead trainer in VTOL, something that surprised me immensely.

Already, of course, large helicopters have autopilots and FMS etc, but for personal craft, thus far it has been the most difficult and “involved” to fly Robinson 22 that has been the domain of the “ordinary person”. In as much as ordinary folk being able to afford to fly choppers, but theoretically if one did little else with ordinary earnings it would be possible to dedicate it to such a hobby.

riclad · 30-11-2021 08:36PM

I'd prefer to buy a secondhand laptop dual corecpu maybe 8gig ram I just use it for Web browsing watching TV I don't need the latest expensive laptop with 4k hdr it's better for the environment to use old pcs if you can I don't need a 4k hdr screen to watch YouTube also I install Linux mint it's alot more secure than Windows which needs constant updates you can buy an old pc or laptop on adverts ie for a 200 euro nowadays online gaming is better with voice chat and easy online matchmaking and lots of free to play games I think older laptops are better Re upgrading putting in ram and hardrives it's amazing that so many people can work from home using just a laptop and a phone

I think the Internet is more important now than ever before some people won't buy a house if there's no connection available to fast broadband

riclad · 02-12-2021 05:52AM

Many hackers make malware in free games that can be installed on any windows pc apple is more strict about allowing apps to be installed on a pc very few people are upgrading to Windows 11 Windows 10 works fine Windows 11 will have more ads on it from Microsoft and collect more data on users windows xp pcs had 20gig hard drives and maybe 4 gig ram it was not secure it was not really designed for a time when everyone had broadband

Internet explorer browser was awful it was hard for designers in regard to making websites

Pcs nowadays are faster more powerful more memory 500gig drives

I don't see the point of Alexa. I use my phone to listen to music or youtube

07-12-2021 10:43PM

Yeah Windows is a security nightmare, as I’m learning very rapidly about the comparative OS. The updates cause huge problems, probably the worst and most inflexible OS ever designed, but the one which has marketed itself as the most popular platform for gamers and and the usual front-end user.

All I knew as a worker in my much wider job spec job (being the “go-to“ individual locally) was basically how to make the local Unix network work, how to make Windows work on the individual terminals.

Currently on my home system I’m using Windows 10 and have various distrust of Linux, the latter which are so instantaneous and whatever you do either works or doesn’t work instantly. Windows is messy. I also have a MacOS terminal virtually installed just to play around with with shell.

I would liken Windows to Linux to: you put a make a cake mixture in Linux and you have an edible cake or you don’t, with Windows it has to go into the oven and may or may not turn out.

kirk. · 08-12-2021 12:28AM

Windows 8 seemed to solve most of the hassle with hardware that plagued Windows, still using it on 15yr old pc

Phones have long since evolved past the point I need the latest

09-12-2021 11:43AM

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Never dealt with Windows 8. As a public servant ‘‘twas Windows 7 for our general office work with Unix underlying our dedicated circulation system. For home use I went from Windows 3.1 through 2000, XP, now 10, and I have on Virtual Machines CentOS & Ubuntu, & a basic Mac terminal without the Aqua.

09-12-2021 11:47AM

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If that’s true of planes, which have been automated for years, it’s even more true of cars.

Potential-Monke · 10-12-2021 03:24PM

We're edging ever closer to ~~sex~~ home help robots!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpnnD_0IlbE

10-12-2021 03:34PM

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Windows 8 is a farce along the same lines as Vista. A disgusting design and whoever thought that tile shite was worth having needs shooting.

Strumms · 10-12-2021 04:07PM

i can be stood in a q for my luggage at the airport... press a button on a screen to...

order a taxi.
order a food delivery for when I get back.
turn on my central heating.
send a HD photograph to x person.
book a cinema seat.
a place in the gym class the next day.

and all the above without saying a word to a human being.

10-12-2021 04:13PM

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do you ever find yourself wanting to order food from somewhere but choosing another place cos they aren’t on just eat or whatever and you’re just not up to speak to someone? 😂

Ubbquittious · 10-12-2021 05:23PM

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Airports have disimproved with time.

20 years ago we had the Concorde, in de States before September 11 it was like getting on a bus with little in the way of security. Now it is a complete pain in the hole with covid certs and constantly changing rules for entry, nudie scanners, 100ml liquid restrictions.

Strumms · 10-12-2021 05:54PM

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Pain in the hole but considering how dangerous the world is and the existing threats to aviation... I’m glad of all the tech...

airports are less enjoyable places certainly though because of it all

11-12-2021 02:08AM

Here’s some fairly indestructible very old technology that still serves well in niche aviation today

https://twitter.com/fiicaan/status/1469276340218118146?s=21

This aircraft literally crashed two days ago, landing full in its belly on one engine up in Canada. It is up and running again.

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