egerlach

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[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 months ago

RIP to all on those flights.

VASAviation has the raw ATC audio. If you're not used to listening to ATC, read the comments for interpretation. Lots of experienced folk there.

In general, the aviation industry doesn't assign individual "fault" the way many do. It's taken as a collective responsibility. It seems at this stage that there's a lot of responsibility on the helo pilot, but there's also some communication ambiguity. Let's let the pros do their work and not jump to conclusions.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Free Software Foundation requires "CLAs" as well. I have no fear that they're going to rug-pull. I don't think we can use that as the indicator. IMO, it's even a good idea to have a CLA so that's no conflict that the project owns the code.

The warning for me is if the project is run by a company, especially a VC-backed company. Joplin isn't, so I would be comfortable using it (although I don't).

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago

JIRA Data Center: What am I? Chopped liver‽

https://www.atlassian.com/enterprise/data-center/jira

Agreed that JIRA is... not the greatest tool.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Not really. It sounds like they haven't gone after them for emulation, but instead for emulation-adjacent things: copying ROMs, circumventing digital locks, etc.

They explicitly mention (one of?) the developers of Yuzu sharing ROMs in the article.

In other words, the emulator itself isn't illegal, but in order to use the emulator the way most people want, you have to do illegal things, and that's what they go after you for.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Which documents, you say?

What happened?

Shredded, you say?

How badly?

To bits, you say? Oh my my...

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Technically, you're correct. In this particular case though, I don't think it's the best kind of correct.

Juries are the triers of fact when present. In a civil case, that means the judge can ask all kinds of nuanced questions in the jury instructions, as that could be necessary for the judge's application of the law later down the line.

In the US criminal justice system, the laws are meant to be interpretable by the common person (a lot of work being done by "meant-to-be"). A judge only asks them a single question: For the charge X, how do you find? Since juries do not need to justify their decision, they can use whatever reasoning they want to behind closed doors to reach their decision: facts, ethics, or flipping a coin. The lawyers use voir-dire to try to exclude jurors that would be too biased, or would be willing to use a coin flip (juries almost universally take their job seriously—they hold the freedom of someone in their hands.)

As mentioned elsewhere, an acquittal by a jury in the US is non-reviewable. It doesn't matter why they acquit. Convictions, OTOH, are reviewable, and judges have famously thrown out guilty verdicts from juries before.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 38 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If you listen to the news segment, it talks about security completely and not about chnaging the corporate zeitgeist around the priority balance between workers, customers, and shareholders.

Hear that whooshing sound?

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Maybe you should be on an instance that doesn't literally have "world" as its top-level domain?

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Agreed. According to current polling, if the Conservatives get votes at the botttom of their confidence interval, and ALL the other parties get votes at the very top of their confidence intervals, it's still a PCPO minority.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

The problem as I see it is that both the OLP and the ONDP see the other as "taking their voters". "If only those idiots supporting the would vote for us, then we could defeat Doug Ford!"

Meanwhile, if they ran as a semi-coalition, and got out of each others way in a few dozen ridings, they could at least reduce Ford to a minority, or possibly form a coalition. In the absence of proportional representation or a ranked ballot (or both), it's the best way to prevent vote splitting among 60% of Ontario from allowing Ford to win again.

Examples:

Notably, I would leave ridings like Humber River—Black Creek out of consideration, as that's a solid 3-way race.

If you're concerned about being able to govern as a coalition, make your #1 priority electoral reform. Get that done and then see where it goes from there.

I took 5 minutes, and looked at one polling aggregator, and found a possible path to moving 4 seats. You need to move ~30 seats to get Ford out of power according to today's polling. If the OLP and ONDP can't work together to find a path to victory for them together, neither of them deserve to lead, IMO.

(Fortunately for me, I get to vote for Catherine Fife (NDP-Waterloo), and her seat is pretty safe)

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I just saw news about that last night. If he can make recess appointments it's all over.

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My understanding is that there hasn't been a technical Senate recess in a long time. I think there b has to be a 5 day gap or something, so one senator stays in DC, calls the Senate to order, then adjourns it. Something like that.

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