> She studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College Academy for a decade and served as principal cello in the Symphony Youth Orchestra during its 2024-25 season.
In other words - ignore the article's "OMG I'm just a normal kid! Now look at what happened in my life!" tone. She has been in this space for a decade, and took the kind of opportunity that is only available to the 0.0001%.
That "sheer amount of hardware validation" is always less-than-perfectly spread across a whole lotta billions of transistors, and combinatorics is a harsh mistress.
> This is the story of a water crisis without precedent in American history.
For those unfamiliar - technically, you can argue that is true. But if you look at the longer-term history of the southwestern part of North America - old tree rings, archeologists excavating Native American sites, etc. - there were many multi-decade megadroughts before 1600AD.
My point - if you care about real-world solutions to this area's water problems, the whole Global Warming culture war needs to be kept out of the room. If Santa Claus magically fixed everything related to global warming tomorrow - that would not change the fact that SW North America is a place where you cannot rely on water, long-term.
Wasn't the UK ATC system the one where the whole thing core dumped, followed by the backup ATC system core dumping, when someone filed a flight plan with confusing same-name waypoints?
With low-enough engineering quality, you don't actually need saboteurs.
>> With low-enough engineering quality, you don't actually need saboteurs
While I agree, that’s just what they told us. Not sure I believe it anymore. The fact the first UK one happened immediately after they sanctioned Israel is also just a big coincidence.
Ah, so you came up on your own with yet another thing to blame on Israel without any evidence. Very original!
Not sure what they would gain from a one-off shutdown of UK airports for a few hours (which included flights to and from Israel being cancelled).
Israel has actually openly retaliated to the UK measures with far more sensible and long-lasting strategic measures, including shutting down the UK consulate for Palestine in East Jerusalem.
True. But what if there are more people competent to set up & maintain secure tunnels through the internet than there are people competent to set up & maintain dedicated fiber links?
But what if the actual bottleneck isn't the size of the various cohorts of people, but a bureaucracy that inflicts some irrational set of conditions that impedes competent operation? If so, then changing media won't help; whatever scheme you envision will fail.
I'm rather certain the FAA does indeed either employ or contract people that are capable of providing the solution. I'm also quite certain those people live in a perpetual blizzard of responsibility diffusion bullshit: the FAA is a venerable and highly risk-adverse operation. If someone told me it takes months of meetings and sign-offs to so much as log into a router and perform a benign check of some setting, I wouldn't blink.
Yes, but low-functioning bureaucracies are also the most prone to outsourcing. They can't manage to get anything done internally, so they hire outside orgs (hopefully higher functioning) to perform necessary basic services. Often late in the game, when (figuratively) a VIP visit could reveal that their bureaucracy is too broken to keep its office bathrooms clean.
In this case, that outsourcing could easily look like "call local ISP's, get connections, set up tunnel".
There are plenty of people who are happy to check off "Backups" boxes, or talk about their backup strategy, or whatever - while hoping the day never comes when they actually need that tricky "Restore" feature.
Glacier, and I think a couple of Iron Mountain products, exist for "cheap backups, really expensive restores" because the restore is going to be paid for by insurance (or by a counterparty when it's explicitly used for escrow.) So there is an explicit market for this (in the backup-of-things, rather than backup-of-capabilities, space.)
You're getting this wrong. We don't need a standard to signal you don't want your bike to be stolen. The social expectation is that a bike can't be taken.
What the parent comment is suggesting is to invert the onus. "I can film you by default, unless you tell me not to".
In other words - ignore the article's "OMG I'm just a normal kid! Now look at what happened in my life!" tone. She has been in this space for a decade, and took the kind of opportunity that is only available to the 0.0001%.
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