What do you mean deer don't create paths? I see deer trails all the time, and see deer using them. They come through my yard almost daily on the same paths. If I'm wrong, I'd be curious what is creating the paths? Maybe it depends on the area... the forests I live in have heavy underbrush.
If you see trails and you see deer using them, the trails are probably created by the deer. (It's not always the case - humans in Africa famously use paths through the jungle that are created by elephants - but it's a good bet.)
Have you ever tried following a trail? How long are they? Where do they go?
But HN and the VC industry are only interested in companies which can capture the entire market. If you exist in a market where you compete by being good that leads to low profit margins, and nobody wants to invest in that.
If they rebooted it, and it started working again, would you just walk away? Or would you try to figure out why the fuck it needed to be rebooted in the first place?
Thales or Collins or Honeywell or whoever provided the system would. The technician at the airport would only follow a procedure listed on a checklist, which probably includes rebooting the system.
Ironically there have been a fair few cases of aircraft incidents where components were reported as bad by pilots but the issue couldn't be reproduced on the ground and "it worked" after a reboot and self-test so they just kept using it (with this cycle repeating multiple times). Often there were clear physical problems (cracked solder joints, stuck microswitches, broken insulation) that were only discovered after a catastrophic failure but could've been discovered with a more inquisitive engineering culture.
I would argue a "just reboot it" culture leads to more problems -- engineers should be empowered to diagnose problems before they become catastrophic. In the world of software we even have mechanisms for extracting data from failed systems to root cause them later, and yet most people do not take that step before "just reboot[ing] it".
[1]: AirAsia 8501, Lauda Air 004, and SmartLynx Estonia 9001 come to mind.
But these intermittent failures lead to delays and worse. The sheer cost of repeat events leads to action. If deferrable at all the standard troubleshooting is mostly remove and replace. The repair and reliability processes identify these rogue units fairly fast and the actual rates of that in a well functioning airline are very low.
Yes, I remember a flight that sat at the gate past departure time, the explanation to the passengers was that some essential piece of equipment wasn't functioning, they had tried restarting it, and it was going to be replaced. About 30 minutes late, we were on our way.
Right, rebooting only really makes sense if you understand why the reboot is going to fix the problem. As in, corrupted volatile state is reasonably fixed with a reboot. Any hardware issues or persistent state problems could well get worse.
The vast majority of the problems were a system that missed the time window to report it's self test. A reboot got things in order.
It was a small fleet, so we had a pretty good idea if the same problem kept popping up so we could look more into that system.
A few fault codes were well known enough that if you called with that one the answer was to shut down and find a hotel, you aren't going anywhere and no reboot will take care of it. (bad detectors in the engines for about 10 years until a redesign)
Yes I especially want that to apply to congress, judiciary, and police, even more so than corporate CEOs! People in positions of higher responsibility, should, you know... be more responsible. Police and people in power should break laws less often, and be more trustworthy, and less selfish than average. They are in a position that requires a higher standard.
Its already over capacity in my area. They just sent me an email saying that in order to manage capacity, they are raising my rates again. I only have to option to use Residential Max, I cant go down to the 200 or 100mbit plans. $156/mo. I don't know how sustainable a network it is when they're already maxed out at the traffic they can handle, and their only solution is to try to ditch customers, because they can't expand fast enough.
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