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Maybe I'm being too harsh.. on the plus side the system has at least failed hard every time there's been a fault. Nobody has died. But it's been 3 times now in the past couple of years, and two of those times resulted in over 2000 flights cancelled and days of backlog, and misery for hundreds of thousands. It's really not acceptable.

Comment · 1 month ago

> 3. Had the higher-priority request arrived even one millisecond earlier or later, the update would have completed normally.

Well, that's comforting to know.

BBC: "Flight chaos caused by software defect in space of a millisecond, report says"

Sky: "'Millisecond' software error caused air traffic outage that grounded thousands of flights"

The Guardian: "Flight chaos for hundreds of thousands was caused in ‘millisecond’ by software error"

Sounds like pure bad luck.

Comment · 1 month ago

NATS - the same system that crashed in August 2023 [1] due to an id clash, causing 2000 flights to be cancelled and days of chaos.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37461695

Comment · 1 month ago

I install, run and update via this container script [1] on Arch. It works very well.

[1] https://github.com/zelikos/davincibox

Comment · 3 months ago

“Don’t over plan your life. Be open to the wonders and opportunities that present themselves,” Tan said.

[sharing reflections on his journey from MIT graduate to Apple executive to OpenAI Chief Hardware Officer as part of the Distinguished Speaker series hosted by the School of Engineering]

[https://thetech.com/2025/10/30/tang-tan-openai]

Comment · 4 months ago

I would imagine the only way to use NVENC directly from a browser would be via WebCodecs.