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This is just sad. Red tape killing tens of people.

Not if drivers switch to full manual control. For the ETCS control system:

- in normal mode (Full Supervision) the driver's actions are monitored and unsafe operations lead to an emergency brake

- but there is a fully manual mode (Staff Responsible) which does exactly that - the driver is fully responsible for what they do. If they get bad instructions from the control center, no technical barrier against crashes exist.

Older systems like LZB usually are even more permissible.

Two main reasons:

- trains go in tunnels or tracks are between houses. When train control systems were defined in the 1990's, there was no way to make them sensitive enough to record GPS positions. Instead there is a different location system based on so-called balises with a fixed position on the tracks. Every time a train crosses one, it knows where it is.

- Planes go in 3 dimensions, trains in one. If ATC wants to ensure two planes do not collide, they will assign them different headings and/or heights. Precise position isn't that important. Trains cannot avoid each other, that's why they move in blocks.

And yes, they do signal their position back to the control center, it's just a different protocol

According to the article, the track had LZB, though.

>In one recording, the controller tells the driver of the Renfe train to disconnect and reconnect the LZB mechanism that monitors train speeds, and then resume the journey at normal speed.

Wait, I thought Spain's high-speed rail network was all ETCS L1 or even L2?

Fully agree, but I just asked Google Gemini to list Mistral's pricing and plans. Worked.

More on the curse side, tbh. Mostly because RAM and flash chips have exploded in price and fabs get now booked by NVIDIA et al where previously Apple was the biggest dog and could demand better conditions.

But well, they'll survive :) Their M-series was a stroke of luck considering AI.

They have better blacks and no light bleed. The colors are more vivid and spectral too. That's cool for watching movies in the dark

However, whether you really notice a difference reading on the thing I kinda doubt.

I have my reservations. The cats can also use AI to make their software less buggy or even formally verified.

If I had to venture a guess it would be that this is the last stand for hackers that are able to root all kinds of older devices, but companies like Apple will shell out the money to prevent this for their next-gen devices.

It's likely that low-cost device makers will not do that, so maybe rooting will still persist for cheap stuff.

I doubt it, tbh. How many people will install such a HackIOS in the best case, 1000? 10000? There have to be a billion or more iOS users out there, so the pressure on app vendors or Apple will be negligible.

Of course contraception was available, just not the pill. Condoms were a thing back then.

Maybe you are right, but Apple is selling hundreds of millions of iPads per year, so just maybe most people are content with the hard- and software and will just adapt to some quirks.

I am personally not always happy with the gestures, but some can be disabled. I don't have much use for my iPad apart from watching some videos, for everything that requires concentration, I will fallback to my laptop. I still think it is a marvelous machine how the hardware and iPadOS play together.

>In Japan, around 30 per cent of men and 15 per cent of women work for more than 50 hours per week.

That doesn't make a lot of sense. 50hr/w was the norm in many countries till the 1960's or so, and yet people were having lots of babies indicating having marriages with sex.