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Air France 447 Flight-Data Recorder Transcript - What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 - Popular Mechanics
The (comp.)risks of overautomation strike again. "When trouble suddenly springs up and the computer decides that it can no longer cope—on a dark night, perhaps, in turbulence, far from land -- the humans might find themselves with a very incomplete notion of what's going on. They'll wonder: What instruments are reliable, and which can't be trusted?"
aviation  crash  flight  flying  autopilot  stalls  warnings  alarms  ui  af447  risks  automation 
december 2011 by jm
iPhone users not waking up on time due to DST bug
lots of people complaining about this on Twitter -- seems the clock changes, but the alarms do not! Internationali[sz]ation Is Hard
apple  iphone  alarms  dst  daylight-savings  i18n  from delicious
november 2010 by jm

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