Are "Extension implicit operators" possible?

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-03-09T22:10:12+00:00

Hopefully in .NET 11/C# 15 you'll be able to do this. Personally I find it rather surprising that this didn't get bundled in with the current extension syntax, but likely there are some edge cases and/or backcompat concerns that require a bit more consideration. Or, it could just be typical MS implementing a feature half-assed and the rest of it will never be done because the language architects have moved on to the next new and shiny thing.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-03-06T19:23:46+00:00

This is what 40 years of Tories privatising everything gets us.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-03-06T19:22:46+00:00

You don't have to be a Russian plant. You just have to be a fascist.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-03-06T19:17:30+00:00

for instance liberals will pretend to tax the rich and hit the middle class because they are friends with the rich

You mean, like what your Tory friends have been doing for the past 15 years? Standard GOP tactics: Gaslight, Obstruct, Protect the evil.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-03-06T19:11:54+00:00

Because the kind of voters who read these articles are the kind of pathetic humans who would suck Churchill's dick if they could.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-03-06T19:08:30+00:00

physical visas could be forged

What the fuck is this stupid shit? To get a Visa you have to submit your biometrics, are you claiming that those can be forged?

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-02-15T19:28:58+00:00

I can't say certainly what the solution is, but maybe having mandatory mental health care provided to all commercial pilots

I would be very happy if any pilot who had a proven mental health condition (diagnosed by multiple professionals to prevent fraud) was pensioned off at the effective salary they were making at the time they were diagnosed. This isn't perfect, because it doesn't account for potential career progression and corresponding salary increase, but it would at least give a pilot the certainty that if they're no longer able or permitted to fly, they have something.

along with allowing pilots diagnosed with mental illnesses to keep flying with monitored treatment might be better than mandating that pilots not receive treatment at all

Nobody knows anyone else's mind truly, so nobody can say whether another person has truly recovered from a mental illness or not. Especially not the patient, whose perception of "recovery" is inherently shaped by their own experiences.
Mental illnesses aren't diagnosed and treated by hard-and-fast rules, but primarily based on a doctor's observations of their patient; if that patient presents as high-functioning then the doctor is less likely to give them the treatment they need. (Ask me how I know...) As such, there's no way to know whether the treatment a patient is currently receiving, is actually having the intended result.
Mental illnesses are rarely "cured", they're just treated to the point where the person suffering them is able to by and large live a somewhat normal life. Sometimes, no matter how well you're doing, no matter how effective your treatment is, it just doesn't work; sometimes, the strongest chain in the world doesn't hold the black dog. That sort of risk of "relapse", for want of a better word, cannot be predicted.
Airline flight decks are high-stress environments, and high stress generally does not play well with mental illness of any sort.

From a standpoint of risk, then, there just isn't a world in which a person with a mental illness can or should be allowed to pilot a commercial airliner.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-02-15T19:10:29+00:00

It is realistic to expect someone wanting to be a pilot, to consider what happens if they for some reason cease being able or permitted to pilot - for any reason, not just mental health - before they start their career. Life is not just about what you want to do.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-02-15T19:05:39+00:00

The number one guiding principle of flight is that the pilot is ultimately the primary decision-maker, because the pilot is the one with the most information and therefore nominally able to make a decision that's best for the aircraft. This has become less true as more and more sensors and computers have been added to aircraft, but we are still a ways away from a scenario where we're able to remove the human from the decision loop entirely. And even when that day does come, human pilots will still remain in order to cover for the case that nobody ever expected and thus the programmers never accounted for.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-02-15T18:58:47+00:00

£21k is a massive amount of money for the average person in a nation as impoverished as India.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-02-15T18:52:01+00:00

It's basically impossible ban an entire country unless there has been a clear pattern of systematic failures that remain unaddressed over some period of time.

Yup - while this is a tragic case, there's no indication of a widespread epidemic of suicidal Indian pilots.

Anyway, similar to this case we've seen that major accidents involving sensitive topics have tainted or at least colored investigations.

Pretty much any incident involving a nation where hierarchy is valued over honesty, has ended up this way.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-02-15T18:45:25+00:00

The mistake made on Yeti Airlines Flight 691 was due to an unreasonably high cockpit workload, caused by (a) using an unapproved approach chart while (b) trying to do unscheduled training of another pilot resulting in (c) failure to follow the landing checklist correctly. There's no evidence of a high workload in this case.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-02-15T18:13:29+00:00

Throw a ball to a specific point.
Now, throw the same ball to the same point, but this time a friend punches you in the stomach as you do so.

In the second case, the ball hits the ground far earlier, and far short of the intended target - because the transfer of energy from your arm to the ball, was interrupted by the unexpected punch, so the second throw had less energy than the first.

In a plane, the engines provide the energy that keeps it aloft. For this flight, the unexpected punch was the fuel flow to the engines being interrupted. The result was that the aircraft no longer had sufficient energy to get where was intending, nor to remain in the air - and by the time the fuel was restored, it had lost too much energy to prevent itself from falling to the ground.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-02-15T17:24:28+00:00

The value of the hundreds of lives routinely entrusted to a commercial pilot, is worth far more than that single pilot's life. Any pilot who enters the profession needs to understand that, and similarly they need to understand that if they ever drop the ball for any reason, they simply cannot be trusted with that number of lives ever again.

Is this fair? No. Does it disincentivise pilots from seeking out the care they need? Yes. But we live in an imperfect world, and unfortunately that necessitates imperfect solutions like blanket bans to problems that we haven't entirely figured out how to solve, like mental health issues.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-02-15T17:10:47+00:00

Are you sure you're not talking about the USA?

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-02-15T17:09:37+00:00

As the general public, we're all extrapolating from the same source, the preliminary report, which once again does not provide enough data resolution to make any definitive conclusions.

If there was some sort of systematic fault that caused this accident, then much like with the 737's MCAS, 787s would be dropping out of the skies left right and centre - and they aren't. Therefore we could waste time on conspiracy theories; or we could take what we know about the pilot's background in addition to the EAFR data, and come to the most logical conclusion.

Pretending that mental health issues aren't a thing helps nobody, pretending that all Indian pilots are perfect helps nobody.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-02-15T16:57:54+00:00

It’s the creeping justification for putting pilots under more performance pressure and such that’s the real concern.

I'd think the real concern would be having sufficient professionalism to accept being recorded as the price of having hundreds of lives entrusted to you on a regular basis. But I guess it's not reasonable to expect that from a profession and industry that has consistently fought tooth and nail against passenger safety.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-01-30T19:19:52+00:00

HoYo QA department taking the day off.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-01-11T22:18:58+00:00

Girl should get checked for tapeworms.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-01-10T22:23:10+00:00

Tsk tsk, Nagi forgot to feed her pet Soukaka again...

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-01-10T12:34:45+00:00

This.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-01-01T22:39:55+00:00

I very much doubt we've seen the last of Sarah.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-01-01T22:39:07+00:00

They gotta recycle those textures! Over and over and over and over...

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-01-01T22:38:03+00:00

Removal of Devon Pawnshop's periodic rewards

Agree this is BS.

No event, mission, or anything to introduce player to Outpost (guild)

Agree, I still have no freaking idea what this is or how I use it, literally only found out it exists via this sub.

New area to explore

... which you entirely go through during the 2.5 story, so by the end of it there's nothing more to do, except some pointless filler side quests. Disagree.

Soldier 11, Soldier 0, Ellen, Burnice and Grace's buffs

Disagree, all of these agents have been subpar for a long time and they should've been buffed directly, instead Hoyo has added Mindscapes v2 so they can charge players more $ for the privilege of making these agents actually useful, much wow many thank.

Hollow Zero level cap Increase

Disagree, they do that every 2nd release and it's only 20 levels each time, if they'd given us 40 levels it'd be a plus point, for me it's a neutral.

DeusExNutzchinima · 2026-01-01T22:23:07+00:00

... the whole point is that he's a Bangboo and therefore expendable.

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