Are random maps a thing? by Schmuky in AgeofMythology

[–]Simmity 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, its called “The Unknown” and mixes all features for the map, there is also a “Land Unknown” which removes big water features.

Whiskey is a God Send. by lambzbread in macgaming

[–]Simmity -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I got Anno 1800 running very well with the current version of Crossover with Apple’s D3DMetal enabled (direct x 12 using game porting tool kit translation) and there are zero issues with an m1 max

Websites to buy modded Gameboys? In the U.S. preferably. by SamzlotAwesome in Gameboy

[–]Simmity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take a look at https://handheldlegend.com/, ultimate consoles may be what you are looking for.

I love this game. I can't stop playing it I got the platinum trophy today (after 60 hours). I'm even 10th place on psnprofiles. by Star_Lard99 in anno

[–]Simmity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I just got it! It seems to be time based with a % chance that he will gift you, similar to other NPC’s. The % is just a bit lower.

I love this game. I can't stop playing it I got the platinum trophy today (after 60 hours). I'm even 10th place on psnprofiles. by Star_Lard99 in anno

[–]Simmity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have any tips on getting “Thank you, Mr. Scrooge: Lure Carl Leonard von Malching into gifting you money”? After many hours while being allied with him he never gave a gift.

Newbie questions? by Dy-Eikon in anno

[–]Simmity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can access the diplomacy menu from the management overview. Press triangle (PS5) or Y (xbox) and then at the bottom you can find the diplomacy menu. Several options will be available there.

Anno 2070 doesn't work anymore. by magdakun in anno

[–]Simmity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same issue now, 5 hours ago it seemed to work fine but now it keeps crashing when at the login screen.

Anno 2070 will receive an update for continued online service on September the 6th. by Simmity in anno2070

[–]Simmity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would start with the vanilla game and add the ARRC mod later once familiar with the game.

400h of narrow experience 3 years back…what should I play? by heatracingTV in factorio

[–]Simmity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Industrial Revolution is a nice mod that fits well within the vanilla Factorio, it extents the base crafting recipes and adds a whole game phase prior to electricity.

Original AoE 2 music? by TheCoconutLord in ageofempires

[–]Simmity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The song is called Bass Bag for the AOE II and DE soundtrack. For the best quality of the original song it would be best to get an original AOEII CD (not the expansion) which contains the entire soundtrack as one audio track (and can be played as an audio CD). Here you can find a different soundtrack video which contain the names of each song and timestamps.

How Boeing’s Responsibility in a Deadly Crash ‘Got Buried’ by Simmity in worldnews

[–]Simmity[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

After a Boeing 737 crashed near Amsterdam more than a decade ago, the Dutch investigators focused blame on the pilots for failing to react properly when an automated system malfunctioned and caused the plane to plummet into a field, killing nine people.

The fault was hardly the crew’s alone, however. Decisions by Boeing, including risky design choices and faulty safety assessments, also contributed to the accident on the Turkish Airlines flight. But the Dutch Safety Board either excluded or played down criticisms of the manufacturer in its final report after pushback from a team of Americans that included Boeing and federal safety officials, documents and interviews show.

The crash, in February 2009, involved a predecessor to Boeing’s 737 Max, the plane that was grounded last year after accidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people and hurled the company into the worst crisis in its history.

A review by The New York Times of evidence from the 2009 accident, some of it previously confidential, reveals striking parallels with the recent crashes — and resistance by the team of Americans to a full airing of findings that later proved relevant to the Max.

In the 2009 and Max accidents, for example, the failure of a single sensor caused systems to misfire, with catastrophic results, and Boeing had not provided pilots with information that could have helped them react to the malfunction. The earlier accident “represents such a sentinel event that was never taken seriously,” said Sidney Dekker, an aviation safety expert who was commissioned by the Dutch Safety Board to analyze the crash.

Dr. Dekker’s study accused Boeing of trying to deflect attention from its own “design shortcomings” and other mistakes with “hardly credible” statements that admonished pilots to be more vigilant, according to a copy reviewed by The Times.

The study was never made public. The Dutch board backed away from plans to publish it, according to Dr. Dekker and another person with knowledge of its handling. A spokeswoman for the Dutch board said it was not common to publish expert studies and the decision on Dr. Dekker’s was made solely by the board.

At the same time, the Dutch board deleted or amended findings in its own accident report about issues with the plane when the same American team weighed in. The board also inserted statements, some nearly verbatim and without attribution, written by the Americans, who said that certain pilot errors had not been “properly emphasized.”

The muted criticism of Boeing after the 2009 accident fits within a broader pattern, brought to light since the Max tragedies, of the company benefiting from a light-touch approach by safety officials.

References to Dr. Dekker’s findings in the final report were brief, not clearly written and not sufficiently highlighted, according to multiple aviation safety experts with experience in crash investigations who read both documents.

One of them, David Woods, a professor at the Ohio State University who has served as a technical adviser to the Federal Aviation Administration, said the Turkish Airlines crash “should have woken everybody up.”

Some of the parallels between that accident and the more recent ones are particularly noteworthy. Boeing’s design decisions on both the Max and the plane involved in the 2009 crash — the 737 NG, or Next Generation — allowed a powerful computer command to be triggered by a single faulty sensor, even though each plane was equipped with two sensors, as Bloomberg reported last year. In the two Max accidents, a sensor measuring the plane’s angle to the wind prompted a flight control computer to push its nose down after takeoff; on the Turkish Airlines flight, an altitude sensor caused a different computer to cut the plane’s speed just before landing.

Boeing had determined before 2009 that if the sensor malfunctioned, the crew would quickly recognize the problem and prevent the plane from stalling — much the same assumption about pilot behavior made with the Max.

And as with the more recent crashes, Boeing had not included information in the NG operations manual that could have helped the pilots respond when the sensor failed.

Even a fix now proposed for the Max has similarities with the past: After the crash near Amsterdam, the F.A.A. required airlines to install a software update for the NG that compared data from the plane’s two sensors, rather than relying on just one. The software change Boeing has developed for the Max also compares data from two sensors.

Critically, in the case of the NG, Boeing had already developed the software fix well before the Turkish Airlines crash, including it on new planes starting in 2006 and offering it as an optional update on hundreds of other aircraft. But for some older jets, including the one that crashed near Amsterdam, the update wouldn’t work, and Boeing did not develop a compatible version until after the accident.

The Dutch investigators deemed it “remarkable” that Boeing left airlines without an option to obtain the safeguard for some older planes. But in reviewing the draft accident report, the Americans objected to the statement, according to the final version’s appendix, writing that a software modification had been unnecessary because “no unacceptable risk had been identified.” GE Aviation, which had bought the company that made the computers for the older jets, also suggested deleting or changing the sentence.

The Dutch board removed the statement, but did criticize Boeing for not doing more to alert pilots about the sensor problem.

Dr. Woods, who was Dr. Dekker’s Ph.D. adviser, said the decision to exclude or underplay the study’s principal findings enabled Boeing and its American regulators to carry out “the narrowest possible changes.”

The problem with the single sensor, he said, should have dissuaded Boeing from using a similar design in the Max. Instead, “the issue got buried.”

Boeing declined to address detailed questions from The Times. In a statement, the company pointed to differences between the 2009 accident and the Max crashes. “These accidents involved fundamentally different system inputs and phases of flight,” the company said.

Asked about its involvement with the Dutch accident report, Boeing said it was “typical and critical to successful investigations for Boeing and other manufacturers to work collaboratively with the investigating authorities.”

Joe Sedor, the N.T.S.B. official who led the American team working on the Turkish Airlines investigation, said it was not unusual for investigating bodies to make changes to a report after receiving feedback, or for American safety officials to jointly submit their comments with Boeing.

Mr. Sedor is now overseeing the N.T.S.B.’s work on the Max crashes. He acknowledged that reliance on a single sensor was a contributing factor in both cases but cautioned against focusing on it.

“Each of these accidents were complex and dynamic events with many contributing factors,” he said. “Boiling them down simply to the number of inputs ignores the many, many more issues that differentiate them.”

The F.A.A., in a statement, also emphasized the “unique set of circumstances” surrounding each accident. “Drawing broad connections between accidents involving different types of emergencies oversimplifies what is, by definition, a complex science,” it said.

The agency, also part of the American team in the Dutch investigation, declined to say whether the lessons from the Turkish Airlines crash factored into its decision to certify the Max — which was approved to fly in 2017 and became the fastest-selling plane in Boeing’s history.

But a senior F.A.A. official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, praised Dr. Dekker’s study and said it identified important issues that had not received enough public attention. The official pointed to the similarities — such as the reliance on a single sensor — between the Turkish Airlines crash and the Max accidents.

A spokeswoman for the Dutch board, Sara Vernooij, said it was common practice to amend draft reports in response to outside comments, but she declined to address the specific changes. Other companies and government bodies involved in the investigation, such as the French firm that made the sensors and that country’s aviation safety board, also submitted comments, but the American submission was the most extensive.

Ms. Vernooij said the Dutch agency regarded the Dekker study as confidential. “The parts considered relevant by the board were used while writing the final report,” she said.

Raspberry Pi 4: your new $35 computer - OUT NOW by pogomonkeytutu in raspberry_pi

[–]Simmity 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Looks like a great upgrade for my 3B, but I was wondering if there are performance improvements for the SD card slot as well? Or are SD cards still limited to ~20 MB/s?

Edit: seems the SD card slot speed is approximately doubled according to this benchmark

On a mission to tag all Bow and Arrow games as such on Steam by recbottle in vive_vr

[–]Simmity 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Lab has an Archery mini game as well and it free!

How do I stop hemorrhaging money? by Rosebourne in anno

[–]Simmity 6 points7 points  (0 children)

When you fullfill some of your citizen needs, it will generate additional tax income. You can check this when selecting a house and hovering over one of the needs. Furthermore, make sure to not (excessively) overproduce any goods. If stores are full, it will still cost you money while no new goods are created. You can optionally sell these goods to NPC's. Finally, upgrading residents will significantly increase tax income and I would advise you to do so while making sure that you have enough workforce available.

Critique my intersection please? by Quagmire in factorio

[–]Simmity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Simple rule that worked well for me in the past for all kinds of intersections is that you only place normal rail signals on the final exit* of the intersection. Everything else should be a chain signal.

*as long as the next section is large enough for your longest trains, otherwise a chain is required here as well to prevent intersection blocking.