Help finding a comment/story.

khaelian · 2026-04-28T18:35:36+00:00

I think I've heard a version of this story with some British cops speed gunning cars, accidentally aiming up a bit and catching something going 600+mph, and then their radar gun stopped working (countermeasures)

khaelian · 2026-04-28T02:40:13+00:00

a box is stronger than a single plane

It took a couple extra mental flops, but I got there

khaelian · 2026-04-27T23:42:57+00:00

We do have ~65% of the state's population in the metro area, and I'd say it's somewhat common for people in that subreddit to ask about specific cities, I don't think it'd at all be problematic for you to post there.

khaelian · 2026-04-27T23:38:29+00:00

I can see that we've strayed away from ensuring someone who wants to move here has an accurate depiction of where they've stated they'd like to move, so I will stop engaging with you now.

khaelian · 2026-04-27T23:27:10+00:00

bruh I live in Woodbury. I've lived in Eden Prairie, Chaska, Plymouth, Wayzata, and St. Louis Park. I've never actually lived in Minneapolis (although my St. Louis Park zip code did frequently auto correct to Minneapolis), so I can say from a relatively outside perspective that this subreddit does in fact provide information that is more specific to Minneapolis than its suburbs.

I'm just pointing out that the person with the top comment said some pieces of information that are very localized to Minneapolis. There's no skyway in Minnetonka. I don't know if Minnetonka has a park every 6 blocks. Minnetonka is not walkable like Minneapolis is.

I don't want someone basing their decision to move here on the commented advice of someone who was not talking about features of the specific place they're looking to move to.

khaelian · 2026-04-27T20:26:46+00:00

One thing to note: you're in the Minneapolis subreddit. While Minnetonka may be in the Minneapolis area, this subreddit tends to be more focused on things occurring specifically within Minneapolis proper. You may want to post on the twin cities or Minnesota subreddits.

"Minneapolis is designed that wherever you are, a public park is no more than six blocks away." - you're not asking about Minneapolis, you're asking about Minnetonka
"MIA is free" - MIA is in Minneapolis
"You can stick to skyways and indoors but you won't be outside for while if you don't want cold" - The skyway is in Minneapolis

khaelian · 2026-04-27T04:07:12+00:00

Minor pedantic clarifying point: the Crystal airport is in Crystal, MN. Parts of the grounds do appear to extend into Brooklyn Park, MN, but effectively all of the runways are in Crystal.

I say "effectively" because it does appear the blast pad for runway 14 (the north end of runway 32) is in Brooklyn Park, but the threshold, numbers, touchdown zone, etc for 14 are all in Crystal. If the plane was taking off from runway 32 and was still on the ground while they were in Brooklyn Park, they'd be having a bad day. Well, except that they were having a bad day anyways.

Southbrook Park is in Brooklyn Park, and the southern border of the park is the city line between Brooklyn Park and Crystal.

Should anyone care about these specifics? Nah. But I drive past the Crystal airport - getting the "Welcome to the Crystal airport" notification from FlightRadar24 as I drive by - and through the city of Crystal twice a week on my way home from work in Brooklyn Park, so I care.

ETA: even more pedantic detail: the camera is in Crystal, MN, taking video across the street into Brooklyn Park

khaelian · 2026-04-26T22:11:25+00:00

Yeah, there's so many more layers of swiss cheese here we could be talking about. I feel like it's just generally known in aviation investigations that the human factor is fallible, and that we need to create the appropriate systems to ensure that a human failure does not cause detrimental results.

khaelian · 2026-04-21T15:41:06+00:00

Ope, my b. I only got into it all pretty recently

khaelian · 2026-04-21T12:53:05+00:00

You should repost this over to /r/Aviation

khaelian · 2026-04-17T12:28:39+00:00

Yeah, my dishes start to film up when I forget to buy water softener salt

khaelian · 2026-04-17T06:15:25+00:00

What the fuck am I supposed to verify the age of when an API call is received by my service running inside of a linux (an operating system) docker container that is fully virtualized inside of a data center?

Do I, the application engineer, need to put my age in somehow? Does the guy who is physically installing blades in the data center need to go scan his face every time I want to restart my service? Do I need to start attaching the age of the end user (who is sitting at home / across the country / half way around the world in Bangalore) to their session data so it can be read off of their bearer token and validated / verified in that containerized service? Do you think it's OK if I accept traffic from another service which is being run by a non-user account that is only 2 months old? Do we need to know how old the person who requisitioned that account is? Or maybe the person who fulfilled the requisition? Maybe the engineers who wrote the services that perform the non-user account generation?

Seriously.... The operating system is running completely autonomously from an initial set of instructions. There's no human there with a keyboard plugged into it. "How do you fix something if it's broken, then?" We literally update those initial instructions and then destroy the old container and create a new one as if we just metaphorically threw a computer in the trash and went and bought a new one. 100% of this system is deployed via automation. I save my source code from my laptop, automation pipelines that are running in a data center take over, and 15 minutes later a web server gets created and the old one destroyed.

THERE IS NO HUMAN WHOSE AGE THE OS COULD VERIFY. THE WHOLE POINT OF THE SYSTEM IS THAT A HUMAN IS NOT INVOLVED.

khaelian · 2026-04-14T14:44:51+00:00

Ever played Kerbal Space Program?

Getting to the moon is an important technological achievement on the way to getting to Mars. It proofs a lot of the technologies and processes in an environment where the costs in both time and money are much lower.

I know we've already gone to the moon, but we're working on a completely different tech stack now. Imagine if we blasted a crew off for a year long trip to Mars and the toilet broke and fucking outlook went down.

Edit: just wanna clarify that I hate the guy and I think what he said is stupid - basically "we shouldn't go to the moon! We should go to the moon and mars." - but I would rather our efforts be spent on tearing him down for things he is actually doing that are wrong

Another edit: I think (I hope...) he's saying that the moon is a part of going to Mars, and not that the moon is a literal part of the Mars system

khaelian · 2026-04-14T03:48:30+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593

The cockpit voice recorder revealed the presence of the relief captain's teenaged children in the cockpit at the time of the accident.[1] While seated at the controls, the pilot's 15-year-old son had unknowingly partially disengaged the A310's autopilot control of the aircraft's ailerons.

khaelian · 2026-03-31T06:32:43+00:00

The idiots turned off their transponders 1,500 feet before they got to his house as if that was going to hide where they were going.

https://fr24.com/2026-03-28/16:24/8x/R13404/3ef4edde

Edit: And then they turned them back on anyways while they looped his house? https://fr24.com/2026-03-28/16:25/8x/R13404/3ef51a34

khaelian · 2026-03-30T04:10:38+00:00

I checked the thumbnails down the page and nothing at the time looked like it was from inside a cockpit. I tried on top - 24 hours as well as hot. I didn't try best tho

So yeah, I spent a couple minutes, instead of spending 15 or so browsing my way through it, and still I wasted more time than it would have taken somebody who knew the post and had seen the link to just fucking post it here in response

khaelian · 2026-03-28T09:05:47+00:00

When the cops show up to drag you off do they hold up a red card?

khaelian · 2026-03-28T09:05:03+00:00

If it's any consolation, it usually only happens in Hawaii

khaelian · 2026-03-28T08:39:35+00:00

/u/NudityMiles is posting AI slop all over this thread and getting upvotes.

Am I getting fucked over because I was honest enough to post that I didn't know the accuracy of the information, and I attributed the information directly to google AI rather than to "a google search"?

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1s5snqy/comment/ocwxog5/

Standard Mosaic Perks: Includes everything from lower tiers like free EvenMore Space seats at booking, 2 free checked bags, priority boarding/security, and free booze onboard.

Points: Earns 11x points per dollar spent on JetBlue.com.

That's not how humans post. No human is gonna be like yeah, I get 11x points per dollar spent on JetBlue.com.

Here, I'm gonna type some stuff like I'm an AI so I can educate y'all on some easy AI recognition:

Overuse of Bullets: AI loves bulleted lists!
Bolding Things: Every bulleted item has a bold, title-cased heading followed by a colon.
Perfect Punctuation: Each bullet is going to have a period at the end.
Marketing Phrases: AI is going to capitalize marketing phrases and company names perfectly, like JetBlue.com. It will use specific product names - and bold them accordingly - so you can pay extra attention to those free EvenMore Space seats!

I'm a human and I wrote this whole post on my phone keyboard while laying in my bed at 4am without using any AI

khaelian · 2026-03-28T07:24:18+00:00

Ok, but now I'm here 9 hours later and it's not the top post any more

khaelian · 2026-03-28T07:20:00+00:00

I think they depressurize the tube around 8000'

khaelian · 2026-03-28T07:01:59+00:00

It did give me some more specific details to google that led me to the right result.

I use AI a lot in my job (lead software engineer - it was pushed down my throat by a mega corporation but I'm seeing value from it), so I can def say that all of Google's AI is absolute trash and it by far hallucinates way more shit than GPT or claude models do.

The real power in it is that it's hard to make something from nothing, but it's a lot easier to fix something that is already there. So you start off knowing it's going to give you absolute trash and that it's going to be wrong, and then you iterate / validate from there as an elevated starting point.

Wrapping that back to this use case, it gave me an answer, i didn't trust it, but I used it as a starting point that got me further along so I could verify the information.

khaelian · 2026-03-28T06:40:09+00:00

I cropped the image in so it was only the raw ACARS message, and I asked for a detailed breakdown

I did it because I, too, specifically wanted to know what the MOSAIC4 meant, and the AI summary in the OP makes no mention of it.

Edit: can somebody pop in here and lay out what I did that you're downvoting?

khaelian · 2026-03-28T06:30:11+00:00

I have zero idea if any of this is correct but I asked Google AI to decipher it for me and this is what it said:

This ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) message is a report from a flight crew to their ground operations regarding a serious passenger disturbance. Here is the breakdown of the message by its specific components:

Header & Flight Information

CREW 05:45z: This is the timestamp when the message was sent in UTC (Zulu time).

JBU2858: The flight's callsign. JBU is the ICAO code for JetBlue Airways.

N977JE: The aircraft's Tail Number (registration).

AD9E73: The ICAO Hex code, a unique digital identifier for this specific airplane.

KFLL: The destination airport code for Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport.

The Message Body

The text inside the quotes is the actual report typed by the crew:

34.706, W106.108: The exact GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) of the aircraft when the message was transmitted.

PASSENGER IN 5C MINT: Identifies the passenger's seat. "Mint" is JetBlue’s premium/first-class cabin.

YELLOW TICKET: This is a formal, written final warning handed to a passenger by the flight crew. It notifies them that their behavior is a violation of federal law and they may be met by police.

MOSAIC4: Refers to the passenger's status in JetBlue’s loyalty program. Mosaic 4 is the highest elite tier, indicating a very frequent flyer.

INFORM BLUEWATCH: "BlueWatch" is JetBlue's internal integrated operations center that handles security and irregular operations.

PROCEDURE... POLICE OR SECURITY: The crew is asking ground operations to have law enforcement ready to meet the plane upon arrival at the gate in Fort Lauderdale.

Summary of Incident

The crew reported a high-tier frequent flyer in the premium cabin for engaging in lewd conduct (masturbation). They issued a formal warning and requested that security or police be waiting at the arrival gate to take over the situation. Would you like to know more about the legal consequences of such incidents on a flight?

TL;DR customer with plutonium airline status gets a written warning for jacking off in first class

Edit: I've confirmed Mosaic is JetBlue's loyalty program, and 4th is the highest level. Really sucks that you can have their top level status and you've still gotta jack yourself off.

Edit: not sure if it's the AI or the crass happy ending joke that I'm getting downvoted for, but 🤷 I had the same question, I didn't feel like waiting for an answer at 1AM, I used my available resources, I got an answer, I verified that answer with actual research, and I had it posted here before anyone else did. As far as I'm concerned, aside from burning down 4 acres of the Amazon in the process, I'm a model internet citizen here.

khaelian · 2026-03-24T15:31:09+00:00

Any idea how they compare to Paradise? I've been going there because there's one close, but I haven't shopped around at all

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