[–] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Also one-wings are notoriously hard to fly and B-52's are actively supporting the pilot (via computers) to even make it operational for a human, if I don't misremember. So maybe that failed?

Having passive assistance that couldn't fail would actually be a great thing an bring one-wing designs into the commercial aviation.

Edit: I was mistakenly speaking about a (rather) modern bomber B2. Mistook it for the B-52, which isn't a one-wing and built not long after the second world war.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago*

    I am not telling you what to believe and that was not my intention, if that seemed to be the case then I am sorry. Although, regardless of what you believe, it seemed like you 100 % believed the article and argued for it (and against other commenters). Your approach was too direct then I guess, I also misunderstood your intention.

    In comments/writing it is/can be really hard to be nuanced. As seen from our above misunderstanding even. I guess starting of your comment with something alike "The article seems to contradict your statement in these points... What do you make of this?" Would have made your openness to discuss clear right away. Otherwise it came of as directly opposing.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    For this case specifically? I would have not commented without watching the video as well. And, again, if you don't want to, completely fine, but then you are missing vital information in this case. Not having done so, and only having relied on the article as your only source, does mean you did 100% and thus blindly trust it, though, by definition.

    That aside, pointing out differences is, generally, fine as you did it - I think. Also remember that on the internet sometimes you get downvoted randomly and even for saying true things. Has happend to me, believe me.

    Edit: in my opinion it is always best to take everything, also people tell you with a grain of salt. Especially if you hear contrary information. Don't go, "I read it like this in an article and they said this, they must be wrong", but approach it more like "oh, maybe I haven't got the full picture or I am wrong, or they are wrong, but I don't know yet."

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    I would say it is less a social faux pas and more so a case of not applying scientific method/using the internet wrong.

    You have an article of some sort, you also have a video that shows the ocurrance from three different viewpoints (I.e. recordings of ppl.).

    However, you didn't verify the article, blindly trusted it, and used it right away to criticise somebody else's statements.

    You don't have to watch the video if you don't want, but then you shouldn't either make statements you cannot be entirely sure of.

    This also does not only apply to this case, but generally. Everyone can write a book, Wikipedia article, article, etc. Best case is either checking the base source or multiple sources to see if they agree or something that has been reviewed by multiple ppl./experts. Otherwise, never trust it fully. Also don't trust any LLM unless you do the same. Latter is a side note.

    Edit: also, I am not saying you are entirely wrong with your statements, as I cannot verify them myself; I don't speak Portuguese. Alas, most of the people think you are (also by itself not entirely reliable) and it does indeed from the video seem like both the article and you are wrong.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I guess he is fine. He first ran to Sparta (sth. like 240 km; known as the Sparthalon nowadays) then fought in the battle at Marathon and then ran to inform of the victory (~42 km; Marathon race today). He did all of this is rapid succession, then, understandably, died of exhaustion.

    I quickly checked, it even says so in the Wikipedia article that you linked.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Sounds more like a bad watch or setting it up badly. Why would it delete anything anyways before backing it up on secondary media or in general?

    Workouts are usually .gpx files which are kB in size. You cannot tell me there is no space on the watch for that. Mine stores all workouts I have ever done.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Most open source maintainers never "license [any] stuff you maintain for big bucks" that is often hard to do and/or goes against the philosophy of open source entirely.

    And I don't even think this is malicious behaviour as it just nukes the code of this package and nothing else if you are not being careful yourself...

    If you don't do version control you are not a good programmer, imo

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