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Palomides 3 hours ago

an automated system that could check if a plane is about to land on a runway and show some kind of alert or red light is hardly a stretch of the imagination

dpark 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s such a great idea that it already exists and is deployed at La Guardia.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/rwsl

Nition an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Thank you for providing your aviation knowledge to this discussion. What a classic example of tech people thinking that because they're smart, every other industry must be dumb and they can just jump in and fix it.

dpark 6 minutes ago | parent [-]

I also do not like this persistent tone of “everyone else is stupid; software would easily fix it” that pops up so often. Not all problems are easy to fix with some code.

To be clear, though, I don’t even have significant aviation knowledge. But this isn’t hard to learn about. That’s part of what irks me so much about this tone. It’s not just “I’m so smart” it’s “I’m so confident that you’re dumb that I don’t need to know anything about the domain you’re working in to know better than you”. Someone could ask ChatGPT why airports don’t have stoplights to stop traffic from crossing the runway and it would reveal the existence of this system.

mikeyouse 9 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

The habit where HN commenters greenfield solutions that are slightly worse versions of the ones experts already have in place is unmatched.