Air France 447 Flight-Data Recorder Transcript – What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447 – Popular Mechanics : The (comp.)risks of overautomation strike again. “When trouble suddenly springs up and the computer decides that it can no longer cope—on a dark night, perhaps, in turbulence, far from land — the humans might find themselves with a very incomplete notion of what’s going on. They’ll wonder: What instruments are reliable, and which can’t be trusted?”
(tags: aviation crash flight flying autopilot stalls warnings alarms ui af447 risks automation)spark : sparklines in your terminal window. Simply give it a comma or space-separated list of data values, and it’ll generate an ANSI-graphics sparkline chart. Brilliant! (via mjd)
(tags: via:mjdominus sparklines charts graphs bash shell terminal cli ansi)