#modern problems require modern solutions……..

[razielim]

[luminique]

https://www.tumblr.com/luminique/768013333893873664/tying-a-bow-on-lighters-bicepsmwheeheh

WAITTT how about after what happen in that drabble. Reader decorated lighter’s body with stickers. Like his chest, arms, back or every part of his body is covered with STICKERS

OH and also the ribbons around his biceps 🥹🥹 reader even tie small bows on his fingers.

thats enough lighter yap for today 💕

sometimes, they sell really cute bandages at jc pharmacy in lumina square. while shopping for the girls with lighter, you decided to pick those up too, mainly just because they're cute. while lighter does some extra shopping, you decided to look at the stationery section. seeing all of the different sticker designs, animals, bangboos, galaxy, etc. a certain idea pops into your head.

after being able to convince him to let you tie a bow around his bicep, he was basically a flustered mess to even stop you from doing anything more. so while he was playing with the ribbon in his fingers, you seized the opportunity by placing a sticker right on the edge of his shoulder scar.

"and what's this?" his other hand went to feel the little bandage you placed on him. for how large his scar is, something this small would never be able to patch it up.

“it’s cute, and you seem like you need it,” you chirped, carefully peeling off a sticker from its backing and placing it on his chest. he didn’t need a bandage, his scar was healed somewhat, but the feel of your fingers on his skin sent shivers down his spine.

he’s the red scarf of the sons of calydon and he’s letting you place cat stickers on him like it was nothing. “i’m not some sort of cutie you can just, decorate whenever you like,” he protested but didn’t even make an effort to remove them from his body. he doesn’t want to seem like a softie, this was ruining his cool guy personality.

you didn’t really mind what he had to say, still continuing to stick bangboos on him now. if you weren’t going to stop, at the very least he could seem a little more angry (he can’t get angry at you doing something so silly). with a cross of his arms and his head turned, he effectively stopped you from placing anymore on his body.

however, he just opened himself up to even more opportunities. a quick little kiss on his cheek then a sticker to seal it in place had him staring wide eyed at you. he didn’t really think you would be THAT bold but the blush on your cheeks made it obvious to him that you were just as flustered by your own actions as him.

the red on his face was double yours though and he’d try to say something about it but it just comes out as stutters and half completed sentences. he loosens up, pushing up his sunglasses. if he’s getting your affection in such a… stupidly silly but cute way, maybe it’s not so bad to be covered in stickers and bandages…

[hellenhighwater]

Hey just a quick note: you can use basically any guitar wall hanger to hold a sword instead. Just in case you need to put one on the wall somewhere

[ayellowapple]

Kurapika painting

Yeah

[sesamestreep]

it’s wild to me that like every modern adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (and by modern I mean “made recently” not “set in modern times”) is like Hell Bent on coming up with a Reason™️ that Watson stays with Holmes and trots around with him on adventures all the time despite the inconvenience and the danger and all, and so it’s like “oh, Watson’s a gambling addict, he loves uncertainty and mystery” or “oh, Watson’s an adrenaline junkie, he gets off on being constantly in danger from criminals” or even like “Watson’s atoning for sins of the past of BEING IN THE WAR by solving crimes with Holmes now” or WHATEVER. And it’s like, girl, maybe he’s just in love! Did you think of that?? Maybe he’s got a crush and it’s making him do stupid things. Maybe he’s just got bad taste and his type is guys who don’t know how to refold newspapers properly but can identify different types of cigar ash by sight, smell, and taste. And wrote a monograph on the subject. Maybe he’s down bad is all. I mean, Keep is simple, stupid!!!

[devotion-disorder]

OSHA violation, put a tennis ball at the top of the horn

The Beast Has Been Contained

[gomzdrawfr]

small habits

[vineee2000]

Fly by wire was/is truly a primarily software innovation, and its main benefit were the ones brought by software. You can do replace all the cables and pulleys with wires without FBW, and that requires no sophisticated software in the loop - indeed, many FBW airliners have backup controls that are just that, sending electric signals to the actuators without the flight computer.

I think, as also a software engineer it is too easy to get lost in the knowledge of how sausage is made and all the problems we deal with on the daily and loose sight of how software solution can be a genuine improvement - not just a shortcut we have to put up with. After all, perfect hardware doesn't exist, and even if it did, any piece of software only needs to be more reliable than a human operator trying to deal with all of that hardware simultaneously without any assistance

And that assistance is indeed the main benefit of fly-by-wire that actually prompted its adoption! Planes are awfully complicated and counterintuitive machines to operate, and multiple disjointed modes of flight that behave differently and can change suddenly, being unaware of the true state of the plane, and certain inputs doing not what you think they'll do are all problems that can and do occur on a plane even without any computer in the loop

It is here that I need to correct myself, because when I said fly-by-wire allowed Boeing to implement their hack, when that's almost the exact opposite of truth. Boeing 737 did not have fly-by-wire, which is what caused them to need MCAS in the first place! (I look at 777 instead of 737 when writing my op)

If 737 had full fly-by-wire, the crashes probably wouldn't have happened in the first place, since dealing with complicated aerodynamics in real time without failing and without even bothering the pilot about it happening is exactly what FBW systems are meant to do.

And it is here that I want to again empathise just how reliable FBW is. Some modern planes, like A220, forgo having any sort of backup controls entirely, because the flight computer can be trusted just that much. Back in the 70s, when NASA was undertaking its digital fly by wire program, one of the requirements was no mechanical backup - this computer system had to be sufficiently reliable to be the only option they need; and they made it so, and it successfully flew over 200 of its test flights.

Ultimately, designing mission-critical, failure-resistant software systems is no easy feat, of course - but it is no easy feat for hardware systems either! And I would argue that neither is inherently easier than the other, and obviously the regulations and industry culture need to make sure the hard work is put into both.

Ultimately, what doomed MCAS wasn't the the sin of turning to software - it was lack of redundancy and integration testing, - a phrase that I'm sure made you reflexively wince in psychic pain - but so it would any hardware engineer reading this!

"Boeing’s solution to its hardware problem was software." *ominous sting*

“and then the programmers made everything work better” just isn’t something you ever hear in an engineering story.

[evelili]

guest art i did for @aragon-is-done's latest comic ^^ go check it out!

[sailorsruin92]

The wi-fi signal at the Republic of Pirates is sh*t!

[ilikedetectives]

"This bond we share…I believe it is alurlssrin. If that is so, it will last as long as we do."

[kai-ice]

Remember guys, if you fight with your sister just summon demons to take care of it. Surely the 99th time will work!

[cleolinda]

The Missing Radio Tower post had an update so it’s going around again and my mentions are unusable (it’s fine), so I’m not necessarily seeing what people are saying. About anything. My queue is half-tagged and I’m going back as things post and putting tags in. We are in the home stretch towards getting the pain block for my herniated disc, which will be on Monday, and I���m sleeping a lot.

Tomorrow I have TWO doctor consults, one of which I had forgotten until I got an email reminder. I’m nervous that my new surgeon will either say “You need surgery” (bad!!!!), or he will say, “You don’t need surgery and you’re already seeing a spinal pain clinic, why are you wasting my time,” and I will get a bad grade in seeing doctors.

(He looks friendly on the hospital website though. He’s actually the one who replaced my original surgeon, who left a few years back, which I am never getting over because I loved him. THANKS CHICAGO.)

I’ll write up the results of tomorrow’s visits (after resting a bit, I’m sure), and probably put that on the Patreon. Anyway, this is an update on me, since I have some new folks coming in from the Missing Tower post and probably the political ones as well, and my pinned post indicates that I actually write things now and then. Yeahhhh, I’m currently writing only on my phone because I can’t sit up to use a laptop. We persevere.

[peskellence]

he's lost in the blue void quick save him

[nicoforlifetrue]

"Cass is the next batman!" "No terry is the next batman!" fools that you all are, clearly terry is the Batman after Cass! That is her SON and I die on this hill!

[victusinveritas]