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I don't disagree, but in 2024 where on earth could you staff large enough team to do such a task with developers that are self-disciplined enough to do it safel
by tengbretson 2y ago
I don't disagree, but in 2024 where on earth could you staff large enough team to do such a task with developers that are self-disciplined enough to do it safely?
- gjsman-1000 2y agoHeck, where do you get developers who aren’t convinced it should be rewritten in JavaScript?
- toomuchtodo 2y agoA collaboration between the US Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy. Lots of solid engineering out of Oak Ridge, Argonne, Sandia Labs. Make it a system owned and operated by the FAA.
- FireBeyond 2y agoI'm sure every other country on earth will approve of that. This needs to come from IATA, not the FAA.
- toomuchtodo 2y agoI don’t have a strong opinion as to which org owns it, as long as it is a neutral non for profit party or other consortium arrangement. IATA did not immediately come to mind, so I appreciate the correction. Upvoted!
- tengbretson 2y ago> Lots of solid engineering out of Oak Ridge, Argonne, Sandia Labs. Researchers and academics are quite possibly the last people on earth I would ask to deliver safety-critical software.
- labster 2y agoResearchers and academics did pretty well on weather models, which are much more important to safety than aviation software, because you can’t just disable severe weather for a few days.
- wenc 2y agoWeather forecasting is a science problem. Flight codes -- and making sure they don't break systems -- is a software engineering problem. Different skillsets. I know folks who work at national labs. They have neither the skillset nor the interest to do this kind of work. (I am a researcher)
- alfalfasprout 2y agoStrongly agreed. What makes this hard is not something novel algorithmically or in squeezing the last little bit of performance out. It's the monumental effort of coordination across many, many entities running legacy software and doing so in a way that doesn't take down critical infrastructure in the process. It's very, very difficult but in a completely different way to building weather modeling systems.
- bollu 2y agoI am curious why you feel that way.
- Bud 2y ago[dead]
- alfalfasprout 2y agoMore importantly, they wouldn't be able to pay for the talent to pull this off. Also, due to how government contracts work it would almost assuredly end up staffed by eg; Raytheon, Booz Allen, or some other contractor which would hire bottom of the barrel contractors, give them minimal resources, next to no flexibility in requirements, and pocket the money.