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20,000 watts is not a big deal. You want a strong Signal, all day between Chicago and New York? A power level with some design margin is what you need. Provided the transmitter is 'clean' and modulated such that the signal stays
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US Military absolutely teaches "servant leadership". And "Do what I say leadership" at other times.
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my point is either of these versions are very complete and usable implementations. more recent is even better.
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Only little guys pay insurance. You get to a certain size, and you self-insure. Blue Cross / Aetna and the likes are involved to do the paperwork. Every time you file a claim, it is eventually paid by your employer (plus processing fe
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From Wikipedia: "A software engineer is a person who applies the engineering design process to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software." "The engineering design process, also known as the engineering m
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People run containers for two reasons: #1. They cannot control their devs with python dependencies. #2. Everyone runs containers! Can't be left behind.
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These men were/are giants in the field. But look at how simple the language was in the beginning. A handful of concepts, strung together. Incremental changes; not all were deemed best in hindsight. You can fit what is going on in 16K
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Ada. 83 or 95
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Close Air Support is controlled and managed by the guys on the ground. The pilot has to have situational awareness, and capture the nuances of where the dangers are prior to releasing ordinance. When you 'pop yellow smoke' and ne
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At my previous employment, we used RHEL. Why? It is the only linux on the governments list of "security acceptable software products". And lot's of CentOS. Mainly for development. If I needed a virtual machine to troubles
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If you want to become a US citizen bad enough to serve in the U.S. Military, I welcome you. It is a significant investment in yourself.
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s/Yordon/Yourdon/ I consider him a giant in software, but because he was "IT Focused" he was not as loved as others.
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Every year the amount of Fortan in use reduces by 50%. (it gets' turned into C, or Python) There will still be work in Fortan in 2050. It will never completely die.
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it all depends on if you want the tick time to equal the wall clock time.
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yep. and when you need to write 300K SLOC, the average takes care of the outliers.
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not knowing exactly, but with an estimate of the software size. sure. how else do you reliably estimate the projects cost and schedule. "engineering" not "programming"
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which is really a good way to do it. you design it to be so many pounds, when you get it all together you should be there (or close to it).
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We could make a big list of people that are ready to buy a subscription. Everytime RHEL has an update: * A subscription is purchased * Download all the source rpm's. * Put them on the internet * RH terminates the license and the purcha
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Actually, most life insurance pays out on suicide. After 2 years of holding the policy.
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Yep. You got it. No upfront investment, all the risk. But, he had ran a similar operation before. So he had an idea of what needed to be done, and how to do it.
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fundamental advantage of waterfall: "Done" is defined.
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programming computers is a blue collar job. like a machinist or a welder. probably half of the work is fixing defects.
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it depends on the scale. want to start a small cafe in a strip mall? if the mall has some unleased space, and is having problem filling it, you can cut a deal. my BIL did this, and negotiated a 5 year lease for a percent of his gross sale
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These scopes were considered "instruments". Solid, precise, repeatable measuring devices. I have calibrated / adjusted / repaired probably a hundred of these. PMEL. But, in 2023, $500 will buy you a good scope. It is