MilStdJunkie

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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
I managed to score an Indigo back in the early nineties by basically stalking the SOCOM military subcon auctions we would have semi-occasionally in our neck of the woods. Incredibly - I didn't realize what kind of deal I had scored unt
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
I understand. They're the only orbital game in town, and will be until <INSERT_PET_FUTURISTIC_THINGY>. I guess what I'm, saying, it's more that "efficient" isn't a word that pops up in your head when you
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
I got ya. I have no problem seeing fellow Homo as, well, human, and probably with unique insight of their own. Things have gotten a little weird lately, as the Nazis have started identifying with Neanderthals. Or vice versa - or something l
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Alternate History is a guilty pleasure of mine too! Except, it shouldn't really be called guilty, should it? Because those "alternates" give us insight into maybe - possibly - isolating crucial factors in human history. I&#x2
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Oof. It's an important find (AKA the Divje Babe flute[1]), but it's very hard to stay tuned in when they utter the phrase "spiritual being". That's quite a thing to say. How do you measure spirits these days? With w
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
That's very true, but "efficient" isn't usually an adjective thrown at a rocket.
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Yup. And started using captured Panzerfausts to make flank progress from basement to basement . Blasting through walls. The list of Red Army improvisations and peculiarities during WW2 is huge and impressive, with several of them having si
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
If this is actually true, I'm not sure what policy would work aside from a big machine that says "ADDICTS" on one end and "MULCH" on the other. In the spaces I've worked in, so far as I can tell, Fentanyl in a
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
A corollary of "both-sides-ism", I think.
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Yeah, me too. Bruno, although ex-LM and ULA, is one of those "born-dirt-poor-but-obsessed-with-rockets" kind of CEOs that seem to be hard to find these days. That's one of the great differentiators between now and the days of
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Very similar story. I wasn't around for when X needed an N-millionth bypass, so Y said yes, and it killed X. Whoever decided that doing a million bypasses on an extremely diabetic one-legged one-lunged smoker needs to have their head e
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Indeed. In the vast historiography of WW2's Eastern Front, the winning qualities of the Red Army have changed nearly as fast as the roster of writers enunciating them. German generals, American spooks, British professionals, then the p
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Lawyer up yesterday. This whole thing smells like it's designed for someone to be holding the bag. My first and only experience in the startup world was made up entirely of crap like this. I got real tired of practically needing counse
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Defense industry, part of ARTT (Acquisition Requirements for Training Transformation, ), which is an incredibly-overdue-effort to merge specs. It's also being used to draft MBSE schemas for SysML, SysML has undefined overlap with the m
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Does anyone know if there is an equivalent for generating "random" viable products[1] in a PDM/ERP system? I'm demoing some systems in this field for outside interests, but I can't use any "real" data due
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
I wasn't aware that was a thing - how is equity a type of debt? They seem to differ in their core concepts. I'm not being snarky or anything - I'm genuinely curious about the reasoning! Equity debt, I get that, it's like
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Anyone who funded (multiple!!) stock repurchase with bond issue in the last five years deserves whatever they get. Particularly in low margin, high capital industries like aerospace.
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Nothing bugs me more than an otherwise good movie where its villains keep doing things that make no sense. "Bad Guy" AIs seem to get the worst of this, as a lazy writer might feel they can get away with more because the villain&#x
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
It's a trope, but in this case actually the real truth, that hearing you say that makes me feel better. Thanks for that. Double edged sword though. I "feel better" because for a moment I don't have that feeling like I&#x
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Oh! Not now, no. No it is all bad. Definitely maladaptive. But how did it make its way through the millennia without killing everyone it touched and disappearing? Because a lot of the carriers survived, and maybe because of it, or - more li
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Dang, sorry that came off that way. I like kids. I didn't think that sounded like an anti-child troll. I got my three nibs for the summer, so I might let them know for their own good. Parents shouldn't leave their kids with trol
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
"Why does Jim exist?" Forgive me for being blunt, but I think it might be winter. Using resources to chase low-probability goods in a sharply resource constrained environment is a lethal strategy. See also: why being rich makes it
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Feijoada. 2 cups black beans, four cups broth, 4 oz fatty pork scraps (bacon, shoulder, whatever), 8 oz sausage, whatever other meat scraps are laying around, 2 onions chopped, 2 bell peppers chopped, 6 cloves garlic, tsp oregano, tsp black
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
300 grand minimum for the chance to throw half your genetics into the future. That worth 300k? Opinions differ. I don't have an enormous farm filled with livestock for tiny hands to help with, so I'm going with "no". Som
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Yeah, it's an open secret that apex is just a way for the primes to squeeze out another drop from their current suppliers. Who themselves are basically stuck with the prime they're servicing because of the surreal[1] business and
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Could that curve also be inversely related to the cost curve for lithium devices in general over the same period? Consumer technology drives cost of X down, X is now decent option for high-performance technology Y, sometimes tech X used in
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Hard agree on the computing system schema - it's always there, whether in a bag of brains or as a XSD file. The usefulness of these concepts lie on a spectrum, with user behavior located in one part of that spectrum. Numbers occupies a
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
That's perfect! The electrical metaphor is a powerful one, as evidenced that it effortlessly describes a sister of the OP problem, "Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch". Looking at the most compact expression of the problem
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
In twenty years of "ERP Whispering" I've never known a "formal" "schema" (going to put "schema" in quotes here too, what that actually represents is a strictly validating structure, or system of
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
For the third time this week, in relatively unrelated fields of computation science, I'm reminded of the quote: "Duplication is less expensive than the wrong abstraction". An awful lot of the time, a table schema is a terrib

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