MilStdJunkie

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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Yeah, mostly it's impressive in a biological or evolutionary context, not in a raw number context. You multiply everything by every genetic piece of data, multiplied by the environmental variables, and so on and so forth, until you arr
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
I'm sort of baffled I didn't run into this sort of snobbery when I was working with Brits. One friend said they thought I was turning native - "you speak perfect English!" - and I said, no, I'm just enunciating care
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
I'm really sorry to be that guy, but just FYI, the pterosaurids weren't dinosaurs or dinosauroporphs, and were on a pretty independent evolutionary lineage. It's astonishing how many times vertebrates evolved flight independ
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Ah, I miss the Haynes books so damn much. Disclaimer: maintenance documentation is more or less what pays (most of) my checks. You got a few different things here that interact in weird ways when you're making books about taking things
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Oh boy, composites! That brings me back. Time for another story, from the lands of not-necessarily-big-B-but-could-very-well-be , told by someone who has no idea whatsoever what he's doing. New product, new structures. Composites! Lea
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
It's not just a lazy narrative. It's a profitable one. That narrative could help save their ass. I wouldn't be surprised if legions of paid "social media analysts" are barfing this out 24/7 on the grams and the
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
HTMX is sort of like a spiritual grandchild of 1990s stuff like CFML, at least conceptually, anyway. That's pretty cool. And maybe instructive, to look at what brought down systems like that, way back in the day. I'm a flunkie fro
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Good on them. Somewhat related, but one of my favorite movies of all time, Margin Call , is underscored by this constant awareness that all the brilliant on Wall Street - all of the intellectual power, and occasionally sheer genius, harnes
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Yeah, I've been monkeying around with an AI tool to help me query piles and piles of PDF files - bazillions of specification documents and suchlike - and if there's a single thing I've taken away from it, it's that I can
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Defense jobs have gotten goosed in the nuts, too. I'm getting dinged every few hours this week. I know, I know, first world problem, but it's a nice change.
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
One of the reasons for the adoption of the Hollerith Tabulator in the great 1890 Census - arguably the birth of computing in the United States - was the increasing concern about . . let's say ethnics . To be frank, there were too many
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Short version? With a pile of XML docs, Asciidoc's DocBook XML backend represented the "Legacy Tail" or Lenny Effect (Lenny Tail?) that gave us some insurance we'd have a stable format. We didn't see that in the M
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Holy smokes! There's a formal name for it!! I always privately called it a "Legacy Tail". It was a factor in the selection of a lightweight markup language to support old-fashioned industry (aerospace), but I think it should
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
SEAL team 10 brought in a lot of drugs and who knows what else back from the 'stans. The problem was that these guys were allowed to reserve a lot of C130 space - like, a LOT a lot - because they often brought personal equipment for th
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Yup. I'm in the techpubs systems business, and I tell everyone this: no matter how much you're spending on the tool stack, you will be wrenching on it, and probably quite a lot. So if you need to pay someone else to wrench, you
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
1) Their supplier network was a mess post-COVID, 2) they wouldn't budge on pricing, and 3) Boeing internal forecasts are, even in good times, generally worse than a coin toss. Wait, that last bit isn't quite right. Internal foreca
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
If an A&P mechanic did that on a live aircraft that is very deep into felony territory.
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
On the lines themselves, word on the street is that the powers-that-be greatly relaxed the "greeenlight" process post-COVID, which is a way to get a job outside your specific job code. To remove the Boeing-speak, they made it ea
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
This is going to sound maybe darkly humorous, but one of the reasons we haven't been able to make much use of AI is because the natural language content is itself nearly-universally incorrect, incoherent, or just plain gibberish. It&#
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
For all you folks who aren't ace programmer types, the Orange3[1] platform gives you a very miniaturized[2] ability to turn out these sorts of visualizations very rapidly. It's not the most stable thing in the world, but the node-
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
So everyone else here brings up great points, but something else to consider is that the barriers to market entry are, to some extent, created by the OEMs themselves, by dominating the ISO and AS9100 committees and TWGs/TSGs[1]. This m
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Sheesh, what the heck was I thinking. Yeah, 2007. I should have been a little more precise. I mean a wholly Boeing designed product, from the 21st century. The MAX is still a 737 in its heart, and that design goes back a ways.
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Remember the big rollout of the Dreamliner in 2014 to show it was all done, but it was actually an empty metal tube with landing gear duct taped on it? And remember the venom that people got for bringing up the fact that, you know, you co
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
That's also right around where aerodynamic forces are juuuuuuust starting to transition to disassociation and ionization in high flow areas, as the electrons are ripped from molecules in the air. Probably not a coincidence, because a
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
I think a lot of people would be happy if they could, just for once, pick a non-GE alum. Someone who also knows something about how planes fly through the air would also be great. A bonus. I've seen three small companies bought by Boei
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
I think this article is causing a kerfuffle because it's hitting two different audiences very differently. Honestly the article title should have been "Friends don't let friends use CSV for data pipelines". Because when
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Yeah, the pods got weight, but cabin systems are not in any way weightless, not by any stretch, and you could really strip down the whole interior. Airline seats, just by themselves, are 40kg per. On the other hand, I defer on the safety is
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Taking this to the Nth degree, you could optimize the air travel process to an incredible degree. So you make a pod, with tubes for air/water/food(maybe), power for systems/temperature/entertainment, and communications.
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Eleven hundred steaming pantloads of hot bullshit. This is textbook fishing trip. The real zinger of all this . . the thing that has me riled . . is that this is going to be used to put away who knows how many poor-ass sadsack innocent ci
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
"Earth stuff" was bad phrasing on my part. The actual dichotomy is "naturally evolved systems" versus "designed systems". I might be an optimist, but I DO think designed systems can self-sustain in space. N

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