MilStdJunkie

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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
You save the laughing for after the murdering, generally. It's traditional.
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Speaking personally, I agree a hundred percent. Putting myself in his shoes, I'd slow crawl over broken glass to see this through, just so I could flip 'em off with a grenade pin around my middle finger. And I do think that muckra
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Just for funsies, let's assume foul play. There's a happy way to look at it, and an unhappy way. The unhappy way is that whoever Epsteined him has enough juice/skill/perseverance to wipe the tapes between the moment of r
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Working in the same industry[1], this[2] is almost always a red flag. To the point where someone specifically asking for face to face - during a review of a flight critical system - will get eyebrows raised halfway to the outermost of Sat
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Sometimes their OS responsibilities could be a lead albatross, too. I would, very mildly, suggest that the cash money that kept MS afloat as a player all these years was always coming from enterprise, specifically their lock on office forma
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
That was unexpectedly charming. Something hinted at, here, and something I've only recently come to accept, is that we - we humans - are Earth. I mean, literally, we're systems of systems composed of stuff that's Earth stuf
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
It is, and quite well. And it is effective. But to make the really deep investment cost effective, it needs to be in the ninety percentile effective, and where we're sitting, right now, in the EW and sensor environment we're cur
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Holy Jesus Buddha Muhammad on a Harley. 2000 repos for a messageboard?! I don't think someone knows what "repository" means. At least they're bringing in Sourcegraph. That tool's helped me make sense of some cha
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Full-featured stealth aircraft haven't been employed - so far as we know - in an offensive capacity inside a peer's air defense system, which is the "high threat" regime. The 1999 F-117 shootdown was accomplished with a
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
It's a great accomplishment, but it must also be stated that the FRP isn't for Block 4 F-35s, and multiple DoD staff have gone on the record that Block 4 will be a minimum for survivability, to clarify, that's "survivabi
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
I'll defer to a 787 driver, but it's not out of the question that a forceful kick out of autopilot like this could make some screens refresh at once, and I know they'll change color and some will change shapes. So what we c
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
A single Boeing subsidiary - under 300m revenue - had a Social Media budget of 7m/year. That's two percent of revenue. Now imagine what capital-B-Boeing's social media budget is, and think about what a primitive -if awesome!
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Have people not heard of depreciation, maintenance, restocking? Oh. Oh waitaminute I see the angle here. Mining company shares to goldbugs, substandard shovels and rations to 49ers, stakes in stablecoin exchanges to the common techbro, and
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Unless Comac floats BCA, then they can move Comac product over here to get rubber stamped by BCA and their FAA muppets. IMAGINE THE MONEY. And death, of course. Hot fiery death.
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Government will keep BDS alive, in any case, and probably some part of BGS. I would not be surprised to see a Boeing breakup, a la GE. Keep a very watchful eye on whoever might scoop up BCA in such an event. I suspect Comac might try for
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
It might be now? Honestly, it probably is, given the reworks. But the problem with the Eight, at least initially, was the way the suppliers were organized. Or, more specifically, how they weren't organized. Boeing had flushed throu
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Germans. OK, seriously though, when it comes to outsourcing, it's because Airbus/CASA rigorously defined systems interfaces and all sorts of other stuff before outsourcing design. I've been a part of the supplier chain ther
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
The end of citizen-soldiers, i.e., the end of the conscript military. That forces literally everything else. The problem now - that no one wants to talk about - is that the gap between conscript-accessible "consumer" technology
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Bit of both. Not being able to throw nukes has restricted the F35 sales in NATO, which has . . traditionally . . depended on nukes to slow down the momentum of a Warsaw Pact breakthrough. The idea is that an armored breakthrough is likely t
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Speaking as someone who's from a tight clique of former children of loveless homes, there's a truth I'd like to tattoo on the forehead of every baby-crazed[1] young couple: No One Asks To Be Born . It's on you. It'
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Surprised I had to scroll down to see this. Collective defense means expanded nuclear umbrella from the nuke powers in NATO. TFCMA/WP/Russian doctrine has always allowed a free hand for local commanders to use tactical weapons -
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
When you're in the thick of it, it's sort of a "frog-in-pot" effect where you just notice that things are bad and have been for a whole, but when taking a few dozen big steps back and looking at the whole thing in its gr
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Buy the pro plan first, then it gets upgraded to lifetime?
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Sometimes you just need to let the ship sink into the ocean. Wish I had a time machine to go back and tell myself that ten years ago. Quite often, doing a rescue on a process problem . . it's like a coaler changing the course of the Ti
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Yeah. A lot of the new .md build systems are sprouting up to address the gaps between .md and complex pubs, a space occupied by the more complex LMLs (lightweight markup) like .adoc and .rst. This - for the Nth million time - beautifully il
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Getting a IR lock might be challenging on a hot day, and it's probably not very big on a radar. Imaging sensors and, hell, sound, would both be useful for targeting. Hitting anything at altitude and moving with small arms is a waste of
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Nothing all that exciting, I'm afraid. The new director of InfoSec must have watched a Cable News Show about supply chain attacks, or something, so suddenly anything with package management - pip, npm, gem, etc - was banned from the of
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
Weasy is tight . Unfortunately, my org banned Python across the board, else that would have been my choice.
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
I've been test-driving the web pdf build tool for Asciidoc, asciidoctor-web-pdf[1], for a few years, which uses Paged.js as the template engine before CSS PMM has its go. I like it - I like it a LOT[2] - but Puppeteer-Chrome bugs break
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by MilStdJunkie 3y ago
I should re-phrase that, because like its aerosol military usage[1], yes, the right formulation passes skin tissue. Transdermals take hours or days, and the formulation is geared specifically so that it's carried fluid-to-fluid via fat

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