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by _moof 5y ago
You might want to look at this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_militar...
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by _moof 5y ago
Thanks for the reply. I think what I was trying to say by implication is that I think folks fall so far short of the ideal that it's actually a regression. Related to this is what I see as an implicit belief that "rationality&quot
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by _moof 5y ago
Ugh, LaTeX resumes. They're a dime a dozen (I've interviewed hundreds of engineers) and they utterly fail to make people stand out, which is the whole point of a resume. When I get a resume that was done in LaTeX from someone who
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by _moof 5y ago
It's impossible to be perfectly rational without perfect and complete information. Crucially, for questions that affect us personally, this includes perfect insight. I've yet to meet anyone who qualifies.
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by _moof 5y ago
Go read "On Bullshit." You'll find it's actually a very straightforward concept. Also, not everything in life is science, and emotions can be useful messengers. Ignore them at your peril.
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by _moof 5y ago
Yes, well, some of us are working with barely more than what a Commodore VIC-20 had to offer. (And we like it!) ;)
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by _moof 5y ago
Hell, if you zoom out from the Middle East, you can go all the way back to Vietnam. (I don't know much about Korea.) That's over six decades of being wrong--sixty years of belligerence with nothing to show for it but a horrific bo
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by _moof 5y ago
Maybe next time we protest against starting a war, listen to us.
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by _moof 5y ago
I'm frustrated by the withdrawal too but let's not forget we had twenty years to help build a functioning army. It's not as though things were going really great and then oops, we left too suddenly. We've been failing
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by _moof 5y ago
I've worked at places where data theft meant a spy was violating arms control treaties. You get access to the data you need, and every access and egress is logged. A keylogger is a frankly ridiculous solution to this problem.
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by _moof 5y ago
Downvotes are not for disagreement.
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by _moof 5y ago
If you find any 68040s in there, gimme.
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by _moof 5y ago
Every time I see a headline like this I think, "ok, let's dig deeper here and find out what actually happened." But no, in this case, this is actually what happened, and it's complete garbage. In fact it's even w
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by _moof 5y ago
> the fights start off of the headline alone I think we have mountains of evidence that this happens whether or not there's a paywall. :)
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by _moof 5y ago
I worked for a few different newspapers in the early '00s, including a nationwide conglomerate. Craigslist was the end. Papers have been struggling to make ends meet ever since.
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by _moof 5y ago
Probably more important in an ATC context than a flight deck setting. Tail numbers come to mind, as you said. Although I could see Part 91 operators mixing up airport identifiers with O and 0, airlines don't fly to airports where that
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by _moof 5y ago
Yup, entirely possible. I haven't used it myself.
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by _moof 5y ago
> I tried it as a terminal font. It is awful. In fairness, a shell is a very different use case from a flight deck. (You note below that this is a flight deck font, not an ATC font.) An aircraft cockpit is mostly using type to display sm
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by _moof 5y ago
If SpaceX has anything to say about it, it'll be Lato.
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by _moof 5y ago
Wait, really? This seems like a buried lede.
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by _moof 5y ago
The limit is 35°C wet bulb temperature. The temperature you're accustomed to reading is dry bulb. You can't compare wet and dry bulb readings; they're completely different measures. The annual maximum wet bulb temperature i
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by _moof 5y ago
My experience includes government, consumer unicorns, and new vehicle development in aerospace. I'm familiar with highly regulated and exponential-growth settings.
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by _moof 5y ago
In my experience this is an overrated concern. And when it does happen, it's usually accompanied by a rewrite anyway.
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by _moof 5y ago
Why do you want to be a manager? (This is a genuine question, not a challenge or an argument.)
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by _moof 5y ago
Bleh, sorry to hear that. Never had any trouble with mine. Maybe you had too many college students? :)
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by _moof 5y ago
Not the ones in NeXT hardware, unfortunately. The '040 only came in PGA and QFP. And although you can still find LC, EC, and Z variants without much difficulty, finding the version that includes both an MMU and an FPU requires meeting
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by _moof 5y ago
It is, yes. Don't take it outside on holidays :)
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by _moof 5y ago
The keyboards really are nice to type on. Though for the life of me I can't figure out why, on a UNIX system, they put the pipe character in such a weird place. It's above the keypad. If you (the general you, not you specifically,
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by _moof 5y ago
I've got a NeXTstation, AKA "pizza box," the black m68k workstation hardware. There's really nothing special about it electrically other than an onboard DSP. It's a pretty standard 68040-based computer. The case tho
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by _moof 5y ago
Yes, the term for what you're describing is "glamor industries." From experience, they are absolute hell to work in.

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