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by bdavis__ 4y ago
A driving simulator will set you back around $150K. There are several vendors in the space. This will include a "cab" with steering wheel, brakes, etc. and a projected display system. Some go 200+ degrees FOV. And the "feel
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
It will be far less regimented than lets say, joining the army. Up at 5AM, stand for the count. Report to prison job for a couple of hours a day. 5pm, in your cell, standing for the count. Lights out at 10pm. You can exercise, go to the lib
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
Fraud == Fraud Medical or otherwise. Hold everyone to the same standards.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
Aviation safety is incredible. "Events" happen. But all the people got out. This works due to regulation, training, and an honest evaluation of every incident that forces changes in the system.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
The USG / DOD is a terrible customer. They want to control every thing; from suppliers to acceptance. They really don't care about what something costs, it is far more important to ensure the vendors are not making too much prof
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
There is only room for Elon in the management suite.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
The #4 reference (gallmeister) is getting dated. The tarball of example source is still out there on the web. At the practical level, I would suggest the Redhat Realtime linux tuning guide. It covers practical ways to identify and remove l
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
s/Angular/Apache/ LAMP was a term from the 1990's.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
I live in a 12 story office building, built in 1932. When the interior was converted to living space, 2 of the elevator shafts were re-purposed to provide additional floor space. They simply but in a "floor" where once was a &qu
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
i think it is under-exaggerated. maybe 99.995%.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
If they were de-classified, the markings on the document would have been changed. The "Top Secret- SCI" markings would have been crossed out, and a "declassified by: ____" notation would have been made so that it could
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
"MacBook, Rust, Bazel and containers." what is the essence of what you are trying to accomplish. focus on that.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
"totally useless". maybe just "useless". my experience is you learned a lot about the problem domain and the system constraints during the creation of those documents. you didn't learn enough to solve the problem
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
"changed the world". a couple of 5MB drives were important, but delivering 4 300MB drives to every credit union, bank, and medium sized business is what changed the world.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
Nope. CDC 300MB Removable platters SMD. http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201... More storage than you thought possible. And it was widely used for about 10 years.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
No, it is not. You sure don't do it in aerospace. Each change is verified, the entire system is validated prior to a release.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
and some require a TS !! funny that wasn't mentioned...
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
"- Maybe I've actually always been dumb and am only now realizing it!" == wisdom
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
i like your logic. someone should ask a few HN questions instead of leetcode. "who is dang"? "did you read the latest from the lego sorter guy ?"
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
Did mine at 50. Two things: #1. The fundamentals are the same, but a lot of things have changed in the past 30 years. The coursework, somewhat, brings you closer to up-to-date. #2. Non-FAANG. Looking to be a director or a tech fellow? N
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
overruns on a cost-plus contract are the procuring agencies fault, not the contractor. there is a thing called "oversight". cost plus contracts have to be managed. if they are not making progress, you stop paying them. "cos
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
A lot of CS programs are ABET accredited. CMU and Stanford don't need anyone or any organization to tell the world they do a good job educating CS students. Not so clear if the CS dept is at the Small Town Liberal Arts College and Sem
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
How about the gold standard for engineering and computer science(s), a program accredited by ABET? Is WGU?
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
all airlines have something like this. it used to be called "counter to counter"; drop off and pick it up at the airport. my story, about 1988. we had a system in Omaha with a broken power supply (it was big, say 6U, custom volt
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
BBC 4 on Long Wave. wonderful signal on 198 khz.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
being a command line person, i always wonder about these IDE "shortcuts". to be blunt, my productivity is limited by my speed of thought, not by how i manipulate source in a program. my use of vi is about 10 commands; whenever som
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
not with building.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
The main draw for Truth Social is not posting on it. If he was "truthing" 50 times a day, they would be doing a lot better. I suspect some negotiation is going on. The main content creator wants a bigger slice of the business.
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by bdavis__ 4y ago
by the sloc.
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by bdavis__ 5y ago
or from 12 hours to 30 minutes. changes everything.

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