budman1

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by budman1 6mo ago
waterfall and ada. you used to have a thing called preliminary design (i think is specified in 2167A). with ada, you write all the specs. so, all of the packages procedures / functions and visible variables are declared. Feed this to
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by budman1 6mo ago
JOVIAL. A blast from the past. At one time I was saving programmers manuals for JOVIAL compilers. (why? perhaps some mental defect or disease). Late 1990's I was contacted via e-mail by someone that was looking for a JOVIAL manual.
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by budman1 6mo ago
not just the priorities, the overall skill and education of programmers. in the 1980/1990's i was a dumb kid. problems of large systems were not in my mind. having to type begin/end instead of {} was, i thought, a valid comp
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by budman1 6mo ago
the gnat people needed to make a living. there were several impediments to widespread use of gnat, like the runtime license. not that it was their responsibility to provide a free compiler to the masses.
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by budman1 6mo ago
academics loved ada when it came out. it was a very sophisticated language for it's day. same is true today. the spec/body separation made for an actual delineation between design and implementation.
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by budman1 6mo ago
compilation. run time was good, and you could turn off things like run time range checking, if you wanted to.
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by budman1 6mo ago
sure. timing sensitive stuff. < 50 lines. jump back to C as soon as the critical stuff is over. 'performance stuff'. i try to solve it in C for a bunch of reasons; others readability is one. almost never need to do more th
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by budman1 6mo ago
change that 10% to 0.5% and I would agree. i am 62, worked in low level coding and hw interfacing. 'routinely' not even; i would say on occasion, needed to look at a bit, or even more rare, had to write a bit (like a small modul
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by budman1 6mo ago
ever use wordstar on Z80 system with a 5 MB hard drive? responsive. everything dealing with user interaction is fast. sure, reading a 1 MB document took time, but 'up 4 lines' was bam!. linux ought to be this good, but the I&#x2F
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by budman1 6mo ago
we are in agreement. what we don't know is what is the blocker? it maybe that LM is running at 10% capacity, with a lot of material in stock. a purchase order shows up, and they start a night shift next week. may or may not be a dire
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by budman1 6mo ago
This is a back of the envelope, not cognizant of all of the factors, estimate. We don't know what the pacing item of the manufacturing is. It could be sub-assemblies from another company, raw materials, final assembly workers, facilit
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by budman1 6mo ago
I used to laugh about the 'picture signs'; like the universal nose in book sign that means library. Or the airport logo on the exit sign on the freeway. Until I spent some time in a country whose predominate language (and signage
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by budman1 6mo ago
This person needs some help. He does not need to be working for the US government in a position of decision making authority. I am not saying he is crazy, or will always be so. But thinking that you have 'teleportation' skills di
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by budman1 6mo ago
some enlisted air crew go to SERE. loadmasters, airborne intelligence, and SMA (Special Mission Aviators). As an added benefit, enlisted air crew have no restrictions on mustache length or on professional wear of the uniform.
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by budman1 6mo ago
It's known as the Air National Guard. Work for United during the week, and fly F16's one weekend a month.
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by budman1 7mo ago
*removed comment. I didn't know this was an April fools joke. sorry for my lack of a clue....
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by budman1 7mo ago
I expect there are a dozen equally possible to occur catastrophic failures that the team at NASA knows about, has analyzed, and the decision has been made to take the risk and launch. Spaceflight is complicated. We don't know everythi
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by budman1 7mo ago
man, if you need 7 digits, call HP.
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by budman1 7mo ago
I get the reference to deb and ian (two people), but not git ?
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by budman1 7mo ago
Excellent work. The feeling of accomplishment when the machine boots after a major repair (almost) makes it all worth while. (i think i would have found a used backplane...fixing it was crazy clever)
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by budman1 7mo ago
prior service. the max age is different.
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by budman1 7mo ago
Hegseth could dry out for a few weeks and then might pass the physical.
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by budman1 7mo ago
ain't nobody going 11B (infantry) at age 40. maybe aviation electronics, or supply, medical. marching with a pack and a gun ruins 20 year old knees. If you start at 40, then you will lack the rank to ride in the truck.
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by budman1 7mo ago
I am a bit surprised, but I guess everything eventually wears out. In the 1980's I worked as a field engineer that supported a lot of pdp-11's. They were very reliable for the time; tape drives and disks were the #1 maintenance i
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by budman1 7mo ago
Individual Contributor. Directly creates work, not a supervisor.
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by budman1 7mo ago
Keysight == Hewlett-Packard Old School.
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by budman1 7mo ago
Irix6.5 was excellent. Great real time performance, with a large SMP system (thinking Infinite Reality). Also, tech support was outstanding. What a great way to start your career.
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by budman1 7mo ago
what would you say about a EE that could not use a scope?
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by budman1 7mo ago
used. maybe not. but cognizant of it. sure. and having used it once or twice. come on! you are a software expert and you never had to edit a file on a machine where claude was not available?
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by budman1 7mo ago
quitting vi is a basic competency test. would you listen to a doctor that could not suture a cut? how about a mechanic that could not remove a socket from a ratchet? simple file editing. vi has been around for every. if you haven't s

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