budman1

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by budman1 7mo ago
not a bad first order filter. can you think of a better one?
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by budman1 7mo ago
"Funeral In Berlin".
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by budman1 7mo ago
maybe they are in a 'sweet spot'. spaceX is not on the bleeding edge of anything; rather they are optimizing existing solutions. incremental design changes, in a problem domain that has been studied for decades, and is well know
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by budman1 7mo ago
It all depends on the failure. A transient bit failure in digital circuits? Then reboot and away you go. A coding / algorithmic defect. Reboot and you are back in the same place. Also, the AGC was directly interfaced to an astronaut
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by budman1 7mo ago
But if you don't know what you are making, it is the only option!
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by budman1 7mo ago
there is a difference between the requirements changing and the poor quality, quickly made implementation proves to be inadequate. agile approaches are based on the quick implementations, redone as needed. my favorite life cycle: 1> Star
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by budman1 7mo ago
the slow speed of adoption in education has a positive face; that is it filters out some of the hype. the first derivative is smoother. not always a bad thing.
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by budman1 7mo ago
renaming the DOD to DOW war is like renaming your company <old name>.ai . it will create a press release, but the result product is unchanged.
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by budman1 7mo ago
"eventually get to live in a world where all the baby boomers are dead" man, that stings. as a member of the birth class of 1963. each of us is a product of our times. i wish no ill will on those younger or older than myself. per
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by budman1 7mo ago
at 10 miles, the data link cannot be jammed. and it won't be observed, either. military is very good at this 'mesh networking' thing. L16 is 40 years old at this point, I expect they have something much better.
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by budman1 7mo ago
mistakes in A/A combat can have serious repercussions. not only loss of expensive air vehicles, but things like civilian airliners. 'loyal wingman' gives the kill / no kill decision to an Air Force officer. And having
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by budman1 7mo ago
in the 1990's there was a woman prime minister of Turkey. she ended up resigning in a scandal caused by her husband accepting a boat (or work on the boat..i don't remember). the scandal was caused by the amount of the bribe. it
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by budman1 7mo ago
Many lifetimes ago I worked on a project where all customer desired changes were 'scoped' by engineering. A little report was written about how the change could be implemented, to include any possible complications and a LOC esti
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by budman1 7mo ago
Texas has the same thing going on.
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by budman1 7mo ago
without stealth, an aircraft will survive about 5 minutes in contested airspace.
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by budman1 7mo ago
all these cost assessments are numbers on a spreadsheet. let's see what the numbers look like after 20 years on the line, with SrA mechanics and most flight hours by new Lt's and Captains. if they over-estimate the engine rebuild
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by budman1 7mo ago
"boots on the ground" can take possession of ground, property, and people. And tell people what to do, directly.
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by budman1 7mo ago
Strategic bombing has never won a war. Blow up buildings, kill people,sure. But never definitely ended a conflict. I suggest we stop the kinetics, and try diplomacy.
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by budman1 9y ago
if i could convince people to do things, i would be selling amway, not leading a software team.
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by budman1 9y ago
"can i have my paycheck?" "convince me."
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by budman1 9y ago
Ada is proof that language selection is political or social, not based on technical merit. My opinion is Ada is a viable candidate language for use today, if you care about what it costs to develop or how long it takes. For over 20 years,
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by budman1 9y ago
too expensive at any price.
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by budman1 9y ago
s/50/90/
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by budman1 9y ago
you get highest current flow when the internal resistance of the battery is equal to the load resistance. i use this analogy with all tools; if you are using cmake, do it the cmake way (an example). if you don't, the compromises blunt
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by budman1 10y ago
RedHat is smarter than everyone. The have obtained security accreditation that is required by the USG and many commercial auditors. Ultimate lock in and profit from a protected position. How many RHEL license are bought by the USG and th
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by budman1 10y ago
Make a list of the things that are unacceptable. See if you can extract out a few 'themes' that exist. Are the problems in coding; like comments and spacing and variable names. If so, make a check list for yourself and make sur
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by budman1 10y ago
And be net cheaper because of 1/2 the benefit / supervision load.
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by budman1 10y ago
but it's agile, so it has to be good.
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by budman1 10y ago
Grand Jct Colorado. Full of California retirees.
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by budman1 10y ago
Old story. We had some hydraulic valves in a control system that would 'scream' under certain input conditions. The techs had changed them out, and the noise went with the valves. Vendor was positive that it could not be the va

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