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by bumby 2y ago
If it were “uniquely provided” by Starlink, how do you think Verizon got the award?
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by bumby 2y ago
I agree Starlink is poised to be very successful at providing high speed internet to rural areas. But that doesn’t negate the point that it required the govt to do so because SpaceX would not exist if it didn’t get high risk govt contracts.
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by bumby 2y ago
> An aircraft? Not so much. NASA did this with the commercial crew program, awarding to both SpaceX and Boeing to reduce risk.
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by bumby 2y ago
What’s the tradeoff between reliability/cost/performance between different infrastructure approaches? I’d assume for safety critical applications, reliability is the priority.
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by bumby 2y ago
Unfortunately this doesn’t work either. Contracting is risk adverse and tries to avoid legal battles at all costs so even bad reviews often get scrubbed and edited until they look glowing. The risk adverse nature of the govt needs to be fix
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by bumby 2y ago
> While I acknowledge their success in space Not to mention the early model was built on govt contracts because the govt was the only institution capable of shouldering the risk of an unproven space vendor. Not saying that’s a bad thing
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by bumby 2y ago
For your stance to be correct, it implies we reached peak technological lethality hundreds of years ago. That ignores advancements in nuclear technology, drone technology, biological technology, ballistic technology etc. People could absolu
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by bumby 2y ago
I think that’s only true if you think easy access to the correct information isn’t a hurdle. That same argument would claim the internet didn’t make it easier either because we already had libraries.
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by bumby 2y ago
> It has NEVER been difficult to kill a large number of people. Would you agree that technological progress tends to make it easier (and often to a large degree)
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by bumby 2y ago
I think the issue is not quite as trivial as “asking the right question” but rather the emergent behavior of layering “specialized”* LLMs together in a discussion that results in unexpected behavior. Getting a historical question answered g
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by bumby 2y ago
What’s an authors perspective on libraries, including ebooks from apps like Libby?
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by bumby 2y ago
This needs a broader context. On some fronts, software is amazing from a reliability perspective. It doesn’t wear out and can be updated easier. On the other hand, it creates new failure modes and interaction effects that are much harder to
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by bumby 2y ago
There’s an interesting linguistic concept of a “retronym” meaning a term that is created because it needs distinction in the context of technological change. An example is an “acoustic guitar”. There was no reason for that term prior to the
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by bumby 2y ago
The headline is correctly using the term according to the NHTSA definition as a requirement for the manufacturer to fix an unreasonable safety issue. Whether it is OTA does not change the fact that it is a recall any more than if a manufact
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by bumby 2y ago
I don’t work there so I can’t speak definitely, but much of it probably stems from the sheer diversity of software. For example, ladder logic typically does not have the same tools as structured programming but is heavily used in infrastruc
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by bumby 2y ago
I’m not aware of any tools for analysis geared to NASA requirements specifically, but static analysis is a requirement for some types of development.
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by bumby 2y ago
Sorry, I’m not following your point. When I said “NASA-specific” I meant those in your link like “NASA Software Engineering and Assurance Handbook ” and “NASA C Style Guide ” (emphasis mine). Those are not hard requirements in spaceflight
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by bumby 2y ago
NASA requires their software to be classified based on risk. The requirements that get levied are supposed to be commensurate with the risk. (Eg human-rated safety critical software has more stringent requirements that basic business softwa
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by bumby 2y ago
Just be aware that some of the NASA-specific ones fall into a similar category. NASA “guidebooks” and “handbooks” aren’t generally hard requirements.
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by bumby 2y ago
Just for context, these aren’t really “rules” as much as proposed practices. Note that official “rules” are in documents with names like “NPR” aka “NASA procedural requirements.”[1] So, while someone may use the document in the featured art
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by bumby 2y ago
What do you use to define “practical purpose”? There’s a saying that “science is necessary, but art is the reason why we live.” If you dig deep enough, subjective experience is what we’re often trying to improve. Both science and art contri
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by bumby 2y ago
Oscar Wilde said “a cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Subsidizing also increases creates more utilization. You seem to be of the mind that more education is a bad thing. I’m not sure we all agree.
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by bumby 2y ago
This reminds me of an apocryphal business story: a bunch of managers were sitting around discussing a request to give more training to employees. One manager asked, “What if we train them and they leave!?” To which a more senior manager qui
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by bumby 2y ago
This is the EO that was repealed. I didn’t originally include it because it was already mentioned in this thread. Both claim to ban discrimination based on race, gender, or religion. https://archives.federalregister.gov/issu
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by bumby 2y ago
> The Supreme Court is the same size is always been “The number of Justices on the Supreme Court changed six times before settling at the present total of nine in 1869” https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/institutio
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by bumby 2y ago
I think the OP has a different point. I don’t think they were claiming ICE was created by DACA, but rather their actions were enabled by it.
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by bumby 2y ago
I’m open to that, but what context do you think is appropriate and how would you measure it for an unbiased metric?
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by bumby 2y ago
You do realize that the EO this replaced has almost the exact verbiage about discrimination, right? We should be focusing on what is different between the two instead of being sidetracked by that argument.
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by bumby 2y ago
I used to think the problem of governance by EO was getting worse too but the stats tell a different story: https://www.statista.com/chart/7658/number-of-executive-orde...
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by bumby 2y ago
> prevent the hiring of individuals based on their race, sex, or religion, and prevent the hiring of individuals Did you know the EO that was rescinded had similar verbiage too?[1] [1] https://archives.federalregister.gov&#x2

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