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by cduzz 3y ago
The point of the 737max was that it was a brownfield design which wouldn't require recertification by airlines of all the pilots who are certified for 737min planes. A 7B7 greenfield narrow body plane would probably have been faster to
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by cduzz 3y ago
I looked around and couldn't make sense of how to write out random config files like I manage with puppet and ERB files. Are there any reasonable examples of such?
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by cduzz 3y ago
More poking around in this; it'd be great if things like https://github.com/apple/pkl-pantry Had more documentation. Like there's a prometheus template; is that for use only in k8?
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by cduzz 3y ago
A little poking around -- perhaps the ADB and appletalk ports are different. It's been a while. The macs in the labs were amazing compared to the PCs. The difference between a IIcx and some random 286 of roughly the same vintage.
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by cduzz 3y ago
Is this a reasonable tool to manage problems like: I've got a stream of json in one schema; I want to make ETL for this to write it out to elasticsearch, S3 (in a specific different schema) and postgres targets, using a mixture of &q
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by cduzz 3y ago
Ah, apple keyboards and ADB. I worked in a lab full of Mac II, IIc, and similar vintage computers. The irritating placement of the home key nubs drove me nuts -- I eventually vandalized all the keyboards by shaving off the nubs on D and K
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by cduzz 3y ago
It's a mixture of different problems. L2 charging is pretty simple -- connect to existing AC grid, let people charge slowly. Needs to be everywhere (light poles) and needs to be robust and inexpensive. L3 charging is hideously complex
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by cduzz 3y ago
Aren't these all "yes, and " examples? Who do you want, a good director, a good actor, or a director who's a good director and a good actor? Which do you want, a quality culture, an engineering culture, or a quality
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by cduzz 3y ago
The vast majority of people I encounter with some "engineering" title, in software (or the related "Architect") are in fact not trained as engineers or architects, in any field. A site reliability "engineer" or
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by cduzz 3y ago
> Ahhh - that old craptacular definition. You completely ignore mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, electrical & electronics engineers. Not all engineers make bridges. I suppose you've got an engineering degree in pedantic
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by cduzz 3y ago
How are they going to be sure you're not just farming cobras[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
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by cduzz 3y ago
I thought that the phosgene was created by UV and heat, not just heat; so hitting the area with a torch first might make it safer? I'm going to put that in the "best not to find out" category of adventure.
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by cduzz 3y ago
I'm off-handedly referring to "the gervais principle[1]" [1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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by cduzz 3y ago
Engineers manage risk and cost. They certainly make mistakes, like those couple buildings that are famously leaning over in SF and NYC, or the citycorp center where they got the wind sheer loads wrong and had to hot patch the building. But
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by cduzz 3y ago
I think "engineer" isn't really the correct word to use for the artisans who build much of the tooling used by most companies. An engineer either wears a striped hat and drives a train, or, went to a credentialed school and p
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by cduzz 3y ago
We put peter there. He's doing the job we put him there to do.
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by cduzz 3y ago
I was at an auto parts store last year and bumped into an ex-co-worker who did the "24 hours of lemons" style $500 race car thing. He was getting a bunch of brake cleaner (chlorinated stuff) and was talking about welding. I aske
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by cduzz 3y ago
It's 100% made up. It's an attempt to make fun of people who would consider it unlikely that anyone would ever stack cheese as a way to mitigate safety risks.
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by cduzz 3y ago
You'd think that but the Toledo fondue flood of 1973 says otherwise. I can't find the wiki link, but Ronald O'Sullivan, who'd just taken over his father's cheese shop, was attempting to make a single block of swiss
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by cduzz 3y ago
To be clear -- the stocks are not the potential liability. You're talking about situations where people are borrowing shares and selling them, with the hope of buying the share back later to pay back the borrowed share. Obviously th
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by cduzz 3y ago
Or you're running code compiled by the trusted compiler that generates some intermediate bytecode to run on your Boroughs or IBM System 38 and you're locked out of writing to the "True" underlying hardware by "the m
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by cduzz 3y ago
Is it tied to employment or is it tied to insurance companies who make it punitively expensive to get insurance without being in a group, and that group is typically "employers" ? My wife runs a business and employs, typically, on
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by cduzz 3y ago
At $work they had a variety of dell docking stations around the cube farm. I use an old intel macbook running macos, and found that the docking stations with usb-c didn't support secondary video, while those with thunderbolt (usb-c wit
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by cduzz 3y ago
And porsche's "1970s east berlin exotic dancer" names are better?
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by cduzz 3y ago
Is it possible to have a bank account or electric bill for a fraction of a crown? In the distant past when I still named computers, I'd always make sure to have a zloty and a kopek somewhere in the zoo; typically they'd be NIS ser
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by cduzz 3y ago
When you refer to bitcoin as a "store of wealth" do you mean that a bitcoin will retain its value over time? Which bitcoin do you mean, some coin you recently minted or one that's from a hacked exchange and hard to cash in b
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by cduzz 3y ago
Well, my statement was for _cash_ transactions, and why I mentioned arbitrage. We could as easily add a 1/1000th unit to the dollar, and mandate that for cash transactions round to the 1/10th but for credit and other electronic tr
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by cduzz 3y ago
Nah, it's the only one that makes sense. Cash based commerce should just be rounded to the 1/10th dollar not the 1/100th dollar; there's just no need for such precision. I'd just announce that while still legal tend
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by cduzz 3y ago
Yes, my argument is that producing at industrial scales even chunky nodes requires enormous capital expenditures and may be impossible without rebuilding large chunks of an antiquated and abandoned supply chain. Even if it is 10% the cost o
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by cduzz 3y ago
Don't forget the MBAs willing to burn it all down to juice the Q2 profits.

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