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by dba7dba 7y ago
> - bring on the 5G iPhones now, perhaps this makes Samsung the biggest loser out of this as apple is now ready for the nextgen cell service and Qualcomm is no longer negotiation from a position of weakness Funny you mention Samsung, bec
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by dba7dba 7y ago
No. :)
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by dba7dba 7y ago
I heard one possible reason for underestimating the damage was due to the move of a NASA (or the contractor?) lab/facility that dealt with this kind of issues, from California to a cheaper place such as Alabama/Florida(?). The mov
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by dba7dba 8y ago
> Even more curious is that IT culture is basically that if you want to get paid what you're worth, you have to quit and go to another company. From what I've noticed, companies really want to avoid raising salary of an employe
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by dba7dba 8y ago
In California, weeks before an election each voter gets mailed a booklet listing each proposition (proposed law that citizen or groups got on ballot) with argument from groups advocating both yay and nay. Quite handy to view. And you can ge
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I have been reading news (news on real paper) since I could barely understand what I was reading about. I read news often just for reading. But I have also stopped reading/watching/hearing news. When election time comes, I will re
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by dba7dba 8y ago
True in some cases. But we've also seen plenty of public companies who are profitable but still lay off people for improved cash flow/stock price, which means more bonus for the few at top.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
> But congratulations, you're in a significant minority, and this advice is aimed at the rest of the working populace who aren't in that situation. Wait, so you are saying people who can least afford to spend on daily luxury to
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I'm surprised above comment hasn't been downvoted to oblivion. It can come across as cold/racist/nationalistic, but it is something that needs to be debated out in open.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I've never been a manager or had any role in laying someone off. But I've been laid off myself and know plenty people who get laid off and suffer the consequences, some quite severe. So I sometimes wonder, how do these managers w
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by dba7dba 8y ago
> I've seen companies not using source control with no staging environments and no local development environments where all changes are being made directly on the production server via SFTP on a basic VPS. Omg. And here I am feeling
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Good to know. The rubber mallet in aircraft production in analog era was more for pounding ill fitting part into submission and into place.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Haha very true. However using rubber mallet on stealthy aircraft would be strictly prohibited as just a small imperfection on skin of aircraft would make it show up prominently in radar.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
My gut reaction is they would like to, but they realize enough of the information is already out due to carelessness, spying, etc. So they just decide to release some information, with some FUD mixed in.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Fun trivia I learned while ago. So before computer assisted drafting/manufacturing showed up, it was quite common to see Rubber Mallet in use on the production floor of the expensive planes. Workers literally had to beat certain parts
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Pentagon is planning to keep B-52 in service for another 40(?) years. That's 100 years since it was first introduced. Grandkids of first pilots/mechanics who worked with B-52 will work on the same planes in year 2059.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
If you'd like to read how the towed decoys are used in real life (F16 in this case), be sure to check out book "Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat" by Dan Hampton. The desc of the book includes: 151 combat missions, 21 hard
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Main stream media made it sound like 40 seconds is way too short of a time to troubleshoot the issue. But now that you state it that way, I gotta agree with you it's not Only Boeings fault. Sure they are big significant part of the iss
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by dba7dba 8y ago
LA Times recently started detecting incognito mode of Chrome/Firefox and blocks you from viewing the article. So I just clear cache/coookies of Safari (which I use for that purpose) to read the article, if I really want to.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Years ago my old work's Senior programmer got an expensive motorized standup desk, in a private room. And I was stuck in an exposed cubicle with extra narrow desk space, with no hope of getting that kind of treatment. I thankfully wor
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Someone told me the product with best margin that Costco sells is ... Kirkland toilet paper. They drove down the cost to absolute minimum simply by opening their own factory.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
No body/tank is getting through the ironically named Demilitarized Zone dividing South and North Korea, without getting lit up with fast moving pieces of metal hitting with high kinetic energy. Hence the tunnels. North Korean governmen
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by dba7dba 8y ago
South Korean government is not against anti-nuclear. It's CURRENT administration of South Korean govt is. Once the president and his cabinet members leave in due time, anything can change. Pros and cons of a democratic government I gue
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by dba7dba 8y ago
>I know lots of people that regret not learning a 2nd language earlier in life. I was watching an interview on youtube of a family sailing around the world in a sailboat and one of the parents said college is good, but learning a 2nd lan
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Based on what I have experienced in corporate America, this is completely expected behavior.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
In Vietnam conflict, tons and tons of iron bombs were dropped by expensive jets piloted by pilots whose training was very expensive, all to kill a few enemy with ak47 rifles with not much ammunition.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
"Reserved Instances" is a poison that every AWS user must be aware of. Figuring out how/if it's used is really convoluted. And getting out early is a pain.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
Reminds me of reading how US Armed forces in Iraq being forced to buy NEW printers because their procurement system didn't allow buying toners to replace used up toners in practically new printers. MBAs/Accountants...
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by dba7dba 8y ago
I think VMware has expensive licensing. At least for me when I was just trying to set up home linux lab environment. And than I discovered Xen Project. I played around with that, and than AWS/DO came along.
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by dba7dba 8y ago
AWS is really expensive. Even for running a small personal websites. I thought I could gain AWS experience AND run a few personal websites on them. What a mistake. I've moved off all (well like 2) my personal sites to other VPS provide

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