engi_nerd

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by engi_nerd 9y ago
I'm in the middle of a game of Civ VI right now. Gandhi will not stay happy with me and he keeps declaring war on me every 40 turns or so. But I just took his capital so let's see if we can get him to knock it off.
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
I hope that he found peace, somehow.
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
Depending on your device, installing an aftermarket ROM can range from "easily accomplished from initial query in a search engine to ROM installed within 1 hour" to "I am stuck in a nightmare of poorly written, contradictory
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
It's even worse than what you're saying here, because the Initial Operational Test & Evaluation that will tell if the F-35 is actually effective for combat hasn't begun yet (scheduled to begin later in 2018).
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
Why would you give him money after this?
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
I am so disgusted that I have given this guy money. What a ridiculous non-apology.
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
I made a living doing airborne telemetry and instrumentation for almost a decade. Those words, in my professional context, meant that I was an engineer who designed and operationally supported systems to gather data of all kinds (avionics b
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
> One interesting thing about software methodology that most people seem to like, such as testing and version control is that it prevents bad coders from screwing up a project too badly. Effectively, these methodologies are a kind of bur
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
You keep your world with "one port to rule them all". I need to interface with a wide variety of old and new devices, and I don't see that changing any time soon. As old gear of mine breaks, I will upgrade it, but I won'
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
Those side looking radars were primarily used for gathering imagery through synthetic aperture radar mapping.
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
Late to the party here and I doubt you'll ever see this. But I haven't seen anything that worried me. Besides those NDAs are legally binding promises, I take those seriously.
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
There's "coding" which is usually used to imply creating business applications. This you say is blue collar. I wouldn't know because that's not a world I have much experience with. But the world needs good "cod
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
This is what I think, too. My professional knowledge doesn't encompass anything like ME, but occasionally areas I am expert in do come up. Unfortunately I can't honestly do much more than just watch -- I'm afraid that I might
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
Sad to hear about racism on Nextdoor, but I am not surprised. I am an admin (Nextdoor calls this a "lead") on my neighborhood's Nextdoor and I have seen and promptly deleted several racist posts over the year that I have been
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
Sure, and for the second year in a row, the Amazon website told me a price for a deal, told me the deal was still available, and then wouldn't let me purchase it. Overall things went well for Amazon, but flawless? I think not.
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
What do you mean by a cheap rhetorical trick? It didn't seem that way to me at all. Did I miss something?
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
Interesting. I had not thought of that. You're likely right.
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
You're not giving that a remotely fair reading. He literally calls for people to be treated as individuals while acknowledging and calling attention to traits that populations (read: large numbers of people) exhibit. I'm really ha
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
Boy, you sure don't think highly of my friends. Diversity of THOUGHT is important, but how is that directly correlated to skin color?
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
Why do we have to have balance?
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
...Or they just asked a number of people to recommend a favored book, and this is the list that they got. Why does everything have to be about diversity?
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
>before the advent of the internet. The internet was around well before 1994.
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
Government officials DO CARE about ABET. In one of my part lives as an electrical engineer for the Department of Defense, one of the requirements for the position was an engineering degree from an ABET accredited University. I could not hav
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by engi_nerd 9y ago
Aside from the obvious huge national security implications, this hack has been a pain in the ass on a personal level (the wife and I literally have a "days since someone tried to use our identity for fraudulent purposes" counter,
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
I have described hardware in VHDL, and I've written a fair bit of code, and those processes are not similar at all.
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
If this were a traditional (before 5th generation) aircraft, you'd be correct. But in the F-35, the pilot isn't the sensor fusion engine. The aircraft software has this responsibility in the F-35. The Fusion engine in the F-35 tak
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor for the DAS. Who are its subs?
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
This is an article that has lots of little details wrong but the overall message isn't wrong at all.
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
Israel plans on conducting (and is actively conducting) a flight test program with their F-35s. This program is just beginning! They are eager to use their new aircraft, but does anyone really believe that the first part of that flight test
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
Dr. McCammon has endured even more failures than this article shows. He has a smaller calorimeter that he launches on NASA's sounding rockets. I was a telemetry engineer on another mission while both of our payloads were at White Sands

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