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by engi_nerd 10y ago
True, but this project will not be allowed to die. So we will see what happens when the proverbial immovable object (IA) meets an unstoppable force (people with stars on their shoulders).
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
OP here. The implication was that the organization cannot deliver consistent guidelines. The devs of the sim I am working on are using Python and Jupyter on their systems, which were accredited and approved in the exact same fashion that I
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
I am a Data Scientist without any tools except a single installation of MATLAB 2010a on a computer that my organization doesn't even own, on a network we don't even control. I have a few hundred TB of stuff I need to make sense of
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
We just had a meeting this week where we did just this. We are also going higher up the program management chain.
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
Ah. That interpretation makes sense. I just couldn't get over the fact that using Russian avionics isn't going to happen under ITAR.
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
This is why part of my profile says "reformed rocket scientist". I spent a little under two years working for a NASA contractor on their sounding rocket program. The problems I was paid to solve were relatively un-interesting (fin
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
The overall, top-level IA people who set the standards and procedures that must be followed are NSA. However each department and organization is responsible for having professionals who understand the policies and can follow the rules.
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
We don't have a good cyber security person in-house, so we are relying on guidance from a very good and trusted cyber security engineer from a research institution that is under contract with us. I've been lobbying for money to hi
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
Thank you for your work on these policies and the very well-written and sourced reply.
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
The IA people have attempted to use "lack of paid support" to deny me the use of tools (PuTTY is one glaring example) that are already being used on other systems that I have access to, and that had to go through the same sort of
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
And to answer the parent's rhetorical question as if it were serious: of course not.
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
I know this is a rhetorical question. I really do not understand where you're going with this though.
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
I quote one of our lead IA guys: "The purpose of IA is to try to dodge the work and laugh at the person who gets stuck with it." I envy you for being in an acquisition organization that gets all this. Mine doesn't.
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
This is a huge battle I am in the middle of fighting right now. I am working on a project that is extremely late and we are having all kinds of political pressure put on us by very senior people. Meanwhile their damn IA staff won't app
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
Seconded. The radio play is great.
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The plans specifying that Arthur Dent's home is to be torn down for building a highway bypass are on public display in such a disused lavatory.
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
It would be wrong by our standards to call them "experts", but that won't stop the media from using the term. Personally I avoid news as much as possible, but it's almost impossible to avoid it totally (break rooms, visi
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
I agree with you.
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
> Implying that most experts have agendas that supersede the truth is outrageous and frankly dangerous. I think that "experts with agendas that supersede the truth" claim is true if you consider the pool of pundits that regular
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
But, I have work to do, too, and I have many rules set up for my inbox. I receive about 300 emails a day from automated processes and another 50 or so from actual people I am collaborating with. Without filtering I would drown in email. So
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
This year involved a career change, so much of my reading was oriented around my shift from flight test engineering to software engineering. Non-fiction (technical): * Code Complete, 2nd Edition by Steve McConnell. I can't say enough g
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
Yes, this is the kind of thing we have to zealously guard against. Formal specs for data exchange are very important!
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
>You have no idea how hard it is to get Americans to use 100% metric everything, even in the year 2016 in a highly technical field. American in a highly technical field here. I have no issues with using SI units when appropriate. But the
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
...You are exaggerating. The DoD puts out a lot of positive pieces regarding the plane (believe them or not, that's a separate question). Cutting the F-35 means being completely hopeless with TACAIR for another couple of decades, unl
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
You seem to be implicitly saying that the F-35 is obvious government waste without backing that up. Setting aside the debate about the suitability for purpose of the F-35 (no one can have a knowledgeable debate about this in public anyway,
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
Amusingly, this attack on the basis of "out of control costs" comes just a few weeks after the finalized contract for Low Initial Rate Production Lot 10 of the F-35 [0], which brings the cost of an F-35A model (the model the US is
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
Why do these companies always phrase it as "our next step" or "what we're doing next"? As far as the outside world is concerned, Pebble is dead. There is no "next step". Maybe those same people will go on
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
>Basic rule of thumb-- the bigger the company, the dumber they are... and less likely to care about job applicant experience. One strong signifier that a company cares little about job applicant experience is requiring you to use BrassRi
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
In retrospect, keeping the original components would have been a good idea. In those 4 years I moved 3 times and the original components were lost to the ether somewhere in there. Still, they should have honored what they promised in their
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by engi_nerd 10y ago
It took 4 years for the GPU in my 2011 MBP to die. Apple still covers GPU repairs on those models (or at least they did in 2015). They refused service on my laptop because I had upgraded the hard drive (to an SSD) and RAM (upgraded to 16 Gi

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