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by hga 10y ago
The thesis of Life After Doomsday by Bruce Clayton (get the Dial Press paperback edition if you want to look at it, it has annotations following the original), is that if you're prepared to survive a major nuclear war, you're pr
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by hga 10y ago
Well, we watched it knowing about depression, and my personal (and for personal reasons, genetic ones unfortunately...) study of e.g. cognitive psychology and therapy made the original TV ending pretty comprehensible with effort, at least
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by hga 10y ago
If the company is having difficulties, which we'd expect with the advent of SSDs as at least in part a disruptive innovation, it can be a sign that management and the board are at least acknowledging the problems. Better than a contro
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by hga 10y ago
(Uh, I wasn't the one to suggest that, seeing as how I knew from my mother these details. Sorry for my lack of clarity.)
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by hga 10y ago
"Uh, mom?" Seriously, she was a nurse anesthetist who retired decades ago when she had me, and she's mentioned how it's a somewhat precision effort. They monitor the patient to see how it's effecting them, since we
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by hga 10y ago
Absolutely not, and he had a SKS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKS); military weapons, especially ComBlock ones, are built with tolerances to allow continued function as they get hot, generally at the cost of accuracy
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by hga 10y ago
I doubt he had hard armor plates that would stop a rifle bullet, and they're heavy, so their coverage is pretty small. More likely there just wasn't a good shot to take of him, the only question is why not wait him out, and the th
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by hga 10y ago
Telcos, at least in times past, really tried to achieve a true 5 9s. I worked for Lucent in 2001 on an ultimately doomed product that was essential to the company's independent survival, a Media Gateway ( https://en.wikipedi
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by hga 10y ago
it seems to me that cryptographic integrity checks and backups would suffice, but … maybe not? To me the three scariest words in engineering are "common mode failure". I personally never buy more than one hard disk at a time, s
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by hga 10y ago
But it was well documented that you shouldn't lift that one rod above point X. Maybe the message didn't sink into the guy, maybe he screwed up, they even wonder if he committed suicide. Its big message was to eliminate all possi
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by hga 10y ago
John Deutsche was specifically using his unsecured home computer to work on and email out TS/SCI and/or SAP material. That should tell you all you need to know about why what he did was so verboten, it was material at the level w
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by hga 10y ago
And the very worst stuff we've learned about is some of Sid Blumenthal's emails, who shouldn't even have access to this stuff, forwarding highest level NSA stuff, the sort that can get people killed in real time, the stuff th
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by hga 10y ago
Well, all I can say is that I paged through quite a few of your storefront's pages and every single item I knew the rough market price of was way too high . There are too many examples, in two categories, for that to be a sign of any
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by hga 10y ago
Errr, the theory I'm relating is that continuing the pressure of the antibiotic will make it easier for the body, and perhaps non-susceptible benign bacteria, to finish them off (perhaps not all, but to a de minimus number where they w
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by hga 10y ago
OK, not intercepting returns is at minimum about as bad, and unlike commingling it's not optional. Yow.
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by hga 10y ago
Absolutely! As I learned as a rule of thumb while doing microbiological research in a NSSF Summer Science Training Program in 1977, most random antibiotics would fail to kill E. Coli at a rate of 1 in a million, and it went up to 1 in a b
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by hga 10y ago
humans seem need these stories to provide the motivation to use existing antibiotics less and to get moving on creating new antibiotics. Are drug company executives humans ^_^? Because one of the biggest problems in bringing new ones to m
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by hga 10y ago
I'm singularly unimpressed with his coverage of LG, starting with: "and LG show some of its execs the door after the 'flagship G5 smartphone failed to generate sales.'" followed by "And it's not because De
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by hga 10y ago
I just bought that 100% standard in the US Stanley 25' tape measure (pretty much everyone uses it including tradesmen) for 9.71 straight from Amazon, it's 9.88 today, and DataAlchemy just happens to have it's own entry, whi
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by hga 10y ago
Is there anything more stupid that they do than pool merchandise? I've heard a horror story about a DVD reseller who was foolish enough to do that, an "equivalent" pirated unit was shipped to a customer, which prompted Amazo
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by hga 10y ago
Echoing mafro, this is a regional thing. Here in my corner of SW Missouri, Prime 2nd day delivery through the USPS is rock solid, and next day delivery, which I seldom use, is often through FedEx or UPS, who also don't screw up. From
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by hga 10y ago
Bleah. I see from your comments that you live in Germany; in the US, DNS used to do deliveries etc., but starting about when the Great Recession hit, they've pulled out of just about every business line they had here, except for del
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by hga 10y ago
I too used to try to use that metric, but as you say, it frequently doesn't work. A highly tuned BS detector is your best tool ... and for better or worse, that's more and more true as time goes by in most venues. Assume everyth
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by hga 10y ago
I'm sorry for my lack of clarity: An unfamiliar database paradigm . If it was some random RDBMS there wouldn't have been a huge problem there. You ignored the constantly late transmission of requirements, and I can't believ
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by hga 10y ago
Agreed. Civil litigation works on the principle that finding out the truth is what really matters, and has all sorts of stern features like discovery, who's nastiness is mitigated by rules, like not discussing on open court trade secr
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by hga 10y ago
In all fairness to CGI and company, the government set them up for abject failure, no dream team of programmers could have succeeded with it taking the role of integrator for which is did not have the talent or realization of the testing re
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by hga 10y ago
9/11 has to be the shortest duration of a terrorist gambit in history, it didn't even last the duration of the attack, for those on Flight 93 learned that the rules of the game had changed and responded accordingly.
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by hga 10y ago
Well, it wouldn't be very fun to be in an organization at CMM-3 as I recall, that's a stage where the organization is serious about it but doesn't really understand why they're following these processes, more of a carg
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by hga 10y ago
See this current HN item on writing Space Shuttle software: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12014248 For an early thorough review of that team, there was a great CACM article I read in 1982-3 as I recall, it was writte
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by hga 10y ago
A small error, which, if I remember correctly, although it's not mentioned in this account, was in a tiny change that was not tested as fully as it should have been, took down AT&T's long distance network in 1990, back when it

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