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by lamontcg 3y ago
That has nothing at all to do with the window panel blowout though
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I'm not rejecting the physics of airtravel, or that planes can in principle be engineered and built safely.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I don't see why anyone burn their house down for temporary warmth. Muilenburg got $62.2 million for burning his house down: https://www.manufacturing.net/aerospace/news/21109798/boeing...
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by lamontcg 3y ago
You're really missing the point. Logo was super simple and we learned it in elementary school as children, that's all that I'm talking about. And those other languages have accreted way too many features to be simple enough
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Tried to use Nix as a homebrew replacement and failed to get it installed correctly with it blowing up with crazy error messages that I couldn't google. I didn't even get to the point of assessing the language. It really seems l
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by lamontcg 3y ago
It is "easy" because it fits perfectly with all the publicly accessible information that we have about the relationship between Boeing and Spirit Aerosystems. We know it was spun off out of Boeing in order to cut costs. We'
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yes, in fact the Captain is always responsible for literally everything that happens on the ship.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Obligatory youtube video on the normalization of deviance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljzj9Msli5o
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Also this article just hit the front page today: https://viewfromthewing.com/boeing-whistleblower-production-... The worry is that Airbus is ALSO going to be affected by this shitty quality, not that Boeing isn't total
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I agree that YAML templating is kind of insane, but I will never understand why we don't stop using fake languages and simply use a real language. The problem is language nerds write languages for other language nerds. They all w
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> recall that Chef is more imperative/procedural, whereas in Puppet you describe the desired end state Chef's resources and resource collection and notifications scheme is entirely declarative. And after watching users beat th
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by lamontcg 3y ago
"Our business depends largely on sales of components for a single aircraft program, the B737 MAX" -- Spirit Aerosystems 2022 10-K filing They do 3 times as much business with Boeing than Airbus. (Airbus may also wrap Spirit in the
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by lamontcg 3y ago
They're all being put together by Spirit Aerosystems which is a company that makes zero gross profit and has interest rate payments which are half of its gross revenue on top of that, which was spun off out of Boeing in order to aggres
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I don't care as much about the immediate risks as I care about punishing Boeing for their management culture -- and I don't care about the model as much as the Airbus/Boeing tilt of the carrier I'm booking with. This doe
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Probably not. Release your code publicly so people can read and contribute. Require paid licenses for commercial use over X numbers of seats where X is pretty generous and keep it free at the lowest tier. Those are hard things to claw ba
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by lamontcg 3y ago
This has been a known problem since I started scuba diving in 2003. It may take a long time before you see any movement.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> So if you fail to reproduce you will break that billion year old chain of evolutionary success. All your genes are in other people and will continue without you. And your unique configuration of genetics is lost like a droplet in a ri
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> any of the history of the past 20 yrs we were attacked by 'thugs' on 9/11. afghanistan was still a predictably disastrous war.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Except that this is an API which is not yours that you've found by reverse engineering. You're constructing an analogy where the authorization surface is much less distinct where you're already allowed into the building beca
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by lamontcg 3y ago
No it really doesn't work that way. Companies don't go around testing the physical security of the banks that they use. They rely on the legal system and insurance to deal with any failures that the bank has. The right to pen te
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Copy and paste in google colab works correctly with chrome and not firefox.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
If you're just a "researcher" and you're not a cop then your job isn't to get convincing evidence of anything.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
No it wasn't intended for customer use, the customer wasn't supposed to be directly hitting that API. There was reverse engineering that had to happen before recovering the plaintext password. He was already someplace fairly iff
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> It wasn't hidden though. If a key is taped to the outside of the door that it opens, you still can't use it without committing a trespass. Not unless you got authorization to use it from the right person(s) first. Shitty s
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by lamontcg 3y ago
My first vehicle in high school was a diesel pickup in Alaska that wouldn't start at -20F.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Most of my production experience precedes CI/CD as a concept by a number of years. You still don't know though if the rollback fixed it or if just bouncing the software alone fixed some kind of brownout, and you may not be able t
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I hate it when button mashers are in charge of incident response. Things like when traffic ramps up in the morning and the site falls over and someone in charge blames the deployment the night before and screams "rollback", and th
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> The likeliest outcome here is that Lead Apatite Crystals just have some weird magnetic properties at low field strengths, and experience a transition in properties at near-room temperatures. [Which we already KNOW happens from last ye
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Also known as 'snus': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyFk-Z80P6k
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by lamontcg 3y ago
From https://jacobin.com/2024/01/boeing-malfunction-ceo-pay-stock... : This pressure to prioritize profits over quality was felt throughout Boeing’s supply chain, including at its offshoot, Spirit. Mustafa Erdem Sa

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