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by lamontcg 3y ago
I know you're being sarcastic, but responding seriously to Elon: Spirit Aerosystems is the subcontractor that installed the window panel incorrectly. Boeing spun them off due to all the MBAs in the C-suite (most of whom are white and
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah the MAX itself isn't as much of a problem as the outsourcing. Spirit is a financial tire fire. They've had zero gross margin since the pandemic and they're now burning through half their revenue in interest payments on
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by lamontcg 3y ago
They were spun off from Boeing though and I think focusing on them as an entity separate from Boeing for finding fault is the kind of reason why Boeing spun them off. We shouldn't take that bait and should be considering them a divisi
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The Fed's suggestion of 3 rate cuts down to 4.5% are still quite high compared to the period of a decade of essentially ZIRP that preceded it. The futures market expectation of 6 rate cuts is likely equivalent to a bet that there will
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I just use this for quick history search of typically my last few commands in .zshrc: # tsch-style history search esc-n/esc-p bindkey '\ep' history-beginning-search-backward bindkey '\en' history-begin
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by lamontcg 3y ago
The start seems to about align with 1980 and falling interest rates and increasing corporate profits and rising income inequality.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
And I raise you all the useless people I've seen promoted/hired into management positions in non-union shops.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> They don’t have screening for cholangiocarcinoma. It’s not common in the Midwest. It isn't common for anyone under 70 which is why they don't spend a lot of effort on diagnosis and treatment of it. Friend of mine died from
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah, it is just weaponized 24/7 always online peer pressure and bullying that follows you around in your pocket. Kids have always been awful and now its harder to escape them than ever before. Unless someone has convincing evidence
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Needs a compound annual growth rate, plus there's lost opportunity costs.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Counterpoint: Boeing clearly has cultural issues around safety and as consumers this is the only way to financially push back on the company. If Alaska and United start feeling the pressure because people start to avoid flying on them ent
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by lamontcg 3y ago
Yeah and it reads like a blog post and not encyclopedic. Stuff like this sentence: > Aside from its low hardware specification, perhaps the biggest perceived "design flaw" of the IBM PC was the what is nowadays called Upper Mem
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Workers at a Boeing Supplier Raised Issues About Defects(jacobin.com)
71 points by lamontcg 3y ago|9 comments
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> This bugtracker is a work place, not a discussion forum. that's actually an excellent way to frame what a bugtracker is actually for. it is about workers getting shit done and its optimized for the people who work the issues. it i
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by lamontcg 3y ago
It might be useful to have LLMs do automoderation on forums, tweaked by the moderators to shift the discussion the direction they want it to go. Have it so that the feedback is immediately on pressing the submit button rather than after-th
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Boeing needs to be broken up and reorganized, full stop. Congress has to act. It is simply too important and vital of a company to US strategic interests to be left in this state. The MD merger that led to the shift of Boeing managemen
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I don't think it is inherent to publicly traded companies, but it certainly seems to be inherent to our publicly traded companies. Most of the shareholders are: gamblers chasing fashion looking for quick profits, management insiders t
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> The fact that this issue is present in the existing 737 Max variants, and none appear to have actually experienced a structural failure, suggests the probability is low. The fact that the space shuttle flew 60 times without SRB o-rings
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> As far as Apple is concerned, if you are visiting a friend and want to play some music on his Chromecast, the solution is to buy your friend an Apple TV for AirPlay. airplay works fine on my roku, OTOH my chromecast is becoming useless
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by lamontcg 3y ago
reminds me of an old apple II game that i can no longer remember the name of
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> I don't see how a newcomer like "Scientific Go" or R or Julia will ever unseat it. Julia's support for Autodiff
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I mean from the start of the pandemic most virologists were leaning towards COVID becoming another seasonal human coronavirus. Fauci initially was prepping us for the vaccines only being 50% effective against infection (which is probably a
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by lamontcg 3y ago
There are studies that are supposedly showing that people with multiple reinfections suffer more long covid: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/75-006-x/2023001/article... But that study itself notes: &
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by lamontcg 3y ago
We're really taking this bullshit seriously again?
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by lamontcg 3y ago
I've used fail2ban and a nonstandard ssh port before, for like 12 years. Never had any of the issues this article screams at you about, didn't take any time to setup. I spent a lot more time locking down the sshd_config itself a
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> Though I do sympathize with folks who reminisce about 2008 Google Search results, there were probably orders of magnitude less content out there and a complete ignorance to how valuable your place is on your business and thus no SEO. T
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by lamontcg 3y ago
This was a waste of my time to read. Freezing the first version of an API forever and ever is how you wind up with software with bugs that can never get fixed.
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> By 2027, China is expected to have a total new energy storage capacity of 97 GW https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Caixin/Five-things-powerin... "there are these [energy storage plants] we know how to bui
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by lamontcg 3y ago
> and saw the wage increase as a final straw. ...and saw the wage increase as a useful distraction to blame.
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How Putin's Right-Hand Man Took Out Prigozhin(wsj.com)
8 points by lamontcg 3y ago|2 comments

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