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by mpyne 5y ago
Best part is Russia (as the USSR) has already demonstrated anti-satellite capability before. It's not as if we didn't already know they could destroy a satellite.
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by mpyne 5y ago
Same thing that happened to the requirement to code DoD software only in Ada: the requirement was scrapped when it became obvious the marketplace had shifted so much that the DoD would have to choose between second-sourcing obsolete gear or
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by mpyne 5y ago
I seem to remember "No shirt, no shoes, no service" in my time, justified as a public health measure (even if that wasn't the real justification). Likewise food service workers have long been required to bandage wounds, wear
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by mpyne 5y ago
> Pro-life not pro-tyranny! Forcing people to take a vaccine that was rolled out almost immediately, without due process is not protecting anything. It had 'due process', the same process any other vaccine would receive (includ
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by mpyne 5y ago
Yeah, a PCX image reader was one of my first programming accomplishments. I wish I still had the code somewhere (same with the Mandlebrot fractal generator I had back then).
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by mpyne 5y ago
If it were just marine life the Navy would certainly be willing to press the sonar button. The problem is that navigation-quality sonar gives away the position of the submarine, which is the polar opposite of what the Navy has submarines to
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by mpyne 5y ago
A system like what, precisely? Keep in mind that such a system needs to ensure that a submarine remains almost impossible to detect, which is the whole reason this type of platform exists in the first place.
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by mpyne 5y ago
"newly identified requirements" is the most predictable possible thing in DoD software writing though, as it is in other industries. This is why it is so important to reduce the amount of time it takes to go from identifying requ
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by mpyne 5y ago
Unfortunately this is common throughout the DoD, where the longstanding assumption is that it is possible to have a single enterprise solution for all X, and that doing this will be much more effective and efficient overall. I don't th
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by mpyne 5y ago
This is the difference between 'identity assurance' (at enrollment) and 'authentication assurance' in the relevant NIST standard, SP 800-63 https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/ A remote passport check m
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by mpyne 5y ago
The compile can (and will) do that at run time, it just won't let the code alter x afterwards (either at compile time or run time)
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by mpyne 5y ago
NCIS is the equivalent here, not AF OSI.
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by mpyne 5y ago
Submarines were hitting things every 1-2 years for a fair period of time between 2003 - 2013. If anything it's gotten better... but complaceny kills, a lesson we continuously have to re-learn.
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by mpyne 5y ago
Any sonar useful enough to navigate at speed is going to give away your position. It's the "flashlight in the dark room" problem. Your sonar ping has to travel to an object and reflect back to the submarine. But an adversar
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by mpyne 5y ago
Surface ships are not always noisy. This is especially a problem with supertankers if you they are head-on to you, they can be hard to hear from underwater, especially with the high level of noise from the surface around the supertanker. Th
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by mpyne 5y ago
It does, but we're already moving to a world where deployed apps are one of the very few things running in a container, which is itself running somewhere in a VM, so there's less sharing to achieve.
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by mpyne 5y ago
Well, a private company can raise capital, so it can spend beyond what it earns, similarly to how the government budget can exceed tax receipts by issuance of debt and other methods. The military budget is decided by a sort of committee (ma
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by mpyne 5y ago
I suspect the claim is along the lines of stories like this https://news.usni.org/2021/09/22/navy-plans-to-cut-1000-civi... , where the U.S. Navy is working to fire 1,000 civilians due to budgetary pressure. E
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by mpyne 5y ago
That's a mechanical side effect of the torque converter used in automatics, which even at engine idle with no acceleration input is able to transfer power to the drivetrain. The Toyota case was an instance of the car's engine cont
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by mpyne 5y ago
I realize your experience is correct but the irony is that Scrum itself doesn't require that nothing else comes up during a sprint. https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/expedite-handling-unpla...
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by mpyne 5y ago
Reminds me of the recurring debates we had (and have!) in KDE about the right way to structure decision making from the development community and the KDE e.V.
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by mpyne 5y ago
Thanks for the correction. You're right, the point is to make it easier to approach for business minded readers (his son even recently got someone to turn it into a graphic novel). Same tradition later picked up by Unicorn Project and
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by mpyne 5y ago
"Inventory" (ideally), "Overhead" or "Waste". Raw materials can at least be resold in concept, but half-assembled gear (i.e. "work-in-progress") can easily end up in a sort of parallel universe where
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by mpyne 5y ago
Thanks, and yeah that makes sense. Until Kessel Run (and later P1) got off the ground I don't think I've ever encountered any team in DoD able to effectively use cloud or "DevOps", except from the Intelligence Community.
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by mpyne 5y ago
Currently on the SaaS version. It's much slower than I'd like on desktop web, truth be told, but it does the job and the mobile app is pretty good.
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by mpyne 5y ago
This is one of the reasons I use YNAB (for shared household budget) and a Google sheet (for personal budget). I usually just hold onto the receipt for whatever I do until the end of the working day and get it entered that night. But if a re
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by mpyne 5y ago
I've studiously avoided Factorio because I don't need to get hooked on any more video games, but yes it's about thinking of your organization's workflow in terms like a critical path (Goldblatt would describe 'criti
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by mpyne 5y ago
> It would be funny if the DoD is attached to waterfall still. Still? It's been that way for some time, unfortunately. You're right that the operational military has long been different and much more flexible. Indeed it&#x27
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by mpyne 5y ago
USG's bigger problem is that they don't know how to manage software talent or software project ecosystems, than the actual pay. As long as things continue the way they are you wouldn't be able to convince me to code for USG f
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by mpyne 5y ago
It means not carrying needless excess work-in-progress that cannot be delivered to the customer but may very well go stale or never be sold at all. This is a balance point, not an optimization problem where you're supposed to go to the

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