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by mpyne 5y ago
He's talking about how you contract for additional staff to help with developing digital products. Typically the way government does this is by not contracting for staff at all, but instead contracting for a company to develop a softwa
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by mpyne 5y ago
DoD applications break all the time though! Yes, even weapons consoles! I served on a submarine whose fire control system would literally crash and reboot if we encountered a situation that was especially frequent for the class of boat I w
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by mpyne 5y ago
That's the point Nic was making. Sharp people get assigned to digital/IT management roles straight from operational assignments, with *NO* training at all. Not even "on the job". In some services, even the uniformed staf
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by mpyne 5y ago
The military has operationalized encryption (what we call 'COMSEC') for longer than even the NSA has been in existence. I'll be the first to concede that the military is significantly behind on modern digital product manageme
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by mpyne 5y ago
> He's touting a lot of accomplishments here that are accomplishments because pushing broken functionality and calling it done is a very easy way to say you delivered faster than a normal DoD program that has to actually prove it do
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by mpyne 5y ago
> It would require a complete revamp of the entire DoD contracting process. Which may or may not be something that can or should be done, but with the understanding that it IS the way it is, for a very good reason: to prevent fraud. Whic
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by mpyne 5y ago
Exactly right, but the military services haven't even started to implement the changes that would be needed to grow and maintain a cadre of digital talent. Fred Brooks (a name some of you might recognize) recommended in a 1987 report f
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by mpyne 5y ago
The COVID mRNA vaccines have been in testing for more than a calendar year (first studies began, shots-in-arms, in March 2020), and this is not the first mRNA vaccine (the first is for Zika, which is still in development because its study i
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by mpyne 5y ago
Think a dedicated account in an old 3-tier architecture meant for a bot to login rather than a human. You're not making API calls though (at least not as we typically describe API calls), you're making HTTP requests to pull down a
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by mpyne 5y ago
My kdesrc-build has a dry-run style of logic, not because of destructiveness but just because it was annoying to only realize after 4 hours of compiling software that a module you needed was somehow not in the build, or that your configurat
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by mpyne 5y ago
> as if it was that clear cut My friend, I truly wish interpersonal interaction were 'clear cut', but that is not how things work. And merely wishing that things worked this way does not make it so.
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by mpyne 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Europe
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by mpyne 5y ago
> jokes are somehow the structural foundation of genocide Again, the 'pyramid of hate' logic does not claim that jokes necessarily lead to genocide or that jokes are structurally required for genocide. Just that they can be
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by mpyne 5y ago
> Children understand that calling people names isn't the same as violence. This isn't the argument actually being made here, so if that's what DHH thought when he shut the thread down then that might explain part of the o
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by mpyne 5y ago
Watched (and still watching) the same thing in the Navy. :(
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by mpyne 6y ago
For better or worse, McKinsey and outfits like them have an ability to package a given set of advice in a way that the needed audience will be more likely to heed. Partly because they can MBA the lingo, but also just from the imputed compet
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by mpyne 6y ago
So this might be an element of the problem, but having been in government for 17 years (and last 5 dealing with IT), I'm not even sure this is a top 3 problem. Against all odds, the government manages to recruit and retain people who c
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by mpyne 9y ago
You're right, I have a hypothesis, nothing more or less. Never mind that at least my hypothesis is consistent with the location of the damage on both ACX Crystal and Fitzgerald, since it's possible that the location of the damage
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by mpyne 9y ago
Not necessarily true. A ship that is overtaking another ship, even if coming from the right side, is the "give-way" vessel until she is well clear of the ship she had been overtaking. This is true even if the course the ship is u
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by mpyne 9y ago
A destroyer can certainly move fast, but they don't have to, and in fact it would generally be safer in a crowded area to try to maintain the same speed as the civilian traffic, on top of being fuel efficient.
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by mpyne 9y ago
Yes, and every Captain out there puts the minimum "closest point of approach" for any contact that they're willing to accept into their standing orders, precisely so that they will be woken up by the watch team with enough ti
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by mpyne 9y ago
Well, the international regulations that govern maritime traffic do think in terms like right of way. They define for various scenarios of two ships approaching the other which one is the "stand on" vessel, that must maintain c
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by mpyne 9y ago
Captains have to sleep, which is why warships have a watch team who are awake. They failed here, which is unfathomable, but that is not, per se, the CO's fault. The CO has to sleep sometime -- I've stood many watches as the seni
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by mpyne 9y ago
What happens if the CIC (where the radar operators would sit), lookouts, and bridge team were all properly posted with trained watchstanders, who collectively dropped the ball? Don't get me wrong, the CO is still "accountable&quot
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by mpyne 9y ago
Collisions can happen anytime a ship is underway, which in the U.S. Navy can happen for months on end. Navy ships can be refueled and resupplied without having to visit port. So yes, provision has to be made for a CO to sleep at some point
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by mpyne 9y ago
An attentive crew responding quickly to orders is by no means incompatible to what happened here. The question is, who was in a position to know about the incoming container ship? And who was in a position to act on that knowledge? The
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by mpyne 10y ago
He also said 'it wasn't shin splints' when the conceit to this thread appears to be that 'shin splints are just a different way of saying bone fractures in your legs'. We have Barton Gellman defending Snowden by say
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by mpyne 10y ago
That's just it, I heard it was training for SF, so I thought he had literally broken his legs, their training isn't just doing a bunch of running so it would certainly be plausible to break a leg doing something like fast-roping o
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by mpyne 10y ago
Frankly I can't believe we're still debating whether a canceled passport 'trapped' Snowden in Russia or not, Wikileaks admitted two years ago that they told him to go to Russia: https://twitter.com/wi
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by mpyne 10y ago
Having gone through military basic training (and later being peripherally involved with recruiting), we had people wash out relatively often for 'shin splints'. If you washed out it would have to be severe -- if the shin splints w

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