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by philpem 8y ago
To be fair, we've been having these wars for many years already... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
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by philpem 8y ago
I remember reading about the Anadigm FPAAs, but I don't recall finding anyone who sold them. The Cypress pSOC series is fairly similar (programmable analog blocks mated to a Cortex-M microcontroller core) and easier to find on sale. I&
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by philpem 8y ago
This redefinition of "friend" is one of my big pet peeves of social media -- not one specific site, but in general. It feels like it massively cheapens actual friendships. "Followers" isn't much better. Different wo
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by philpem 8y ago
It's attention-seeking. Or if you prefer, validation-seeking. They're addicted to seeing the "likes" counter go up...
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by philpem 8y ago
Fully budgeted cost of doing business.
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by philpem 8y ago
Same generally applies in the UK. I can only think of one CEng I know, and he works in civil engineering. I've never met a Chartered/Certified software or electronics engineer (that I know of).
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by philpem 8y ago
Speaking as someone who's done this (though not on a something as big as an airliner!) Yes, you can test control loops -- you can even turn it into a unit test. At least in theory. The problem is that to do the test you need either a w
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by philpem 8y ago
If they're mechanically linked, the captain would at least feel the first officer countering their inputs -- giving a prompt that they need to communicate their intentions more clearly! I'll defer to a pilot to say whether they ar
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by philpem 8y ago
I like the idea, certainly. The trick is going to be getting news organisations to adopt it.
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by philpem 8y ago
If a given component is poka-yoke and can only be installed one way, some manager will find a way to force it in upside down during a customer demo while swearing point-blank that they did it right and the line-operator was wrong to scrap o
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by philpem 8y ago
Sounds a bit like what's happened to ebay. But hey, when you get paid the per-item fees no matter what happens, why would you optimise for quality?
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by philpem 8y ago
Just be glad you're not a furry! (He says, remembering all the times he's had fun hanging out with furries... those guys know how to party!)
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by philpem 8y ago
I'm not sure what the best part of this is. That I think I know the guy who posted this thread, or that I've seen this probably half a dozen times without even realising. I'm gonna buy them a drink next time I run into them.
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by philpem 8y ago
I look at numbers like this and think... where did I go wrong? I must have gone seriously, seriously wrong...
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by philpem 8y ago
I did the "go above and beyond" at my last employer, to the point where I was doing the job of two people (because they were too cheap to hire a more junior engineer to take some of the load off). Bonus scheme axed, pay cuts acros
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by philpem 8y ago
The simple fact of the matter is, this shouldn't even be necessary. An application shouldn't be sniffing the user's private data from another app without explicit permission. This is literally the sort of thing a piece of mal
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by philpem 8y ago
Interestingly enough I sent a Request For Correction to a company which manages a conference in Berlin. Their response was, in summary, "thanks for your request, we need a full copy of your passport, driving licence and a recent utilit
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by philpem 8y ago
"No worries, I got your back - here's a canned response!" That is by a considerable margin the most patronising, "how are you fellow kids" canned response I've ever seen.
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by philpem 8y ago
Sounds like it was planned much earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19395370
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by philpem 8y ago
Turning that around a bit... If it was a pair of Airbus aircraft (A320, A330, pick any you like) which suffered these two crashes, would the FAA have demanded the whole fleet grounded?
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by philpem 8y ago
Given Boeing's behaviour thus far (and the other HN thread about the jackscrew issue they covered up some years back), I can't say I blame them. With that said, AIAB has just as formidable a reputation as the FAA. If the truth is
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by philpem 8y ago
Because that's easier than feeding the link to archive.is and posting the archive link? ;)
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by philpem 8y ago
My best guess? Maybe they think private customers are more likely to leak it than companies?
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by philpem 8y ago
They certainly seemed to be very much against selling it to private individuals (or were when I asked many years ago). I guess unless you've got a CV which says "presented at Defcon and Blackhat, five times" or "currentl
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by philpem 8y ago
Reverse engineering the firmware for an embedded product where someone lost the source code. Bonus points available for: * "the source control is ZIP files on a network share" * "yeah we use forced squash commits on eve
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by philpem 8y ago
Did they ever tell you why they did that? I'd like to hear the rest of this story, I was considering buying IDA Pro (though these days I'm having a lot of fun adding M68k support to Avast's Retdec)
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by philpem 8y ago
True enough -- but if a friendly fork is impossible and he's given up... I'd consider that fair game for a less-friendly fork provided the licence allowed it. I know a few folks who use CPAP machines and would likely contribute to
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by philpem 8y ago
I was just wondering about that as I read it... though the source code wasn't for SMP, it was for the program he'd used to encrypt the SMP source. Apparently it's "a version of crypt(1) with some parameters changed"
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by philpem 8y ago
Looking at the whole situation from the outside... yeah. In my experience there's only one reasonable way to deal with "friendly" forks like that. Meet up with the folks who forked the project, thank them for their work and a
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by philpem 8y ago
Culturally speaking, I've noticed that older people tend to be much more trusting. I expect part of this is an expectation of mutual respect between parties -- effectively "why would they lie?". A lack of knowledge of the tec

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