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by wolfgke 7y ago
A wild thought from a non-avionics expert: If I were a producer of 737 flight simulators and heard of the MAX bug: Wouldn't it make sense to try to add an update to the simulator to be able to reproduce this bug in the simulator? Sell
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Indeed, as native German, I observe lots of people that try to avoid having a Google account (in particular for email) (to at least separate the services that can be provided by a different vendor [email] from the Google account) and explic
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Indeed, expats are lured here thinking Germany is the Promised Land Hardly any German person would claim to (or even lure) expats that Germany is the Promised land. The only reason I can think of any expat thinking about Germany as the
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Hence why Microsoft had multiple what you see is what you get word editors. Another one was Microsoft Works ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works ) - another office suite by Microsoft that existed until 20
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Agreed that candy crush as default is heinous, but it feels like "telemetry" is kind of brought up as a bogeyman. In Germany, such "spying" features are really detested; there exists a very privacy-conscious culture
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by wolfgke 7y ago
As they say in Germany: "Bedenke wohl, worum du bittest. Es könnte dir gewährt werden." ("Consider well what you ask for. It could be granted to you.").
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by wolfgke 7y ago
I am no native speaker of English, but at > Skunk works can sustain, at max manpower. It is bureaucratic waste with minimum productive output. to me, "it" seems to refer to "[s]kunk work" and referring to skunk work w
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Skunk works can sustain, at max manpower. It is bureaucratic waste with minimum productive output. My 2c. Isn't the idea of skunkwork projects exactly to avoid bureaucratic waste for the sake of radical innovation?! Let me give t
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“Jim Power: The Lost Dimension” and the Pulfrich Effect(twitter.com)
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Time flies, I still remember Opera 10 years ago, they probably had the best tech April Fool's I ever stumbled upon with their "Face gestures"[1]. > When you had a team that could create that behind your product, you k
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I don't understand languages like Ruby and Perl and their supposed emphasis on "human design." [...] Ruby, in contrast, seems like an absurdly complicated concatenation of weird features and strange syntax. Sounds like a
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Why? I mean, if you're that hostile to collaboration, why not just keep it closed source and maybe try to charge for it? - There exist open source licenses (with copyleft) that disallow making it closed source. - There exist othe
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Also keep the delay slots of MIPS in the back of your mind, which with the evolution of MIPS became a burden.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
We will soon see what this Windows update is about - but I seriously doubt that there exists any relationship.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> but by the time you get to the point where you should be testing, rearranging, and ferreting out flaws in the foundations, you're so indoctrinated into a culture that you don't have the mental tools necessary to do the requir
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Sometimes there are difficult problems that can only be solved with applied creativity For these really hard problems, long hours of completely undisturbed concentrated working are the key to success. Strong collaboration ("bumpin
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Steve Jobs described the whole point to the design: he wanted people to frequently bump into each other, rather than being hidden away in private offices. He noted it was one of his favorite aspects of the Pixar office. It's stran
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Because dating is asymmetric and loneliness is much more pervasive among men. It's incredibly frustrating that academics and media outright refuse to acknowledge this fact! This article is an ideologically driven, sensationalist d
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Sun was never as open or innovative as its engineer/advertisers claim, and the revisionism is irksome. For (the lack of) openness, I agree, but the claim that they were not innovative needs stronger evidence.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Warren Buffet recommended investing in the companies who make products you can't not use. Let's put it this way: My taste for products that I can't not use is rather different from the majority of society.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> it was boeing trying to pretend the MAX was similar enough to the next gen that caused the issue. The regulations lead to the situation that Boeing had an incentive to do that. Nearly every economist will confirm you that economy is al
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I think the ultimate root cause that led to the 737 MAX crisis was de-regulation and the airlines race to the bottom on price. The whole reason for making the plane a 737 and not a new aircraft was to cut pilot re-training costs. Can&#
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> May I ask why people invent new languages rather than trying to extend or improve existing ones, like C? Because extending or improving a language nearly always means breaking compatibility. Nearly every language is "stuck in a lo
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Half the country and probably most of their social circle. I doubt the latter part ("most of their social circle"). I believe many people have some very idiosyncratic (also political) opinions that are so far-off from mainstr
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by wolfgke 7y ago
How do you solve the problem that some areas that are claimed by more than one country or are claimed by countries that are recognized/not recognized by other countries?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Agreed. Seems like one of those "free speech advocates" that enjoys being as offensive as possible and then howls if anyone tries to take their content down. In Germany, "free speech" is not so deeply culturally ing
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Breaking a law you otherwise believe in You won't consciously break a law that you believe in. "otherwise believe" means that you don't believe in the law.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Your job as an employer is to squeeze as much work out of your employees as possible. That means doing everything legal to keep them from leaving (have to make back that training investment), or to have the option to quickly dismiss th
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> because it's in the interest of the people offering them (people with more power than the people they are hiring) to offer them in the most humiliating, dangerous, and cheapest way possible. "cheapest" is obvious, but wh
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The only thing that sucks is that many do not take cards, but that's a cultural thing - Germans love their cash. With an experience of two surveillance states on German soil in the 20th century (of which one ended just about 30

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