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Wow, that's cool.

Assuming you are allowed to, could you share some more info?

How did you program AIM missiles for following heat signatures, was it a case of reading bits from the IR sensor?

Did missiles logic have exceptions e.g. FuelRanOutException, IRSensorUnresponsive?
Time is money. But yeah they paid for the costs they said they would, $100 in bitcoin. Triple Byte pays airfare and hotel
I remember that one country reverted its decision for mandatory daytime light for cars because it decreased visibility of motorbikes (for which daytime lights were mandatory).
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I've read all the comments. The main theme is a discussion about how a working environment can be set up to avoid such potentially disastrous things to happen - i.e. hiding technical problems and errors instead of doing it properly (report, fix, verify). It's not like it's only happened in Russia. Everybody knows about the Challenger disaster, which came about due to (in that case) management ignoring issues, so it's different, but still similar.

Or do you really prefer that things like this shouldn't be discussed or revealed, but be hidden under a carpet instead?

(and a lot of people here, including myself, are not American. Wouldn't go there if I were paid for it. So that's not what this is about. At all.)
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Though all I knew of the rote universe were those pleiades loosed in December

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That the meteorite is a source of the light

And the meteor's just what we see

And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee

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It's genetic - some eyes grow incorrectly and the lens doesn't focus on the retina. It runs in my family, and I'll bet it runs in many Chinese families.

I had LASIK 13 years ago and haven't looked back. Will we see a wave of LASIK surgery in Chinese communities in the near future?
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This fault looks like it was not on a weld, but elsewhere on the surface. Though probably close enough to some kind of join, if the worker slipped with a drill.
No they said to follow idiomatic JS, but in JS a lot of idioms contradict each other (see standardJS vs Eslint-airbnb for example)
Is there a valid reason to "treat" nearsightedness if it isn't a problem? I never cared about mine. A few times I tried somebody's glasses and surely enough I could see much better at a distance. But it's not something I need in daily life.
> 5. Start removing thoughts from your brain. As you start thinking about something, just stop. Another thought comes in. Kill it. Just kill thoughts. You can think only about your breathing. Nothing else.

If only it was this easy!! It almost feels like a variation of "start outlining the owl... now when you have the outline, just draw the rest of the owl". :-)
I look at drivers not because I want to verify that they see me, but because I know that the brain is better at picking up faces in the peripheral vision.

Still, my ultimate judgement is based on their vehicle’s position and movement.
When a city bus needs to reboot, the driver will park the bus first. How do they reboot a plane in the air?
A mate of mine worked for a large bank in the UK, and his experiences were different to this. One of the managers was Oxbridge educated, so they almost exclusively hired CS grads from Oxford and Cambridge. In their mind, they were the cream of the crop, and hiring the "best" graduates meant they'd have the best IT tools. I say "almost" because he managed one team, and he went into this persons team after his projects were wound down.

He joined a team where managers ruled supreme, and while many of the developers were good, they were probably worse than devs on the other teams. Managers were given a budget, and ultimately they didn't care if software was delivered without any testing if the financial risk wasn't that great. This led to developers following orders and rushing to complete stuff with frightening bugs, deployed systems that didn't match source control, etc.

It's a different process, but it seemed to be the same outcome. They hired top-tier graduates, but taught them nothing, and put them under enough constraints that it didn't matter who they hired. They were always going to deliver absolute shit.
It is. Also not supporting Vulkan natively is a mistake.
I unfortunately must disagree with you here. For one of my services, a reddit post and a youtube video were all I needed to get 200 users overnight.

Now, most of them didn't pay, but I can assure you they were beating down my door for more service and more features and etc.
Of course, in security-relevant areas, prooven legacy code always trumps the new code. Noone wants to lose an airliner because Phil right out of a CS course positively needed a ruby interpreter in the main flight computer...

To understand this mindset, have a look at http://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
Huh. I've always found them to be the absolute worst docs I've ever seen. Any simple Google search will bring me to a page full of vaguely connected things with no particular headdings or way to quickly get the info I'm looking for.
Hmm. Around 15 years ago the $100M "gotland" submarines sank the $6B carriers multiple times without detection during war games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland-class_submarine

As those kinds of subs are available to more and more countries you can't always "park" a carrier group without risk.
Linux's "jiffy" defaulted to 100Hz in 2.4 and older, and to 250Hz since 2.6.13.
I actually can do that, but instead of falling asleep I go into a not very pleasant "meditative" state that I have to exert effort to exit (a bit like sleep paralysis).
Doesn't routine checks include complete reboots? They should happen more often than every 248 days.
Yeah and it sucks. There's a convenience store right outside my apartment that now sells chips and ice cream. I eat more of those now than I used to. My Android phone will not let me uninstall the YouTube app, and I've been watching more YouTube lately.

My point here is that the modern world almost seems to be conspiring against healthy living, both mentally and physically, so whatever you have to do to be healthy is worth doing. I've played around with various web blockers, and finally got around this YouTube on phone problem by installing both a blocker app and also using the adb command line tool to manually edit the hosts file to also block YouTube in the browser which required unlocking the bootloader and accidentally wiping my phone. But now, I can't watch YouTube on my phone and it's wonderful to not have that temptation now.

I don't know what the answer is to community junk food. I'm at home with parents this week and I was gifted junk food, which I was grateful for but also a little sad about.
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I'd assume the software is not event driven but cyclical. In each cycle you gather inputs, compute, produce outputs. You need a cycle counter because event validity and response time limits are likely defined in terms of cycles (e.g. peripheral sensor A has to report at least once every three cycles or sound alarm). Bad things happen when the cycle counter overflows.
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The Master persists in smug obtuseness while forcing the manager to play games - which usually leads to an unemployed Master.
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I've wondered if software can also be the solution here.

Can you make an app that appeals to my emotional lizard brain and prevents me from eating candy and browsing the internet? That's something I'd pay for.
Epoxy's probably the best you can do in space but on the ground I imagine it would have been better to weld or replace the part.
Do you know of any developers who get paid overtime?
It’s also how azure query language works.
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I don't, sorry. My previous password manager, while it did have a mobile app, was painful to use so I don't miss that too much. For my most important stuff I use rememberable passwords.
Let's make "better" the enemy of "good enough". Then we can blame anything on the CP team, making the architecture team look better without any effort or proof on their part.

Where is the koan where the Master tells the manager to hire better programmers? The Master doesn't because it's bad advice up chase waterfalls, unicorns, and 10x devs.
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It's more like taking steps that eventually equate to running a marathon. Drawing an owl has many different actions that you can fail to adequately describe. Here the task itself is very simple. You just need to repeat it many more times than seems reasonable to you in your untrained state.
Yes, having to do a power cycle along with your routine checks seems like a non-issue.
This is just so false and uninformed, couple of dacades earlier in China people with glasses on were seen as a rarity, meant he's not a peasant.

The current myopia near-crisis in China is clearly a sociological one, the gaokao is every Chinese teen’s only and foremost task，and they live their lives in drab & carmped concrete forests，don’t have idyllic backyards and weekend outings.

Teens are required to sit in cramped classrooms (we don't change room every course) more than 10 hours a day 6 days or more a week,the already meager physical and art classes (1 class a week each at best) were routinely canceled, to do the countless exam preparation and simulation, to get them to become the ultimate exam-taking machines, the higher score the students get in the gaokao, the more famous their school, teachers, principal will be，and yeah more money.

Beware Americans, this is what happens in China where there are no affirmative action or anything, pure meritocratic admissions.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Maotanchang+Middle+School

This is also why I alwayes laugh it off at Chinese's high GRE or IELTS scores,or wharever high scores and statistics, as a fellow Chinese I just know all too well how they got it and it certainly doesn't represent their real level.
Definitely not all of them, Austria even rolled back because it removed the visibility advantage of motorcycles and because daytime running lights are an arms race that some legal road users cannot keep up with. It makes those with no light (or with significantly weaker lights) practically invisible because drivers will inevitably reduce attention to the common case.
Puerile.
True, but it seems Google has trouble refining all the raw data it mines. My go-to for passive entertainment is Youtube, and finding something new I like on that platform is like pulling teeth. I don't think anyone important at Alphabet really realizes how bad their overfitting problem is. A major reason why I sold off my investment in them this spring.
At the very least, the HUMS and CV/FDR systems need sub-second precision for maintenance and crash investigation reasons.

As for why they don't calculate it in a particular way, probably just an amateur mistake.

Lots of aerospace-related applications are moving towards the methodology where you cook up a model in matlab and then hit the AutoCode button. Things like this are the reason why.
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Ah yes "This is how we fix problems" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEkOT3IngMQ
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> I know of almost zero kids that enjoy practicing their instrument as a kid yet I believe the majority of adults are happy for the experience. (I have no data tho).

I suspect this is mostly forgetting how miserable the experience of learning was. If learning a musical instrument was net-positive overall, adults would choose to do it. Everyone wants to have learnt an instrument, but no-one wants to put the work in.
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Why didn't he work internally to prevent these issues? It sounds like he was pleased to let them fail, so he could be correct with no effort.

Why are we taking advice from someone who lets others fail so he and his team look better? This kind of internal competition destroyed Motorola and damages many other organizations.
If I'm approaching a junction where a vehicle is waiting to pull into my path, I watch their front wheels. I find this often gives an earlier indication that the driver is about to move than their head or eye movements, as you can see the change in weight distribution when a driver prepares to move away.
Funny how they didn't catch that in the apparently deep code reviews and complicated processes they have in the aerospace industry.
This is quite tricky isn't it ?

I couldn't get hands on it at first, so what I did was buy 1% atropine (easier to get) and used a syringe to dilute it using normal tear drops.

Somebody told me its not a good idea but I had no other options :(

I was fortunate enough to have somebody traveling to Asia, to get me 2 years of supply.

In Asia too its not easy to get your hands on it, I finally figured out that its easily and cheaply found if you ask around the pediatric department.

1) Look around in your country, pediatric eye doctors.

2) See if you find somebody traveling to Singapore, Honk Kong or Beijing.

3) If you really cannot get your hands on it (try ebay or something ) I will see if I can help.

But really talk to a doctor first, its just what I know and I have no medical training.
Off Topic: ( A question I have in my head for a long long time )

What are the purpose of these PR article from University to other Academic Science magazines? If it was to attract investors or sponsorship, surely companies and individual have other means of access to how to invest or not, and not looking at every magazine / papers / Website announcement.

There are countless battery "breakthrough" and we all know they are at least another 5 years away from commercialise, or in most cases, never. Apart from inner nerds wanted to know, what value do they provide? What purpose do they serve?
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If any Atlassian or OpsGenie folks read here: I wonder if we opensource projects would/could now also benefit from the generous Atlassian licensing for the OpsGenie service? Though "just" an opensource project we do have an "infrastructure" and "tasks" that we would like to be able to "alert on". But haven't do to the pricing.
my wife complains that I am able to fall asleep immediately whereas it always takes her a long time and if she gets woken up too close to morning that's it. maybe this will help her.

anyway my secret is just to close my eyes and not think about anything but looking deeper into the darkness and breathing slowly.
Here we go.

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So you get to use C#, VB.NET, F# and anything else that compiles to MSIL. Seems quite polyglot to me.
This isn't destroying a book though, it's adding more life into it.
Wouldn't that incentivize the high command to abolish figher pilots? It's much easier to manage uncool, replacable and easily trainable drones than expensive rockstars.
'Agile' has become such an overloaded and qualified term that it is almost meaningless, or even a source of confusion between people for whom it has different implications. If you are asking whether something is or is not agile, you are probably asking the wrong question.

You are right about the frequency of jamming new features into an existing architecture whether it fits of not, but, if the feature makes sense (which is not a given), then a bad fit shows that there is something inadequate about the current architecture. This does not necessarily mean that it is wrong for its current purpose, but regardless of how you got into the situation, you now have a choice: you can redesign the architecture and re-implement the affected parts (aka refactor), or you can create technical debt, and the former has a much greater chance of success if you separate it from anything that changes features.
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It's deep and moving, it makes this course more than just a course. I just fetched a few rows and read Beazley's last statement and I now have a great respect for the creator of this course.
That would be France. The idea is indeed to increase visibility of the most vulnerable vehicles. Motorbike riders behave differently than car drivers, hence it is critically important to be able to distinguish them easily in traffic (we downright suck at evaluating movements of light sources compared to solid objects). This is also a factor as to why always-on daylights are mandatorily placed lower than headlights.
Having recently done this I totally agree. We kept about 20-30 books out of several hundred, the rest went to charity shops.
It's not just the face, I always aim for eye contact.

But also as they say in the article it's about judging risk. If the face is towards you you're very unlikely to be in the peripheral vision, so there is a good chance the driver saw you.
For historical purposes, the last conversation on this fascinating article =

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16823201
The systems are controlling generators, which produce AC current. It's not unreasonable to think the controllers are monitoring the AC waveform, which has a frequency of 50-60Hz. Ergo, if the controller is checking the generator is producing the expected waveform (because a lot of sensitive things depend on the waveform being accurate), it makes sense that it could be using a 100Hz polling interval, which is where the counter comes into play.

It's possible that it's using a system-wide timer for convenience since the embedded hardware is very limited compared to a full computer, where spinning off a separate timer is trivial. When the requirement for different timers hit the program designer's desk, they probably took the most precise use case and designed one timer around it, and neglected to take into account the overflow.
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That's such a neat idea. I wonder why floating plants don't already exist. I'm also surprised that I've not seen it in Scifi.
Can confirm from client projects. This is a political topic and usually not up for debate. But Google Cloud is nice too.
China is massively invested in the US. It's hard to imagine any war scenario being worth the cost.
No you both dim your lights when there's an oncoming car.
There are several types of routine checks, I think Boeing calls them A/B/C/D (with subtypes, depending) Airbus has a different nomenclature but the idea is the same.

Not sure when a reboot might be done. Maybe on a B or a C check, a C is every 18mo apparently https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=753393
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I've been in front of screens a huge number of my time during most of my youth and still had 20/20 for both eyes. At 25 my sight started decreasing and now I need glasses if I want to look at something in the distance. I have two theories about this, it's either my genes, or it's the fact that I started using a macbook pro with full luminosity at all time (even during the night) when I was 25.
Well, they didn't "have" to, it's just the Spanish parent bank didn't want to pay a competitor £100m a year to use their software system and mandated TSB move to their amazing, all new, all singing, all dancing, software platform.

Quite why that means the UK head needs to go ....
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You would certainly hope; and yet, long uptimes unforeseen by designers can have devestating consequences:

> A government investigation revealed that the failed intercept at Dhahran had been caused by a software error in the system's handling of timestamps. The Patriot missile battery at Dhahran had been in operation for 100 hours, by which time the system's internal clock had drifted by one-third of a second. Due to the missile's speed this was equivalent to a miss distance of 600 meters...the Scud impacted on a makeshift barracks in an Al Khobar warehouse, killing 28 soldiers.

> As a stopgap measure, the Israelis had recommended rebooting the system's computers regularly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dha...
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Yeah, I have too many books myself (the biggest hurdle in any move to a new rent place).

I'd like to go to a purge and only keep ~ 200-300 of special value (signed, perennial favorites, reference works, rare prints, non available digitally, etc).

What grinds my gears is how ebooks don't have a common format for notes/marginalia, ability to easily export whole passages, etc that can sync to my note keeping apps, work processors, etc.

Each is its own silo (if they even allow for proper annotations).