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While there are certainly issues, the issues are more with the procurement process than the actual aircraft.

Virtually every single aircraft program has been flogged by the press for being too expensive and less capable than the aircraft it replaced. This included the F-111, the C-5, the F-14, the F-15, the B-1, the F-16, the A-10, the F-18, the C-17, the B-2, the V-22, the F-22, and now the F-35. Overall the track record for these aircraft turned out to be outstanding, far exceeding the capabilities of their predecessors.

The actual track record for the F35 has been very positive. Most the reports I've seen from pilots are generally very positive [1].

Other countries continue to buy it over other platforms [2].

Most the major complaints are around costs compared to the aircraft that are being replaced, but this isn't a fair comparison.

As for the cost to fly the F-35, a unit measure the Air Force terms “cost per flying hour,” today the F-35 costs around $35,000 per flying hour. Comparative aircraft in this class are generally in the mid $20,000s, a target the F-35 is slated to hit by 2025. However, it must also be remembered, as the F-35 pilot’s above comment highlights, far fewer F-35s can accomplish far more with fewer aircraft than legacy aircraft types. It does not require a math major to understand this yields far lower real-world total costs to achieve a particular mission result. [3]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/italian-pilots-raved-about-f...

[2] https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2019/5/24/i...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davedeptula/2020/07/20/f-35-pro...
The arguments for and against general purpose planes sound eerily familiar for someone in the telco space. You either have The Converged Fixed/Mobile Retail/Business platform that is complex, inflexible, and expensive or several smaller platforms where some parts have to be developed several times.

The usual argument for the converged platform is drastically reduced operating cost. The price is drastically reduced flexibility, as each new feature has to be checked against all existing requirements and dependencies.
yeah, like jut about all other vaccines. cool.
Drift Into Failure. Great book telling stories like airplane crashes and the Challenger disaster. I posted some notes on my website: https://www.briansnotes.io/book/drift-into-failure/
+1. Glad to see praise for rms. I'm thankful for everything he's done, and continues to do through the Free Software Movement.
Oh ha ha ha, slavery is so silly! And pee jokes! How witty. (sarcasm:11)
Goals absolutely exist at startups. In fact I'd argue it's MORE important to have OKRs at small companies that reflect how each person contributes toward companies KPI.

Leadership's job is to help employees do the best work that aligns with the company goal. If devs don't understand what long term goal they should set to help a company grow, that's a huge red flag.
There really isn't. At the end of the day every company I have been in has: the asshole, the smart guy, the idiot, the guy everyone is scared of, the guy that can't be fired ("the originals"). Then you just kind of multiply them randomly depending on team size.

These hiring articles are a huge pointless waste of time.
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When I was in my teens, I got my first "real" job. It was working at a service station.

The station was a part of a chain of dozens. The owner was a well-known local multimillionaire. For whatever reason, he happened to be at my station on my first day at work.

He and I spent over an hour pumping gas, checking oil, doing an oil change, patching tires, and so forth.

I learned a lot more than simply how to work at a service station that day. I continued working at that station for over a year. Never saw the guy again. As I recall, when I started he had stores over half-a-dozen states.
I like computers, sweatpants and the pay is nice.
Quite interesting! Also what was the reason for the warning against eating?
The rise of Hitler was due to the German people, not the democracies that brought Germany back to sanity
I don't know, I think shooting somebody (or even shooting at somebody) puts them under your physical control.
Here in Canada a major issue of the 2015 elections was whether to buy in on the F-35 project.

The liberals wanted open procurement and specifically said they wanted the to avoid the F-35.

The conservatives wanted to continue with the process that was basically designed to justify procuring F-35s.

In the meantime, Canada's F-18s are absurdly old, and we have a tradition of screwing up open procurement by sandbagging it for decades.

So the Conservatives looked quite reasonable in wanting to buy in on this internationally supported plane made by our closest allies.

I think the liberals are vindicated at this point.
> increasing crisis in the UK of negative electricity prices

To be specific, from https://www.current-news.co.uk/news/instances-of-negative-pr...

"Great Britain saw 80 hours of negative pricing in the first nine months of 2020": nine months is 6570 hours. So about 1.2% of the time.
Frankly I see little point in writing objectives. It's not a contract with your employer, since the objectives are written by you and at most it gets rubber stamped by your manager.

If you do or do not achieve your list of objectives, they have no impact on whether you were productive, made an impact, or you should be promoted. So what's the point?
I know you don't mass produce (yet :)) ?), but do you know how much this would have to cost?
Disclaimer: I've only played the Factorio demo.

If that's the analogy, then I don't think it captures the core difficulty of software, which is unknown unknowns. That is, you write something that depends on an external system working a certain way, you follow its spec and depend on it working that way, and then it just ... doesn't, and you have to find exactly where it deviates, possibly making up some complicated kludge.

To capture that, there would have to be e.g. some hidden logic about which direction the output comes out that you have to deal with and work around until you understand it.
And even ASCII can't do a completely dumb string reverse, because of at least \r\n.
I believe all current-generation LEAFs worldwide are V2G-capable.
Yes, OP was wrong to specifically call out "two devs" and HN, as it always is, was technically correct and called him out on it. Congratulations HN! Bad OP!

I agree with the overall sentiment though: "What are all these people doing?" is a valid question against lots of Silicon Valley companies who are currently growing for the sake of growing. Yes, you need a few lawyers. Do you need 100 lawyers, each with executive assistants, and lawyer managers of other lawyers? Why? What specifically are they all doing? Why can't you do it with 90 lawyers? or 80?

I've worked for companies ranging from 12 people up to 100,000+. I've seen companies that were legitimately understaffed, but also companies where I don't think anyone (including the employees themselves) could articulate why all these people were needed. Outwardly, it's always explained with some nebulous reason like "Oh, what we do is oh-so-complex! We need people to, um, manage the complexity, and uh, create synergies." Yea, and they need exec assistants and interns, and their own staff of sub-complexity-wranglers, who also need assistants, and soon it's complexity-wranglers all the way down, and nobody knows what any of them are actually doing, but they're all sending E-mails to each other!

The unspoken side is that most companies simply measure your importance by how many people are under you, so everyone tries to hire as many people as they can get budget for, and build their empire. But it's an empire of paper, of TPS reports! These people aren't really doing anything, but they make this SVP's org bigger than the other SVP's org, and the CEO can tell everyone how huge (i.e. important) the company is getting, and that's what's important.
Seems a lot of the problems are due to how the government develops and acquires military hardware, with incentives for the various players massively misaligned with the interests of the country as a whole. I wonder what would a sane acquisition program look like?

A company developing a product and then offering the more or less completed product to the military worked during WWII, but a cutting-edge fighter (or many other pieces of cutting-edge military hardware) development project is such an expensive and risky project that a company can't do it alone and hope that the government then comes and buys the finished product. So going back to how things were done back in the day isn't an option.

Likewise the government taking the main design responsibility and using the companies only for building the products the government has designed probably won't work either, as the government doesn't have the expertise.

So what would a sane strategy look like?
Yet another anti F-35 article that really doesn't bring anything new to the table.
The loss of 3D was one of the biggest things I missed when moving on from industrial mods for minecraft (the inspiration for factorio).

I recently got an RTX card and played around with the minecraft RTX demos. I decided to look further into behavior packs, and apparently the scripting API is much more capable than it previously was. The community of people making content is basically nonexistent, but I now think it's just because people have moved on.

Everything is in place to have added blocks, oregen, ticking tile entities, power generation/distribution, multiblocks, etc. It would be nice to see a behavior pack that picks up the torch of gregtech/industrialcraft.

Unfortunately, most of the unofficial GT versions have lacked proper vision. That is, vision in a way that is not aligned with GT proper, and what really draws players of industrial games in.

Anyway, here is a promising example. I hope to see more industrial content for minecraft for windows 10.

https://mcpedl.com/advanced-machinery/?cookie_check=1
Britain Unveils £50 Bill Honoring Alan Turing, Famed Code Breaker
The VTOL capability of the F-35B is nice in theory but the vast majority of navy aircraft are going to be launched off of carriers anyway. VTOL needs its own ship+aircraft concept or it is dead on arrival.
I think cloudflare can do it. They give you the option to set A records for your domain, in your own DNS.

Cloudflare runs an AnyCast[0] network and multiple peers, so even through your using static IPs, the traffic will still get routed to Cloudflare nearest PoP, and pages is served by their edge network, so your site will be served from the location nearest to your customer. All without DNS shenanigans.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/cdn/glossary/anyca...
Most interviews in other industries try to figure out how much a person knows at that point in time. Software interviews try to do the impossible and try to figure out how quickly someone learns. That’s because this can be gamed, as you mentioned. I know people that have memorized 800 leetcode questions and got jobs at all the FAANGs, even though they were average developers. For the record I’ve never gotten into FAANG (although I have gotten into FAANG-adjacent) so my evaluation should be taken with a grain of salt.

The best interview is one that can’t be gamed. Just like Hollywood auditions. Give the people the script and see how well they do. Tell the interview candidate you are going to give them 3 questions and they pick the one they want to do, even if they know it already. This strips away all pretense that they are figuring it out on the spot. At least then you are on a level playing field.
Yeah, I love both factorio and satisfactory, but factorio ended up being the one I dumped more hours into.

Satisfactory ended up hiding too many details as you move around - the first person view and the very large structures made it really hard to untangle the mess.

Satisfactory felt like writing regexes - Basically write only, hard to read and parse afterwards.

That said, man the first person view is fun when you're actually doing the building. Just not nearly as fun once things have gone wrong and you need to debug.
Seems like Google did the right thing here. Is this truly controversial?
If creating jobs is so important, why not simply create those jobs in other areas? There's plenty of infrastructure in dire need of maintainance.
Most jurisdictions (county usually) have publicly available GIS databases. However, these are secondary to the recorder of deeds which will contain the legal description of boundaries. The deeds are more accurate, but less precise than the GIS boundaries indicate.
Another nightmare is needing your boss' help & not getting it because your boss simply chooses not to help. Early in my dev career I ended up w/ an smart, unhelpful manager. They were the only person in the company w/ Scala experience, and I needed to touch a Scala service as a fairly green developer. I asked my boss for help, and was denied. I later found out that my boss had recommended against hiring me during my interview, and I was still placed on their team. I did not like that job & quit after a few months.
How many tons of explosives would be required to "bomb it to smithereens" without leaving wreckage that blocks the canal? Please calculate and show your work.
I am certainly not arguing for only hiring based on technical skill. Perhaps you didn't get the chance to read all of my comment, but I make it clear collaboration is important. I'm also not totally sure you know what glib means, so I'll just quote the definition here: "fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow".

Basically, I think workaday collaboration and communication is a pretty different skill than on-the-spot glibness. If I'm hiring a PR person or a press secretary, glibness is a valuable skill, because an important part of their job is to talk over people, to favor sounding good over consideration or substance. But for a software team, I value more substantial engagement and communication. So no, I'm happy to hire people who are not glib. Have done before, will do again. And for those who do happen to have the gift of gab, I want to be sure they have it in check and only deploy it when necessary. A colleague who can say, "I don't know" is way better than one who glibly avoids that out of pride.
> I have to say I'm of the opposite view - all things considered systems and people have been pretty resilient and have coped quite well.

I mean, it's all relative, right? From my US perspective, I guess prior to the pandemic, I thought the CDC was one of the few federal agencies with a high degree of competence, but they didn't even have meaningful reserves of ventilators, masks, or other PPE nor any plans to procure the same (even though we've had several major respiratory epidemics). Similarly, there were apparently no plans to scale up PCR testing capacity, and the CDC rejected the WHO test in favor of its own tests which were problematic at the start, especially in that they were difficult to scale. The testing turned out to be an even bigger debacle because it left decision makers completely in the dark.

Even if you lay the blame at the hands of Congress for defunding them, that still indicates a problem with our political health.

So yeah, we didn't enter a dark age or anything, but it was far worse than I would have guessed. The death toll is still quite high, but to your point, it could have been higher.

> We have however been very very lucky this time in that the virus is not that serious. A repeat e.g. of the 1918 influenza would have been much much worse.

I guess my point is that prior to the pandemic, I expected that our advancements in science and technology (if not politics) would have left us much more capable of dealing with a disease like the 1918 influenza than we apparently are.
Thank you. I actually never used that seek-option, but I still think that what I wrote did happen. Mistery... .
It's also why the "rules based international order" is not much more than PR for violent hegemony.
I was thinking more along the lines of international standards for how the appliance could tell that it was in a period of low electricity pricing.

Also, since green tech often saves fewer actual dollars from a consumer's pocket than the "real" cost of the externalities saved, subsidies and/or eco-friendly certification would also be good.
I once heard in central Anatolia people used to store grapes on the vine. They would trim the end of the vine, pluck one of the fresh grapes and stick it on the trimmed end. Finally vines would be hanged from the ceiling of a cool cellar.

My grandfather told me that the nutrients and moisture within that one grape would keep the others alive for longer.
It’s for this reason that people (Bohr for example) who made the atomic bomb saw a ray of hope - it made large scale war too expensive to even try given that your enemy would nuke you back.
Any chance the UK can get a refund then?

"Before the end of this decade, the F-35 Lightning will provide the ultimate punch of the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. The F-35 is an Anglo-American joint effort, designed by the best and brightest in the two nations’ aircraft industries."
Some platforms just can't be shared. You're not going to be able to turn a Lamborghini into a body-on-frame truck without changing basically everything.
Isn’t this basically the idea behind cloud foundry?
M1 is good at ops/watt and also ops/second. M1 probably will still beat the Pi cluster by having a tighter Pareto curve.
I believe we may be at a point where it is understood that headlines are created with the goal of attracting readers to the article, and it may no longer be necessary to point this out for each article we come across.
Holy. That's about 5x what's needed to eliminate world hunger (330B $, per https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/oct/13/e...), which would probably have a lot more positive effect in achieving / maintaining peace and mass migration than that fleet of airplanes.
I am the complete opposite of you.

I could never get into Satisfactory with the 3D graphics, but I absolutely love Factorio.
I haven't played Satisfactory since the water update, so I have no idea if my approach still works, but IMO the easiest way to design an efficient factory is to not bother trying to balance anything, and scale out in only one direction as needed. Feed everything along a central stack of belts, and multiplex inputs/outputs via splitters/combiners so any individual machine line will always have throughput.

It doesn't make for a very exciting build, but it's very rote and dependable.

Also - build the entire thing high up in the sky.
Yep - but I think that I was using ext4 and/or xfs when I was seeing that happening... .
Everything (in the UI) just seems smaller and harder to read? With slightly more space between everything?
The applications can be any process which converts electricity into another usable form of energy. Some we do already, like aluminium smelting and steel manufacture. Some we have the technology to do, but don't currently do because the economics don't work - water desalination, hydrogen production through electrolysis, electro-chemical synthesis of ammonia.

We currently make hydrogen and ammonia from methane - there's no financially viable way to make it from electricity which is generated from fossil fuels (and therefore always costs more). Once that electricity becomes free or negative, it completely changes the economics.
A Woz-led company culture would have made Apple into something like Arduino or the Raspberry Pi Foundation: a cool, well-designed niche product for technically minded people to tinker with. A beloved product, yes; but a tiny company with no substantial broad technological, cultural, or economic impact in society.
There's an argument, by Boyd causing the F-15 and F-16 to succeed, he delayed the inevitable rethinking of the procurement process. If not for Boyd, the Air Force would have had perhaps 1 qualified success (F-18 Super Hornet) in the last 50 years of air platform development.
I don't think I understand what you mean. Is the European Union a rules-based international order? It doesn't seem to be a violent hegemony from the outside looking in.
Agreed!

It is rather unfair to describe me as cherry-picking, however: every comment I've made firmly notes that posting an extremely broad Wikipedia article was flippant and dismissive of _actual_ atrocities. Asking for examples of the article being overly broad, then dismissing the examples as cherry-picking, is blinkered.
Pilots love it. Pundits hate it. It isn't going away or being "cancelled"...the US already has hundreds, will receive hundreds more. I don't know why these articles continue discussing the F35 like it is a proposal...its in service and will be in service in 2060.
It's only ,,controversial'' because Google's management and HQ is in the US and in bed with US government.

Google is a multinational company with most shareholders (weighted by investment amount, not control) and most employees being from outside US.
At this point, you would be foolish to admit that you’ve seen a question before. Everyone is faking it, and if you be honest, you’ll just keep getting harder and harder questions from the interviewer. The only time you should not fake it is if you’ve been asked that question at the same company. I think they would keep track of that and if you didn’t mention it, they would look deceitful on your part if they catch you.
You could even get more than $5k per citizen out of it if you had put it into something that nets a return either directly or indirectly. Infrastructure projects like renewables, road upgrades, internet upgrades and so on. If you need busy work there is a lot of useful work to be done.
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VTOL is certainly nice, but it's ridiculous to use it as a requirement of a variant of a plane of which most versions will not be using VTOL at all. Like stealth, it has a massive impact on the shape of the plane. It's ridiculous to burden non-VTOL planes with a design meant for VTOL. Just make a specialised VTOL fighter if that's what you need.
> TBH, I'm confused about what you were trying to say.

Amount of hydro power capacity per capita in Scotland is much higher than say in Wales.

> pretty much every country has some geography conducive to hydro

This is simply not true. Availability of hydro in Switzerland is much better than for example in Lithuania.
>weren't allowed to fix a security bug on order of the US government

What would happen? "Order of the US gov't" makes it sounds like serious legal ramifications would be handed out if violations were to occur. First, what would this look like? The CEO gets arrested? CTO? We've already seen that doesn't happen. The dev that pushed the change to fix the bug gets arrested, the PM in charge? Sanctions? Fines? All of this would have to have some legal standing in a court somewhere, otherwise, the offenders would have to be moved to some black site to prevent them from using any/all means to defend themselves.

In otherwords, it seems sort of like an empty threat and bluffing to someone not dealing with the stress of that particular moment.
Yeah, but it's pretty lame since you have to specify the size of the table up front and can't change it later. They didn't implement the hard stuff!
A lot of "bribes" in Africa are simply to expedite things. And in a lot of cases, they unfortunately need expiditing because the officials want money and delay it unnecessarily. Still, its quite a fair bit different to giving someone money to allow your AK47 shipment to go past customs.
Do you still need to hire four line handlers and a pilot or can you pilot yourself?
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