Wikipedia mentions the rather old MiG-25 as carrying vacuum tube radar equipment. However I don't see any mention of new MiG aircraft using tubes. Do you know if the newer models do in fact retain this technology?
Sure it's fun to hate on bureaucratic incompetence - which is a very real thing. But here we're talking about sudden failures of military hardware in active warzones. Engineering failure does not necessarily suggest itself as the most simple/likely reason for the pattern of crashes.
TFA does mention that about 25% of the crashes occurred stateside during test flights and pilot training. Crashes under those circumstances don't seem very suspicious. But when a well-tested drone model with an experienced operator crashes in a war zone, well....
"If it's a covert operation, you deny that you did it, but you don't necessarily deny it happened. If it's a clandestine operation, you deny it happened, but you don't necessarily deny that you did it." -- The Covert Comic
As far as I can tell, SJW is a doublespeak term meaning "joylessly intolerant finacialist running dog lackey elite stormtrooper of hate".
The clique of people who self-describe as SJW on the Internet rarely espouse anything remotely resembling justice, and are invariably antisocial and aggressive.
Damn, fellow Slashdotters, the forced-vaccination fundamentalist shills are out in force today! The big money elite are pushing this forced-vax stuff HARD. Darned good propaganda operation, too. I bet at least 60% of posters who parrot the standard forced-fax talking points aren't even on the payroll!
As another posted said, the vehemence and even threatened-violence with which this agenda is being pushed is itself suspicious. It's a good hint - tho I'm sure a useful idiot will point out, not proof - that some of these vaccines have way more undesirable effects than is being disclosed.
I encourage everyone reading this, regardless of where you live, to contact California Assemblyman David Chiu. Chiu is a the California state legislator for the district including San Francisco. He is a mainstream elitist Democrat, but historically he has been close to the Silicon Valley tech community.
When you call Chiu's office, politely explain the Murdock case if the staffer you speak with is not familiar. Mention that the SFPD is widely known to be corrupt. Then - again, politely - ask that the Assemblyman work to have the incident investigated by an independent investigator from outside the San Francisco Police Department. A state assemblymember does not have direct legal authority to appoint an investigator - but for sure, if an elected legislator speaks out, many people will listen.
Assemblyman Chiu's office phone number is (916) 319-2017. His staffer was interested and courteous when I called earlier today. You can also contact Chiu electronically thru his official website
Every tweet IS immutable and irrevocable. Click 'delete' all you want - once Twatter has your data, it never forgets. This is true of all adsurveillance-funded "free" services.
Dissident subjects of financial-totalitarian surveillance states would do well to observe an old Vatican maxim: Think much, speak little, write nothing down.
So let's say someone contributes a basically useful pull request to one of my projects. But it doesn't have any test coverage, and some aspect of the code is less than ideal. There are a couple ways I could respond.
I could say "fuck you, get lost you incompetent shitlord!" and refuse the PR.
This is a great contribution! However it does not include any test coverage for the new functionality.
Please check out my comment on the code, and let me know your thoughts. Also please add unit tests. Then I will be happy to merge this PR.
The former response gets me: a) no new functionality for my package; and b) at least one formerly-supportive person who now hates my guts and wants nothing to do with helping my project.
The latter response gets me: a) cool new functionality; and b) a contributor who (hopefully) has a fairly good impression of the project.
Seems obvious to me, at least, which is the more beneficial approach.
If you're working with inexperienced fresh grads (every sizable team should have a few), you want them to be asking questions and seeking guidance when they need it. Better that they should work more slowly and develop their skills, than work full speed ahead churning out dog crap.
If you have someone making their first-ever contribution to a Free Software project, you want to be encouraging to them even if their initial pull request wasn't so great. Better to be patient and grow the community, than to be a hothead and drive away someone who wanted to contribute.
Otoh, if you have someone with years of experience who needs handholding.. maybe they'd be better off in a different role.
Even with good libraries to do the math, handling dates can be difficult. In large part this is due to the ambiguous way people talk about dates in natural language.
Consider a simple example: It's Sunday. An associate says "let's have a meeting next Tuesday." Will you meet 2 days later, or 8 days later? In my experience it's about a 50/50 ratio which meaning was intended by the speaker.
(Here's hoping a bunch of people lose their homes in civil suits)
The cops won't lose anything, nor suffer any personal consequence at all. Neither will the despicable coward of a principal who called the cops, the legislators who wrote the bad laws, nor the kangaroo court judges who zealously enforce them. This is how the system is supposed to work.
Being utterly excluded from virtually the entire social safety net in case you go broke trying is an advantage?
After 12 years as a freelancer, I can say with confidence: In America there IS NO safety net. Long-term dependency programs for the permanent underclass? Sure! Help for a productive person who has fallen on temporary hard times? Nada, zip, zilch, none.
Former active Green here. Co-founder of my campus Green Party back during the Ralph Nader presidential campaign.
I can say this: most early members of the GP were NOT Dumbocrat or Republicrook sympathizers. Much like the later Occupy movement, we explicitly rejected the disinformative left/right model of politics. Greens agreed on protecting the environment - along the lines of "hey man, let's not dump toxic waste into the river!" There was little consensus on social and economic issues.
Sometime thereafter the Green Party organization in many areas was overtaken by militant authoritarian Progressives, almost all of them open Democrat partisans. At that point most of the early members walked away.
Btw, true story: while working a Nader campaign booth at the state fair, I had a farmer read our literature. After looking at it quite a while, he said: "This guy sounds like my kind of conservative. I'm going to vote for him." Really made me think about how uselessly-vague labels like "liberal" or "conservative" do little but stultify discussion of real political issues.
Americans Expect to work 40, maybe 50 hours a week while the H1-Bs routinely put in 60+.
'Round SF there are plenty of bright-eyed young US citizen corporate-startup drones who will happily work 60+ hrs/wk. Apparently a salary high enough to afford a studio apartment (no roommates!) in a bad neighborhood, free meals (now you can eat at your desk!), and a lottery ticket (you gotz equity!) is sufficient motivation for many people.
Most jobs do not require a John Carmack and indeed John Carmack would find most programming jobs to be the very definition of hell.
"Hey John, we need a new tax total on the web page. It's going to require about 8 hours of coding, 24 hours of testing, and then 6 meetings, 8 forms, a code review, unit tests, and you need to work over christmas to install it when the users are not using the web page."
This right here. This is why I want to get out of this business. Programming is easy and almost fun - but working as a programmer is a peon's life.
This preemptive suppression of dissent can be taken as an implicit acknowledgement by Mr Gerrard et al. that this CoC is expected to be heinously unpopular among the population upon whom it will be imposed.
I love Go as a language; and the Gopher community is among the brightest around today. So it is both appalling and very very sad to see this lust for petty tyranny in heart of the project's official leadership.
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Point of order: is not "getting good people" an important part of "process"?
Mod points, my kingdom for mod points!
Wikipedia mentions the rather old MiG-25 as carrying vacuum tube radar equipment. However I don't see any mention of new MiG aircraft using tubes. Do you know if the newer models do in fact retain this technology?
Sure it's fun to hate on bureaucratic incompetence - which is a very real thing. But here we're talking about sudden failures of military hardware in active warzones. Engineering failure does not necessarily suggest itself as the most simple/likely reason for the pattern of crashes.
TFA does mention that about 25% of the crashes occurred stateside during test flights and pilot training. Crashes under those circumstances don't seem very suspicious. But when a well-tested drone model with an experienced operator crashes in a war zone, well....
Yup.
"If it's a covert operation, you deny that you did it, but you don't necessarily deny it happened. If it's a clandestine operation, you deny it happened, but you don't necessarily deny that you did it." -- The Covert Comic
Once Wall Street gets involved, it's all over.
Is there really so much difference between Wall St and Sand Hill Rd?
Use uBlock Origin instead, it somehow evades their "turn off adblock" policy.
As far as I can tell, SJW is a doublespeak term meaning "joylessly intolerant finacialist running dog lackey elite stormtrooper of hate".
The clique of people who self-describe as SJW on the Internet rarely espouse anything remotely resembling justice, and are invariably antisocial and aggressive.
Damn, fellow Slashdotters, the forced-vaccination fundamentalist shills are out in force today! The big money elite are pushing this forced-vax stuff HARD. Darned good propaganda operation, too. I bet at least 60% of posters who parrot the standard forced-fax talking points aren't even on the payroll!
As another posted said, the vehemence and even threatened-violence with which this agenda is being pushed is itself suspicious. It's a good hint - tho I'm sure a useful idiot will point out, not proof - that some of these vaccines have way more undesirable effects than is being disclosed.
I encourage everyone reading this, regardless of where you live, to contact California Assemblyman David Chiu. Chiu is a the California state legislator for the district including San Francisco. He is a mainstream elitist Democrat, but historically he has been close to the Silicon Valley tech community.
When you call Chiu's office, politely explain the Murdock case if the staffer you speak with is not familiar. Mention that the SFPD is widely known to be corrupt. Then - again, politely - ask that the Assemblyman work to have the incident investigated by an independent investigator from outside the San Francisco Police Department. A state assemblymember does not have direct legal authority to appoint an investigator - but for sure, if an elected legislator speaks out, many people will listen.
Assemblyman Chiu's office phone number is (916) 319-2017. His staffer was interested and courteous when I called earlier today. You can also contact Chiu electronically thru his official website
Every tweet IS immutable and irrevocable. Click 'delete' all you want - once Twatter has your data, it never forgets. This is true of all adsurveillance-funded "free" services.
Dissident subjects of financial-totalitarian surveillance states would do well to observe an old Vatican maxim: Think much, speak little, write nothing down.
Eh... 100% self-taught programmer here, fwiw.
So let's say someone contributes a basically useful pull request to one of my projects. But it doesn't have any test coverage, and some aspect of the code is less than ideal. There are a couple ways I could respond.
I could say "fuck you, get lost you incompetent shitlord!" and refuse the PR.
Or I could say something more or less like this:
The former response gets me: a) no new functionality for my package; and b) at least one formerly-supportive person who now hates my guts and wants nothing to do with helping my project.
The latter response gets me: a) cool new functionality; and b) a contributor who (hopefully) has a fairly good impression of the project.
Seems obvious to me, at least, which is the more beneficial approach.
Handholding has its place.
If you're working with inexperienced fresh grads (every sizable team should have a few), you want them to be asking questions and seeking guidance when they need it. Better that they should work more slowly and develop their skills, than work full speed ahead churning out dog crap.
If you have someone making their first-ever contribution to a Free Software project, you want to be encouraging to them even if their initial pull request wasn't so great. Better to be patient and grow the community, than to be a hothead and drive away someone who wanted to contribute.
Otoh, if you have someone with years of experience who needs handholding.. maybe they'd be better off in a different role.
Even with good libraries to do the math, handling dates can be difficult. In large part this is due to the ambiguous way people talk about dates in natural language.
Consider a simple example: It's Sunday. An associate says "let's have a meeting next Tuesday." Will you meet 2 days later, or 8 days later? In my experience it's about a 50/50 ratio which meaning was intended by the speaker.
Are you suggesting we give up civil liberties for totalitarianism and falsely inflated economics?
No no, I think you misunderstood: He was advocating leaving the US, not coming here.
Besides, zero tolerance on what?
Zero tolerance for freedom, of course.
(Here's hoping a bunch of people lose their homes in civil suits)
The cops won't lose anything, nor suffer any personal consequence at all. Neither will the despicable coward of a principal who called the cops, the legislators who wrote the bad laws, nor the kangaroo court judges who zealously enforce them. This is how the system is supposed to work.
Being utterly excluded from virtually the entire social safety net in case you go broke trying is an advantage?
After 12 years as a freelancer, I can say with confidence: In America there IS NO safety net. Long-term dependency programs for the permanent underclass? Sure! Help for a productive person who has fallen on temporary hard times? Nada, zip, zilch, none.
Don't give them ideas...
Former active Green here. Co-founder of my campus Green Party back during the Ralph Nader presidential campaign.
I can say this: most early members of the GP were NOT Dumbocrat or Republicrook sympathizers. Much like the later Occupy movement, we explicitly rejected the disinformative left/right model of politics. Greens agreed on protecting the environment - along the lines of "hey man, let's not dump toxic waste into the river!" There was little consensus on social and economic issues.
Sometime thereafter the Green Party organization in many areas was overtaken by militant authoritarian Progressives, almost all of them open Democrat partisans. At that point most of the early members walked away.
Btw, true story: while working a Nader campaign booth at the state fair, I had a farmer read our literature. After looking at it quite a while, he said: "This guy sounds like my kind of conservative. I'm going to vote for him." Really made me think about how uselessly-vague labels like "liberal" or "conservative" do little but stultify discussion of real political issues.
Americans Expect to work 40, maybe 50 hours a week while the H1-Bs routinely put in 60+.
'Round SF there are plenty of bright-eyed young US citizen corporate-startup drones who will happily work 60+ hrs/wk. Apparently a salary high enough to afford a studio apartment (no roommates!) in a bad neighborhood, free meals (now you can eat at your desk!), and a lottery ticket (you gotz equity!) is sufficient motivation for many people.
Very sensible idea. But how to set the fixed minimum?
Most jobs do not require a John Carmack and indeed John Carmack would find most programming jobs to be the very definition of hell.
"Hey John, we need a new tax total on the web page. It's going to require about 8 hours of coding, 24 hours of testing, and then 6 meetings, 8 forms, a code review, unit tests, and you need to work over christmas to install it when the users are not using the web page."
This right here. This is why I want to get out of this business. Programming is easy and almost fun - but working as a programmer is a peon's life.
court order = rubber stamp
This preemptive suppression of dissent can be taken as an implicit acknowledgement by Mr Gerrard et al. that this CoC is expected to be heinously unpopular among the population upon whom it will be imposed.
I love Go as a language; and the Gopher community is among the brightest around today. So it is both appalling and very very sad to see this lust for petty tyranny in heart of the project's official leadership.