The two seater he mentioned has less than a 300 nm range. I've been looking at planes (since my wife signed me up for flight lessons). A 4 seater with a 600nm range is going to cost $400K used, at a bargain price, which means likely another $50-$100K in maintenance before it is really airworthy. If I wanted a Cessna Citation or similar plane I am looking at $2M and up. -nB
I did. I have my first flight lesson in a couple months (ground training first). Learning to fly is not all that expensive. Buying a plane with any reasonable range (that can carry a family of 4)? That's a bitch... -nB
I's not realistic, but I thought it was a funny thought experiment... My work offers free EV charging points. Everything from 110/2/20 to 220/2/50 (someone with a Tesla asked for 440/3/30, but they declined to make that voltage available in a parking lot...). 1) Build an EV pickup with lots of extra battery capacity 2) Build a whole house inverter at home 3) Charge car at work, drive home and run house off car Free "gas" and power!
Now, if someone actually did this, how long till they noticed? We have several multistory buildings on our campus, and some test floors. Heck, one test floor draws $100K / month in electricity (equipment + HVAC). -nB
Since they could run other apps on the tablet even if you trap all HTTP requests, first step is to root the tablet and uninstall everything else, then make the browser autostart. Password protect anything you don't uninstall. -nb
Part of the point is that the US is open about these policies. They genuinely are interested in illegal crap. I don't see how they have an actual right to do this, even to non US citizens, and the entire concept of a constitution free zone while on US soil almost makes we want the foreign governments to declare our embassies "no longer sovereign US soil". -nB
I am worried about the drones, yes. I am vastly more worried about China if I travel there for work. I am a not major stakeholder for a company that they would really like some intel on. We have the clean laptop, clean phone policy. Earlier in the thread someone said pot/kettle, but seriously I don't think that's the case. The US does it's fair share of snooping, yes, but I do not think it is directed at corporate espionage, at least not at the insane level that you see in China. Does this absolve the US of it's transgressions? no, not at all, but this is not a binary thing, it's not saint/evil, there is a vast grey area involved. -nB
It was supposed to be a play on the godwin thread joke, that/. always approaches the likelyhood of a piracy argument. apparently my humor is not group humor:(
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with AC here. I am no missionary, and I realize that in many cases they may bring as much trouble as good with them, but the reason Africa is so fucked up is *not* the missionaries. Look to DeBeers, the rare earth metals industry, arms industries, and their ilk for what that country is in such a mess. I see little to no point to push my religion on anyone, though I'd be happy to discuss it with them if they as me to. That does not mean I will condemn those who try to help the country while also trying to sent their message of belief. -nB
There is, but I'll let you in on a little funding secret: If you adsorb the losses by being more efficient then no-one notices and you can't use that money as a last ditch buffer (we forgot we need this widget, tighten up the ship, so we can buy it out of our existing budget). If you instead cut something noticeable you "make them pay" for cutting your budget. Happened to our IT department where I work. They had a 5% cut to their budget so they cut a service that saved labs all around the world untold $$$ by being essentially an internal craigslist to connect surplus equipment with labs that needed the kit. it was run by two dedicated staff, that's it. The rest of the 5% cut near as I can tell was adsorbed, but they made sure everyone noticed that this service was cut due to the budget constraints. -nb
I think you are being a bit optimistic, but I understand. Elon Musk has done wonders with SpaceX (and not too shabby with Tesla), it is hard not to hope he really can pull all this off. I hope it doesn't happen, but I think at some point SpaceX is going to go the way of Boeing and Gencorp, and all the other big players and just become another subcon for NASA. -nB
GGP: Bank bailouts GP: Religion P: Terrorists ME: If there was OIL on mars... CP: If there were pirates... GCP: Information wants to be free... GGCP: (C) infringement is not the same as stealing... GGGCP: Sure it is because you have denied them a sale... GGGGCP: No it isn't, I wouldn't have bought it anyway...
I maintain the test infrastructure kernel. It's a constant battle to keep up with dev changes, they change a struct, I change the struct, for the most part they are well linked (we import their headers), but there are some things that simply cascade downstream bad enough to prevent us from even compiling, it's a niche job, half maintenance coder, half lone cowboy. I really like it, but most people don't last on my team. We have three devs that have been at this one job for more than 3 years. Everyone else either goes to just test development (our customers, and sounds like where you are), the rest go to the dev side of house (you can always tell which ones are going to leave outright because they bitch about the maintenance coding).
One word of advice to new test devs out there: Parent post is right, most test development is spent on documentation, a full 3/4 of your coding time is likely to be some form of maintenance coding, deal with it well and you will not hurt for money or employment. Bitch about it and your co-workers will not like you all that much, which makes for very long working days. -nB
Yup. I write test software, specifically software that acts on firmware. The majority of our devs do unit tests, but once the whole thing is assembled together and used as a system interactions show up that are not ideal. You need some form of QA department between Devs and Customers. As someone who is already familiar with software engineering you likely would be an ideal candidate for test engineering, because you know how software generally works, and can write meaningful bug reports. For an interview, if they ask you for strengths, I would focus on your development background and ability to write meaningful bug reports. -nB
your floor-heater (the single most inefficient way imaginable to heat a space)
I'm going with burning $100 bills as being even less efficient (and more toxic). But yes they are inefficient if you are using them improperly. Used to heat a single occupied room, while allowing the rest of the structure to be much cooler is more efficient than heating the whole house just to keep that one room comfortable. -nB
*this* encrypt your drive before it fails, because once it fails you can not control the data if you want to return the drive. I have eaten drives before rather than warranty returns because the data was sensitive (IMHO) and I do not trust every person in the chain to not snoop on the drive's contents. -nB
We seriously considered homeschool, we settled on one school and entered open enrollment. We were waitlisted, so we went homeschool, until our position in the waitlist came up. The tipping point was that in homeschool it is harder to give your children a real world social education. You will sign them up for Soccer, Swimming, Baseball, Whatever, but this will be full of kids with reasonably like minded parents, which means your kids will be exposed to a relatively homogenous social environment. The world is not like that. Our outlook is that school is primarily for the social education: pecking orders, dealing with bullies, understanding that differences in race, creed, socioeconomic status are not bad. Hard education (reading, writing, arithmetic) are actually secondary and are taught at home through the "unschooling" methodology whenever possible. In a nutshell unschooling is the idea that simply drilling math, science, etc. into a child's head is likely to make them resentful of the subject. Instead use applied math when doing fun things like cooking (an excellent way to teach reading, fractions, weights, measures, burn treatment, and first aid). Similar applied education when shopping, going to the zoo, having a pet and accounting for the costs involved, etc. The upside: Very smart, reasonably well adjusted children. The downside: requires over double the effort as a parent compared to just dropping your kids off at school every day. The way I look at it, you are a parent, this is a job you are morally required to do. -nB
It appears to be opt-in for an added discount. This is really no different than using iGoogle. You get free extra features on a landing page, they get more data. If you don't like it, then keep on your existing carrier. I will be staying with mine (AAA FWIW). -nB
It is interesting to say the least. I accept that is a factoid I did not know. Of course I could spout off that "that means the tank was too old, likely the foam was deteriorated" or something, but I don't think that would be the case. I suppose I will go with that it is one hell of an unfortunate situation. -nB
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The two seater he mentioned has less than a 300 nm range. I've been looking at planes (since my wife signed me up for flight lessons). A 4 seater with a 600nm range is going to cost $400K used, at a bargain price, which means likely another $50-$100K in maintenance before it is really airworthy. If I wanted a Cessna Citation or similar plane I am looking at $2M and up.
-nB
I did.
I have my first flight lesson in a couple months (ground training first).
Learning to fly is not all that expensive. Buying a plane with any reasonable range (that can carry a family of 4)? That's a bitch...
-nB
I's not realistic, but I thought it was a funny thought experiment...
My work offers free EV charging points. Everything from 110/2/20 to 220/2/50 (someone with a Tesla asked for 440/3/30, but they declined to make that voltage available in a parking lot...).
1) Build an EV pickup with lots of extra battery capacity
2) Build a whole house inverter at home
3) Charge car at work, drive home and run house off car
Free "gas" and power!
Now, if someone actually did this, how long till they noticed? We have several multistory buildings on our campus, and some test floors. Heck, one test floor draws $100K / month in electricity (equipment + HVAC).
-nB
That's because they used to be under the umbrella of the ministry of silly walks, but they have since been re-chartered under the MOD.
-nB
Since they could run other apps on the tablet even if you trap all HTTP requests, first step is to root the tablet and uninstall everything else, then make the browser autostart. Password protect anything you don't uninstall.
-nb
Noooo, the Romulans are the ones that use an artificial singularity in their warp drives, we need a drunk madman with a nuclear delivery vehicle.
Part of the point is that the US is open about these policies. They genuinely are interested in illegal crap.
I don't see how they have an actual right to do this, even to non US citizens, and the entire concept of a constitution free zone while on US soil almost makes we want the foreign governments to declare our embassies "no longer sovereign US soil".
-nB
I am worried about the drones, yes.
I am vastly more worried about China if I travel there for work.
I am a not major stakeholder for a company that they would really like some intel on. We have the clean laptop, clean phone policy.
Earlier in the thread someone said pot/kettle, but seriously I don't think that's the case. The US does it's fair share of snooping, yes, but I do not think it is directed at corporate espionage, at least not at the insane level that you see in China.
Does this absolve the US of it's transgressions? no, not at all, but this is not a binary thing, it's not saint/evil, there is a vast grey area involved.
-nB
It was supposed to be a play on the godwin thread joke, that /. always approaches the likelyhood of a piracy argument. :(
apparently my humor is not group humor
~=s/country/continent/ig; #sorry 'bout that
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with AC here. I am no missionary, and I realize that in many cases they may bring as much trouble as good with them, but the reason Africa is so fucked up is *not* the missionaries. Look to DeBeers, the rare earth metals industry, arms industries, and their ilk for what that country is in such a mess.
I see little to no point to push my religion on anyone, though I'd be happy to discuss it with them if they as me to. That does not mean I will condemn those who try to help the country while also trying to sent their message of belief.
-nB
funny, I thought it was wrong, but spell check didn't flag it ;) Figures...
There is, but I'll let you in on a little funding secret:
If you adsorb the losses by being more efficient then no-one notices and you can't use that money as a last ditch buffer (we forgot we need this widget, tighten up the ship, so we can buy it out of our existing budget). If you instead cut something noticeable you "make them pay" for cutting your budget. Happened to our IT department where I work. They had a 5% cut to their budget so they cut a service that saved labs all around the world untold $$$ by being essentially an internal craigslist to connect surplus equipment with labs that needed the kit. it was run by two dedicated staff, that's it. The rest of the 5% cut near as I can tell was adsorbed, but they made sure everyone noticed that this service was cut due to the budget constraints.
-nb
I think you are being a bit optimistic, but I understand. Elon Musk has done wonders with SpaceX (and not too shabby with Tesla), it is hard not to hope he really can pull all this off. I hope it doesn't happen, but I think at some point SpaceX is going to go the way of Boeing and Gencorp, and all the other big players and just become another subcon for NASA.
-nB
GGP: Bank bailouts
GP: Religion
P: Terrorists
ME: If there was OIL on mars...
CP: If there were pirates...
GCP: Information wants to be free...
GGCP: (C) infringement is not the same as stealing...
GGGCP: Sure it is because you have denied them a sale...
GGGGCP: No it isn't, I wouldn't have bought it anyway...
this /thread
If that's what it takes to convince the politicians to fund NASA instead of the DOD and entitlement programs, then sure, I'll play along.
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I maintain the test infrastructure kernel. It's a constant battle to keep up with dev changes, they change a struct, I change the struct, for the most part they are well linked (we import their headers), but there are some things that simply cascade downstream bad enough to prevent us from even compiling, it's a niche job, half maintenance coder, half lone cowboy. I really like it, but most people don't last on my team. We have three devs that have been at this one job for more than 3 years. Everyone else either goes to just test development (our customers, and sounds like where you are), the rest go to the dev side of house (you can always tell which ones are going to leave outright because they bitch about the maintenance coding).
One word of advice to new test devs out there: Parent post is right, most test development is spent on documentation, a full 3/4 of your coding time is likely to be some form of maintenance coding, deal with it well and you will not hurt for money or employment. Bitch about it and your co-workers will not like you all that much, which makes for very long working days.
-nB
Yup.
I write test software, specifically software that acts on firmware. The majority of our devs do unit tests, but once the whole thing is assembled together and used as a system interactions show up that are not ideal.
You need some form of QA department between Devs and Customers.
As someone who is already familiar with software engineering you likely would be an ideal candidate for test engineering, because you know how software generally works, and can write meaningful bug reports.
For an interview, if they ask you for strengths, I would focus on your development background and ability to write meaningful bug reports.
-nB
your floor-heater (the single most inefficient way imaginable to heat a space)
I'm going with burning $100 bills as being even less efficient (and more toxic). But yes they are inefficient if you are using them improperly. Used to heat a single occupied room, while allowing the rest of the structure to be much cooler is more efficient than heating the whole house just to keep that one room comfortable.
-nB
Doesn't work. The field density required to flip bits on a current gen HDD platter is amazingly high.
-nB
I can second this. Been burned by non booting motherboard and other open box issues.
-nB
*this*
encrypt your drive before it fails, because once it fails you can not control the data if you want to return the drive.
I have eaten drives before rather than warranty returns because the data was sensitive (IMHO) and I do not trust every person in the chain to not snoop on the drive's contents.
-nB
We seriously considered homeschool, we settled on one school and entered open enrollment. We were waitlisted, so we went homeschool, until our position in the waitlist came up. The tipping point was that in homeschool it is harder to give your children a real world social education. You will sign them up for Soccer, Swimming, Baseball, Whatever, but this will be full of kids with reasonably like minded parents, which means your kids will be exposed to a relatively homogenous social environment. The world is not like that.
Our outlook is that school is primarily for the social education: pecking orders, dealing with bullies, understanding that differences in race, creed, socioeconomic status are not bad. Hard education (reading, writing, arithmetic) are actually secondary and are taught at home through the "unschooling" methodology whenever possible.
In a nutshell unschooling is the idea that simply drilling math, science, etc. into a child's head is likely to make them resentful of the subject. Instead use applied math when doing fun things like cooking (an excellent way to teach reading, fractions, weights, measures, burn treatment, and first aid). Similar applied education when shopping, going to the zoo, having a pet and accounting for the costs involved, etc.
The upside: Very smart, reasonably well adjusted children. The downside: requires over double the effort as a parent compared to just dropping your kids off at school every day. The way I look at it, you are a parent, this is a job you are morally required to do.
-nB
It appears to be opt-in for an added discount.
This is really no different than using iGoogle. You get free extra features on a landing page, they get more data.
If you don't like it, then keep on your existing carrier. I will be staying with mine (AAA FWIW).
-nB
It is interesting to say the least. I accept that is a factoid I did not know.
Of course I could spout off that "that means the tank was too old, likely the foam was deteriorated" or something, but I don't think that would be the case. I suppose I will go with that it is one hell of an unfortunate situation.
-nB