mikecx · HackerTrans

l’année dernièrediscuss

Totally, the departmental audits happen yearly and are available to the public. It doesn't bother me if they want to do a separate audit but these aren't audits, aren't being performed by auditors, and are clearly just a partisan attack on our institutions.

mikecx

l’année dernièrediscuss

I don't question the need for an audit. I do question having a ketamine fueled oligarch and a rag-tag group of 20 year old software developers doing an audit, pretending audits take days, and somehow only finding things conservatives hate as waste/fraud.

mikecx

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Love learning about image/video formats and I enjoy how you broke it all down. Just a heads up, pretty sure you've got a typo:

"Next is the Global Packed Field, which in this case is 70 which in binary form is 00000000."

70 in binary would be 100110. (64 + 0 + 0 + 4 + 2 + 0)

mikecx

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

As a counter to your first example, I once had software deployed in some U.S. embassies in some not so great parts of the world. The machines the software lived on were air-gapped and on computers built specifically not to allow external connections (different keyboard/mouse connectors, no USB, no CD).

To deploy an update required a human, some long flights, and replacement parts. While it's not common, I think it would still break that definition of what is/isn't an engineer.

For me, it comes down to the level of rigor required. I think developing avionics software is probably engineering whereas building an phone app to view/share pictures of cats likely isn't.

mikecx

il y a 4 ansdiscuss

Not sure if this will be considered off topic, my apologies if so.

The article says that octopi is the plural of octopus, but it's actually octopuses. Octopus is originally Greek, not Latin and thus does not get the Latin plural -i, but instead would get the Greek plural -odes. Since it ends in a way English can deal with, the commonly accepted usage is octopuses (English) over octopodes (Greek) with octopi being the least correct.

https://qz.com/1446229/let-us-finally-resolve-the-octopuses-...

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