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amatwl
·8 か月前·議論
The United States government is an insurance company with an army.
amatwl
·2 年前·議論
For the record, NT comes from the codename for the Intel i860 (N10) which was the original target platform for NT.
amatwl
·3 年前·議論
NetDocs was an effort in 2000/2001 that is sometimes characterized as a web productivity suite. There was an internal battle between the Netdocs and Office groups, and Office won.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/netdocs-microsofts-net-poster-...

https://www.eweek.com/development/netdocs-succumbs-to-xp/
amatwl
·3 年前·議論
There was reporting that they were scrambling to move some infrastructure off Google since they were going to be cut off after refusing to pay their bills. The deadline was June 30, though there was additional reporting saying Linda Yaccarino restarted payments - https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-clo...
amatwl
·3 年前·議論
Yep, for the record, the project was while I was still at a defense contractor :).
amatwl
·3 年前·議論
I literally worked on a project two years ago that was still using CORBA. Oof.
amatwl
·3 年前·議論
All voice assistants seem bad, but Siri seems particularly bad. God forbid I ask it to do something simple such as playing a specific artist or album on Apple Music or ask it to turn off lights I've configured in the Home app.

"Siri, please turn off all the lights in my apartment."

"Sure, which room?"

Sigh.
amatwl
·4 年前·議論
Footage on Shuttle SRBs was recorded onboard and downloaded when recovered. SLS' SRBs are not recovered, so no footage.
amatwl
·4 年前·議論
Eh, there's a difference between criticizing your boss publicly vs privately.
amatwl
·4 年前·議論
IIRC, Twitter was operating at a loss, prior to the closing of Elon's purchase.

See Q2 2022 Results here, net loss was $270 million -https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_financials/2022/q2...

It's still an open question whether Twitter will succeed with Elon, but it definitely wasn't a healthy company prior to the purchase.
amatwl
·4 年前·議論
The coalition supporting SLS in Congress is much broader than just Senator Shelby, though he's definitely one of the biggest proponents - an old school Senator purely motivated bringing home the money to his state. There are plenty of SLS advocates in both the Senate and House - SLS is not going anywhere just yet.
amatwl
·4 年前·議論
IIRC - Shuttle autoland capability was vetoed by the Astronaut Office. There was some capability within the guidance software for it, but it was never demonstrated (some early Shuttle flights got close to demonstrating it though).
amatwl
·4 年前·議論
In my experience, the hesitancy to contribute/ pay open source projects comes more from the contractors versus the government.
amatwl
·4 年前·議論
Except there are already some House Republicans publicly discussing a nationwide ban on abortion - guaranteed it's going to be on the agenda if Republicans take back Congress (which is highly likely). Also, it's not exactly easy to move to another state.
amatwl
·4 年前·議論
The Astronaut Office pushed strongly against an autoland capability for Shuttle.
amatwl
·5 年前·議論
I work in defense. I constantly tell folks that we're doomed once/if tech companies start competing in traditional defense/ aerospace contracts. The only barrier for that I see is the supposed "opposition" by tech workers, which I'm not entirely clear is a opinion shared by the majority of the workforce.

Also once you start looking outside of things like satellites and space systems, defense companies end up looking pretty boring. Also we pay less than pretty much any other tech company other there, most of our offices haven't changed much since the 80s. Overall, it makes it hard to recruit good engineering talent.

A significant number of my coworkers I've worked in the past few years with have left defense. (Also seen plenty of folks move to SpaceX)
amatwl
·5 年前·議論
Good. To be honest, if the tech companies (i.e. MSFT, Google, Amazon, etc.) ever decided to fully compete with defense contractors, like Boeing, LM, Northrup Grumman, etc., they could clean up easily. There are plenty of defense contracts that don't require you building bombs or munitions.