Comment the rest of the time (Score 1) 180
The rest of the time is meetings....
Comment Shoulders of giants (Score 0) 185
SpaceX has risen so high, because they stand on the shoulders of giants.
NASA is doing research... SpaceX is doing engineering based on that research.
Comment "Probably" (Score 1) 49
When you say "probably," what exactly do you mean?
Gonna need to see the math on that, cowboy.
The Navy's Flawed Bridge Technology Set the USS McCain Up For Disaster (propublica.org) 167
schwit1 writes: [ProPublica] outlines in detail the causes behind the crash in 2017 of the USS McCain and an oil-tanker that killed ten sailors and injured many others. It is a horror story of a bankrupt Navy upper management that seemed more in love with cool computer software and automation than making sure the Navy's ships and its crews can function efficiently and effectively in any situation. Moreover, the story suggests that this same upper management made lower level officers the scapegoats for its bad decisions, while skating free with no consequences. And worst of all, that same overly complex computer navigation system remains in place, with only superficial patches imposed in both its software and its user instructions.
This story however is hardly unique. It reflects the general and systemic failures of almost any project coming out of the upper managements of the entire federal government for the past three decades, a pattern of failure that partly explains why Donald Trump was elected, and why he is hated so thoroughly by so many in that federal workforce. He more than anyone in decades has been demanding from them quality work, and firing them when they fail to provide it.
This story however is hardly unique. It reflects the general and systemic failures of almost any project coming out of the upper managements of the entire federal government for the past three decades, a pattern of failure that partly explains why Donald Trump was elected, and why he is hated so thoroughly by so many in that federal workforce. He more than anyone in decades has been demanding from them quality work, and firing them when they fail to provide it.
Comment Re:You will never automate yourself out of a job (Score 1) 244
IIRC, Edison broke the rules of his job by automating the keepalive message.d
Comment You will never automate yourself out of a job (Score 1) 244
Bears repeating: You will never automate _yourself_ out of a job.
Quitting seems like a Quixotic gesture.... just kinda delays the inevitable while they find a new engineer.
Comment You got the headline wrong.... (Score 1) 245
"Waymo Self-driving Cars Are Having Problems Turning Around Corners "
According to TFA, it should be "Waymo Self-driving Cars Are More Risk-Averse than Human Drivers."
Comment Here's an idea: (Score 1) 71
Offer incentives not to register through Apple.
Comment Git Block Enumerated New Treasury (Score 1) 158
GitBENT
Comment Re: Fermi's paradox (Score 1) 302
The bit that proponents of Fermi's paradox seem to miss is that there are not an infinite number of places for life to arise that are near enough to us in terms of distance and time for us to observe.
If life arise somewhere nearby a billion years ago... then we missed em.
If life arises somewhere a billion years from now... we can't see em yet.
If life arises contemporaneously with life on Earth, they have to be pretty close for us to see them right now.
Comment Easy metrics that measure the wrong thing (Score 1) 422
Measuring attendance, hours worked, hours in the office is easy.
Measuring productivity is hard.
Previous job, I worked at home because all my time was billed. Measuring productivity was easy.
Current job, I work from work because none of my time is billed. They see me, they say they're validating that I'm working. But none of my output is measured in a meaningful way.
Comment Re: Insurance (Score 1) 158
Say it with me, now, "compliance is not security."
Comment Re:Perhaps he can recover some dignity... (Score 3, Funny) 543
"Perhaps he can recovery some dignity..."
Why anyone reported on what he said baffles me; he has to rank up there with Baghdad Bob.
Comment Accounting.... (Score 1) 355
I never knew I would go into IT in order to become an accountant, calculating depreciation schedules and providing chargeback/showback charts to "internal customers."
And I'm not some middle-management drone....
Comment Rare hatred for a company (Score 2, Interesting) 72
Rarely have I hated a company as much as I hate Uber....
Ignoring and violating local regulations
Violating labor laws
"Greyball" tracking
Interference in local politics
Toxic culture
What did I miss?
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