Read the article and stop with the personal attacks please! Boeing's dangerous business practices are well documented.
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Go to Georgetown and start talking to people, the quality issues are well known. First shift often signs off on wiring down all bolts in a section without doing their job, second shift comes in and ignores the problem, with third shift cleaning up the mess (or as much as they can find).
Its a caustic work environment that has been bred since the company split in two.
Edit: Here is a piece New York Times did on exactly what I'm talking about: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamline...
He takes pride in the quality of his work and adherence to the rules, but Boeing's managers let him know that reporting unwired bolts & incorrectly installed hardware per policy was something they did not do. Very sketchy, not something anyone wants to be signing off on as personally liable!
The management loves to circlejerk about the "Boeing process", but lots of shit is slipping through these days that would have been unacceptable (and firable) only 2 decades ago.
I think the Fire tablets have severely undermined people's opinions of what a non-Apple tablet is.
Neat instances to check out:
This genre of distributed, lower resource usage social platform is rather enjoyable (for me). Hopefully Rustodon, Florence, PixelFed & Lemmy also continue developing, as this can be a compelling alternative to the FAANGs ecosystem.
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Their consumer Norton antivirus software is known to MitM connections and break the security of browsers and OSes, while they sell BlueCoat TLS breaking boxes to Iran and other unsavory actors. Take a peek at: https://www.zdnet.com/article/tens-of-thousands-of-chromeboo...
Additionally, they were so incompetent as a Certificate Authority that they had their root certificate revoked by browser vendors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17918748
If Broadcom wants to buy a sinking ship, Symantec is it!
Multiple people I know stopped attending LFNW that year, and will not return. Hopefully other conferences like SeaGL don't fall for the Microsoft embrace scam, as it injured LFNW pretty badly.
This seems like a grey area that slows the pace of R&D in countries that believe code is copyrightable & patentable (the US and select Western countries) compared to say New Zealand & China, where these aren't an issue.
In terms of building up internal silicon design talent, tariffs have not been effective in other large countries. Allwinner and Mediatek are taking off the shelf designs from ARM, getting them fabbed, and writing basic BSPs for them. The only magic here is they generally do not care to have large firmware blobs, so their hardware isn't too terrible to mainline.
Getting hit at 25mph is likely survivable if hit by a sedan (you'll land on the hood), but an SUV often flattens a person, as the force is applied to their mid to upper body rather than their legs.
Car accidents are also much more catastrophic, our current testing in the USA only tests SUVs against SUVs, sedans vs sedans in crashes, and impact absorbers on SUVs are often higher, meaning the SUV will end up atop a sedan in an accident.
These negative externalities are poorly regulated, permitting these needless deaths and injuries to occur.
Many rational people would do what this CIO did given this minor fine and brief prison sentence.
One example was a Point of Sale system I worked on, we were able to simplify adding new products by creating a community database of UPC/other barcode formats that would have the name, description and other attributes of an item along with an average price. Very useful way to creatively transform this data, and help our clients do less work while accomplishing more.
With regard to opening proprietary code, we did a few credit/debit/EBT integrations, and one of the best choices made was to release our code and do development in the open.
When working with each vendor we could highlight exactly where our code was running into issues with their buggy hardware, and we were able to create straightforward non-NDAed documentation for these devices, which helped other projects that never had credit/debit integration. Additionally, our competitors didn't even end up fixing the bugs we highlighted in our documentation, I really thought they'd at least try to be a bit more competitive/feature complete.
eGPUs in a laptop format is a bit silly, you sacrifice the mobility of the laptop to get a very cut down discrete mobile GPU. AMD has started to eat this market alive due to the performance per watt advantage: https://redd.it/bc5hkg
Consumers are much more likely to bring a sub-5lb HP x360 everywhere than a bulky 8+lb laptop.
Nvidia meanwhile has stated they will not support Wayland, and has sandbagged the integration of their Linux Kernel patches for their single board computers (like the ones that are used in Tesla's cars). They don't give a fuck if their clients are stuck on broken, insecure BSPs, and frankly they operate as a malicious vendor: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/
AMD, ARM (CPUs & Mali GPUs), Intel, VIA, Qualcomm (Adreno) all have support in kernel 5, whereas Microsoft is still stuck subsetting a small group of ARM GPUs and branding Windows 10's OpenGL ES support as DirectX 11. This is a repeat of the troubles Microsoft had with supporting Windows Phone, but now the userbase is significantly smaller despite a wider array of hardware to support.
Trucks are the only option when your local rail operator shuts down or doesn't have the capacity to service your business. This chronic underinvestment in vital infrastructure is hurting the economies of smaller towns, making any business that needs cheap transport to thrive less competitive.
Video decoding/encoding is handled by a VPU (not GPU), HDMI is handled by a separate HDMI PHY, and most of these components have mainline, libre kernel support if you use an Allwinner based single board computer.
Microsoft has started branding some Mali GPUs as DirectX 11 capable, though YMMV on using these features.
I seek contributions back, while not leaving a gaping hole for SaaS vendors to extend & close my codebase.
Perhaps aggregation apps should have the client do the scraping, rather than being entirely dependent on server side scraping?
Regardless, the state of copyright and IP law in the US is abysmal. We can't trust these companies (FAANG) to keep their own press releases online for a decade, how can we let them monopolize ideas (which they fail to fully flesh out) and content? They have been shown to be inept stewards to their own content :c
This is an anti-China move, but we do know Huawei builds vulnerable LTE basestations and products, and refuses to do the bare minimum to secure them, despite promising $20 billion in investment in software security (see the article I linked to earlier).
It is rotten corporate culture that is starving critical maintenance work at these companies, creating the internet of vulnerable shit.