Muilenburg is to blame. He got the stock price up by getting rid of all of the more experienced (older) higher paid engineers who knew to not make the sort of mistakes that were made on the 737-Max. I was a happy 35+ year Boeing employee who would have stayed where I was for maybe another ten years, but Muilenburg made my choice to retire very easy by changing the terms of the (retirement) plan to give me a compelling reason to leave. If I had stayed, I would have effectively taken a pay cut of about 20% because of the reductions to my defined benefit payout. Instead, I found a better job elsewhere for a 20% raise and took the early retirement.
I've been doing it for 35 years and it has been great. I've had as much extra work as I can handle. (Sometimes I have more than I can handle.) It's a great way to build/maintain skills, earn extra money, and create a reputation for yourself.
The problems with the 737-MAX are inherent in the airframe design. It is unstable and it needs software to correct the instability. The 737-MAX is the only version of the 737 series with this issue. It is not the same "airframe" as all of the other 737 aircraft.
I wonder what sort of hoops I'll need to jump through to create an "attestation" for my SIP provider that proves the legitimate spoofing of my outbound VoIP calls (to my main business number) is okay. As of right now, they have no way to do this. I expect that my outbound VoIP calls will begin to get automatically blocked at some point...
I think the original (down-voted) poster meant that DNS should be decentralized to something more than 13 servers, from which any government can decide to seize a domain. A decentralized DNS system would improve free speech, and it would help with due process when it comes to the involvement of law enforcement.
I ordered one last week. I wonder how many of the specifications advertised will actually be met by the production version. 500 mile range, faster than a vette, 100cu feet of storage, seats 6, sledgehammer proof body, bullet proof glass, etc. It all sounds too good to be true for only $70k.
I connected a 1TB SATA SSD to one of my RPI machines with the Element 14 "PI DESKTOP - HAT AND ENCL". ($50) It's a nice RPI case with some extras.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh7AFRIdGi8
Another good alternative (for those of us who home-brewed their own router) is pfBlockerNG, which is an optional module for pfSense. It can do everything that Pi-hole can do, and more.
Great video!
My only nitpick was when Aaron said the camera resolution (800x800) was 640 MEGAPIXELS. I can understand why he misspoke. Everybody today uses megapixels as the measure of pixel density, but back in the mid 1970's, digital cameras did not yet exist and the resolution of the onboard image orthicon tube was actually just 640 KILOPIXELS.
No, politicians would not need to visit California because the way in which the electoral college is being eliminated is by keeping it intact, but forcing the state electors to follow the federal trend instead of the local one. The result will be ALL of California's electors going "blue" regardless of how the individual people vote. If we figured out a way of actually eliminating the electoral college, then it's entirely possible that a presidential election would result in no candidate winning more than 50% of the popular vote, and there would need to be some way to conduct a run-off election. If this scenario had unfolded in the 1992 election, Bush would have won instead of Clinton.
Why is it that the Cambridge Analytica "hack" is even an issue? The reason is because the data was used to get an "evil" republican elected. The exact same tactics were used to get Obama elected, and nobody seems to be complaining.
Obviously only the "blue" states want this change. Fortunately there are more "red" states than blue states, so the original purpose of the electoral collage, as created by the founding fathers, will be preserved. Otherwise we would be in "tyranny of the majority" mode, which we are anyway, but at least not with regard to presidential elections.
I'm all for it, but one gripe I have about Consumer Affairs' reporting is that they interchange the words "regulations" and "law" to mean the same thing. As we witnessed during the Net Neutrality see-saw, regulations enacted by the FCC are not "law", and can change at the whim of a new administration.
It's even more interesting that many Julys prior to 1979 were warmer still. Our (humanity's) temperature records aren't very good before 1895, but the long-term (many thousands of years) temperature record shows that much higher temperatures existed within the time frame of human existence:
The 8051 platform can present even more challenges for assembly language code developers than the 6502. It has been over 35 years since I wrote any 6502 code, and over 30 years since I wrote any 8051 code, but I remember the biggest issue on 8051 was the lack of RAM. You get a total of 384 bytes of RAM (256 bytes of normal RAM and 128 bytes of "zero page" RAM). When I needed to write floating point math functions for the 8051, I realized that fixed point decimal math would meet my requirements. I took advantage of the large ROM space to store a bunch of constants (powers of 10) and the code I wrote operated on decimal ASCII strings. Because of the limited memory, all of my operators would destroy the second argument and replace it with the result.
This would depend upon which version of GNU grep one installs...
About 10 years ago (when this article was written), I upgraded a RedHat system and discovered that some of my scripts were running 10 times slower than they had on the previous install. I isolated the issue to grep and benchmarked the grep from the previous release against the current release. The new grep was 10 times slower. I didn't have much more time to waste on the issue so I simply copied the grep binary from the previous release to the new install and everything was fine afterward.
I'm closing on a new house tomorrow. The builder has a business arrangement with Sunstreet Solar and they have a ~4KW plant on the roof. While researching the details of the sale, I discovered that Sunstreet owns the panels and has an easement. They get 80% of the generated power and give me 20%. This did not seem like a good deal to me. I negotiated the purchase of the system from Sunstreet as part of the sale, and I got the home builder to reduce the price. This way I can claim the federal tax credit, and I get 100% of the generated power instead of 20%.
I am not confused, but perhaps you did not understand my meaning. There is no version of "sleep()" that accepts an argument in anything other than seconds. Of course Microsoft has "Sleep()" which does, and of course "usleep()" and "nanosleep()" do. Is this unclear?
No, I absolutely will not be voting to replicate California. I grew up in California surrounded by democrats, socialists, and communists. As a young adult, I began to question the basis of my beliefs. As I grew older and more aware of the world, I became more and more conservative.
I understand the basis of California's socialist principles, and I look upon them as misguided.
How much would the train need to charge each passenger to earn enough money to pay both the interest (assuming normal cost-of-money) and the principle? Would this amount be less than the cost of an airplane ride?
Wasn't the construction of this train mandated by a state ballot measure? Can Newsom legally decide this alone?
Everyone knew this was coming, but what a colossal waste of money the state does not have...
Bankruptcy is coming.