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mkwt ,

Except the "emergency capsule" is all of them, including Starliner. Because Starliner is perfectly capable of returning to earth safely.

Because every thruster that has shut down has hot fired okay, and the known helium leaks still leave enough margin to cover several multiples of the 5 hours or so of RCS operation that you need to get to landing.

mkwt ,

To be fair to Airbus,

  1. They probably chose the language for that call-out way before 2009. Airplanes can live for thirty years, and type designs can keep going several decades longer

  2. The designers were also likely to be French, but they selected English call-outs. This seems to me like a case where they picked a word that's technically in the OED l, but is actually much more common in French.

mkwt ,

Let us all remember that, at least back when it started, the establishment alternative to systemd was a product named after its original operating system, System V UNIX, which is a direct descendent of the original UNIX from AT&T. This sysvinit software used complicated shell scripts to manage daemons. Contrary to some opinions, these shell scripts were not "just working"; they were in fact a constant and major maintenance burden for Linux distributions. When I started on Linux at least, Debian had a suspiciously large fraction of bugs on init script breakages.

All this is to say that the new system, systemd, doesn't have to be anywhere near perfect to be worth replacing sysvinit.

People argue that systemd is rejecting the "UNIX philosophy" of small tools that do one thing well. I argue that this UNIX philosophy is not some kind of universal good with no tradeoffs. It's an engineering rule of thumb. There are always tradeoffs.

People argue that systemd is too much like Windows NT. I argue that Windows NT has at least a few good ideas in it. And if one of those ideas solves a problem that Linux has, Linux should use that idea.

mkwt ,

I think my mother played that star trek game on a time shared minicomputer.

mkwt ,

These are all general opinion statements. There aren't any verifiable facts like, "on this date at a meeting with x we discussed how AI project y is myopic and non-user-centered."

mkwt ,

Well, it's a weightless chicken at least, because this model's got no gravity.

mkwt ,

To be fair it might actually be possible to find smut there.

mkwt ,

Somebody who is less lazy than me should try to translate the glyphs.

mkwt ,

Pay no attention to gconf, dconf, GSettings, or whatever else there is.

mkwt ,

That many people would sure help if you have two miles off poles to install.

mkwt ,

Noooooooooooo

mkwt ,

And the widest parts of I-10 are not the everyday choke points. Other parts of the system are the worst offenders on traffic.

mkwt ,

The loading and unloading is a pain.

mkwt ,

Some of those dialog boxes have not changed a bit since Windows 3.0.

mkwt ,

To be clear, he was warning about safety beaches before his demise. These depositions were not coming from beyond the grave.

mkwt ,

CDR time!

(except I've had CDRs that were scheduled for a full work week, 40 hours)

mkwt ,

Critical Design Review. In aerospace engineering, it happens when drawings and software are substantially complete, but before starting to cut metal. The goal is to provide some assurance that the design will actually comply with the system requirements.

CDRs are usually presented as a single PowerPoint deck that can run to thousands of slides, with many presenters and dozens of review panel members.

mkwt ,

Exactly so.

mkwt ,

Usual business mindset on something like this is, "Sure, this is not economical for us, but it's only for six to nine months while the software guys code up the real software. In the mean time, we'll collect and maintain market share, and we'll just swap in the real software when it's ready."

mkwt ,

I believe NASA may be required by law to procure the Boeing solution.

Linux market share passes 4% for first time (arstechnica.com)

We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there's been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of...

mkwt ,

How reliable is this actually? There are a millions reasons for me to fake which is and web browser in using.

Shouldn't this effect cause Linux use to be under reported? That is, the real percentage would be higher than 4%?

I would pretty strongly expect significant correlation between people who spoof their user agent and Linux users.

mkwt ,

Hint: if the non-free firmware is necessary to make most systems work, Debian is not actually all that close to being completely free.

Apple (slrpnk.net)

I don't care if anyone has a Xiaomi, Oneplus, Samsung, etc. Each brand is using a modified version of Android, and they chose to be compatible with each other. But for example the "blue vs green bubble" drama is a thing specifically because of Apple locking their unsuspecting users into a closed ecosystem. And it sure isn't...

mkwt ,

In 2020 I tried to buy a burner tracphone at a Walgreens, and the clerk was just shocked and incredulous that someone might really want to pay money for such a thing.

mkwt ,

There was an early news story where the subcontractor claimed that it wasn't their responsibility to tighten the door plug bolts before delivering the entire fuselage subassembly to Boeing.

I haven't been keeping up with this news in detail, so it certainly seems plausible to me that some planes were found to be missing bolts entirely.

mkwt ,

If I remember right, these fuselage assemblies get transported on a giant beluga-looking airlift airplane. Where the whole nose is the plane opens up to swallow fuselage sections whole.

If you ship the door plugs uninstalled, you're probably looking at a while separate shipment.

mkwt ,

Need to hit the pool, 'cause you're so underdamped.

mkwt ,

It should be "Pasteurize", as it's named after Louis Pasteur. And the specific process he invented dramatically increases the shelf life of milk using very high temperatures for a very short time.... Without changing the milk texture or cooking it very much.

So pasteurization is a process that sterilises did with heat. But I don't think it works on meat.

mkwt ,

Yes. But that is cooking the meat, as in changing the taste and texture by denaturing proteins.

Pasteurized milk does not get cooked in the same manner.

mkwt ,

The bit about the small forge forging a forge is skewering the Gentoo concept of toolchain bootstrapping.

Problem: how can you claim to have compiled the entire system on your own local machine if you need a compiler to compile a compiler? Where do you get that compiler from?

Solution: Use an external compiler to compile a compiler. Then use that compiler that you just compiled to compile itself again. Then use that second compiler to recompile the rest of the system.

mkwt ,

Was that one of the ones from the Megan era?

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