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Comment · 3 days ago
That's a completely different question. You're doing pancakes/waffles.
Comment · 3 days ago
Even if that were true, so what? ICE's violence and overreach are unacceptable and its culture is rotten to the core. The agency needs to be abolished. If there are functions they're performing that we actually need, move those functions elsewhere, but as an agency ICE is irredeemable.
Comment · 3 days ago
They're talking about the period of time that followed reunification. Going from there to where Germany is today isn't inevitable.
Comment · 4 days ago
Animations make me crazy. Computers used to respond at the speed of thought, and now we've deliberately slowed them down for no good reason. Just show me the thing!

I used to be able to whip through 3-4 keyboard shortcuts in a fraction of a second and the computer would keep up. This was on an 80 MHz machine, by the way. Now I have a supercomputer and I have to wait for a quarter-to-half-second zoom/pan/slide/whatever with nearly every single interaction. It's maddening.

Comment · 9 days ago
> However, the level of social media amplification around this incident has brought scrutiny that is out of proportion to SSL/TLS’s place in our business

This isn't what taking responsibility looks like.

> eMudhra handled the recent incident diligently, revoking the affected CAs within 14 hours of discovery and disclosing promptly

It doesn't end there. It ends when you've investigated how this happened, identified the causes, and changed your procedures, systems, and/or culture to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Comment · 10 days ago
The "blameless" in "blameless post-mortem" isn't meant to absolve anyone of gross negligence. Even airline pilots can get fired after an NTSB investigation if it finds evidence of negligence.

They've known about this RCE for two years.

Comment · 22 days ago
In the US, photographing and recording police are first amendment-protected activities.

Likewise, the fourth amendement doesn't forbid a police officer from recording someone in public, because there's no expectation of privacy when out in public.

The courts have found that legally, one officer recording one person is no different from a large-scale, automated surveillance system recording everyone.

Well, that argument goes both ways. If the scale and automation don't make a difference, they don't make a difference.

Comment · 1 month ago
Altitude doesn't change (much) at the point where an orbit raising maneuver is performed. It increases the altitude of the rest of the orbit, with the greatest change ~180 degrees later.

If you'll excuse some poor ASCII art:

                                       _______
                  ______              /       \
                 /      \            /         \
    burn here -> *    O |    result: |    O    |
  in elliptical  \______/            \         /
    orbit                             \_______/
Comment · 1 month ago
You've got 30-45 minutes with the candidate. Is this question the best use of that time?
Comment · 1 month ago
What's hard to understand about it? It's just

  x = initial
  for y in collection:
    x = f(y, x)
Comment · 1 month ago
Walmart used to be (and maybe still is?) known for doing this. They would get companies to produce lower-quality versions of products under the same name as the standard versions available elsewhere. They could sell them for cheaper and consumers were none the wiser - or so the theory went, anyway. Obviously people caught on.
Comment · 1 month ago
I don't know the specific items that were called out here but I can tell you, as a flight instructor, that the failure to capture the glideslope was already enough to require a go-around. The late flap settings were too. So was the high airspeed. At no point did they have a stabilized approach. There were multiple unequivocal mandatory go-around conditions before they got to the runway.
Comment · 1 month ago
Turbofans being slow to spool up is jets 101.
Comment · 2 months ago
Time was, if you didn't understand how to use VORs, you couldn't really fly. We used them as primary en route nav, as well as for approaches, for many decades. As a CFI I think most of the confusion around VORs these days comes down to poor or inadequate training.

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