MilStdJunkie

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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Is it evil of me to say that 7.2m a year (109000000/15) is not really doing that bad? Honestly, I think a pretty good pyramid scheme a la the Mikkelson Twins would be to start up a wholly imaginary "MIL-SPEC SCAMMER SCHOOL" t
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
I guess it makes a sort of sense. Eyes sense photons, touch detects physical force, tongue and nose give useful attributes of chemical properties, and neuron clusters adjudicate probability, the navigation of all the possible paths for the
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Ah, I'm a dummy. Of course these would be binaries getting chucked around.
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
It's hard to localize. Early Postscript - PDF software was the wild west, particularly when it comes to the text streams. Something I've noticed is that they're used a LOT in things like randlists (bullet lists), tab leaders,
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
I mentioned it in a separate parent, but null purge is - for the stuff I work with - completely non-negotiable. Nulls seem to break virtually everything, just by existing. Furthermore, old-timey PDFs are chock full of the things, for God kn
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Holy smokes. I'm no programmer, but I've built out bazillions of publishing/conversion/analysis systems, and null purge is pretty much the first thing that happens, every time. x00 breaks virtually everything just by exi
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Yeah, that's via an OTA, which is basically - comparatively - free money. It's not a PoR (Program of Record). PoRs are where (many naive people think) all the money is. All those people are incorrect. It is, however, the PoR whic
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
A company like Google (or Apple for that matter), with their own freewheeling project systems, would rather jump into an olympic pool filled with razor blades and used condoms before taking any amount of money from the hellish morass that
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
GitLab on-prem is way, way, way more elegant than trying to get GitHub on-prem working. One of the things that makes me go, "Gah?" is that, well, Atlassian is more or less abandoning on-prem Bitbucket going forward. Perforce is, w
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
What a loss. Killer Elite was one of my favorite modern pieces of war reporting. Wright didn't let the hilariously dystopic "embedded" rules muzzle him or intimidate him - no, he went to play bullet dodger with Marine Recon
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Seat? I would have blown out a whole new access panel in the belly of that flivver with the sheer force of my terror. The few times I've been in bush flights over terrain, it's always felt like the man upstairs is punching my danc
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
> And most documentation systems are far easier adopted by people other than engineers. Whew, gonna have to have a hard disagree with you there. DaC is several times - nay, orders of magnitude - less complicated than standing up a S1000D
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
As a pretty die-hard enthusiast for this approach - even for legacy, hard industries - let's take a close look at some of the limitations of this approach. First, code is formal language, and docs are natural language. That's a lo
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Also a market for putting a more doc-focused UI on git, integrating that too[1]. Pull Requests are basically gold for doc review, but the process of getting to the PR is something that always seems to need a bit of training. Nothing like th
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Lots of DaC shops use feature flags for their conditional content. "Conditional Content" is a huge hobbyhorse in component content, because you need conditionals to re-use chunks. How else could the chunk be made applicable to mul
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
The DaC debates grow increasingly grim as the overall employment situation worsens across industries. It's pretty hard to get people to react authentically, rather than see the discussion as an attack on how they do their jobs[0]. I&#x
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Has everyone suddenly forgotten the ability of VC to make money just . . evaporate ? The list is long and the dollar number is heartbreaking. Well, if they have, I suppose they'll be reminded forcefully by today's substantially
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
The city laments of the ancient near east might fall near this, but definitely many Roman writers, like Vegetius, saw very clearly that their civilization was headed for oblivion, and they wrote about it, sometimes quite heartbreakingly. Th
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Yeah, but it's very much worth hitting the seven-or-eight figure crypto holders too - those guys don't have the liquidity to support 24/7 security staff. Sure, they could buy some tech, but security tech . . I'm trying t
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
"Easy" and "hard" are a lot less important than "risk", I think. Sure, as entrepreneur, I might make 200% gains one out of four times versus 10% gains four out of four times as FTE, but if I'm not already
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Huh, I got some old tablets laying around that are locked to long-lostgoogle emails. Wonder if I could dust 'em off and give em a new life with this stuff. I know there's other paths to doing this, but they involve wires and more
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Watch the bond rating. They're at the very verge of junk right now, and if they slip into BB territory that might trigger a whole bunch of stuff to happen very quickly.
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Nuclear-electric, with electric ducted props all over the airframe, is probably the best heavy-lift aviation propulsion system. Same as or better power density, insane efficiency, virtually unlimited range, 10-100x less maintenance. Now, b
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Some years ago, one of those "Consciousness Studies" or "Intelligence Studies" people unveiled a new model for thinking about the brain: as an "ant farm" for mitochondria. The notion being that ant colonies wor
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
I don't think this sounds silly at all. Virtually everywhere we look in cosmology the last decade or so, you get a sensation of things unseen . Like we're looking at one of those optical illusions that change shape when you cover
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Just doesn't have the giant userbase, and since core adoc has basically "enough" functionality, it never got the hacker culture in its guts since you don't need to muck around in its guts for transclusion, variables, or
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
"But it's not structured !" I swim around a lot in the "XML High Priesthood" pool, and the latest new thing is this: AI (sucking down unstructured documents) isn't capable of efficient functioning without Know
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
I got one. Say I gave it a corpus of structured[1] files that follow Schema X, then I gave it a pile of outputs (PDF, HTML) generated from that corpus, where StructureFileName.xml = StructuredFileName.pdf. Could you see this doohickey being
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Author Jon Ireland AKA "SwannMarcus" on Xitter, incidentally. As my uncle might have said, "Whuff. That's a good 'un".
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by MilStdJunkie 2y ago
Unless you can figure out a way to bill fetuses for capital projects, gonna have to go with a "nope!". I know I'm being a little silly here, but this kind of thing is what you get with under-/post-/non-industrialize

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