parados

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by parados 4mo ago
Second this. Canonical is currently winning the race to the bottom for tech interviews (I'm speaking with a couple of decades of experience on both sides of the table). They use lots of AI on their side (of course, none allowed on your
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by parados 8mo ago
A professional pilots discussion on this accident [1] reorganised by subject matter [2]. [1] https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/663888-aa5342-d... [2] https://paulross.github.io/pprune-threads
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by parados 8mo ago
I think that you are confusing ACARS messages (those transmitted from the aircraft via airband radio or satellite) with ECAM messages (those that are displayed to the pilots). The former are mainly for operational reasons, for example so th
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by parados 8mo ago
> they documented what they thought should happen instead of what actually happened. The other way around. For example the Python C documentation is full of errors and omissions where engineers described what they thought should happen.
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by parados 9mo ago
For sure, it is on my TODO list. It takes a lot of work to explore each new Python C API and I'll get around to it when I can.
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by parados 9mo ago
Hey, thank you so much for all your hard work on psutil, it is my goto import! And this looks like a really interesting development you have created to add to the available tools for detecting those tricky memory leaks. I have done some wor
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by parados 10mo ago
True, and I agree, but from their report they do seem to be doing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) even if they don't call it that. RCA is a really bad way of investigating a failure. Simply put; if you show me your RCA I know exactly where y
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by parados 10mo ago
Got it. Thanks.
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by parados 10mo ago
> and my recent hyper-fixation (seems to spark up again every few years), the sinking of the Titanic. But the rest of your comment reveals nothing novel other than anyone would find after watching James Cameron's movie multiple time
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by parados 10mo ago
Former UK manufacturing engineer here (1980s onwards). The manufacturing industry in the UK at that time suffered from three serious problems: - Low productivity workforce. There was a huge pool of skilled, low wage, workers that had little
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by parados 11mo ago
A C preprocessor implemented in Python: https://github.com/paulross/cpip
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by parados 11mo ago
Sort-of agree, but then I saw this code in the Visualiser[0] try: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt except Exception: plt = None class Visualizer: def animate_combined( # Stuff...
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by parados 1y ago
Got it. Thanks.
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by parados 1y ago
Those are your principles?
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by parados 1y ago
Would you care to share those principles?
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by parados 1y ago
Here is the original source for this article. Warning: it is a tough read, particularly section 3.c "Case Illustrations": https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/sites/default/fi...
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by parados 1y ago
On the Professional Pilots Rumour Network there are over 3000 posts on the accident to AI171. Here they are re-organised by subject and author to help better understand this accident.
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Air India Accident Discussion Organised by Subject(paulross.github.io)
4 points by parados 1y ago|1 comments
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by parados 10y ago
Some discussion here by the engineers and pilots that worked with the Olympus 593 on this very subject: https://paulross.github.io/pprune-concorde/docs/Olympus_5930... https://paulross.github.io/pp
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by parados 10y ago
They always used transistors[0]. Early models had analogue computers, some digital stuff crept in over its service life. [0] https://paulross.github.io/pprune-concorde/docs/AICU_-Air_In...
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by parados 10y ago
That thread is re-mixed here, by subject, for your reading pleasure: https://paulross.github.io/pprune-concorde/docs/index.html
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by parados 10y ago
Accenture's approach to open-source ideas is mostly via a glossy brochure [pdf] [1]. [1] https://www.accenture.com/t20150523T115642__w__/us-en/_acnme...
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Show HN: Concorde Re-mixed(github.com)
6 points by parados 10y ago|0 comments
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by parados 11y ago
Customary International Humanitarian Law has something to say about this[0]. The US military has its interpretation of rule 42[1]. [0] https://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_cha_chapter13... [1] http
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by parados 11y ago
Try CPIP in Python: http://cpip.sourceforge.net/
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by parados 11y ago
For example for writing Python C extensions using 'Pythonic' C: https://github.com/paulross/PythonExtensionPatterns/blob/mas...
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by parados 11y ago
I know Google interviews generate a lot of traffic on HN but I thought that I'd add something that I haven't seen covered, that is, the job itself. I interviewed twice successfully for Google and the interview experience was impec
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by parados 11y ago
The interim report was covered here before [0] but this final report has more detail. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9026028
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Final Report on the software errors that made NATS close UK airspace 2014-12-12 [pdf](caa.co.uk)
1 points by parados 11y ago|1 comments
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by parados 11y ago
Here is another attempt to try and get health care systems to learn how to deal with fallibility. In this case a woman died unnecessarily during a minor operation, however her husband was an airline pilot and he is now trying to teach the U

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