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It is even harder to fly a plane against the combined strength of the booster servos when they get a bad sensor rivet. Egypt Air pilots might want to tell you, alas they have not won that fight. That was one of the cases where I had serious doubt about the QA in some places and added that...

I remember that one. A wild thing. Even more interesting are the reports and stories of incidents which stopped short of an accident. Or the root cause of the root cause reports. We had a professor for material science who also worked for the LBA, and he sometimes started his lectures with an...

I somewhere still have the ToS for hotmail which MS had tried to put unto their custormers, laying a claim to all IP, patents and maybe firstborn. They dropped that like a hot potato when someone (cameron diaz?) sued them because she had fake nudes mailed to her, and according to the ToS those...

It's not the size, it's what it does. At least I keep hearing that.

NCBA, we called some carriers. Never Come Back Airlines.

me: "What did HW vendor say?" Other Engineer(OE): "That we should fix that in SW." me: "I see, so we shall submit a bug report to the supplier of the BSP, yes?" OE: "Yes... why are you grinning?" me: "Because that is the same company. And there is no ****ing way to do that in SW."

Not necessarily. FreeBSD15 will not support 386 as the system it runs on. It does not mean you can't run 32 bit software on the system that works on 64 bit.

My dad used to bring home the detailed behind-the-scenes crash reports for me to read. You have no idea how often I asked "Who the everglowing F! greenlit this $EXPLETIVE??"

Ouch, I just got mugged down memory lane. Having to tell the vendor of some $$$HW that they messed up something really creative so their own test codes worked but they did not see that every second cache line would malfunction (write back problems). You see that when you use more address space...

The longer I worked in automotive software, the more I liked riding my bike and walking places.

... and still ugly as sin ...

Comming up with misaligned return address traps so a profiler would pick up the right return point. On the 68k, code needs to be at even locations. So, when you profile your code, you patch all the function entries but can not patch all the exit places to stop the clock for that frame. Here...

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Interesting. I remember people throwing their TV out of the window when we lost in soccer... So, what's worse?

I use to say "cooking is caring". IMHO any place that has no food to speak of has a cultural problem.

drhowarddrfine When you only test local sales, you get only a small slice of what is available. Tarifing and taxing the rest has an impact here. And yes, it bites you more than you may think. I almost crashed into the guard rails when I saw that, laughing. That place is on my work commute...

Also from me, this is a nugget!

That is a bonus in disguise. The parking garages need to make sure they only have X tons of weight per floor area, so they needed to reduce the number of parking spots - makeing the parking spots wider in the process.

Is that the same type of consumer reports that only see the world as the US and nothing else? Because over here, this "SUV" can not be #1 because it is bloody banned by every safety code from being on the road. Also, there are some very interesting stickers that Tesla owners place on their cars...

Mind you, that was after we first were among the pioneers of green energy and that fell then to the conservatives and the lobbyists. Wind and Solar got "Altmeierd", and the Chinese saw that the things were working and picked up the ball. The same with magnetic trains. We build the test range...