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I still have analog wrist diving watches, and do much of my car repairs when needed. There are places I won't go, like ABS but changing pads, discs, ... off you go.

Romans found out that sour wine that you kept in lead vessels would sweeten up with time. That was wine acid reacting with the lead to form leadacetate, which is said to taste sweet. That got quite into fashion, and what happens when you have the political and financial elite with a massive lead...

I was getting that, yes. And to the US education system...

Mad emporer vibes intensify. Mad king vibes intensify even more. Have you checked the international news lately?

No, this is a post about the decline of the roman empire.

I would not say that it's safe, IIRC one ship per week is "gone without a trace". Maybe insurance fraud, maybe pirates, maybe the kraken... But it is much safer than other modes of transportation. What would bug me out on the fright ships, what does the smutje cook up? How to spend your time...

Interesting bug in the F104 control software (the startfighter) : it was meant to stop illegal pilot commands. Pilot presses "gear up", while still before the hangar. Plane checks if that is OK, checking height no ground radar because no power. no power because no engine rotation. That's ok...

Interestingly, my level of north frisian "Plattdüütsch" gives me better underatanding of dutch than google translate.

The interesting thing is that the more sayings or synonyms are there about one thing, the more important that is for the culture in question. Each one carries some co-notation for different contexts. Misuse of context is where jokes often start.

I saw that in automotive when they started to use "expert systems" in optimizing the cable harness, for example. One company had the genious thing in having all lines to airbags equally long so they fire at the same time, the "AI" then placed the airbag control module at a place where all lines...

In german we have both sayings. The cat out of the bag usually means the game is over and you see the con job.

Indeed. No matter her qualifications, no matter her skills (I don't know, maybe she IS the best for the spot) - now she will be seen as the quota hire. But I can not say we are really off topic. Reading those reports made me a better engineer, seeing what pitfalls are there NOT to fall into...

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??"