marktangotango

Defense spending isn't about missiles, it's about jobs and ultimately Red state welfare.

> Also, it takes really a lot to have the EU make any decision within short notice, but Lukashenko definitely managed.

This is a cogent observation.

Interesting, George Knapp reporting, film acquired/leaked by Jeremy Corbell. Two familiar names. George at least has a lot of credibility as a "real" journalist. Jeremy manages to stay relativeley objective, but still comes off as pushing an agenda, imo.

I did the math in my area/provider and it came out to a .01 discount on the standard rate, which is not much of a discount at all. Even for the largest industrial, multi megawatt plans, which was surprising.

> my pup's butt is generally the least smelly part of him

The mind boggles at how you've determined this...

But indeed the digestive tract is what makes us tori and not spheres.

Well done, beautifully well placed comment.

New Glenn won't be the same class, Blue Origins BFR is New Armstrong which is even further away than New Glenn.

I've been puzzled at Blue Origins lack of progress, particularly with orbital class vehicles. they've got an engine developed (BE-4) that's pretty good, and going to be used by ULA apparently. But otherwise, development on New Glenn seems to be stagnant. Are they making progress, only not publicly, like Spacex? Seems Spacex is executing at a tremendous level, easy to believe a competitor could have trouble keeping the pace.

> massive volume with really little head

This is really key, there just isn't that much energy available in a small enough area for utility scale production. I would add the caveat that for small scale production, some schemes could actually work quite well, like some kite schemes. But no one is investing in small scale, all the development is for multi megawatt systems.

I'll always remember Mondale as the straight man for Reagan, this is a pretty good indicator of why he lost to Reagan so badly:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJhCjMfRndk

> these companies will simply hollow ARM out (slash R&D, cut staff etc) to pump up the target’s value, before flogging it off or breaking it up.

What does "flogging it off" mean in this context?

I'm surprised at the pollyanna-ish dismay on display here that this type of behavior is NOT common place. It's literally the way the world works, and has worked forever. Every middling manager, bureaucrat, or supervisor over anyone has always lorded it over others and used their influence to build little fiefdoms. Hell I deal with three of them in my job everyday. I personally think the reaction here, to your story, is a manifestation of techs exaltation of "meritocracy" and a rejection of the notion that, their ability, skills, technical knowledge maybe don't really matter that much in the end. Horrifying thought to many technologist. Just my opinion.

> Hell no. DER is prefix length-delimited, JSON (and text in general) is not.

This is a bit disingenuous, Content-Length header is required, or defacto required, and every http 1.1 server out there has a reasonable maximum allowed request header size.

I have this and it really is quite remarkable. The entire voice integration in the x1 set top box is really polished. Other than the occasional "wow, this is pretty good for comcast!" I hadn't given it much thought until now.

Nice effort, my main question is why not the "standard" go lua wrapper, golua[1]? More specifically, why implement a lua interpreter in go, when there is a perfectly useable c-api wrapper for go?

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/aarzilli/golua/lua

This is pretty clearly targeted at rehosting CICS applications on Linux. No one will move batch processing without JCL support, does anyone know if they offer that for Linux? Also this appears to be commercially licensed only, so no way to download and play with it that I saw?

> key words might be slightly diffrent. I ran inro this trying to port code to GNUCobol

Do you recall what those were specifically?

Any city with telecom, airline headquarters, and financial services. This one has all three. Could be Chicago, and others.

> Many of the postings I see are $250k+. That's like 3x what I make.

Proof please.

So much this, I work in a city with literally thousands of former cobol developers who's jobs were offshored over the past two decades. Check online jobs boards, there is very very little demand for this skill, shortage is myth.

I don't disagree but the idea of equating software development with some sort of artistry also allows the existence of the 10x programmer as, you know, a more gifted artists. Whether any one of us believes in 10x'ers aside, there are a lot of problems with this from the perspective of those paying the salaries, not least of which it means developers are not simply interchangeable cogs in a machine/process.

The most horrendous application I ever worked on was a java servlet app where the original developers didn't understand thread safety. They didn't let that stop them though. Every collection was a synchronized list or concurrent hash map, every access was wrapped in a mutex or synchronized{} block. It was really really bad; lots of race conditions and deadlocks, lots of production outages and a lot of "add more locks". In the neighborhood of 200,000 lines of this. It was "artistry" of a sort.

That application got the company to IPO, so the business owners were overjoyed with it. What's the point? Gatekeepers can gatekeep, artists can create art, but even the most banal garbage can make someone a lot of money.

This triggered me. Senior is a title that, like everything else in our Agile world, has been evolving to subsume activities that were once considered to be more specialized. Similar to how "devops" has combined sys admins and network engineers with development, and agile itself has combined "business analyst" with development, Senior now includes "team lead" and "architect". It's a pitiful state of affairs imo.

And we've done it to ourselves. Every time we as a collective have complained that X is a waste of time, this persons job has no value, we don't need them, guess what? The people in charge listened. I personally don't like that this has happened for the primary reason it makes my job harder.

> And don’t get stuck writing ads or blog posts either.

I felt this one.

> There simply aren’t that many folks working on regex engines.

Yes that's true but there are A LOT of leetcode/hankerrank problems that are trivially solvable when one has a solid grasp of DFA and state machines in general!

> a lot of organizations want to beat the averages

Bold assertion! I think a lot of orgs would love to be as good as average, joking aside.

I became a software engineer because I enjoyed programming as a hobby and I was good at it. That was twenty years ago. Now I'm still doing it because of the pay and not much else.

IMO your edit didn't help and you're not getting a lot of sympathy. The point wasn't that the employee is psychopathic as you say, but that management was incompetent by not ensuring a transfer of knowledge and validating before the employee left. You as the buinsess owner should plan for people to not be available and no one person can derail a $10M contract. This is also called the "bus factor".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

I looked into participating in the DSP program when it was announced; it was obvious at the time that it was a "buy yourself a job" type of situation, where an individual DSP provider would require a lot of volume/trucks/routes/employees to even make a living for themselves. What you describe makes complete sense.

>> There is not a surplus of developers or entry level folks willing to learn cobol over another entry level language, so it’s not cheap and it’s not “easy”.

Wrong, there are literally 10,000s of former cobol developers due to decades of offshoring. I know of several thousand in from one local company alone. Go look for these job listings, you won't find them because they're all offshore.

> political capital of bringing 'space jobs' to the middle of nowhere

Middle of nowhere is a non charitable as well as non accurate characterization of the area. South Texas and Brownsville are huge in the oil and gas industry. The number and quality of industrial, large structure welders available made the area very intriguing from that perspective alone I wager.

In fact the facility as it exists today is actually quite benign; you should visit if you haven't. It's literally right off the road down there. You can almost touch Starhopper through the fence.