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You'll need to cite a more reputable source
Certainly not peacefully.
Working at an aerospace tier 1 contactor, I saw the Airbus NEO series announced and begin, then Boeing MAX begin in reaction, and fully "complete" to try and get to market first before NEO... "Agile Hardware Development" is not a thing for a reason
Re:Lobsters – Hacker News on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:24PM (#38524031)
Me too please
Ive been apart of that project but it's been dead for years, seems like it's unmaintained now :(
Re:Montreal is what North America could be on Friday September 30, 2022 @04:33PM (#33040420)
Aerospace and Video Games seem like 2 massive industries for the city?
In the ADHD communities I'm on, and my own experience, the consensus seems to point more to ADHD's ability provide the gift of hyper-focus -- if you are enamored with the subject matter
I agree it's frustrating. I'm a Software Safety PEng that does alot of compliance and standards work, and safety validation. My company is good about delineating between engineering and developers... But very few orgs outside of safety critical industries care at all
Re:People Keeping BlackBerry Alive on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @08:12PM (#26009412)
BlackBerrys been doing alot in the software space these days, i don't think they've been "keeping it alive" with these stock shenanigans
Weird seeing Sandvine declared a "U.S. Firm", as a Waterloo resident
Re:The young centre of the Earth (2016) on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:08PM (#21457808)
Centre is the standard for all English countries except the US, no? We use centre in Canada
Re:How the Soviet Union Led and Lost 'The Space Race' on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:37PM (#20443201)
I thought by most definitions they won the Space Race, by being the first to have a habitable space station
Did you have a bad experience in QC or something?
www.soundenergy.nl/theac-25

They should have thought harder on that name, it's one missing R away from the infamous Therac-25

Re:Going blind and learning to love audiobooks on Sunday December 24, 2017 @05:16PM (#16001592)
A shout out to my favourite audiobook website, https://librivox.org . All free and open.
Re:Fearless concurrency in your microcontroller on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @05:03PM (#14303795)
> The RTFM language was created ... to develop real time systems for which FreeRTOS didn’t fit the bill.

I'm curious how they determined FreeRTOS wasn't appropriate for their use cases?