tomohawk

Being skeptical of "science" authorities is not the same thing as being skeptical of science.

Not at all. Mozilla is now controlled by hyper partisan political operatives. There should be zero intersection between partisan politics and my web browser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubtWZwtJCdw

In the mid 90s, I recall talking to some of the people working on the current scheme to modernize ATC. This was the 3rd or 4th attempt, and billions had already been spent.

Since then, there have been many efforts and many more billions spent. I'm sure all of these efforts went through the proper channels, etc, but all that has shown is that (a) FAA has no clue how to manage these contracts, and (b) the normal way of doing this absolutely doesn't work.

In contrast, this is how civil infrastructure used to get done in the US:

https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/antique-machines-yo...

Elon seems to be the only person really performing at this level anymore in this space.

Having done a lot of Java and Go, Go has much better mechanical sympathy between the language, libraries, and vm than Java does. The JIT GC in Java are marvels of engineering, but they have to be.

As an example, in Java, everything is a pointer, so pointer chasing all the time, which is not good for cpu cache, etc. In Go, there is first class support for composition.

The other main adjustment, if coming from Java, is reduced cognitive overhead. It usually only takes a week or two for an experienced Java dev to be reasonably effective in Go, but it takes a few months to break the mental habits of overthinking everything.

This is obviously maliciious compliance. And so very small minded. Just like the Air Force former DEI personnel who took down info about the Tuskagee airmen last week. The Sec Def set them straight within 4 hours.

After the Vietnam war, in the 1970s, there was a big RIF (reduction in force) at places like the NSA.

These agencies have not had a reduction since then and are oversized and wrongly sized.

The same issue faced the US Army prior to WWII. Roosevelt's solution was to find a young general (he found Marshal) and have him get rid of the dead wood because it was expected we'd be in a war in a couple of years.

Marshal created the "plucking commission" and got rid of a lot of dead wood. This put the US in a much better position to fight a war.

That's a big lie. We know who the dixiecrats were. The vast majority of them stayed in the Democrat party their entire lives.

Some of them, like Senator Byrd were lauded by Hillary Clinton as a big influence.

I can't wait until the Democrat party finally pays out reparations to all of the descendents of people they enslaved.

The context of this was that Zelensky was being asked about corruption in Ukraine, and he was hinting that maybe USAID and State Dept might also have a problem.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ukraine-received-less-half-us-083...

> Trump has indeed declared a national emergency at the border. But there is nothing "extraordinary" or "unusual" about either illegal migration or cross-border fentanyl smuggling

Really?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db522.htm

The #1 cause of death of working age adults during the pandemic was not covid. It was opiods.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211221184714/https://secureser...

The Dept of Defense has failed many audits in a row. No one really has a handle on what money is going for there, or at may other departments.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4992913-pentagon-fails-7t...

Hundreds of qualified applicants were denied jobs through a "Biographical Assessment" that you can take yourself:

https://kaisoapbox.com/projects/faa_biographical_assessment/

Spend a bit of time taking it and it's clear what at least one reason for this shortage is.

It's too early to tell, but I would not be surprised if later at least a portion of this is found to be "malicious compliance".

For example, President Truman ordered the US military to be (re)integrated. Through malicious compliance, racist officers put their own spin on the orders.

"Well, he didn't say that black officers would get equal access to the officers club, so we won't let them in."

It too a former 5 star general (President Eisenhower) to stamp out the malicious compliance and make it stick.

There was already a case of malicious compliance with the DEI EO on the part of certain US air force personnel taking down material about the Tuskugee Airmen. The new sec def stomped that out within 4 hours.

Hundreds of qualified applicants were denied jobs through a "Biographical Assessment" that you can take yourself:

https://kaisoapbox.com/projects/faa_biographical_assessment/

Spend a bit of time taking it and it's clear what at least one reason for this shortage is.

pretty cool, but basically solves a problem caused by one too many layers of abstraction.