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The United States government is an insurance company with an army.

For the record, NT comes from the codename for the Intel i860 (N10) which was the original target platform for NT.

NetDocs was an effort in 2000/2001 that is sometimes characterized as a web productivity suite. There was an internal battle between the Netdocs and Office groups, and Office won. …

There was reporting that they were scrambling to move some infrastructure off Google since they were going to be cut off after refusing to pay their bills. The deadline was June 30…

Yep, for the record, the project was while I was still at a defense contractor :).

I literally worked on a project two years ago that was still using CORBA. Oof.

All voice assistants seem bad, but Siri seems particularly bad. God forbid I ask it to do something simple such as playing a specific artist or album on Apple Music or ask it to tu…

Footage on Shuttle SRBs was recorded onboard and downloaded when recovered. SLS' SRBs are not recovered, so no footage.

Eh, there's a difference between criticizing your boss publicly vs privately.

IIRC, Twitter was operating at a loss, prior to the closing of Elon's purchase. See Q2 2022 Results here, net loss was $270 million - https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_fina…

The coalition supporting SLS in Congress is much broader than just Senator Shelby, though he's definitely one of the biggest proponents - an old school Senator purely motivated bri…

IIRC - Shuttle autoland capability was vetoed by the Astronaut Office. There was some capability within the guidance software for it, but it was never demonstrated (some early Shut…

In my experience, the hesitancy to contribute/ pay open source projects comes more from the contractors versus the government.

Except there are already some House Republicans publicly discussing a nationwide ban on abortion - guaranteed it's going to be on the agenda if Republicans take back Congress (whic…

The Astronaut Office pushed strongly against an autoland capability for Shuttle.

I work in defense. I constantly tell folks that we're doomed once/if tech companies start competing in traditional defense/ aerospace contracts. The only barrier for that I see is …

Good. To be honest, if the tech companies (i.e. MSFT, Google, Amazon, etc.) ever decided to fully compete with defense contractors, like Boeing, LM, Northrup Grumman, etc., they co…

If it's anything like the Linux files inside File Explorer supported they added previously ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-for-wsl... ), it'll be using some …

Dragon 2/ Crew Dragon originally was going to support propulsive landing, but nixed due to future architectural plans (making some of Dragon a bit of engineering dead-end versus St…

I have to say the author's attitude does not come off particularly well in this post, at least in my opinion. Just seems rude.

UWP includes Win32 apps, as well (if they play well with appx/ MSIX).

UWP is WinRT (Windows Runtime). And, you're right, it's COM, but The Good Parts™.

This is where .NET Core gets confusing. They're just able to run on the .NET Core runtime (versus the "full" .NET Framework). WPF uses DirectX heavily, so it's not like Microsoft j…

This is true. A quick example would ZIP Folders in Windows - it uses third-party code Microsoft licensed (who knows if the company is still around today since it dates back to the …

Might have some issues with ITAR with the first two, since OP is not an American citizen.