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Good luck finding every contributor to the Linux kernel and getting them to agree to that.

You would probably get what you want with a Deming regression.

Feynman learned calculus from the textbook "Calculus for the Practical Man".

This is the Hacker Newsiest comment I've ever read on Hacker News.

In functional safety, probabilities are usually clamped to an hour of use.

For now. If someone makes a practical quantum computer, pretty much every asymmetric primitive we use at the start of a cryptographic protocol to make a shared secret for symmetric…

Looking for a nice, solid, well-documented library to do something is difficult for most stuff. There are some real gems out there, but usually you end up having to roll your own t…

I'm interested in knowing how they achieve requirements traceability to code and the requisite level of code coverage (certain SILs require MC/DC coverage, which usually requires e…

Even if true, it seems like they're doing a pretty good job on their own.

The remaining 11 should see this as a sign of what's to come and quit.

Did it know where it isn't?

I believe that software-related college degrees are mainly there to get the horrible first few tens of thousands of lines of code out of people before they go into industry.

This reminds me of Joe Kennedy (JFK's father) getting out of the 1920s stock market right before the Depression because his shoe-shine boy was giving him stock tips.

"The same thing will happen if you're running a startup, of course. If you do everything the way the average startup does it, you should expect average performance. The problem her…

I have a lot of my old code, but I never want to look at it because it's super-cringe.

There may be a security advantage to using a separate non-bypassable network appliance that puts your traffic on Tor, since then it would be much harder to break into a Tails machi…

Do they want Gerrymandering Simulator 2024, Bribe-A-Senator, or Citizen's United: SuperPAC Simulator?

I'd assume the Toyota Production System and their method of lean manufacturing.

Aviation safety for FAA airworthiness generally follows SAE ARP4761, which requires risks of Catastrophic severity to have a quantitative failure rate of 10^-9 incidents per hour o…

Hair dye that you purchase and apply yourself.

Instead, the companies want people willing to lie on forms.

All death is "fractional" if you make a fraction out of it. For example, dividing the number of people that died making the Empire State Building by the total number of workers. It…

SeL4 uses capability-based security, but unfortunately it's not in common use.