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I've been told that acceptable software margins are around 75%. Hardware focused yields closer to 20%-40%. Hence why there is such a strong push towards software-only.

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I fly to germany when I can, or take any other operator's train. I am way, way more familiar with Karlsruhe than I would like to be.

Dropping things is one of the primary purposes of the P-8A. They drop sonar buoys for submarine warfare.

I would put good money on the US Navy already having a map that is superior to this.

The purging has really picked up pace in the last couple of years, and I think a major highlight will be the upcoming cleansing of Place de la Concorde.

Taxis in Australia, like many other places, used to abuse their customers. Uber truly made a difference; these days, Uber may represent questionable value in Australia, but at the …

Have worked at both, Airbus pays worse but has a much better engineering culture. Also arguably, because of the location(s) the quality of the engineers is quite high despite the p…

A propos the likeness point, a question to get people's opinions. What is the difference between your skills today which lead to earning potential and an actor's likeness which giv…

Same reason why the car industry encountered chip shortages, despite there being plenty of chips. They don't want to have to go through the time and expense of re-certifying everyt…

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Our connectivity to mars is on the order of 12kbps, presumably better for the moon. My other question would be whether this is due to the need to radiation harden stuff? We were de…

They probably do this because they don't want anything committed to text. It still doesn't excuse it, but yeah, they're doing that intentionally. At a minimum they should say "this…

Me too - ESA is a pretty heavy user of RTEMS.

My understanding of this technology was it was usually a hash or fingerprint of some form of the material, to be compared against a database of hashes of known-bad material. I doub…

Lots of French employers will ask for multiple months of pay slips so they can screw you in pay negotiations.

The problem at least in France is that prospective employers will demand your pay slips from your previous job. If you are early in your career, they will use this to depress your …

The US knew when satellite imagery company's satellites were going to go overhead at some US base, waited for the image to be taken and then moved all its aircraft before a missile…

Yeah, that is patently untrue.

I now have ads on my expensive Samsung. Teaches me right for not heeding the advice and getting as dumb a TV as possible. I should not need to run a PiHole to deal with this.

For context, there is a completely different plant affectionately known as "bushman's toilet paper" (an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachyglottis_repanda ). It grows mor…

Airbus seems to use ADA mainly for drone software. Everything else is MISRA C, or MISRA C with a layer of abstraction overlaid that allows for generation of assembly from the same …

That name was floating around internally on the engineering teams until we'd ironed out the kinks.

Do you have a chromecast ultra or a standard chromecast?

HSBC in France have the same, it's a huge motivator for me to switch away.