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Second this. Canonical is currently winning the race to the bottom for tech interviews (I'm speaking with a couple of decades of experience on both sides of the table). They use lo…

A professional pilots discussion on this accident [1] reorganised by subject matter [2]. [1] https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/663888-aa5342-d... [2] https://paulross.gi…

I think that you are confusing ACARS messages (those transmitted from the aircraft via airband radio or satellite) with ECAM messages (those that are displayed to the pilots). The …

> they documented what they thought should happen instead of what actually happened. The other way around. For example the Python C documentation is full of errors and omissions wh…

For sure, it is on my TODO list. It takes a lot of work to explore each new Python C API and I'll get around to it when I can.

Hey, thank you so much for all your hard work on psutil, it is my goto import! And this looks like a really interesting development you have created to add to the available tools f…

True, and I agree, but from their report they do seem to be doing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) even if they don't call it that. RCA is a really bad way of investigating a failure. Sim…

Got it. Thanks.

> and my recent hyper-fixation (seems to spark up again every few years), the sinking of the Titanic. But the rest of your comment reveals nothing novel other than anyone would fin…

Former UK manufacturing engineer here (1980s onwards). The manufacturing industry in the UK at that time suffered from three serious problems: - Low productivity workforce. There w…

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Sort-of agree, but then I saw this code in the Visualiser[0] try: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt except Exception: plt = None class Visualizer: def animate_combined( # Stuff... ):…

Got it. Thanks.

Those are your principles?

Would you care to share those principles?

Here is the original source for this article. Warning: it is a tough read, particularly section 3.c "Case Illustrations": https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/sites/default/…

On the Professional Pilots Rumour Network there are over 3000 posts on the accident to AI171. Here they are re-organised by subject and author to help better understand this accide…

Some discussion here by the engineers and pilots that worked with the Olympus 593 on this very subject: https://paulross.github.io/pprune-concorde/docs/Olympus_5930... https://paul…

They always used transistors[0]. Early models had analogue computers, some digital stuff crept in over its service life. [0] https://paulross.github.io/pprune-concorde/docs/AICU_-A…

That thread is re-mixed here, by subject, for your reading pleasure: https://paulross.github.io/pprune-concorde/docs/index.html

Accenture's approach to open-source ideas is mostly via a glossy brochure [pdf] [1]. [1] https://www.accenture.com/t20150523T115642__w__/us-en/_acnme...

Customary International Humanitarian Law has something to say about this[0]. The US military has its interpretation of rule 42[1]. [0] https://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v…

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