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2019-12-21 Science & Technology

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Posted by 3dc 2019-12-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1 for reasons Boeing engineers do not yet understand, Starliner’s Mission Event Timer clock malfunctioned

Would those engineers possibly be cheapo, second-rate, poorly-managed foreign software engineers?

Contractors? Offshore? Or just H1Bs hired through body shops?

Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 01:34|| 2019-12-21 01:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Diversity?

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2019-12-21 02:57|| 2019-12-21 02:57|| Front Page Top

#3 "Checking code is racist"

Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 04:54|| 2019-12-21 04:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Some of these errors seem to me (as a pretty experienced coder/architect) to be almost comically inept.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-21 06:23|| 2019-12-21 06:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Those who can do. Those who can't teach. Those who can't teach administrate.

NASA came about because Eisenhower didn't want to use the military to run all of the early space (rocket) programs.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-21 07:25|| 2019-12-21 07:25|| Front Page Top

#6 So the first launch failed. So what. How many Saturn rocket burned up on the pad, and more recently, how many space X rockets burned up or failed. Space flight is complicated. They will get it right,

Posted by 49 Pan 2019-12-21 07:38|| 2019-12-21 07:38|| Front Page Top

#7 What's wrong with NASA?

Follow the money.

Posted by AlanC 2019-12-21 08:55|| 2019-12-21 08:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Gay Barry reset NASA's primary focus to be 'moslem outreach'

so you get what you pay for i guess

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2019-12-21 09:24|| 2019-12-21 09:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Some of these errors seem to me (as a pretty experienced coder/architect) to be almost comically inept

I know. Almost on par with the Fallout 76 coders.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-12-21 10:28|| 2019-12-21 10:28|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by 3dc 2019-12-21 11:11|| 2019-12-21 11:11|| Front Page Top

#11 And people make fun of Microsoft's marketing - not that it isn't a fat target...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-21 12:21|| 2019-12-21 12:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Actually I'm kinda impressed by the ... "Rockettes"? The "High-Beams"?

Didn't know NASA's program managers had it in 'em...

Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 12:37|| 2019-12-21 12:37|| Front Page Top

#13 I bet the specifications for the panty hose ran five 3" binders at least.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-21 12:45|| 2019-12-21 12:45|| Front Page Top

#14 😀

Snark O' the Day!

Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 12:46|| 2019-12-21 12:46|| Front Page Top

#15 They can't keep a line or high step but they're actually not hard on the eyes. Rejects from the Redskins' cheerleader tryouts?

Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 12:48|| 2019-12-21 12:48|| Front Page Top

#16 13# for the win. Probably right assessment too. Maybe not five binders, at least one in reality.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-21 12:53|| 2019-12-21 12:53|| Front Page Top

#17 Rejects from the Redskins' cheerleader tryouts?

Bengals cheerleaders, preparing for the 2019 season.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-12-21 13:07|| 2019-12-21 13:07|| Front Page Top

#18 UTM-6
Damned metric clocks!

Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-21 13:26|| 2019-12-21 13:26|| Front Page Top

#19 🤣
#13 has a rival for Snark O' the Day

Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 13:28|| 2019-12-21 13:28|| Front Page Top

#20 "If boeing can't do it - NOBODY WILL!!!"

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-12-21 13:28|| 2019-12-21 13:28|| Front Page Top

#21 There was a plumbing outfit where I used to live that had a radio commercial tagline: "Who Can? Ameri-can!" Maybe diversity is a bit oversold these days? Chang? Gupta? Anybody?

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-21 13:42|| 2019-12-21 13:42|| Front Page Top

#22 A guy just went to jail for sabotaging an airliner in his role as a flight mechanic. No chance something like that could happen anywhere else in the food chain. No sir...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-21 13:45|| 2019-12-21 13:45|| Front Page Top

#23 Use the housing algo that was made.by someone from china that was made to fail as per.wired magazine play.it safe.please.your.masters!

Posted by Clairong Glaper5652 2019-12-21 13:54|| 2019-12-21 13:54|| Front Page Top

#24 #20 "If boeing can't do it - NOBODY WILL!!!"

This is what it's all about.

And it will cost us big time unless things change.

Posted by charger 2019-12-21 14:01|| 2019-12-21 14:01|| Front Page Top

#25 So like I said earlier. They are an engineering company or a company that wants to be where Bath House runs. It really can't be both.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-21 14:49|| 2019-12-21 14:49|| Front Page Top

#26 After years of focus on Global Warming who would have thought they'd lose their edge...

Posted by ruprecht 2019-12-21 16:47|| 2019-12-21 16:47|| Front Page Top

#27 Yes. NASA is the customer. They didn't have anyone looking at that code?

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-21 17:33|| 2019-12-21 17:33|| Front Page Top

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