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v8engine | 6 years ago | on: Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic on Fire

Whoever developed Gizmodo frontend probably never read any article on it. That's some really bad image load animation. That solid 1 second delay hardcoded in CSS + network delay for lazy loading just leaves the whole article a white canvas while I scroll.

Why would you want to re-hide the image after I scroll out of it? Scrolling back up gives me that 1 second penalty to make the image visible. So frustrating.

v8engine | 6 years ago | on: Boeing altered key switches in 737 MAX cockpit limiting ability to shut off MCAS

Just to spare others from the search:

Before 2004, those Boeing technical employees who worked safety on behalf of the FAA were called “Designated Engineering Representatives,” or DERs. Though paid by Boeing, they were appointed by the FAA and reported directly to their technical counterparts at the FAA.

What changed since 2004 is that safety engineers, now called Authorized Representatives, are appointed by and report to Boeing managers.

The opaque bureaucratic name for this new structure — Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) — masks the significant change: Instead of having individual Boeing employees authorized as FAA reps, Boeing now has an entire organization within the company so authorized. The individual FAA Authorized Reps — Boeing engineers — report up the chain to their Boeing managers, not the FAA.

source: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/engin... Interesting read.

v8engine | 6 years ago | on: All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

So let's say I'm the IT department in my company. I've already got my root cert on every employee's PC(including Firefox because they can't browse otherwise). Can I act like the Normandy endpoint and let's say remotely disable the ability to install any extension including those pesky VPN ones and also do a lot of other such things I would like, you get my drift? Am I right? Am I right?

Please tell me I'm wrong.

v8engine | 7 years ago | on: Ironies of Automation (1983) [pdf]

Is there some LaTeX library to have your PDF show up like its been through the printer/scanner at least twice?

On a serious note, why do academics do this? It doesn't help me with readability.

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