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Worked at a web property that took scrum, used it and found it lacking in certain cases for development. They Extend it And called the new creation beyond scrum, abbreviated as BS snickers.

Unrelated to the shortcomings we found that Scrumm with the timeboxing concept did not work for infrastructure teams. You cannot just time box most Infrastructure task and just ship whatever you have when you exceeded your initially planned timeframe.

We came up with Kanban as a way to document progress. The swimming lanes together with a limit on things that can be simultaneously in flight served to mirror reality as an operational team much better than pure Scrum.


Southwest 1380 would like a word with you.

Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was a Boeing 737-700 that experienced an uncontained engine failure[a] in the left CFM56-7B engine after departing from New York–LaGuardia Airport en route to Dallas Love Field on April 17, 2018. […] One passenger was partially ejected from the aircraft and sustained fatal injuries[…]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_13...


Based on this https://www.airlines.org/dataset/safety-record-of-u-s-air-ca... between 2009 and 2021 there were indeed 2. I think that the point stands, it is very impressive and safe.


Wikipedia says 51.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_...

The numbers would go up quite a bit if it included private and military. The numbers you linked to seem to have a very tight definition of which flights were considered, as the Wikipedia list showcases several more in-flight deaths involving air carrier class airplanes than just two.


I don't understand how you arrived at the number 51. Did you just tally up all the incidents in that list that occurred after 2009?

That list includes a bunch of incidents that are not really relevant for assessing risk level when flying on a commercial airline:

- Someone committing suicide by getting sucked into a plane engine while the plane was on the ground.

- Someone sneaking onto a runway and getting struck by a plane that was landing.

- Another person stealing a plane and intentionally crashing it into the ground.

- The Kobe Bryant helicopter crash.

Looking through the list I would conclude the parent comment was correct. The only incidents with passenger fatalities on US airlines since 2009 were Southwest 1380 and PenAir 3296.


It's definitely more than two.


Can you specify which other incidents on that list you think are relevant?


If the person on the phone had said “Capone, Al” instead of “Uh…” he’d possibly not gone to jail.

Even ill gotten gains are taxable and the theory of one crime at a time suggests that even “other, unspecified” could be with paying taxes on to reduce the likelyhood of successful criminal persecution.


They’d have nailed him with something else - it just might not have been so easy.

That said, pay your taxes even if you’re a criminal for sure!


I would posit that the fee for tje airline ticket or the fuel and upkeep for your car is a transaction fee levied on cash transactions.

Sure, the bill itself is untouched, but the fee is still extracted.


I would posit that you didn't explain why these things are related at all.


If all you require a warm bodies to do menial tasks or low- to no-skilled labor? Sure, Pakistan and Africa will be happy to provide these.

If you are trying to rebuild your high-tech industry, however, you require educated people.

And why would these go to Russia if they can go to Europe or the US? Immigrating to Russia with possibly be easier, but it’s still Russia…


> If you are trying to rebuild your high-tech industry, however, you require educated people.

If Russia makes it easier with visas and the salary is good enough, many Indians would happily move there.


Nigeria and Ethiopia are both brimming with tech workers that are happy to relocate for money and better prospects. Whether a post-war Russia can offer either remains to be seen.


I think they store data in DXF. Should be pretty standard thus.


I‘ve been working with sweet home 3d a bit but then gave up on it after running into rendering issues.

Found https://pcon-planner.com/en/?privat=530&page=126 instead which is windows only and bon-open source but effectively free.

Pretty impressive stuff. Been very happy so far.


For fun: This actually runs the Java Applet KVM viewer on a SuperMicro X7 board: https://github.com/ixs/kvm-cli/blob/master/kvm_x7.py

1. Downloads the data from the IPMI interface

2. Modifies the files to run locally

3. Writes out a Java configuration with weak security settings so that TLS works with the deprecated ciphers.

4. Fires off a socat instance to redirect the localhost ports to the remote IPMI device.

5. Starts appletviewer locally.

Great fun writing that. Thank god we decomissioned the last X7 based storage appliances a while ago...


There are reasons for tools like https://github.com/ixs/kvm-cli. It seems like every operations team built their own version that logs into the web interfaces, downloads the java stuff and then runs it locally...

Just annoying.


I was just fiddling around with a SuperMicro X8 IPMI the other day. The X8 IPMI stuff is terrible, e.g. the warning that your Java installation is outdated on opening the website etc.

Turns out, you can actually install X9 IPMI firmware on X8 boards as the platform files are still shipped. Might be worth checking out, if this improves things for you. It did for me.

Check out https://github.com/devicenull/ipmi_firmware_tools for unpacking (and repacking) the SuperMicro firmware. The developer just merged my patches making it work with some of the X8 boards. As long as your board is listed in /etc/defaults of the IPMI tree you should be good.


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