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New comment by gte525u in "Claude for Small Business"

gte525u — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:33:56 +0000

Organizational self-imposed DOS attacks.

New comment by gte525u in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

gte525u — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:28:13 +0000

It depends - some agencies you can apply directly without doing a phase 1. Others you need talk to the TPOC of the Phase 1 to find out the process or you have to be invited.

In the current environment - I would contact the TPOC - it could just be stuck in limbo.

New comment by gte525u in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

gte525u — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:31:34 +0000

SBIRs have been mucked up since last fall. The program lapsed and it just got reauthorized for certain departments. Without that reauth only those who had phase 1's could apply for phase 2's.

New comment by gte525u in "WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography"

gte525u — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:56:14 +0000

Are there benchmarks available to compare vanilla wireguard to fips wireguard?

New comment by gte525u in "Ada 2022"

gte525u — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:19:01 +0000

We used it for a new Defense/Aerospace projects. Language-wise it's fine although verbose. Intent was to separate similar IP so there was no claim of cross contamination. Built-in threading and a robust standard library is nice.

Tool-wise - refactoring was a bit of a pain.

New comment by gte525u in "Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely"

gte525u — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:04:33 +0000

Very different use case. It's for one-off secure file transfers.

New comment by gte525u in "FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness"

gte525u — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:41:37 +0000

FWIW - I work in aerospace. I believe this is talking about their FAA Designated Engineering Representatives (DERs). They are employed directly by the company or are consultants - they are subject matter experts in their domain. They act as the FAA delegate within the company. They generally have authority that goes well beyond the typical employee or QA person.

The ones I have worked with have no problem telling management to go pound sand when they are pushing schedule.

New comment by gte525u in "Introduction to Ada: a project-based exploration with rosettas"

gte525u — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:06:32 +0000

There were a lot of waivers back in the day. A couple big companies (Boeing) still use it.

New comment by gte525u in "QUIC for the kernel"

gte525u — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:04:27 +0000

I would look at SCTP socket API it supports multistreaming.

New comment by gte525u in "Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over"

gte525u — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:05:51 +0000

From my experience, it seems to be the people that learned PASCAL first for some reason.

New comment by gte525u in "The Tabs vs. Spaces war is over, and spaces have emerged victorious"

gte525u — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:02:02 +0000

This works until someone tries to vertically align something like a table or a line that is wrapped.

New comment by gte525u in "The Unreliability of LLMs and What Lies Ahead"

gte525u — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:33:48 +0000

^This - we're trying to use one to partially automate some system engineering type activities.

It's great for reviews where any given reviewer could be expected to have a misunderstanding of certain details or skip a section (RAG somewhat helps this) - but it's frustrating for artifact generation where missing details cascade through the project.

As great as the technology (right now) it seems so far from reliable business process automation.

New comment by gte525u in "Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice? (2024)"

gte525u — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:38:09 +0000

Do you have any resources you could link to - for those that are curious?

New comment by gte525u in "Red Hat in-vehicle OS hits key milestone towards Functional Safety Certification"

gte525u — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:52:49 +0000

FWIW - it happens in aerospace - ARINC 651/653

New comment by gte525u in "Transponder Landing System enables precision approaches at McMurdo in Antarctica"

gte525u — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 21:10:49 +0000

There a couple companies that make a DILS where the localizer and glideslope can be temporarily deployed. The intent is for emergency or short term use.

New comment by gte525u in "Air-Bus Hijacking: Silently Taking over Avionics Systems"

gte525u — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:09:53 +0000

ARINC 429 definitely one way to do it. It has a fixed baud rate - there is no feedback to the transmitter. Typically, each "bus" contains a single or small subset of messages (called labels) over it.

New comment by gte525u in "YOLOv5 on FPGA with Hailo-8 and 4 Pi Cameras"

gte525u — Fri, 31 May 2024 15:28:42 +0000

It's line speed processing of multiple cameras in HW - it should be less power consumption than equivalent GPU or Jetson.

New comment by gte525u in "An informal comparison of the three major implementations of std:string"

gte525u — Fri, 10 May 2024 21:13:42 +0000

Somewhat related - but there are a ridiculous number of platform/systems that ship with derivative of Dinkum C++ standard library - MSVC (included). When you lookup the company behind it - it's basically small shop that seems to be primarily one guy up in MA.

New comment by gte525u in "US prepares to exempt AUKUS nations from ITAR"

gte525u — Sun, 05 May 2024 20:52:55 +0000

Alternatively - you can get an export license for information to the particular person. Kind of like a TAA for a foreign employee. Previous employer had a European EW expert in the US office temporarily. Still not fast and lots of paperwork and limitations.

New comment by gte525u in "Waffle House's Magic Marker System"

gte525u — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 20:34:33 +0000

It may vary on your definition of major - but they definitely do in the southeast and lower midwest.