>> drift less than 1.5×10−5 °/h

Wow...just wow. Not a GNC engineer, but that drift spec strikes me as exceptionally good today, let alone the 60s.

EDIT:

> Even modern laser ring gyros do not even share a dinner table with the precision and accuracy of the above singular component of the Peacekeeper ICBMs, and that was a long time ago.

No kidding; full transparency, that was my basis of comparison.

Care to speculate on the trends I pointed out? I simply don't see how compensation for doctors is the problem.

> A not small number of the rural docs are foreign born and trained and they essentially work this crappy jobs until they have permanent residency and then they move to more desirable markets.

Not sure that I follow how "rural" necessarily begets "crappy" though. Is the working quality of life somehow that much worse, or is it the relative social isolation and/or lack of recreational options while off duty, or is it really just a case of urbanite out of their accustomed habitat?

- HCA[1]: FY25 profit margin = 9.0%

- UHS[2]: FY25 profit margin = 8.6%

- THC[3]: FY25 profit margin = 6.6%

Yeah, a bit of disaggregation is likely needed here, but in these companies, labor expense as a percentage of revenue is on a declining YoY trend while revenue continues to grow.

What's the prevailing ballpark ratio of doctors to all other hospital staff again? And what details are buried in that ever so opaque and increasing "other operating expenses" line item?

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860730/0001193125260...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/352915/0001193125260...

[3] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/70318/00000703182600...

You lost me...from your cite[1]:

  | Specialty         | Positions | Applicants | Matches | App/Pos | Deficit |
  |-------------------|-----------|------------|---------|---------|---------|
  | Pediatrics        |     3,135 |      3,998 |   2,988 |    128% |    4.7% |
  | Family Medicine   |     5,357 |      7,337 |   4,552 |    137% |   15.0% |
  | Internal Medicine |    10,941 |     17,131 |  10,584 |    157% |    3.3% |

Aren't a lot of these shortages scattered around rural areas where young doctors really don't want to move to? I understand from a buddy who is currently in med school that there are all sorts of incentive carrots being deployed to attract doctors to these underserved communities.

[1] https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Main_Match_R...

Doubt.

> That's partly because we have a doctor shortage here (medical schools collude to limit the number of new doctors created each year).

Now explain this trend[1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1T22Y

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

> They offered a $5000 advance with the first half paid out when they approve of the first third of the book and the second half when they accept the final manuscript for publication.

> I continued to get further behind on delivering my revised draft of the first 1/3.

> Around this time, there was a possibility of me changing jobs. Oh, and my wedding was coming up. That was the final nail in the coffin.

> There were too many things going on and I didn't enjoy working on the book anymore, so what is the point? I made up my mind to ask to freeze the project.

> They agreed.

I believe you'll need 12 GPS sats in view to gain incremental accuracy improvement over 8.

I respectfully disagree.

In context, "granularity" is nothing more than a resolution constraint on reported timestamps. Its inclusion adjacent to the specified "divergence from UTC" is a function of market manipulation surveillance objectives as discussed in preamble item (2), and really doesn't have anything to do with accuracy proper.

You'll see something like the following on the bottom of book details:

> At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3CB76TV

> When we shipped Actions in 2018, we had no idea how popular it would become.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...

System robustness hazard that won't tolerate just querying time.nist.gov at 4-sec or greater intervals?

From the cow's mouth[1]:

>> The global address time.nist.gov is resolved to all of the server addresses below in a round-robin sequence to equalize the load across all of the servers.

[1] https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi

They may not operate redundant clocks at a single site, but ITS redundancy posture[1] doesn't look bad at all:

>> Servers at the Boulder and WWV/Ft. Collins campuses are independent and unaffected.

[1] https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi