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I've got a bit of a "not invented here syndrome" (other people's work often just doesn't cut it) and so I created my own time registration and invoicing software for use at my company.
Usual story, it started out as Excel, migrated to a database, then a simple .NET Core application born from hopes and dreams of which I've realized maybe a third.
So this application works really well for me and my coworkers, but it has some quirks and lots of stuff I don't use or haven't finished...
Decided to fix them, then decided to completely modernize it, then decided to cut the fluff, then decided to add features I was really missing...
And a business partner of mine has been nagging me to let him use it for years now so I'm making it multi-tenant (he's my best salesman, bringing in two of my best clients, and I don't even pay him, so I guess I owe him one).
Haven't had so much fun programming in years!
I've been programming instead of gaming, so that's really saying something! 
And then when all was good and well my girlfriend suddenly broke up with me this week (we weren't in a fight or anything, but she just lost her romantic feelings for me and thought of me more as a good friend) 
It's only been three days, and usually I wouldn't even have seen her in that time either, but I'm already missing her and somehow the house feels empty even though she was around only about half of the time.
Well, sh*t happens and I've been through breakups before so I'll probably survive this one as well.
At least I've found a sort of new purpose in my software and I'm not bored 
Oh yeah, and I've been losing weight (after gaining 10 kg in about a year time! ) and this morning I was "suddenly" 1.5 kg lighter (after watching my eating and hiking and biking for weeks, mind you)
I've already lost about 5 kg in as many weeks (really going for it)!
I guess with my girlfriend breaking up I've even lost 65 kg (quote Ross from Friends: "ah, humor based on my pain, ah, ha, ha") 
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This is what the Boeing CEO has said in the Senate hearing. Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun faces grilling at Senate hearing - YouTube [^]
Having a non-engineer as the CEO of a life-critical high-tech engineering company; with that CEO having senior engineers advising him on technical matters - seems to be sub-optimal, isn't it? What value can such a CEO add in say, a design review meeting? What engineering judgement can he have?
IMHO, it should be the other way around - the CEO of such an engineering company should be an engineer, with senior business people advising him/her on stock market and other business matters.
What say you?
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I say "Yay". However were not both NASA Shuttle disasters the result of decisions by trained engineers.
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Agree.
However one point. NASA missions are kindof exploratory/research type of missions, and not as commercial as passenger aviation.
Research has its own risks/rewards, and not always guaranteed of success.
Whereas this is time tested, more than a century old aviation industry, where they are expected to (at least) maintain status quo, as regards passenger safety.
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Businesses aren't about the products - they are about the units. A CEO markets units, he doesn't really care what they are units of.
Sadly, the accountants are in charge of most businesses, and they know "the cost of everything and the value of nothing" (the late, great pTerry).
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If the CEO was such a great engineer the role of CEO would be wasted on him.
Instead, it's his job to be grilled at Senate hearings when his senior engineers and advisers mess up.
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In comparison, Pichai also faces Senate meetings. Though a Metallurgical Engineer by training, he has worked extensively on software, for which he is accountable. He has a strong engineering background.
Calhoun, on the other hand, I'm not sure whether he's worked on stress/fatigue/fracture/impact/dynamics kind of computations, which are so very critical in aerospace.
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I learned a mouthful today id est "micromechanical polaritons in topologically nontrivial hyperbolic metasurfaces". Maybe it's a good pick-up line or discussed at the next cocktail party. Try saying that 3x fast w/ a mouth full of Cheetos.
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Reminds me of "Analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidian metrization of infinitely differentiable Riemannian manifold".
I have friends in mathematics who claims that it actually makes sense. And then, Tom Lehrer lectured math at MIT; he should know 
For those who do not get the references: Tom Lehrer: Lobachevsky[^]
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When I was in school we used to impress the girls when we said, "monostable multivibrator." Most thought it involved bedroom accessories.
(it's a 555 circuit configuration.)
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That just means we have it coming.
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Title says it all.
I have a number of "old" MicroSD cards, that aren't really worth putting into any phone or tablet anymore, but still seem to be very capable of storing data (and reading it back - I've made sure to verify that).
I have a lot of documents (drivers license, insurance papers, health cards, various ID cards, income tax papers, etc) that I keep in a relatively small (8GB) encrypted container file, created with VeraCrypt.
Any one of the MicroSD cards ought to be suitable for storing an extra copy of the encrypted file. The VeraCrypt is part of my regular backup set.
My question is - how tough are MicroSD cards, really? Rugged enough to leave in a wallet you carry in your back pocket? I feel like it wouldn't take much for them to bend and snap in half. I have slightly larger plastic cases (that the cards typically come with), which might help prevent them from bending, but these are much thicker than a typical card itself, so I lose that benefit and now have something bulky in my wallet.
What do you think? Leave one unprotected in my wallet, or does someone manufacture some sort of slightly bigger container for them that's rugged enough but still not too bulky?
Or now that I think of it, does anyone know of a wallet with a tiny pocket that can be closed with a zipper or something that would help prevent a card from accidentally slipping out...?
Or would you just forego the whole idea, and place the encrypted file on your phone...
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If you find a way to keep it safely in your wallet you still need some way to read it, like your phone.
So why not just keep it on/in your phone?
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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Mike Hankey wrote: you still need some way to read it, like your phone.
Not a concern for my use case, as a matter of fact, I don't want my phone to easily be able to use it, just store it so I can later transfer it back to a PC if I ever need to.
I'm not doing this to view the content of the encrypted file on the go; I view this as just an extra offsite backup that follows me everywhere I go.
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Mike Hankey wrote: you still need some way to read it, like your phone.
Adapters to full size SD cards are available. When I bought another "full size" SD card for my video camera, what I got was an adapter with a microSD card inserted.
I have got about a dozen readers for full size / adapter SD cards: In my PC screens (for years, all Dell screens had that), my two video cameras, my two system cameras (not smartphones), three different USB external card readers I bought for reading other memory cards, my car GPS map plotter (external, not part of the car stereo), ...
The GPS map plotter will read SD cards (including microSD in adapters) for playing sound files, install new road maps etc. but it cannot transfer arbitrary files on the card to another unit such as your PC. All the others can. I would think that at least one of them will still be operational the day I pass away.
I also can read mini and micro CD cards on my phone. The phone is more likely to get lost or stolen, or to break down (it is 8.5 years old) than my PC disks, and PC disks are subject to backup procedures. I keep a minimum of information on my mobile, for fear of loosing or breaking the phone, and fear of loosing the information to a thief. Sometimes, I use the phone as a carrier when I bring a file to a friend, but the primary copy is always on my PC; the phone copy is a secondary, temporary one.
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I'd put it on my phone. MicroSD cards are problematic, simply by virtue of being so small. I wouldn't trust it even in a wallet. You're digging around in there for something else, it falls out you won't even notice. Over a long enough timeline it's bound to happen.
The other thing is is they are simply not reliable long term storage. Bit drift seems to be a thing, and it will corrupt if not regularly used, in my experience. This jibes with what I've read online on the subject.
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That's one of my primary concerns.
I'm more okay with losing a card every once in a while (as I said, the data's encrypted) than losing the data because it becomes unreadable. I just don't know whether sitting in a wallet would exacerbate that type of problem.
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They're very physically durable from what I've seen. I've even seen one work after it melted on a hot car dash.
But they're just not entirely.. stable? I guess.
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honey the codewitch wrote: it will corrupt if not regularly used, in my experience
Maybe SD technology is improved compared to (early) memory stick technology. In the early memory stick days, when Windows was not aware of the disk technology, it would regularly update metadata on the stick. In those days, the memory controller (on the stick) did not iterate writings over all free blocks (wear leveling), so the same physical block was written again and again, wearing out those flash cells. Leaving the stick plugged in for a week or two was a sure way to ruin it. (You could do a full format every now and then, to detect worn out pages, but I have little confidence in a medium that has started to fail.)
Maybe the controllers in today's SCs implement wear leveling. Also, Windows is much more careful about high frequency metadata updates on flash units. I would think that wearing out an SD card by high activity (rather than by non-use) takes a lot longer than with the early USB memory sticks. But I have burnt my fingers a few times, so today I never leave neither USB sticks nor SD cards in the reader of a running PC for extended periods of time.
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