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There's a book about the SR-71 written by one of its long-term pilots I've always meant to read, full of stories.
Software Zen: delete this;
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But be careful not to forget the obligatory speed check with LAX! 
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Are you asking for Jared Dillian[^]? He wrote about the idea of private jets for cats and apparently discussed it on his Jan 7th broadcast.
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Whatever type Bill Gates has. That way I can lecture others about reducing their carbon footprint.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Anything with Lear in the name - and I hate flying
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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My company has a few of them. I like the Hawkers. It's nice to turn a nine-hour drive into an hour-and-half flight.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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A B-2 stealth bomber.
I bet you didn't see that coming. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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One year, probably late 90s, the B2 did a flypast at the Farnborough Airshow. We had a battlefield radar (plus hopefully dummy missiles) on the ground, not too far from the runway. It DID see it coming and when the pictures were published, the Americans were none too happy by all accounts.
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Would a pillow shaped like a hammer be oddly comforting?
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This is not a put-down, eider, but awl that comes to mind is that seems like a Euro-peen model.
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1 pillow is oddly comforting.
2 pillows is evenly comforting.
3 pillows is oddly comforting.
4 pillows is just silly
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I seem have an error in my input bytes...
Could you please help me checksum?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I believe you've gone out-of-bounds with this.
An "Excess Violation"
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This doesn't add up.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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... of the weak.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I can't think of a much worse choice: and old fashioned language, that is only used for specialist stuff these days, and which needs a considerable amount of experience to get a job in? That just doesn't make a lot of sense to me ... but look at QA and there are loads of 'em ...
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Maybe it's not their first language?
Perhaps they just failed at everything else and this is what's left before they try assembler, direct binary code entry, or working as a bus-boy. You know - whatever works out for them.
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OriginalGriff wrote: that is only used for specialist stuff these days
The whole embedded universe. Companies fight to get C programmers, because there are no more. And if they have assembler experience expect the fight to become bloody.
There is more need of firmware engineers than of another JavaScript Kiddie.
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Yes. Specialist stuff. That you need good solid real-time embedded experience to work with, and if you don't have that ... you aren't going to produce anything the even works, let alone is useful. You and I both know how little desktop experience carries over to the embedded world where even using malloc is a recipe for fragmented memory and an app that crashes every week because there isn't a fragment of memory big enough left out of the tiny amount you started with.
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True, but still C is a prerequisite to develop firmware, the rest is "easily" adjusted - i.e. I was baffled when I saw most functions using static local variable, until I discovered that stack space is carefully calculated and allocated to the byte (well, roughly) during configuration phase.
Avoiding malloc and free is also quite easy, heck it's easier to not use them, especially considering how C programming is taught even in Computer Engineering courses.
And the hard core real time skill is needed only in a few critical parts of the system, all the rest is rote C code that also needs to be fast. I have no training on any real time systems and yet developed 2 firmwares very successfully, the BSP layer was already provided by the manifacturer. I just had to mind performance a bit more than usual. And scheduling is a breeze, it's really a single thread system with timed cyclic functions.
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WElcome to my world 
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After 2 years it's no longer welcome, it's "you can't escape now, you fool!" 
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