Recent content by Remy Dyer

Having thought about this a little longer: I think I've done a disservice to many junior programmers. The ones who are actually doing the work. What's most likely, is that said programmers realized there would be an issue, and probably just set about following the obvious train of logic and the...

Boeing 737 Max. MCAS qualifies I think: literally forced two planes straight into the ground. Broken sensor. In all of these cases, a designer / programmer is being too clever: making design choices because they think they know best. Wiser programmers stick to “Keep It Simple & Stupid” for a...

This article ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924424711003359 ) discusses skin penetration energy, being pressure times the penetration depth. This makes sense to me seeing as how one needs sufficient pressure to begin making a cut, but then motion into the skin to make the...