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  • Bogues de logiciel et bogues de management : 737 Max et autres catastrophes
    Au risque de radoter : le code informatique est :
    - rapide
    - fiable
    - pas cher
    (choisissez 2 options uniquement)
    Wed Sep 9 07:26:56 2020 - permalink -
    - https://linuxfr.org/news/bogues-de-logiciel-et-bogues-de-management-737-max-et-autres-catastrophes
    Development Geek_Culture History
  • The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms
    Fri May 29 13:56:04 2020 - permalink -
    - https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/
    History Photo Russie Technology Vintage
  • A deep dive into the Apollo Guidance Computer, and the hack that saved Apollo 14
    aka "Recovery from Apollo 14’s Abort switch failure"
    Fri Jan 31 10:45:01 2020 - permalink -
    - https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/a-deep-dive-into-the-apollo-guidance-computer-and-the-hack-that-saved-apollo-14/
    Hack Hardware History Software Space USA
  • Inca Empire
    The Incas lacked the use of wheeled vehicles. They lacked animals to ride and draft animals that could pull wagons and plows... [They] lacked the knowledge of iron and steel... Above all, they lacked a system of writing... Despite these supposed handicaps, the Incas were still able to construct one of the greatest imperial states in human history.
    Fri Jan 24 13:01:08 2020 - permalink -
    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_Empire
    ESRA History
  • Shibboleth
    Example :
    - During World War II, some United States soldiers in the Pacific theater used the word lollapalooza as a shibboleth to challenge unidentified persons, on the premise that Japanese people often pronounce the letter L as R or confuse Rs with Ls. In Oliver Gramling's Free Men are Fighting: The Story of World War II (1942) the author notes that, in the war, Japanese spies would often approach checkpoints posing as American or Filipino military personnel. A shibboleth such as "lollapalooza" would be used by the sentry, who, if the first two syllables come back as rorra, would "open fire without waiting to hear the remainder".
    - During the Allied breakout from the Normandy beachheads in 1944, hand-to-hand fighting occurred throughout the hedgerows and thick undergrowth of the Norman countryside. British and American troops were told to use the word "Thunderer" as a countersign through the thick foliage. Given the number of syllables and the leading "th" sound, it was believed that the word would invariably be mispronounced by native German speakers.
    (MANY others on the linked page)

    For those interested in the french definition + spelling :
    - https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/shiboleth
    - https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/schibboleth
    Fri Dec 13 12:34:29 2019 - permalink -
    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth#Examples
    English ESRA Français History Vocabulaire
  • The Sacred Band Of Thebes: An Army Of 300 Gay Lovers
    A company of 150 pairs of homosexual lovers, who were considered amongst the most elite soldiers of their time.
    Fri Nov 29 10:04:00 2019 - permalink -
    - https://historydaily.org/the-sacred-band-of-thebes-an-army-of-300-gay-lovers
    Armée ESRA Guerre History
  • Working on the Moon
    Details on the Apollo missions, during flight and on the Moon surface : sleeping, kneeling on the moon, using duct tape, ...
    Tue Nov 26 11:03:38 2019 - permalink -
    - http://www.workingonthemoon.com/
    History Space
  • 10 oldest jokes in human history, from as long ago as 1900 BC
    Spoiler alert : some are about sex, farts, and even "your mom" :-D
    Tue Nov 12 13:48:15 2019 - permalink -
    - https://www.insider.com/historians-10-oldest-jokes-in-history-1900bc-2019-7
    Blagues ESRA History
  • 50 years ago today, the internet was born in Room 3420
    At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from the UCLA's room 3240 (by Charley Kline) to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI, received by Bill Duvall). Based on packet switching and dynamic resource allocation, the sharing of information digitally from this first node of ARPANET launched the Internet revolution.
    Tue Oct 29 13:02:47 2019 - permalink -
    - https://www.fastcompany.com/90423457/50-years-ago-today-the-internet-was-born-in-room-3420
    Geek_Culture History Internet Technology
  • Les mots de passe des premiers développeurs‐utilisateurs d’UNIX, notamment celui de Ken Thompson
    Quelques mots de passe un peu _simples_, tout de même :-D

    Autre époque, autre vision de la sécurité !
    Mon Oct 14 09:40:48 2019 - permalink -
    - https://linuxfr.org/news/les-mots-de-passe-des-premiers-developpeurs-utilisateurs-d-unix-notamment-celui-de-ken-thompson
    Geek_Culture History Unix
  • The Birth of Standard Error
    Fri Oct 11 12:03:42 2019 - permalink -
    - https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/blog/20131211/index.html
    Geek_Culture History Unix
  • Classified Apollo 11 anomaly threatened to crash first moon astronauts
    Tue Jul 2 09:23:40 2019 - permalink -
    - https://www.insider.com/classified-apollo-11-anomaly-threatened-to-crash-first-moon-astronauts-2019-6
    History NASA USA
  • TIL that 'goodbye' is a contraction of the phrase 'God be with ye'
    :-o
    Wed May 15 14:58:14 2019 - permalink -
    - https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/bowty7/til_that_goodbye_is_a_contraction_of_the_phrase/
    English ESRA History Vocabulaire
  • A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
    This made History ;-)
    Fri May 3 08:38:56 2019 - permalink -
    - http://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6
    DevOps Geek_Culture History Internet Microsoft YouTube
  • Goiânia accident
    Time magazine has identified the accident as one of the world's "worst nuclear disasters" and the International Atomic Energy Agency called it "one of the world's worst radiological incidents".
    Thu Apr 11 12:11:42 2019 - permalink -
    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
    Accident ESRA History Nucléaire
  • M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story
    Or "how a series of bad decisions (and refusing to admit it) leads to disaster". Corruptions (albeit possible) has not been proved, but bureaucracy together with "bad luck" is the most plausible explanation.
    Still today, in a burst of pride, the M-16 has been modified... but not back to its original design...

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    These emphases had little to do with the experience of jungle combat, in which most fire fights took place at ranges of no more than thirty to fifty yards, and in which speed and surprise were so important that it might often cost a soldier his life to take the time to aim his rifle instead of simply pointing it in the right direction and opening up on automatic.

    (...)

    The ordnance corps was small-time, insular, old-fashioned. Its technical experts were divided into a number of subspecialties: internal ballistics (which concern the bullet’s behavior before it leaves the weapon), external ballistics (the bullet in flight), wound ballistics, and other areas. Its organization was further fragmented among technicians at the arsenals and the research center ant he military bureaucrats at the Pentagon. Historically, its first instinct, when presented with a new technical possibility, had been to reject it and stick to traditional solutions. Twice since the Civil War, American Presidents had had to force the ordnance corps to adopt new rifles that had come from outside its own shop.

    ==> How ironic this describes some companies in 2019 !

    (...)

    Perhaps the truest explanation of why things happened as they did is the most ordinary: that human beings could not foresee the way that chance and circumstance could magnify the consequences of their acts. The military supply organization, like most other organizations, is always full of power plays and bureaucratic games, which distract attention from the goals that in a rational world would always be pursued. Only occasionally does chance make the effects of these games catastrophic.
    Mon Mar 25 08:21:44 2019 - permalink -
    - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/06/m-16-a-bureaucratic-horror-story/545153/
    Armée Companies Guerre Guns History Weapons
  • The Titanic Was On Fire For Days Before The Iceberg Hit
    TL;DR : A ship that was ill equipped with lifeboats was sailed, on fire, through an iceberg infested area at full speed.

    Details about coal fires : the coal fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania. This fire broke out in a mine in the Northeast United States and has proven impossible to put out. How impossible you ask? It’s been burning since May 27, 1962.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire
    Fri Dec 14 08:05:56 2018 - permalink -
    - https://medium.com/dialogue-and-discourse/the-titanic-was-on-fire-for-days-before-the-iceberg-hit-94fa26471dfa
    History
  • Des paysans sales et affamés à l'obscurantisme : cinq clichés sur le Moyen Âge
    Fri Sep 7 13:08:41 2018 - permalink -
    - https://www.franceculture.fr/histoire/des-paysans-sales-et-affames-a-lobscurantisme-cinq-cliches-sur-le-moyen-age
    ESRA History
  • What Islamic Golden Age Thinkers Discovered Long before the West
    Thu Aug 23 14:35:17 2018 - permalink -
    - https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/what-islamic-golden-age-thinkers-discovered-long-before-the-west/
    Chart History Science
  • Timeline of the far future
    What will happen to Earth, mankind, the universe in the next billions of years ?
    Tue Aug 21 09:28:24 2018 - permalink -
    - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
    History Science Wikipedia
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