David Mayo 🦜

@dcmayo.bsky.social

I'm a programmer, a Kentuckian, a veteran, and a progressive. I helped send a spaceship to the moon.

Had my first ever meeting with NASA human spaceflight operations today, and it was very interesting. The guy opened with an extensive section that essentially said "Here are photos of 17 dead astronauts. All of them could still be alive today if people in operations had done something different."

Dealing with a piece of undocumented software where IP addresses are written like "192.168.0.1.68". You might reasonably assume that that 68 is a TCP/UDP port (as I once did), but you would be wrong!

Jonathan Webb cannot be allowed to build a nuclear reactor. When Jonathan Webb was my CEO (at a greenhouse that grew tomatoes), he declared that OSHA was "our enemy," and he made employees spray toxic chemicals onto their bare hands and lied about it. www.prosperityone.com

Prosperity One | Proposed Nuclear Energy Campus in Lewis County, Kentucky

The public record of a proposed nuclear energy campus at Carrs Bottom on the Ohio River in Lewis County, Kentucky. Proposed. Not licensed, financed or approved.

prosperityone.com

Elizabeth Holmes did so much lying at Theranos. At one point Theranos wrote a document that said "prepared for Pfizer, Inc." at the top. Holmes personally deleted "prepared for" from the document and emailed it to Walgreens saying "Here's a document that Pfizer wrote about how great we are."

When the group chat has been silent for hours, and you post a joke, and somebody else immediately posts a different, non-riffing joke, you should be allowed to kill that person.