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There was a Googler who spent some time at the South Pole station and gave a talk about it. I won't name him here, but maybe he's reading this? What I recall w
by AlbertCory 3y ago
There was a Googler who spent some time at the South Pole station and gave a talk about it. I won't name him here, but maybe he's reading this?
What I recall was him walking around and over the actual Pole and trying to get his GPS to register 90.0 degrees. It wouldn't go beyond 89.999.
- system2 3y agoWhy wouldn't you name him here?
- AlbertCory 3y agoWhy do you care?
- shepherdjerred 3y agoWell, I personally would be interested to see the talk/learn more about those in tech who have gone to the pole.
- AlbertCory 3y agowell, since someone else named him (and btw, I just thought it was rude, that's all): I think this is the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaQtsft2bM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaQtsft2bM
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- fragmede 3y agoGlad you're being conscencious but why would it be rude to name somebody who wants to share their amazing experience? In fact, I think in today's world or would be rude not to promote their name and story link to their video.
- bacon_waffle 3y agoThere are several Polies here (and folks who've spent time in other cool places - Ross Island, Greenland, Atacama Desert come to mind) and at least some are in tech. My Pole experience is a bit dated, but happy to chat about it. Blog from that is https://weaknuclearforce.wordpress.com/ https://weaknuclearforce.wordpress.com/ (also, I dig the single-page latex resume format!)
- shepherdjerred 3y agoHah thank you! LaTeX was the easiest way to avoid using a WYSIWYG editor I'll check out that blog, thanks for linking!
- ochrist 3y agoI've been at these two places: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pituffik_Space_Base and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert%2C_Nunavut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert%2C_Nunavut And yes: It was cold. About food there were supplies almost every week as far as I remember, but I believe we got UHT milk.
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- earthscienceman 3y agoHackers would probably also love to consider that a lot of hardware that has code that depends on lat/lon for internal calculations can have all sorts of weird problems. When you are exactly at the pole longitude can switch from +180 to -180 rapidly and that can be a catastrophic edge case for anything that needs to do positioning. I had the pleasure of watching an expensive drone crash into hull of a ship and sink into the ocean at the north pole for this exact reason.
- DirectorKrennic 3y agoHow come you were at the North Pole?
- SSLy 3y agoThere are scientific, mining, and pleasure trips
- EMCymatics 3y agoHow was your food up there?
- AlbertCory 3y agoSince all the longitude lines converge there, that's expected behavior, right?
- golem14 3y agoPablo Cohn, I believe?
- AlbertCory 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaQtsft2bM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaQtsft2bM yup. It didn't occur to me that it was on YouTube.
- brr-fyi 3y agoHah, I also tried this over the summer. Closest I could get was 89°59.9990'S: https://brr.fyi/assets/misc/gps-01.png https://brr.fyi/assets/misc/gps-01.png Very amusing to do a few "laps around the world" and watch the longitude go haywire.
- kylehotchkiss 3y agoHi! Like everybody here on HN I love your site. Have you tried on a Garmin handheld too? It seems like something brr.fyi would pack for the trip