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by _moof 3y ago
Happy to: https://blog.electron.fail
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by _moof 3y ago
What timing! I just started an electronics blog and had to defeat all the same inner voices. "I'm not the best." "Someone else is doing cooler/smarter/more interesting/more creative stuff." "I&#x
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by _moof 3y ago
Not sure how much I can really say here, first of all because of confidentiality, and second of all because of privacy, but I guess I can say I work on space stuff. Hardware is extra hard when it needs a launch site.
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by _moof 3y ago
The failure of the flight safety system is a major screwup. I wouldn't want to be the person who has to talk to the FAA about it. Personally I'm not holding my breath for the next attempt.
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by _moof 3y ago
Depends a great deal on who is doing the rescuing and whether the people rescued are considered negligent. Iceland's SAR team, for example, has gone back and forth on whether to charge people because when people believe they'll ha
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by _moof 3y ago
There's a similar one among sailors: "The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling." Anyone operating a machine in a way that doesn't leave much margin is, in fact, not
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by _moof 3y ago
If (when) the GPS fails you can do pretty well with radar and a depth sounder.
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by _moof 3y ago
No; maybe you're thinking of how the LM had to be extracted from the fairing and docked to the CM in space?
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by _moof 3y ago
Here's a helpful mnemonic device for identifying Naomis: If it's Klein, you're fine. If it's Wolf, woof.
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by _moof 3y ago
I suppose one day you'll find yourself in front of bunch of bitter pedants who are desperate to find any way not to be charitable, open-minded, or prosocial. I think a lot of folks would benefit from letting their initial reaction of
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by _moof 3y ago
By looking at it? Every time I see a screenshot of someone's super fancy color scheme it looks cacophonous.
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by _moof 3y ago
Pro-choice doesn't mean you do or don't consider impact on society. It just means you get to choose, using whatever criteria you decide are important. You might make your choice based on impact to society (however you choose to de
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by _moof 4y ago
Second. The first was Zhuque-2 this past December.
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by _moof 4y ago
Not at SpaceX anymore but when I was, things went best when he left us alone.
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by _moof 4y ago
Brain fart - didn't register that this is a PHY, not a peripheral core. Different parts.
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by _moof 4y ago
Oh, hey, IU in the mid 1990s here. We were doing Scheme on DEC ULTRIX boxes. (Which is also how I ended up being an emacs user. Oh well. Nobody's perfect.) Good times indeed!
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by _moof 4y ago
I was taught how to get around a UNIX box in CS 101 at a state school.
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by _moof 4y ago
A number of FPGAs come with hardware Ethernet peripherals built-in so I'm guessing this is for fun.
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by _moof 4y ago
> At some point some of these models might be trained predominantly by the output of other machine learning models! Just like people!
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by _moof 4y ago
If you have a history of mental illness I strongly suggest not trying this.
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by _moof 4y ago
Are we just misquoting the Eurythmics now?
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by _moof 4y ago
If it makes you feel any better, the people providing these calculations to the pilots are FAA-certified airline dispatchers. That means they've passed the same exam that airline pilots have to take, minus the flying. They may not have
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by _moof 4y ago
You can run it on whatever you want. Ethernet pairs in a harness with dozens of other wires and MIL-DTL-38999 connectors are pretty standard in aerospace.
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by _moof 4y ago
I have the same advice that I have during booms: get a job and save money. The only difference is that it will take longer to find work and it might not be your dream job. That's ok. Lives are long. New opportunities will come your way
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by _moof 4y ago
As long as we're reminiscing about old specs... my first hard drive was 20 megs, external, and the size of a small pizza box.
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by _moof 4y ago
Fortunately with Wheel of Time the story has already been told. You can go read it whenever you want. And although I'm not normally a "the book was better" type, for this reader, the show really is disappointing.
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by _moof 4y ago
How does the saying go? Tech enthusiasts get smart/connected everything; tech professionals keep a gun next to the printer in case it makes any funny noises?
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Ask HN: What's on your home server?
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by _moof 4y ago
Good on you for speaking up. I've worked in two safety-critical industries (aircraft flight operations, and spacecraft engineering and operations). Everyone is explicitly encouraged to raise any safety concern at any time, and no one
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by _moof 4y ago
There is an unbelievable amount and diversity of software used in aerospace that is Windows only, from general mechanical engineering tools to highly specialized data acquisition and analysis packages, microcontroller interfaces, optics des

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