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by bkanber 6y ago
As a manager, I've seen this play out both ways. These days, great IDEs (and IDE-ish-s) are easier to find (points at VSCode). But just a few years ago the landscape was a bit bleaker, and I successfully introduced Jetbrains/PhpSt
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by bkanber 6y ago
I use the term "holographic" for a reason. The HUD appears to be projected at a distance of, say, 20-30', and is positioned low on the windshield so that it essentially overlays on the road. You do not need to refocus your ey
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by bkanber 6y ago
No, not at all. The HUD is positioned so that you're watching the near-field road ahead. The hologram is projected so that it appears maybe 30' ahead of you, on the road. The HUD also has minimal information. If nav is off the HUD
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by bkanber 6y ago
I don't know which integrators they're using but an algorithm like RKF45 should handle time acceleration with adaptive step sizes no problem. As grandparent said, n-body is very well-known. Regardless, KSP's workaround of usi
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by bkanber 6y ago
NASA's software teams are also remarkably small, and manage to produce code with one of the lowest defect rates of all time. (Space shuttle code had 0 defects in 500k SLOC!) Just goes to show: quality over quantity!
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by bkanber 6y ago
Liftoff and re-entry are completely automated. The astronauts are passengers and don't interact with the craft during these maneuvers. This was the case even for Apollo. The Crew Dragon seats also have physical arm-rest controls. Those
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by bkanber 6y ago
To be fair, I can't think of anything better than LabVIEW for rapid prototyping and development of complex sensor interfaces.
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by bkanber 6y ago
My car has a holographic HUD that displays on the windshield, and responds to hand and voice gestures. (The HUD is _awesome_, but the gesture recognition is hit or miss at present). I agree with you that touchscreens in autos are garbage. H
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by bkanber 6y ago
I don't work in the industry, but I have the training, and can confirm what he said. No AI or ML. We use a combination of closed-form solutions and deterministic numerical analyses. There is no actual need for AI or ML in this problem
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by bkanber 6y ago
I thought what I heard is that the thermal cameras did cut out even in the sim, but that on-ship they cut out differently. My assumption is that this is something that gets fixed on the ground.
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by bkanber 6y ago
I read once that a lot of the cost NASA pays per astronaut is there to manage the overhead of all the bureaucratic stuff and extra regulations required for sending a NASA astronaut up. I believe that it is (/ will be) cheaper per seat
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by bkanber 6y ago
Most shuttle missions had 5-7 crew members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Space_Shuttle_crews At minimum, each mission had a commander and pilot. Then there were missions specialists and payload specialists, wh
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by bkanber 6y ago
Yes, Godot would handle that very well.
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by bkanber 6y ago
I am pretty sure IPFS handles git, or at least understands it in some form or another, as I can browse git repos in my IPFS browser.
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by bkanber 6y ago
Well, the biggest thing is that it writes the SQL I would hope it to write in most cases, reliably. In particular, I think relations are great to work with in Eloquent.
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by bkanber 6y ago
I've used lots of ORMs too. I have mostly positive experiences with them, but a lot of mixed experiences too. However, Eloquent absolutely is a class above the rest. Honestly one of the best I've ever worked with.
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by bkanber 6y ago
I disagree. I've used many ORMs in my ~20 years, and I've architected and designed several hugely complex systems under non-trivial load. There are really two things I want to put out there: 1) My opinion is that about 90% of your
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by bkanber 6y ago
If anyone else was curious like I was, it looks like yes, most people do write a custom bash script to wrap (or use before) SSH. The makers of knockd also make a `knock` util that serves as a client, but other people also do something like:
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by bkanber 6y ago
What does port knocking look like on the client side? Does ssh have some option that makes it easy? Does everyone just write a custom bash script that wraps ssh client?
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by bkanber 6y ago
You should submit a patch to Godot, then! Force Unreal and others to implement it too.
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by bkanber 6y ago
I suppose it's a matter of acceptable approximations and cost. If only 2% of players have a high quality surround sound system, and only half of those have a good ear, then you really only have 1% of users who can tell the difference b
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by bkanber 6y ago
Ah, convolution reverb. We've had it for a long time in DSP. Basically what you do is pop a balloon (create an "impulse" -- you can also clap your hands or use an electric arc) and record the echo. This gives you what's
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by bkanber 6y ago
I don't know the absolute figures in terms of cases per year, but the four common coronaviruses are... common. From [1], we see that 1 in 200 flu-like infections was the coronavirus HKU1. This [2] paper corroborates and gives figures f
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by bkanber 6y ago
The Arduino IDE is certainly a fork of the Processing IDE. The language is different: Arduino is C/C++, Processing is Java. But Arduino did take a bunch of UX (or call it "DX") from the Processing lang.
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by bkanber 6y ago
One important thing I had to do to learn Godot. I started with the tutorials, but I had to re-create one of their demo games from scratch before it really clicked. Now I'm very fluent in it, and it's been a JOY. I've been bui
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by bkanber 6y ago
It's possible, though I think it's optimistic. Nobody really has a problem with Zoom's UX as it is now. The only people complaining about Zoom are us techies who know about the security issues. So my guess is they're jus
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by bkanber 6y ago
I agree. I'd bet all the cash in my wallet that this was Zoom doing a talent acquisition, to bring a team of crypto experts on board.
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by bkanber 6y ago
The comment thread on the self-awareness post is both very convincing and really meta. I love how clear the training of the different bots is.
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by bkanber 6y ago
Basically all cars monitor battery voltage. Many models even have a dashboard gauge for it. But what is that information useful for, other than diagnostics? Why give it dashboard real estate? Besides, you can always pop open the hood and ch
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by bkanber 6y ago
Google Drive and Google Calendar permissions are not that great. IIRC there is no distinction between individual CRUD actions, so if the app wants to create a file they also need perms to edit and delete.

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