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by edrxty 5y ago
Ah, yes. I trust the internet's wisdom about the aerospace industry. After all the armchair quarterbacking I've seen around every other aerospace event I can't imagine a more reliable source of speculation.
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by edrxty 5y ago
Sure, but we've been fighting this exact battle against the entrenched ISPs for decades now (think MPAA, RIAA etc DMCA notices). If the ISP is actually "owned" by the people it serves, through the process of government these
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by edrxty 5y ago
They're not unreasonable at face value (obviously, that's how the game works) but they're entirely in bad faith as none stand up to any real scrutiny. US political discourse is about boiling a complex system down to feel goo
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by edrxty 5y ago
My question isn't really in response to the specifications of the rover but rather the inaccuracy of the above statements.
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by edrxty 5y ago
This commenter is correct. Things like radiation tolerance and power draw are much bigger concerns. I've seen a number of projects using RT systems entirely because they were based on earlier systems that were RT and therefore the en
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by edrxty 5y ago
What? 8ms is incredibly slow for realtime systems. A difficult target for a control system would be three orders of magnitude lower than that on a full size OS like linux. VxWorks is being partly phased out too, last I heard wind river was
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by edrxty 5y ago
Games are real time in the sense that their response window is 1/[desired frame rate] of-a-second. As far as hard realtime systems go, they're some of the slowest.
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by edrxty 5y ago
IIRC you can get into the tens of microseconds with an x86 box running a heavy linux graphic desktop with real time patches. Single digits with core pinning on a light headless system. Bear in mind that real time performance and throughput
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by edrxty 5y ago
> 1. Companies that made a business out of doing SBIR grants (I think the previous poster may have meant the same with SBIR farms). They write one grant after another and do some BS research, write reports and in the end, trash the resul
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by edrxty 5y ago
SBIR is doable, but a lot of rather sleazy people have made it their life's work to drain that particular program so the paperwork burden has become fairly high as a result. As such the contracts tend to go to people who understand ho
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by edrxty 5y ago
Can confirm, used to work for an SBIR farm. Good times... Wouldn't touch China with a ten foot pole though.
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by edrxty 5y ago
USB C is a nightmare. Everyone has basically decided that following the spec isn't worth it and there's shit everywhere. The connector is terrible for laptops, I have to be incredibly careful not to bend the connector and the ca
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by edrxty 5y ago
Further, the UK has twice the voltage which means twice the current will pass through you. The US 120v system is pretty safe in general. If you do something really dumb it'll kill you but 120v isn't really that concerning compar
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by edrxty 5y ago
Gender politics are interesting because they are mostly just a source of in-fighting within various factions of the left [1] but because they cover a set of topics that seem so foreign to the right, it gives them lots of ammunition for crue
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by edrxty 5y ago
There's truth here, feels-over-reals is very much a problem in US politics. That said, feelings/perceptions have consequences if left unchecked. A few hundred people being "made an example of" by the police each year c
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by edrxty 5y ago
To add to this, it's important to understand that there's the law, then there's the mythology surrounding the law. People rarely read the actual statues but rather rely on a sort of word of mouth heuristic transfer. Think a
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by edrxty 5y ago
>I'm engineer, so here my solutions >reduce need for heating and cooling to 0 >light rail system connected to every house >massive wave electricity generator Ummm, all of these except maybe #1 are far less viable than the p
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by edrxty 5y ago
Working out indoors I've noticed a pretty drastic correlation in measured splits/watts and CO2 over 1k ppm. I tend to notice it at the 1k mark and it falls off exponentially form there when working out with large numbers of other
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by edrxty 5y ago
Ok, I know this is HN, ie. libertarian central, but I for one don't think I'm taxed enough. If it means the US resumes its previous levels of scientific investment, we finally fucking go to mars and we all get healthcare? Yeah,
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by edrxty 5y ago
This is common. I've worked at places where interns started rambling about classified stuff because they found articles on wikipedia and unknowingly put two and two together. The classification system is like any other extremely bure
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by edrxty 5y ago
To be honest, I think American progressivism as a whole is a bit compromised as it generally tries to accomplish its goals while first keeping the corporations pleased and second never truly taxing the rich. Further they need to consider t
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by edrxty 5y ago
"Progressive Bad" isn't really the takeaway here. It turns out nuance is important. Questionable policies combined with a complex socioeconomic situation due to decades of perverse incentives isn't, in fact, an optimal
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by edrxty 5y ago
Can I use this as an aquarium?
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by edrxty 5y ago
This^ Not only is it entirely possible to prevent Chinese capture but it's arguably possible for Taiwan to achieve this on their own with minimal to no US intervention. This will likely change in the future, but for the next decade th
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by edrxty 5y ago
Regardless of who made the request the reasoning still makes sense. Both the US and TSMC want this outcome the obvious quid pro quo helps.
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by edrxty 5y ago
Communities are also becoming bigger. My friends are in mostly one city but scattered over about a thousand square miles. I live in a small-ish community by most standards and yet know basically nobody around me other than a really nosy c
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by edrxty 5y ago
Crime is subjective, hence every country on earth having different laws. I'm guessing but I imagine the vast majority of the crime is just drug sales which is becoming less and less criminal as society awakens to the realities of the
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by edrxty 5y ago
Probably not, but I will say the timing is suspicious. There is currently an ongoing shortage on fuel tanker drivers[1] as the pandemic depressed gas demand, so the drivers went elsewhere. You need special certs to haul thousands of gallon
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by edrxty 5y ago
Or, you know, just build houses with them, preferably somewhere that isn't as water starved. When the houses get torn down, the wood ends up either recycled or in a landfill which is more or less the same thing.
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by edrxty 5y ago
Hollywood: we're running out of oxygen, we're going to die. Spacex: the electron app allowing us to control our life support systems via touch screen crashed, we're going to die.

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