euler_angles

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by euler_angles 6y ago
I want to use Git, I have that on my offline machine. But offline means github isn't an option. However, this indirectly answers my question, so thanks.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
Can I use this without a Github account? Specifically, I wonder if I can't transfer this over to a machine that never touches the internet and have it still be useful.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
Many years ago, a close family friend, who was a police officer in a small town, committed suicide. The local television news kept trying to find the man's children and wife in the days immediately following his suicide to ask them que
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by euler_angles 6y ago
The AMRAAM requires a fairly powerful transmitter -- usually a radar -- to send it those datalink updates.
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by euler_angles 6y ago
F-35 has a 20" wide by 8" tall touchscreen. However, just about everything that you do on the touchscreen can also be done with various switches and selectors on the stick and throttle. There's even an equivalent of a mouse t
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by euler_angles 6y ago
One thing that I haven't been able to figure out with the 20 minutes or so of reading about poetry that I just did -- does poetry support editable installs akin to pip install -e .?
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by euler_angles 6y ago
I can't even get my employer to expense texts that are necessary references for my job. They're not going to pay for my subscription for your app. I don't think your fee is unreasonable. But there are probably a lot of people
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by euler_angles 6y ago
Okay, thanks for telling me. Not everyone knows this term, surely. And I didn't know the Rust package manager is called "Cargo".
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by euler_angles 6y ago
You can find many articles on the origin of the term. I like this one from 1959: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/1959-cargo-cults-...
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by euler_angles 6y ago
I worked as a contractor on a NASA project for a couple of years. Your observation that the purpose of NASA is to consume funds, accrue influence, and generally perpetuate itself matches with many of my experiences of those years. This is w
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by euler_angles 7y ago
When I worked for a NASA contractor doing sounding rocket telemetry, the main telemetry stack programming software was a Turbo C program from 1987-1990 (TDP502.exe on the odd chance that the maybe 50 other people on the planet who have ever
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by euler_angles 7y ago
Ah, this makes sense. I deal with some data analysis that has times referenced to the GPS epoch, but also includes all the leap seconds added from the GPS epoch through September 19, 2013. So I've spent a fair amount of time dealing wi
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by euler_angles 7y ago
I am curious, when did the decision to make GPS not follow leap seconds occur? had you asked me before I read your comment, I would have said that it doesn't honor leap seconds and never has.
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by euler_angles 7y ago
What I'm working on right now is a perfect example. Mission: to write a Python program that parses. a file format that has no documentation. Create a folder for the project along with a data directory inside that has some of the files
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by euler_angles 7y ago
Half-Life 2: Episode One is a direct continuation of the story of Half-Life 2. Similarly, HL2: Episode Two continues where Episode One leaves off. Valve originally planned on releasing a series of episodic entries in the HL series, two per
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by euler_angles 7y ago
Right. Which is why I archive, not bookmark.
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by euler_angles 7y ago
Also as someone who has used the system, you're right about all the other functions it does. Or is supposed to do. So thank you for posting.
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by euler_angles 7y ago
Ordering parts should be a fairly simple thing to get right in comparison to all the other things the system should do. And yet...it failed at that.
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by euler_angles 7y ago
Using Google to go back to something is only viable if the site stays online and Google doesn't change their algorithm in a way that makes what I'm looking for more difficult to find. Time and experience have shown me that sites a
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by euler_angles 7y ago
ALIS. Jesus. What a disaster it was. We had to use it in flight testing and our instantiation was so poor that you literally couldn't use it to order a part. You had to send an email to order parts. And for the engineering tasks I was
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by euler_angles 7y ago
I like Jupyterlab, but there's a huge gap between it and something like RStudio.
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by euler_angles 7y ago
> Major universities are abandoning Matlab, Labview, SPSS, Minitab etc for Python Just to add another point of anecdata. I helm a large data science effort in the defense industry. We are actively moving away from MATLAB and to Python. I
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by euler_angles 7y ago
Two major new releases in a day for notebook computing. A good day!
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by euler_angles 7y ago
This post just made We* seem like a big scheme just to make the founder wealthy. Am I missing something?
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by euler_angles 7y ago
I go with what helps me get work done. I have a feeling many people are the same. Python lets me be productive in a crazy variety of tasks and mostly gets out of my way when I do so.
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by euler_angles 7y ago
No, you're thinking of the UNIX epoch. UTC began in the early 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time The IRIG standards for time codes also date to around this time.
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by euler_angles 7y ago
I hope the pairing experiences we will commonly have will be much improved, because just about every time I use Bluetooth to pair anything I have to go through a struggle.
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by euler_angles 7y ago
Someone gave me one of the Evernote Moleskines once. It turned out that all the fancy features only worked on the iOS version of the Evernote app. That was not obvious to the kind person who bought it for me. Left a little bit of a sour tas
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by euler_angles 7y ago
Maybe -- and this is just my own opinion/speculation -- this is because in my lines of work, the results of failing to follow a checklist can be at worst catastrophic and relatively immediate. In medicine, some classes of failures migh
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by euler_angles 7y ago
I have been a flight test and rocket test engineer. Checklists were life, especially in the rocket world. The fantastic thing about checklists is that they both keep you accountable and free your mental resources so that when something happ

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