helgee

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by helgee 5mo ago
The Ben Franklin effect is real! My experience at conferences has improved significantly by ending talks on a personal note and explicitly saying that I have trouble approaching people but very much like being approached and chat about anyt
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by helgee 2y ago
1. Safe as in type-safe, memory-safe, and null-safe in contrast to the state of the art which is mostly C++, Java, and tons of ancient Fortran. 2. At the moment, we are using it for speeding up Python code for telecommunications constellati
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by helgee 2y ago
Nah, not really. I sometimes wish that this was all about Rust but as of now the library is mostly being used through the Python wrapper.
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by helgee 2y ago
We already have the possibility to get positions of celestial bodies with very high precision via JPL ephemerides but you would have to write and integrate your force model yourself.
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by helgee 2y ago
Nyx is the OG Rust-based astrodynamics library and much more mature. Lox started as a vehicle for myself to learn Rust and at that point I did not feel comfortable contributing to an established code base.
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by helgee 2y ago
Oh, hi! Project creator here. I am very happy that you folks are showing interest but I am also terrified because this thing is definitely not ready for primetime, yet. The discerning astrodynamicist and/or rustacean will surely find t
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by helgee 2y ago
Shower thought: People vote for Trump because he is actually predictable. You never have to guess whose interests he is protecting. It's always his own. You never have to guess whether he is lying. He sure as hell is but there is also
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by helgee 3y ago
I owe my career to the incompetence and greed of Arianespace. For my master's thesis I reverse engineered launcher ascent simulations for ESA because Arianespace was unwilling or unable to answer basic questions such as "how much
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by helgee 5y ago
I have quit caffeine twice in the past few years with the longest abstinence being around one year. Before that I was chugging up to four double espressi per day which I replaced with decaf. The inital withdrawal was brutal with migraine-st
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by helgee 5y ago
The French horn is a holy instrument. Because if you blow into the mouthpiece, only God knows what will come out of the other end.
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by helgee 5y ago
A second degree acquaintance of mine in Germany had his house raided by police and all of his electronics (including his work laptop and phone) temporarily confiscated on suspicion of possession of child pornography because... ...an anonymo
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by helgee 5y ago
Disclaimer: I am one of the (many) engineers working on the project. Before COVID I worked for a European lunar exploration startup and access to a constellation like this would have changed everything. The plan was to provide an end-to-e