inamberclad

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by inamberclad 1y ago
Firing your subordinates because you don't like the number they report to you is how you obliterate the functioning machinery of government.
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by inamberclad 1y ago
Except when tarrifs make western industry so expensive that it is no longer competitive whatsoever...
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by inamberclad 1y ago
Agreed, the cost of housing is the primary driver of every other increased cost in the Bay Area except for the cost of gas. High rent means high wages, which means high costs for business, which means high prices for consumers... States lik
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by inamberclad 1y ago
The problem is that the tools are still weak. The languages are difficult to use, nobody has made something more widely adopted than Verilog or VHDL. In addition, the IDEs are proprietary and the tools are fragile and not reproduceable. Syn
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by inamberclad 1y ago
I'm frustrated that they push their product on undergrad engineering classes so heavily. Except for a few poorly taught weeks of C++, most of my classmates never leaned anything else. Admittedly, Matlab is a very good product for model
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by inamberclad 1y ago
Welding isn't a job that you grow old in. It's physically taxing and exposes you to poisonous fumes and low levels of radiation from thoriated filaments. That's part of why kids are getting job offers, there needs to be a ste
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by inamberclad 1y ago
They're pretty similar, but RTEMS targets higher end embedded machines and supports more common programming interfaces, like POSIX
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by inamberclad 1y ago
RTEMS is under active development and is running around the solar system right now :)
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by inamberclad 2y ago
I did not work on the HDA algorithm which is responsible for landing site deviation, but this technology was inherited from NASA's Project Morpheus, which could intelligently detect hazards and divert to safer sites.
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by inamberclad 2y ago
The lasers are smaller and lighter than most radar systems. They're also pointed out at about 45 degrees from the lander and they're not supposed to be used for the last few dozen meters of descent.
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by inamberclad 2y ago
Welp, I worked on this one. Specifically, I worked on the laser rangefinders which are under so much scrutiny. I no longer work at Intuitive Machines, but I'm certainly interested in finding out what happened to the lasers this time.
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by inamberclad 2y ago
Laser is angled outwards at approx 45 degrees, I think it's well away from the exhaust plume.
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by inamberclad 2y ago
the tanks aren't empty when you land, since you always want to have reserve fuel (and pressure)
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by inamberclad 2y ago
Definitely concerned about the laser rangefinders not working on descent. My recollection is that they were very finnicky instruments. A lot of discussion is happening around the aspect ratio of the Noca-C landers. Part of the reason they&#
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by inamberclad 2y ago
Meters, not miles :)
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by inamberclad 2y ago
That was a separate lander, from Japan!
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by inamberclad 2y ago
As a former Intuitive Machines employee, I feel obligated to correct the title! IM-1 landed on the moon last February and although it didn't stay upright, it was still operational and returned some decent scientific data.
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by inamberclad 2y ago
Seeing my health insurance deny hospital claims that were pre-authorized has been insane. The hospital checked in advance with my insurance that several operations would be covered and the insurance approved. Now that the bill comes, the in
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by inamberclad 2y ago
I wish more developers knew Ada. It got a ton of things, especially its strong types, right all the way back in 1983.
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by inamberclad 2y ago
I can't read through the paywall, but the numerous pictures of the skin with the metal folded in are a pretty dead giveaway that there was an explosion nearby that crippled the aircraft
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by inamberclad 2y ago
Ball?
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by inamberclad 2y ago
Boeing should be put under financial oversight by the US government, the same way GM was in 2008. It's apparent that the FAA's oversight powers are not strong enough to to overcome the financial pressures of management on their ow
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by inamberclad 2y ago
Anecdotes don't equal data. "Always" and "never" don't exist in medicine. I'm sure that your experience is accurate to yourself, but these studies have to cast a wider net since there is always variability
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by inamberclad 2y ago
Linux real-time has existed for many years, but it's still Linux. That means that it's a big, underspecified project. RTEMS is designed for high reliability embedded environments, especially spaceflight. These systems are smaller
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by inamberclad 2y ago
Those are great, and I'm all in favor to alternatives to gasoline, but most people aren't buying new cars these days. In fact, the age of the average car in the US is at all time highs. These subsidies aren't moving the needl
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by inamberclad 2y ago
Without reasonable alternative such as frequent and reliable public transit or major support for electric vehicle adoption, this will hurt most Californians much more than it helps. While I don't claim to be an expert on policy, perhap
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by inamberclad 2y ago
+1 for RTEMS! Great fully featured RTOS
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by inamberclad 2y ago
I've used Linux on the payload processor computer of a spacecraft so I know it happens :P I've also worked with a payload running Windows Embedded.
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by inamberclad 2y ago
Do these companies simply sell verilog source trees? Or do they deliver fully packaged wafers?
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by inamberclad 2y ago
I recently did an interview with them and found their perspective to be a little... flippant? A bunch of screw NASA, we sleep in the office, etc etc. I admit that I only spoke with one person in the company but it was enough that I realized

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