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by jaennaet 2y ago
That's really neat. Cool how fractals just emerge from the feedback loops, and that really tickles something in my brain
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Who the heck is IDC's customer base, exactly? $2,500 for that, or $7,500 for this one about – drumroll, please – feature flags! "Modern digital businesses need to be able to adapt to changing end-user demand, and since feature fl
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by jaennaet 2y ago
I swear we've been going backwards for the past 15 years
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by jaennaet 2y ago
How is it "nihilist" to say that objective reality doesn't care about your beliefs? I can believe the sky is pink until I'm blue in the face. The sky won't change colors because of it.
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by jaennaet 2y ago
This got me curious as to what "queries at the ontological level" means in concrete terms. It's been a good long while since I did anything even remotely data engineering -like, and back then "AI" could be something
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Evil marketing 101 phone-home telemetry would be going in the other direction. So I guess in effect you're sort of getting the ISS's phone-home telemetry?
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Yeah that'd be the telemetry stream, probably specifically the new telemetry status & timestamp subscription that got added in 0.2, it gets updated maaaaaany times per second. Unfortunately it's a push and not a pull model str
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by jaennaet 2y ago
pISSStream is already a quantum application as I wrote it while in a box with a poison gas system that can be triggered by the decay of a radionuclide, allowing me to be in a superposition of being alive and dead – technically the app both
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Somewhat incredibly, v0.2 is out thanks to a contributor! Adds signal loss handling, so now you can see at a glance if ISS telemetry is actually even being received by the ground station. Direct download link: https://github.com&
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by jaennaet 2y ago
I'm going to add "science communicator" to my résumé. But yes, the app may be a joke but at least there's something there beneath the joke.
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by jaennaet 2y ago
https://bsky.app/profile/betterhn50.bsky.social No AI woo-woo which I consider a huge plus
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by jaennaet 2y ago
It actually started life as a Swift library package + cli tool without any sort of Xcode project, but somehow when I tried to add it to an Xcode GUI project I just kept getting weird-ass linker errors and gave up after a while (nobody ask w
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by jaennaet 2y ago
What… uh, what sort of competitions are we talking about here, exactly?
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Leave a feature request issue! I might actually get around to it one beautiful day, and if we're very lucky that might even happen before the heat death of the universe.
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Exactly what I was going for. I'd rather make something funny (but also kind of interesting) than useful any day.
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by jaennaet 2y ago
I wholeheartedly agree
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by jaennaet 2y ago
100% probability that there will be a test with a name along those lines if I ever do end up actually writing tests
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by jaennaet 2y ago
"Great" may be overstating things just a tiny bit especially in comparison to ISS Mimic but I'll absolutely take the compliment, thank you. I'm also curious as to what the quantity actually does reflect – I clearly haven
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by jaennaet 2y ago
I am not sorry and I will do it again. But on a more serious note, while my use of live ISS telemetry is probably about as maximally frivolous as can get, it's nothing short of amazing that this sort of abject silliness is not only pos
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by jaennaet 2y ago
I would like to remind everyone that the "New pull request" button is like right there on https://github.com/jaennaet/piSSStream/pulls It'd be fantastic to have the flag of the country last pissed
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Oh believe me I would have used that metric if there was one, but apparently there is no fecal storage tank as such; your poop is collected in a bag by the Universal Waste Management System or UWMS (which is what you call a space toilet whe
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Hmm. Maybe the next version should use AI to deduce the path the whizzing crew member took, by combining the tank fill status with other telemetry data like station orientation, vibration in different components etc.
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by jaennaet 2y ago
The bastard even added rudimentary error handling
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Absolutely! Realtime data will require a subscription, which will also include an LLM analysis of the past week's data. I think one of the VCs funding my upcoming disruptive space station piss tank telemetry platform requested that. I&
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by jaennaet 2y ago
This is exactly the sort of reaction I was hoping to inspire. Like I said in my Show HN story, this is clearly a ridiculous and more or less completely useless application (probably even if you work for ISS Environmental Control and Life
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by jaennaet 2y ago
See, you get it.
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Good point! I'll have to add that in at some point after the holidays. My motivation was entirely that I thought this was both a hilariously stupid use of a space station's telemetry stream, but also kind of amazing at the same ti
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Heh yeah I was meaning to change background & foreground colours on the menu bar item, but apparently SwiftUI's MenuBarExtra labels don't actually support changing the colors – at least not in any way that I found immediately
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Heh, I follow a Bluesky bot that posts HN stories that have gone over 50 points and unexpectedly saw a very familiar Github link. I'd made a Show HN story about this ~5 days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=424
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by jaennaet 2y ago
Hey! Thank you for the link. It just won't stop being a bit amazing that it's even possible to do all this nowadays. What a world. Out of curiosity, do you know why NASA wanted to set up a public telemetry stream? Is the same stre

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