jamesmontalvo3

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by jamesmontalvo3 4mo ago
There are doors (called hatches) between the segments. Each segment flew up separately and pressurized. So there are actually two hatches between each segment, since there’s one on each.
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by jamesmontalvo3 5mo ago
The centrifuge module was planned at one point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifuge_Accommodations_Modu...
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by jamesmontalvo3 9mo ago
The shape of that graph is roughly equivalent to the shape of labor force participation for women [1]. I don’t think that detracts from your point in regards to the last 20-30 years, but in regards to “before that it was never this high” I
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by jamesmontalvo3 10mo ago
I think the point is that if you’re going to get a degree in mechanical engineering, you need to study differential equation, and if you’re going to have a well-rounded education, you need to study some history. Both were a requirement in t
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by jamesmontalvo3 11mo ago
Not really constantly. For 20 seconds every 30 minutes or so when it changes what satellite it’s pointed at, plus longer outages throughout the day depending on satellite usage by other systems. This may be just a minute or so every hour on
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by jamesmontalvo3 11mo ago
Is stated in the linked article but in case anyone missed it: same creators as Apollo in Real Time
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by jamesmontalvo3 11mo ago
Awesome work! Surely a huge labor of love to dig up that much content out of the public domain. Congrats on the launch!
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by jamesmontalvo3 1y ago
Wouldn’t the minimum be 51? 9 3 2 =54, but if the team batting second is winning after the top of the 9th then they don’t need to play the bottom of the ninth, so subtract 3? Not a baseball person.
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by jamesmontalvo3 1y ago
> I wonder if there's information on how many passengers of the Mayflower were left-handed. Probably 0% reported, considering the negative views towards left-handedness at the time.
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by jamesmontalvo3 1y ago
Concur that it takes time (it took 2.5-3 years for me to open source github/nasa/coda), but in my experience at JSC it wasn’t red tape, but a lack of staffing in the export office. It seems reasonable to me that some amount of rev
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by jamesmontalvo3 1y ago
Just to be clear this is one center’s first open source release. There’s open source from other centers at https://github.com/nasa and https://code.nasa.gov/
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by jamesmontalvo3 2y ago
My daughters, in 2024, still hear “you’re a girl, you can’t be good at math”. My 10 year old is the best programmer on her school’s robotics team, but she hears words like these regularly and she’ll be told she’s not good enough throughout
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by jamesmontalvo3 2y ago
I know almost nothing about genetics or virology, but perhaps GP is saying the close proximity of genetic similarity allows viruses to mutate and infect people it otherwise wouldn’t. For example, say Person A had a virus, and under no circu
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by jamesmontalvo3 2y ago
What ages are you talking about? Where I live (in the US) I can’t imagine parents scolding me if I let my kids wander 100 yards from me, unless they were very young.
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by jamesmontalvo3 2y ago
Shower right before bed, maybe?
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by jamesmontalvo3 2y ago
> I am not convinced about the rest of the animal kingdom. What about crows?
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by jamesmontalvo3 2y ago
While the other replies about the legality of walking away for a short period may or may not be valid, GP was talking about leaving their car charging while they go get a short meal with their family. You could probably get away with leavin
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by jamesmontalvo3 2y ago
Maybe true for a lot of the HN population, but my teenagers are mortified by the idea of me giving them android phones because then they would be the pariahs turning group messages from blue to green.
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by jamesmontalvo3 2y ago
I work at Johnson Space Center on an app called CODA [1] that allows us to view all ISS video downlinks in sync with each other as well as with audio and data sources. We can view any moment back to 2013. The plan is to open-source the app
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by jamesmontalvo3 3y ago
I was looking for a car for my kid last night and stumbled upon this gem: https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/hou/6565526716.html
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by jamesmontalvo3 3y ago
Sometimes I need to search for something but can’t find the words for it. I can prompt something generally describing the concept.
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by jamesmontalvo3 3y ago
Perfectly chaotic rotation might be worse. If it was a spiral then you could hit it at a pole. I think most things rotate about a semi-fixed axis (not totally fixed, often propagating over time)
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by jamesmontalvo3 3y ago
I don’t even want to see the title of an It’s Always Sunny episode before the cold opening.
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by jamesmontalvo3 3y ago
This is the final straw for me. I’ve wanted to cancel Amazon services for a while but since I have several bundled it was just painful enough to not want to make the effort.
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by jamesmontalvo3 4y ago
Not my experience at all, in a similarly sized premium on-prem GitLab. I git-push and the pipeline is running faster than I can get to my browser. Jobs queue basically instantly assuming you have enough runners for your workloads. I have no
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by jamesmontalvo3 4y ago
I don’t think the point is that physical work makes humans intelligent in comparison to animals. I think the point is that physically active humans exercise aspects of their intelligence that modern sedentary humans do not.
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
Alternatively: same PIN/password as normal, but alter the last character. Better if it’s any incorrect last character. That allows you to stick close to your normal routine while in a stressful situation.
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
I think you make a lot of fair points, but when I see comments like: > anything we're doing now still just feels like tinkering on the smallest scales I’m reminded of: https://xkcd.com/1732/
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
This position is primarily focused on building the map/GIS tools to support lunar operations, but will also be part of the team that's modernizing procedure authoring/execution for spacewalks/moonwalks as well as buildin
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Ask HN: Recycling vs. Climate
1 points by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago|1 comments

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