jamesmontalvo3

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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
What percentage come from right turns? Is it less than a third of ledt turns, and thus three right turns is safer than one left? Probably more efficient: should map software offer a “limit left turns” option?
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
It’s fascinating how different peoples’ bodies are. Maybe try a slight variation? My father in law has been restricting his food intake to 600 calories per day a few days a week for years, and it’s done wonders for him. The exact numbers mi
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
If your git history were a tree: cherry picking is ripping a leaf off and gluing it some arbitrary place on the tree, fast-forwarding is ripping the leaf off and moving it to the end of the branch it’s on, and rebasing is ripping a branch o
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
You want to remove fast-forward and rebase from a graph based version control system? What would you do instead? Always merge?
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
Genuinely curious: what would you rename cherry picking, fast forwarding, and rebasing?
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
> the low performance of CPython is hard to swallow African or european swallow?
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
Interesting that the bad characters are all women and the good are all men.
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
If I need to visualize the network of commits I use this alias in .gitconfig: network = log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold cyan)%aD%C(reset) %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold ye
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
Perhaps also to enable the French to read and understand it? You wouldn’t want them just reading the gripes (which are short and simple) and then not reading the responses.
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
Nice. On track to beat https://xkcd.com/2014/
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by jamesmontalvo3 5y ago
Perhaps there’s a point at which you become advanced enough to not need SO. I’m certainly not there after a decade of software development. Do I have to dig a bit sometimes and go beyond the first few results on google? Sure. And if that do
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by jamesmontalvo3 6y ago
I posted that then read more comments. This post is Mainer-heavy. Nice!
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by jamesmontalvo3 6y ago
I grew up in Maine. The blueberry field a half mile down the road from my house was burned periodically—probably yearly but I was young so I don’t remember.
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by jamesmontalvo3 6y ago
In 90 minutes the space station is back at the same point in its orbit, but Kennedy Space Center has rotated ~1500 miles east.
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by jamesmontalvo3 6y ago
Approximately 36k deaths per year in the US are from traffic [1]. About 88k from alcohol [2]. Poverty and pollution is harder to pin down with a quick web search. According to [3], deaths-per-day from COVID-19 flattened at about 2000 deaths
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by jamesmontalvo3 7y ago
NASA EVA Mission Systems | Software Engineer | Houston, TX | INTERNS, ONSITE, REMOTE (maybe, see below) We are looking to hire interns who can help build several products in support of ISS [0] and lunar EVAs [1]. The primary project is work
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by jamesmontalvo3 7y ago
For me, I feel like it is highly dependent upon what I’m working on at the time. Some projects are motivating and 40 hours a weeks isn’t enough—I want to work more than that. Other times I work ~40 but a lot of it is wasted by by working i
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by jamesmontalvo3 7y ago
Supporting your position: My daughters’ preschool, in the area of Johnson Space Center in Houston, did a video of all the kids saying what they want to be when they grow up. A lot of them said astronaut.
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by jamesmontalvo3 7y ago
I copied my wife’s motions when we had our first. She worked in child care for a while, and (when standing) does this sort of 2-phase motion: sway back and forth at about 1 Hz plus a up/down light bounce at about 3 Hz. Works well in my
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by jamesmontalvo3 8y ago
ISS is at 1 atmosphere, except in the airlock when preparating for a spacewalk.
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by jamesmontalvo3 8y ago
Isn't the worse case you're describing still debt but more like giving a multi-million dollar line of credit to a person with low income? A series of small deficit expenditures eventually builds into debt that can never be paid of
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by jamesmontalvo3 8y ago
Nope, we're still using the same system. Wow...the first time I mentioned that here was 2013. Ouch. It's something I've wanted to work on all this time but just haven't been able to fit it in. Some students used it as a
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by jamesmontalvo3 8y ago
There is so much stuff packed inside the space station and there's such a high likelihood of things getting lost (you can't just set something down on a table and expect it to be there when you come back) that it's not surpri
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by jamesmontalvo3 10y ago
+1 complexity ceiling
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by jamesmontalvo3 10y ago
Leidos | Houston, TX | Full-time | Onsite I'm not involved in hiring for this position at all, but I'm posting it here because (a) it's one of the coolest jobs on the planet and (b) I want more HN people as my coworkers. Abou
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by jamesmontalvo3 11y ago
True. From my perspective (I train astronauts and work in Mission Control) it's most important to be able to quickly learn a wide range of general engineering principles. You need to be able to understand how the International Space St
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by jamesmontalvo3 11y ago
The stated minimum requirements and the actual minimum-to-have-a-shot requirements are different, and they are different now than they used to be. Nowadays astronauts training for the ISS need to be generalists capable of doing everything.
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by jamesmontalvo3 11y ago
Steve Swanson is a CS PhD: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/swanson.html
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by jamesmontalvo3 12y ago
Consensus view doesn't need to be presented with condescension.
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by jamesmontalvo3 12y ago
While I'm an American engineer who prefers working in metric, since this is a space-related article I have to point you to this: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/69/ae/01/69ae0104b...

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