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by jcurbo 6y ago
Not too far off from circuit design languages (VHDL, Verilog) to me.
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by jcurbo 6y ago
There's also this book by Emily Lakdawalla, "The Design and Engineering of Curiosity" https://www.amazon.com/Design-Engineering-Curiosity-Performs...
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Summaries of SF-LOVERS mailing list starting in 1979(nothing2seeherepleasedisperse.blogspot.com)
1 points by jcurbo 6y ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 7y ago
This is a solid read, with good book recommendations. After several years of tinkering with self-learning I bit the bullet and applied to a MSc in Applied Math program. (via ep.jhu.edu) I've had to take some pre-reqs to get started s
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by jcurbo 7y ago
Your site is exceptional, thanks for creating it. I used it a few weeks ago to see a Starlink pass over my area. I like how you added the simulated view in Streetview, I think that will help a lot of people understand what to look for tha
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Bringing OneNote 2016 Back into Active Development(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
2 points by jcurbo 7y ago|0 comments
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The Cloud and Open Source(tbray.org)
103 points by jcurbo 7y ago|32 comments
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An Augmented Reality Game Escalated into Real-World Spy Warfare(vice.com)
12 points by jcurbo 7y ago|5 comments
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Compact Disc Structure(byuu.net)
4 points by jcurbo 7y ago|0 comments
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The Cloud and Open Source(tbray.org)
1 points by jcurbo 7y ago|0 comments
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by jcurbo 7y ago
byuu, thanks for doing more writing. I have enjoyed following you on Twitter and look forward to reading more in depth work from you. Will definitely sign up for the RSS feed.
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by jcurbo 7y ago
The Air Force has a similar guide that has been around for decades, the "Tongue and Quill." We were introduced to it starting in officer training. https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/saf_cio_a
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by jcurbo 7y ago
I can't speak for Android but on iOS there are several apps that can do this. Pocket Universe and SkySafari are two I use frequently.
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by jcurbo 7y ago
Is it this one? https://github.com/b3ll/Ignition
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by jcurbo 7y ago
Same here, except with astronomy/astrophotography and outdoors stuff. I like Instagram in that way and don't follow any big celebrities or big influencers, so never see any #ad sort of stuff.
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by jcurbo 7y ago
Yeah, between this and the MITRE post the other day I wondered if it was suddely Systems Engineering Week at HN. This is not the kind of content you usually find here.
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by jcurbo 7y ago
Etymotic Research https://www.etymotic.com/
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by jcurbo 7y ago
MITRE began as an offshoot of an Air Force project (SAGE) and I believe is still their single biggest customer.
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by jcurbo 7y ago
Yes, this is intended as a reference/best practices document for systems engineers.
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by jcurbo 7y ago
There is some overlap but RAND is simply a think tank. (I admit that’s a vast generalization, they do good work) MITRE operates FFRDCs, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, with very specific roles and limitations. They also don’t do a to
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by jcurbo 7y ago
Yes, it is.
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by jcurbo 7y ago
This is a good book, I'd also recommend the story of the first man to sail around the world alone, Joshua Slocum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_Alone_Around_the_World https://www.gutenberg.org&#
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by jcurbo 7y ago
For more on Ingress, I thought Tim Bray's blog posts about Ingress were always good reads. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ (search for Ingress) If you find this sort of thing interesting, I'd also recommend c
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An Augmented Reality Game Escalated into Real-World Spy Warfare(vice.com)
3 points by jcurbo 7y ago|1 comments
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by jcurbo 7y ago
Mirroring some other comments here, my best experiences were with overhead projectors and document cameras. My high school math teacher would sit on his desk at the front of the classroom and use an overhead projector with transparencies o
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by jcurbo 7y ago
Caught by the camera at the University of Maryland Observatory: https://www.facebook.com/UMObservatory/posts/101592265399548...
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by jcurbo 7y ago
- Years of training on multiple platforms (initial pilot training, follow up training on the platform itself, possibly others) - Maintenance and logistics of those platforms - Probably amortizing the cost of those planes across each pilot u
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by jcurbo 7y ago
Yes, this has been a thing forever. (Former 33S/17D here) I went through two separate instances of reductions in force (aka "force shaping") - 2006 and 2010 - but there were others as well. (I chose to separate in 2010) They
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by jcurbo 8y ago
Amateur astronomer here as well that has also done a bit of lunar photography. (envious of your EdgeHD 14...) I made a similar comment about the moonglow, but thinking a bit I think it's a combination of: - Higher dynamic range than th
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by jcurbo 8y ago
No, it's partially artistic, partially light scattering in the Earth's atmosphere from the moonlight and the exposure settings he used. The moon does have a very tenuous atmosphere but nothing thick enough to cause this effect.

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