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by natep 14y ago
> refund any Backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill Finishing the project is not one of the rewards unless the creators say it is. Many rewards can be fulfilled regardless of the success of the project (thank yous on web site
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by natep 14y ago
For anyone that wants to read these posts in an RSS reader one day at a time, I suggest Feed Playback [1]. Just enter the feed URL [2] and a start date of 2012-08-01. Unfortunately, the feed is mixed in with every other update that gets put
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by natep 14y ago
So, do you actually know anything about Neil's life, and are dismissing all of those accomplishments, or are you making that statement out of complete ignorance? He didn't pop out of a test tube and into the Eagle, and sure, lets say thousa
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by natep 14y ago
I thought Buzz piloted the lander and Neil was the mission commander? I'm still in the middle of listening to his biography, _First Man_, but they chose Neil to go up before they even took off, because they felt Neil was more level-headed t
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by natep 14y ago
Yes, the copy is exaggerated for humorous effect, but can you search, read, and reply to old emails while gmail is closed? Clearly, this extension does offer something more than your solution.
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by natep 14y ago
That's awesome! Is following @NASA_Phonesat the best way to find out when that happens?
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by natep 14y ago
Sorry if I'm being too nitpicky here, but NASA isn't actually innovating on size, here. They're putting everything in the standard 10cm^3 cubesat envelope. And they can fit a whole lot more than 10 satellites in the mass+volume of a typical
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by natep 14y ago
I'm guessing that these spacecraft have none of the mission requirements that most others have. They're not doing a flyby mission where they have to work during the flyby, or doing anything actually critical (such as provide comms/science
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by natep 14y ago
I think it's important to make everything cheaper, even if you do get the most bang for your buck from reducing the cost of launch. The other advantage in having NASA lead the way in the cheap satellite area, it will be easier for others to
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by natep 14y ago
Maybe in this case it's cheaper to just send them up and measure it directly? It won't survive much TID, either, but with such a short mission and such cheap hardware, hopefully none of that matters.
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by natep 14y ago
Especially for something like this. I might not need this to land a job for years, but when I do, I'll want to know that all the work I put into adding content to this won't have been wasted (i.e. service disappears for any number of reason
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by natep 14y ago
And what are we supposed to do in order to watch all the exerpts? Follow the entire site? No RSS feed, email subscription, anything? Pass.
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by natep 14y ago
Nevermind that videos like this are completely inaccessible to the deaf.
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by natep 14y ago
> Paying $12 to store a gigabyte of data for 100 years seems like a pretty intriguing deal as we emerge from an era of bit rot. As long as that data is decode-able and more importantly, find-able (out of all the GBs frozen for 100 years
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by natep 14y ago
Hey, I'm glad you responded, and that I misinterpreted where you were coming from and your intentions, but I guess that happens when limited to text (not that a misunderstanding-free medium exists). But as you've probably gathered by now, m
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by natep 14y ago
I think Torvalds does that play that role, but only for the Linux kernel. For user-space, which OP focuses on, there isn't one.
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by natep 14y ago
"I don't see any reason why someone shouldn't make this." You are exactly the kind of person that should build your own lander if you don't see this. And please, stop asking all of these questions in bad faith. I applaud deeringc for engagi
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by natep 14y ago
The problem is that you can't fully control the meaning that someone takes from your statement. As a spacecraft enginner that knows many of the possible justifications for these "why don't they just"s, it's the negative connotation that spr
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by natep 14y ago
It seemed strange to me that the author would conclude that this is what they expect to happen. If the goal is influence, wouldn't you want the share-ability of free? Then again, if you convince enough influential people to subscribe to you
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by natep 14y ago
Exactly. What we don't know is how many organizations came across this tip and decided not to run a story on it, since they didn't have any such contacts. We do know that some decided to write a story anyways, even though they had zero co
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by natep 14y ago
That is definitely a good book on the subject but I thought HN would appreciate a short overview more than a 400-page book to read in their spare time. I currently work in software in the space industry (for about 5 years now), and I defini
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Have RSS/Atom feed archives sent to your reader incrementally with Feed Playback(streamspigot.com)
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by natep 14y ago
I understand that these other sites have to cover the latest story or else they'll lose pageviews or be considered irrelevant or whatever, but to me that is the sign of a flawed system. If you don't have the resources to fact-check someth
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by natep 14y ago
Verified: https://twitter.com/memset_juan/status/234987511741554690
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by natep 14y ago
Another paper based on OP, from the same author, published in 2007 and including discussion of non-software failures: http://klabs.org/DEI/lessons_learned/aerospace_corp/lessons_... Other lessons learned from the space industry: http://k
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How Software Errors Contribute to Spacecraft Failures (2003) [pdf](klabs.org)
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by natep 14y ago
OK, here's the script I had hacked together. It (or some previous version), successfully downloaded all of the images, and a timings.txt. It was then supposed to create a movie file of each slide of the appropriate length, concatenate them
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by natep 14y ago
I'll often use Up/^p/^r(i-reverse-search) to find a previous command and edit it's argument, which is where the tree nature of this tool would come in handy. If I 'type' the first n terms of a command enough times, it might be better to ali
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by natep 14y ago
I wrote it[edit: by which, I mean the answer containing the sentence in question], and I'm not 100% sure, although there probably is a separate presentation in that year or a different year that describes their auto-generation process. I kn
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by natep 14y ago
It's hard for me to imagine 1M lines of code being written/generated in a year and then flown. I suspect either the first person was responsible for testing only 2.5M lines of it, or they used different counting methods. As the one who post

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