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by planteen 9y ago
Sure and the planning at A Basin depends on the situation. If everyone is leaving from the same car, its easy. But if you have 3-4 car loads of people leaving and arriving at different times, you want to make sure a plan is in place before
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by planteen 9y ago
"When was the last time you used a paper map?" "When was the last time you had to spend 15 minutes planning out where and when you would meet when because your group is splitting up when on a trip?" I do these things all
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by planteen 9y ago
The RAD750 PPC (radiation hardened variant) is also used in a ton of satellites. It was state of the art until about a year ago for space.
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by planteen 9y ago
Yes. This is so often forgotten when talking about stock prices (which those 2x or 3x daily derivatives are so dangerous). For those confused: the math here is a 30% decrease puts you at 70%. To go from 70% back to 100%, 30% only gets you t
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by planteen 9y ago
Yep. I've seen scary errata and had paranoid cache flushes in my code as a precaution. My favorite ARM experience was where memcpy() was broken in an RTOS for "some cases". "some cases" turned out to be when the siz
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by planteen 9y ago
One could render content into a FBO and simply redraw the FBO texture to screen when necessary. If only a partial update is needed, the scissor box can be set. No extensions are used in this case.
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by planteen 9y ago
> We absolutely, 100%, will flyby this object, and likely do a rendezvous mission as well That's a lot of confidence. This is the first interstellar object passing through imaged. However, we believe several of these objects pass th
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by planteen 9y ago
Cool paper. I used to work in the space industry. When I said "We don't have the technology", I meant there is nothing at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 using NASA's ratings. Current state of the art is TRL 1 or TRL
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by planteen 9y ago
We don't have the technology. The fastest object we have ever made is Voyager 1 at 17 km/sec. It got its speed by flybys of Jupiter and Saturn. Oumuamua is going 26 km/sec.
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by planteen 9y ago
I'm not saying that is a good situation or the picture is rosy. The real question here is one of semantics - do you include home equity in "life savings"? I would say yes. And using a HELOC for a crypto or lottery tickets are
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by planteen 9y ago
Half of Americans have < $1,000 in their savings account - yes, that is true. However, around 64% of Americans own their home [1]. How many of them are taking out HELOCs against their homes to buy lottery tickets? Once concern is people
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by planteen 9y ago
I'm curious about the Ada comeback - do you have any examples? I know it is still used in space & defense, but I thought those were legacy code bases.
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by planteen 9y ago
Thanks for sharing that, it's a great write-up.
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by planteen 9y ago
> If the USA had a missile which can intercept the ICBM, it would have to launch it very early and towards Russia if it stands a chance of hitting it while it is at it's most predictable trajectory and slowest speed The article disc
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by planteen 9y ago
Can you show me a quality metric where American fruits or vegetables are consistently different compared to other countries? These are commodities, after all, so there is little differentiation. Is it visually, callorically, or nutritionall
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by planteen 9y ago
What do you mean by quality? Fruits and vegetables in the US tend to have much higher visual quality than elsewhere.
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by planteen 9y ago
It looks like there was a sungrazer comet an order of magnitude faster than that at 600 km/s (2.16e6/3600), so this was not the fastest solar system object ever. https://futurism.com/the-sun-just-killed-the-fastest
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JPSS-1 Weather Satellite On-Orbit in Penultimate Delta II Launch(nasa.gov)
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by planteen 9y ago
Sweden has never had significant oil production. In fact, it hasn't produced any oil for 20 years. So I don't think its really a valid comparison with Venezuela (although Norway is).
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by planteen 9y ago
Totally agree. LabView control structures become unwieldy messes of spaghetti quickly from what I have seen. Visual programming is good for some niches in electrical engineering, for example, RF processing chains. But trying to use it for g
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by planteen 9y ago
Sure, that is very true during development or debugging a complex production issue as you mentioned. I meant troubleshooting and reworking along the lines of "this board used to work, now it doesn't". Most reworks I see of bo
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by planteen 9y ago
The input even on modern hardware is received by an Ethernet PHY which then has logic-level lines going into the SoC. So this level of debugging would be possible. Inside the SoC if something has failed, well, you are kind of screwed.
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by planteen 9y ago
Yes, beryllium is very nasty. You don't ever want to breathe its dust, so don't machine/cut/grind it ever. There are usually warning symbols on things containing it. But it has applications so it gets used. For example,
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by planteen 9y ago
Oh yeah they exist. There are ceramic ones and I have also seen plastic ones. I've seen other fun specialized types of screwdrivers in my career: Screwdrivers with conductive plastic in the handle, to deal with ESD requirements in the
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by planteen 9y ago
Exactly, GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) which publicly traded US companies must play by...
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by planteen 9y ago
A tunnel would be different from subsurface mineral rights. Landowners retain rights below their land. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuius_est_solum,_eius_est_us... I'm also interested to know if this is in a ri
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by planteen 9y ago
Yes, you did. It's the last word of the first sentence I quoted from you. Or the last word of the first sentence of your 4th paragraph.
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by planteen 9y ago
Yes, an annular eclipse is dangerous to look at at any time without protection. An annular eclipse by definition never reaches totality, since at maximum eclipse the sun is never 100% obscured. While the linked article discussed an annular
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by planteen 9y ago
> As a result if you were dumb enough, ignorant enough, or presidential enough, you could stare straight at the eclipse for seconds or 10's of seconds during totality. During that time it will not seem "too bright", but ne
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by planteen 9y ago
In addition to the shadows, a cloud passing over in about a 2 hour window would make it apparent.

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