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by planteen 8y ago
Yep. Communal pots & pans will be very abused and not cleaned after something was burned or scorched in them.
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by planteen 8y ago
For those interested, Ball Aerospace has a similar open source tool called COSMOS written in Ruby. It has been used for a number of missions there as well as some CubeSats: https://cosmosrb.com/
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by planteen 8y ago
Not painful at all. Just like a flu shot. The painful shots are the post-exposure ones that go in the gut. I received Imovax. It was a brilliant purple color - it was the prettiest vaccine I have ever seen. Shot #2 is 1 week after the first
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by planteen 8y ago
> I'm actually debating keeping our vaccinations up-to-date going forward - I think the booster vaccine, while still uncovered by my medical insurance plan, is relatively low cost and incidences of rabid animal encounters seems to b
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by planteen 8y ago
I got vaccinated against rabies in 2010. It was 3 shots at $300 each if I remember right. It was hard to find a clinic that stocked it. I live in Colorado, I think only two clinics in the state had it. Note that is for pre-exposure shots, n
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by planteen 8y ago
Electronic parts also get helium exposure on the launch pad in a rocket. I know for example there can be helium sensitivity issues on gyros for CubeSats.
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by planteen 8y ago
I agree the 80/20 is true of most organizations. But producing nothing and keep your job for life as long as you show up for work is not common in private industry. On the private side, I see developers get let go all the time for inad
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by planteen 8y ago
Yep. I love space and science, but after working with NASA for a while, you see some of the problems. NIH syndrome is a huge problem, especially between GSFC and JPL. There are incompetent engineers who will have a well paying job at NASA
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by planteen 8y ago
Just because Spanish isn't an official language in the US doesn't make it less useful. The US is the second largest Spanish speaking nation in the world, behind Mexico. There are a number of careers in the US where speaking Spanis
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by planteen 8y ago
In my experience, PE is only relevant in two areas: civil engineering and power engineering. It is not common anywhere else, including aerospace engineering or biomedical engineering. So it's not just software where it is uncommon.
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by planteen 8y ago
Does anyone else still get phone books? I've never had a landline but still get one dropped off at my door annually in Denver. It goes straight to the recycling bin.
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by planteen 8y ago
Is that true? Snopes makes me think it is just a rumor. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-it-illegal-florida-powe...
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by planteen 8y ago
> 0.163 AU from Earth - what are the odds? Look at it from a sampling bias perspective. The object at its brightest was very dim (19th magnitude) and moving fast. The ability for rapid, repeating full sky surveys is recent (PanSTARRS ha
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by planteen 8y ago
That "close" encounter was still over three orders of magnitude further out than Pluto (which has a distance of around 0.000624 ly).
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by planteen 8y ago
I don't think that is what is going on, this is invoking the constructor for the weekday class with the "modern" uniform initilization syntax. This solves the old C++ most vexing parse problem. https://en.wikipedia
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by planteen 8y ago
> The benefit for a daily payment is pretty low compared to the costs. Agreed. I can't imagine having to balance my checking account with a daily transaction. It would be much harder to catch an error or a one-off when you didn&#x27
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by planteen 8y ago
> Many suppliers demand 0 day terms now: You pay with a credit card or wire upfront, often before service or goods are even provided. Certainly for everything under a few thousand dollars, and often even for five digit purchases. Yes, ev
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by planteen 8y ago
Yes it's completely normal. The author has no idea what accounts receivable looks like at most companies.
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by planteen 8y ago
I'm sure their contract stated NET 30/60/90 though. I've done freelance engineering work and that's how it was after I submitted my hours for the month (NET 30 in my case). Regular employees were paid every 2 weeks,
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by planteen 8y ago
Does that work? If it does, you must be at a big company and not dealing with the government. Chasing down invoices seems to be a huge pain for small companies. It seems like many big customers would laugh at the small company and agree to
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by planteen 8y ago
> giving worthless papers for real goods > This war will either be won by the US on the short term, or the dollar will be dismissed as international currency. Remind me what the Yuan, Yen, and Euro are backed by? Or are you saying tha
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by planteen 8y ago
Not sure on the property tax situation in SV, but a common assumption is 1% of the houses's value annually. So with that considered, it is probably close to a wash with the S&P 500. And whatever upkeep as well, as you said.
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by planteen 8y ago
Fish tail doesn't necessarily mean you are going too fast. If you are cruising, it means let off the gas. Have you ever driven a rear wheel drive car on a packed road? You will fish tail when accelerating from a light or stop sign. You
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by planteen 8y ago
Yep the key to climbing a hill in snow is to keep your speed up so momentum carries you over slick spots. I've seen a slick hill look like a Tetris game with stuck cars in many different orientations. It's the same with a muddy an
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by planteen 8y ago
Even SIMD, a feature of processors for over 20 years, is not handled well by compilers for automatic optimization. It seems like all code taking advantage of SIMD either drops into ASM, or uses a library from ARM/Intel to give descript
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by planteen 8y ago
That's about 3 ppm, which is pretty good. Based on that ppm value, my guess is a temperature compensated crystal oscillator. I imagine it was kept at room temperature for the duration of the test?
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by planteen 8y ago
It looks like a 580 km polar orbit, so any given point on the Earth will only be scanned twice in a day - once at night and once in the day. https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/104137237292473958...
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by planteen 8y ago
Finance workers are used to working insane hours, especially on Wall St., so I'm not sure I buy that. My theory - finance people are more familiar with the law and less willing to skirt it. They know the consequence can lead to them pe
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by planteen 8y ago
> these rectifiers are way more attractive but I can't bring myself to work with them. Cool project! Do you say you can't bring yourself to work with them for safety reasons (as in, I imagine mercury vapor is very dangerous if
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by planteen 8y ago
Yes large differences in orientation will make Euler angles gimbal lock. And it looks strange, even for small differences in orientation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocoibc7MoKg

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