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by rootbear 10y ago
NASA's Mars Polar Impacter, er, Lander, also shut off it's descent engine too early, believing it was on the ground, and slammed into Mars. This stuff is hard. The Wikipedia entry gives the details: https://en.wikipedia
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Google, National Academy of Sciences to Produce Ada Lovelace Biopic(yahoo.com)
2 points by rootbear 10y ago|0 comments
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by rootbear 10y ago
What a mess. I wouldn't want to be in Samsung quality control right now. In what has to be the nerdiest humor I've ever come up with, I suggested to some astronomer friends here at NASA that this Samsung Galaxy line be rebranded t
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by rootbear 10y ago
Okay, that's a bit better, but it should still have a web interface.
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by rootbear 10y ago
Well, that's a deal breaker. I don't own an Android device. There's no excuse for not providing a web interface.
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by rootbear 10y ago
All of the 10Gbit stuff I'm aware of here at Goddard is over fibre. I assume it's single mode, but that isn't really my area of expertise. I mentioned Cat 6a above because I know that some projects here are using it, I didn&#
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by rootbear 10y ago
Running Cat6a through the older buildings here at NASA Goddard can be a nightmare. I can see us using this, especially for buildings that are planned for replacement down the road. And let's not talk about getting funding for Cat 6a up
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by rootbear 10y ago
I want make one for my mother! But it needs a blaster mounted on the front...
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by rootbear 10y ago
It won't be a problem, since the name of this language is pronounced "hah-vay". (Just kidding!)
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by rootbear 10y ago
And a bit like the thing that Uhura and the other bridge crew on the Enterprise used.
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by rootbear 10y ago
This. My sister used to read "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" to her students and that's how I heard of it. We loved it and were furious at the film for completely inverting the author's message. In the book, Mrs. Fris
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by rootbear 10y ago
This is what I find ridiculous. Is there any real value in NOT hardwiring the camera power to the LED? Consumers should demand that the camera light not be under software control and that it always reflect the true power state of the camera
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by rootbear 10y ago
Exactly! I would be a terrible manager and I have no entrepreneurial instincts at all. I'm way over 40 and I'm one layoff away from involuntary retirement. I suppose I could hook up with someone who was an entrepreneur, but there&
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by rootbear 10y ago
I first heard about a project, at Microsoft, I think, about twenty years ago that used recordings of a specific person's voice as the basis for a synthetic voice. In that work, the person had to record a set of utterances that covered
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by rootbear 10y ago
Those horrid alt-buffer init and exit strings in terminfo and termcap are the bane of my existence. I almost never want that behavior, particularly when I've got a relevant section of a man page on the screen and want it to STAY THERE
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by rootbear 10y ago
I'm almost certain I read an SF story with this premise. Two races on a tidally locked planet.
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by rootbear 10y ago
I think they are making a big mistake tying high frame rate to 3D. The only way to see the Hobbit films in HFR was the 3D versions. But HFR all by itself gives an almost 3D realism to film, something I noticed when I saw Douglas Trumbull&#x
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by rootbear 10y ago
I identify with a lot of what you say. I was not formally diagnosed with ADD (now properly called ADHD-PI, the non-hyperactive variant) until a few years ago, in my 50s. I did well in school but ADD has been the bane of my career. I get bor
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by rootbear 10y ago
It might be helpful when reporting anecdotal information about what the Anniversary Update does and does not change, to note which version of Windows 10 you have. Windows 10 Enterprise offers more control than Pro, which offers more than Ho
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Powerful NSA hacking tools revealed online – Washington Post(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by rootbear 10y ago|0 comments
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by rootbear 10y ago
It would be cool if they could release it as open source. There were aspects of IRIX that I really liked.
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by rootbear 10y ago
Not entirely. The SGI rep who serves NASA Goddard is still the same guy, after who knows how long. We have an SGI UV300 system, which has a single kernel image running on 96 cores with 6TB of RAM. Not many people build systems like that the
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by rootbear 10y ago
The local Microcenter sells Arduino Uno R3 clones under their Inland store brand for $10, currently and frequently on sale for $6. Ideally, I'd like to support Arduino LLC, but given how absurd this whole feud has been, I don't fe
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Let the Geeks Rule the Internet(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by rootbear 10y ago|0 comments
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by rootbear 10y ago
I enjoyed the musical guests. I'm looking forward to the new show, which I think will give me a lot of what I went to PHC for in the first place.
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by rootbear 10y ago
My sister and I, long time listeners to PHC, had both noticed that the monologues had declined in recent years, but we felt that they had gotten a bit better in this last year. I think Keillor wanted to go out on a high note and do his best
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by rootbear 10y ago
I finally got around to updating my iPhone and iPad and I also found those endless nags very, very off-putting. But what MS has done is much worse, with their upgrade-by-deception tactics. I've lost all interest in Windows 10, not that
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by rootbear 10y ago
Cars was not critically successful, but it has been a merchandising goldmine. Every NASCAR mom and dad bought a Lightning McQueen, or a Mater, or other Cars toy for their kids.
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by rootbear 10y ago
Obligatory and relevant Hoare quote: “I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” —Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982. Given how things turned out, he might
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by rootbear 10y ago
Twenty-four hours is not typical. I'm a bit out of date, but I think four hours is more common. On Toy Story, it was more like two. The increase is due mostly to the use of global illumination for nearly all scenes now. Renderman tradi

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