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by sheepybloke 3y ago
One other caveat is that it's designed for environments with high certification requirements like aerospace. When you're in that space, you're glad to pay those license costs for that assurance!
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I work in aerospace, and it will be interesting to see when Rust will turn into the defacto standard for DAL-B or safer systems. However, if there is a language that can beat Ada, I think Rust is it, and this is one huge step to make this a
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Fun fact I learned recently: The GPS reference epoch was moved from 2000 to 2001 due to an Alaskan earthquake in 2002. It's crazy how an event like that can change something like GPS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
While this article is about credit cards and miles, the moment I realized they were banks was when I learned that most airline's fleets are leased. Since maintenance and planes are so expensive, lots of airlines lease a fleet with supp
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Related company that's doing similar work: Talyn! They're a great team, and really excited about the work they are doing. https://www.talyn.com/
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Personally, it's because the docs aren't that good unless you're looking for something very specific. People are talking about the fact that there are no ads, but I would think it's because of the bounce rate. I could se
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
To build on what others are saying, when you have a project, just learn what is dangerous and be careful when dealing with that. For example, power supplies, wiring with mains, high current or voltage for motors, or LIPOs. Once you identify
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Exactly. I've been looking for bookshelves and wanted something that wasn't just Ikea's Billy. The price jump to something from Pottery Barn is 3-4x the Ikea price, but from the quality you see at the showroom, it should be c
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I think the biggest advantage to Click is the ability to namespace different commands to have a single entrypoint for your CLI and all your commands. For example, if you had a hardware test interface and a webserver, you could have somethin
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I found creating a small Python webserver using Starlette plus a basic CLI using Click to be great for interacting and testing hardware. Python gives you an easy way to integrate with your actual code on the hardware using whatever interfac
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Exactly! So much of what the Bauhaus designed was meant to use these new materials and machines to build simple and beautiful products for everyone. It was meant to allow everyone to have access to the same sort of products that used to be
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
The other big influence is that a lot of the members of the Bauhaus went to the US to teach, and so they influenced many of the midcentury designers that designed and built the post-war world.
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
Loft Orbital | Various Roles | Full Time | San Francisco, CA; Golden, CO; Toulouse, FR Loft Orbital's goal is to make space simple! Loft Orbital builds space infrastructure based on “shareable” satellites, providing a fast & simple
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Open Space Toolkit – collection of versatile libraries for aerospace engineering(github.com)
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
One part of this is that everyone wants something that is bespoke. They want their system to unique and custom, which inherently adds complexity. I've worked on lots of projects where a customer likes what we're doing, but has a s
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I've found that even if you start with #1, you end up doing #2 anyways, whether it's because the documentation wasn't complete or you didn't realize what you were trying to build until you started building it. I always s
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
In an update on crowd supply, the creator mentioned he got 425 days of battery life, which I feel like is pretty good considering how powerful the CPU is compared to the original! https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-o
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I think the context of mathematics is more important than what is taught. I took AP Calc with AP Physics, and I found I understood calc much better when it was in the context of basic physics. Instead of just teaching math, we need to put
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
My favorite thing that I've built is printer prop for a ballet piece about how horrible working with printers is. I had to gut the printer, which was a lot of fun, then figure out a way for it to make the noises we wanted when the danc
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
This is because the point of a library has changed a lot recently. My mom is a librarian and has talked a lot about how a lot of library engagement now is as a community space. It has internet access, you don't have to pay to be there,
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
My wife and I were high school sweethearts and got married out of college. When people ask us how we made it work, I always say that during college we grew and changed together. We had hard times and we worked through it, as we learned and
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
The other portion of this is a lot of buildings are build by contracting firms, not architects. It's taking a lot of trends and squishing them together in a way that works, but is not designed. The end product is facades with windows n
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I think it's starting to come back. A lot of the new more affordable houses in the Bay and in larger cities are blocks of town homes. I think we are going to see a lot more development there, as developers realize they can build them m
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I agree. I feel a lot more OK to take time to run errands or grab lunch offsite because I know if someone needs me, I can just answer on Slack. Similarly, I can work from a coffee shop or other location and know that they can reach me if ne
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I would be excited about this if I could watch local TV without an OTA antenna. One of my biggest frustrations is that I either have to get a) cable or b) a flaky OTA connection to watch things like local sports. If I could stream local TV
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I agree. When I went to SF Giants games as a 415 member, you could get Anchor Pilsners for $9. It was a good deal for a baseball game, but they were competing against more interesting local beers or better beers (imo) like Pliny the Elder.
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I was a part of GE Aviation's Leadership Program and they definitely started looking towards especially more local schools towards the end of my program. They found that people who were from more local schools were more likely to stay
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I agree. I read most of this as an internally facing focus. I feel like now days we are so cynical. You can't take pride in your work, or want to do a good job because you'll just be "doing it for corporate profit". To m
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
IMO this comment goes too far in the other direction. There is a lot of "natural aptitude" in what we can learn, and more specifically, what we can learn to do well . I can theoretically learn ballet, but I have no "natural
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by sheepybloke 3y ago
I think it's because it's happening everywhere, even outside of less profitable businesses. I flew United the other week and they played me 4 min of ads blasted through the cabin and on my screen after the safety video, even after

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