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by thearn4 11y ago
I have a couple of Pis running at home. To be honest, I've had enough SD card corruptions across a variety of models that I've moved to running the root directory off of USB. Has anyone else experienced this, or is this likely clo
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by thearn4 11y ago
> Thinking a system is secure just because there is a process in place ISO certification in a nutshell
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by thearn4 11y ago
Wiki has some information about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_disorder It was a plot point in one of the "Band Of Brothers" episodes.
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by thearn4 11y ago
I think most people have a hometown that, even if they leave, always know they can go back to and make a simple life for themselves. I can imagine it being hard to grow up in a place where you have a pretty reasonable expectation of never b
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by thearn4 11y ago
Many early achievers burn out once they enter an environment where they are no longer the smartest person in the room all of the time.
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by thearn4 11y ago
First-time parent of a 4-month old, we're thinking the same way. Me and my wife are both engineering types, and do worry about being obsessively goal-oriented.
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by thearn4 11y ago
Interesting - is the idea behind free markdown desktop editing with PDF export to basically replace traditional document editors like Word or Open/Libre Office? I'm used to thinking about markdown as just a tool for lazy people (l
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by thearn4 11y ago
Not to mention, if you are given a task that requires use of the same type of tapes and are not offered any funding to procure unused ones, then you will have no choice but to record over them. As a government employee, I see this as the mo
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by thearn4 11y ago
NASA engineer here. Title typo aside, that actually sounds a lot like our legacy code-base. Though Python has been making a lot of inroads, thanks partly to f2py
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by thearn4 11y ago
I think the biggest advantage of a micro-controller (like Arduino or an MSP) or prototyping microcomputer (like the Pi or BeagleBone) are control of GPIOs from a reasonably high-level language. At least for my applications. serial and paral
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by thearn4 11y ago
> TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. > ... > Gradient based machine learning algorithms will benefit from TensorFlow's automatic differentiation capabilities. As a
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by thearn4 11y ago
Not that throwing extra people on a project always helps, but $94m can buy quite a bit of developer FTE, even over a 6 year timespan. I wonder how many employees they currently have working on the project?
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by thearn4 11y ago
> As a (slightly obsessed) fan of the genre Freelancer has the aura of a "great" game, but in truth it was not top of its line, but good space game were already very rare back then and it touched a lot more people. Spot on, I w
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by thearn4 11y ago
I think your comments are spot-on. I'll admit that as much as I would like to play an amazing space sim again, I am sort of munching on popcorn while watching SC development from the sidelines. When the project comes crashing down, I w
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by thearn4 11y ago
I'm curious what other people's perspectives are on the (what appears to me anyway) dominance of Macbooks among developers these days. Is it the convenience of a Unix-y machine with decent drivers, or something else?
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by thearn4 11y ago
I've cut it out for the most part as well, and I (as anecdotal as it is of course) completely agree. I've also lost 35 lbs since the beginning of summer as well, with few other specific changes than learning to pass up sweet stuff
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by thearn4 11y ago
They seem to be mostly self-applied labels you use depending on the audience, in my experience. Not that a degree in a very specifically named program should be the one and only gatekeeper to an occupation, it's just that these seem to
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by thearn4 11y ago
Deconvolution is a very cool subject! A sizable portion of my dissertation was dedicated to applications of linear algebra tricks to deconvolution and denoising procedures for image restoration. https://etd.ohiolink.edu/ap&#
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by thearn4 11y ago
I have a weird fascination with everest climbing season, which some pretty conflicted feelings about the people who travel to climb it these days. Essentially the only draw of Everest that is truly unique is "it's the tallest.&quo
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by thearn4 11y ago
I would say that depends largely on the project. Some projects are purposefully trying to appropriate ideas from the tech world (development lifecycle practices, etc.) but others are pretty firm in holding on to more traditional gov't
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by thearn4 11y ago
As a current NASA engineer, I suspect that the truth is along these lines. Similarly over the years I've noticed an odd trend of NASA funding external development of tools or technologies (either to private companies or universities),
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by thearn4 11y ago
A bit of a tangent to this post, but within the walls of NASA there are a few projects which are trying to structure themselves around the startup tech company model. The CAS (convergent aeronautics solutions) project is one example. http:
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by thearn4 11y ago
I have Frontier as my ISP at my rural home on the outskirts of Cleveland. The speed isn't amazing (10 Mbps down, good enough for our streaming needs), but is at least fairly consistent and pretty cheap. Service has been pretty decent t
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by thearn4 11y ago
New first time father of a 3 month old. It's really taken me by surprise how much guilt is thrown at women who either have to or choose to supplement breast milk with some formula. In our case, my wife cannot produce enough to cover hi
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by thearn4 11y ago
I'm a huge fan of flask, but my projects tend to be too small for Django to be a reasonable choice.
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by thearn4 11y ago
I've met with some of the guys from Aerovelo and done a little bit of collaboration with them. They're top notch, and an all-around awesome team of engineers. And Todd is a beast (watch the Atlas human-powered helicopter video).
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by thearn4 11y ago
I'm not an MD or dietician, but I'm kind of surprised that BMI hasn't been replaced by something as simple as height-to-waist ratio, which seems to me would be a potentially informative measure with higher correlation to body
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by thearn4 11y ago
If the camera works well, real-time biometrics are definitely a possibility: https://github.com/thearn/webcam-pulse-detector
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by thearn4 11y ago
12. Statisticians who have been working successfully in this area for decades will now need to re-brand themselves as "data scientists", because "statistics" isn't a sexy enough word.
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by thearn4 11y ago
As a federal employee, I already know I would probably have a hard time adjusting to the terrible work/life imbalance common in American private industry. I don't think closing the pay gap (probably about $10k-$15k difference in m

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