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by thelambentonion 10y ago
The RS-25 remains one of the most impressive engineering feats to date, so I wouldn't worry about it being 'super old'. Much of the complexity associated with the RS-25s is necessary complexity in such a high-efficiency, mult
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by thelambentonion 10y ago
> There seems to be political pressure to hold them back until ULA can catch up. Source? SpaceX is innovating phenomenally quickly, especially in this industry. Nothing really seems to be holding them back at the moment.
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by thelambentonion 10y ago
Vulcan, New Glenn, and the Falcon Heavy really aren't in the same league as the SLS, at least as far as lifting capacity is concerned. I think the SLS is an excellent use of NASA's time and money at the moment. They're using
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by thelambentonion 10y ago
I really like Elm, but the language has some limitations at the moment. Right now imo, Elm shines as a path for developers to discover the nice aspects of ML without the a lot of upfront investment. As projects get larger, the verbosity and
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by thelambentonion 10y ago
915 MHz in the US. EDIT: Actually I suppose since it isn't LoRaWAN, it could be 433 MHz.
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by thelambentonion 10y ago
Agreed, with the caveat that you can make more reliable rocket _components_ that way, and you can use those components to assemble a more reliable system from them. No matter how reliable your individual components are, the added complexity
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by thelambentonion 10y ago
I don't think that's completely accurate. While Boeing is not going to do an in-flight abort test, they will be doing a pad abort test in October 2017. A technical demonstration of the abort system was one of the requirements of t
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by thelambentonion 10y ago
Source? I've heard that they have more sensors and telemetry on individual tests, but I hadn't heard that they're more rigorous than other providers.
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by thelambentonion 10y ago
In operation, there were two events I was told in confidence by current and former employees that I would rather not disclose publicly. Without going into specifics, they both related to operational deficiencies in launch systems (hardware
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by thelambentonion 10y ago
I disagree strongly. SpaceX has always felt, especially to those in the industry, to have a blatant disregard for even basic elements of safety in their design and operation. They _did_ supercool their propellants, and pushing that envelope
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by thelambentonion 10y ago
Edward Kmett's talk on Monad Transformer Lenses is wonderful. He manages to pack an overwhelming amount of information into a relatively short period of time, and as a Haskell newbie it points out a lot of facets within the language I
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by thelambentonion 11y ago
While I can't comment directly on what hiring at SpaceX looks like internally, I can say that many experienced members of the aerospace community are not interested in working at them for a variety of reasons. High up on this list is p
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by thelambentonion 11y ago
People like to criticize Dropbox's appointment of Condoleezza Rice for much more substantial reasons than American party politics. 'Drop Dropbox' [1] offers an overview that, while biased, does address that accusation in part
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by thelambentonion 11y ago
Funny anecdote: where I work, one of our departments had a model we used to predict the working characteristics of our most popular product. Over time, we noticed that real-world data deviated from our calculations, so the model was regular
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by thelambentonion 11y ago
This does NOT suck. General aviation is a fairly risky activity, and usually the pilot (and friends of the pilot) accept that risk when flying. With a service like Flytenow it's possible (in my opinion probable) that 'enthusiasts&
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by thelambentonion 11y ago
I strongly suspect that I have ADD/ADHD (and I'm looking for a good psychiatrist in my area to discuss this with now), and I fully agree with you. However, in life and at work, there are many instances where I need to do thing
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by thelambentonion 11y ago
I believe GP is referring to 'Universal Basic Income' [1], however I've never seen it referred to as 'UBI' before. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
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by thelambentonion 11y ago
> They decided not to pay artists for a trial period... Small nit to pick on this one, but presumably Apple had negotiated this with the artists' labels. My (totally unfounded) assumption is that record labels saw the return on Appl
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by thelambentonion 11y ago
In my opinion, the problem is that people going into these degree programs (CS included) assuming that they will come out prepared to work in those fields. It seems that many people who are going for a degree in CS are really looking for vo
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by thelambentonion 11y ago
I think the main issue here, as has been pointed out by other commenters, is that choice between a personal life and between work even at companies like SpaceX and Tesla is a false dichotomy. There should be no person who is so singularly
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by thelambentonion 12y ago
There's currently an Indiegogo campaign going on for pre-assembled Ergodoxes [1]. I'm not really comfortable with early-stage hardware crowdfunding, so I'll still be sourcing and building my own. [1] https://www.in
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by thelambentonion 12y ago
NASA's Sounding Rocket program used to use a system similar to the CORONA that you mention below. To my knowledge, it was retired due to the high risk nature of the recovery; there was at least one close call involving the chute line a
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by thelambentonion 12y ago
> On the other hand, you can accept that both of us (along with every human alive today) will die. [...] Why should I accept this? Humanity hasn't been improved by accepting that it was natural for people to die of smallpox, or be c
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by thelambentonion 12y ago
On the App Store's UI: For consumers using the App Store, the discovery process has been a huge pain point for as long as I can remember. Saying that the App Store doesn't scale to the >1 million apps it now contains is, in my
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by thelambentonion 12y ago
Disclaimer: I work in the space industry for one of SpaceX's competitors. None of my work is in competition with SpaceX (totally different systems), but it bears mentioning. I've also never worked for SpaceX, so a lot of what I&#
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by thelambentonion 12y ago
Adventure Time is one of those wonderful shows that evokes very strong emotions from its fans that are very difficult to put into words. I've gone through a few drafts of this comment trying to explain what I love so much about it, but
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by thelambentonion 13y ago
While I haven't had a chance to use illumos in any of my projects, the Service Management Facility (SMF)[0] and Fault Manager Daemon (FMD)[1] are two big reasons why I'm looking at switching from FreeBSD to an illumos variant for
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by thelambentonion 13y ago
The Ergodox [1] might be what you're looking for, although there's a significant amount of assembly required. It's been sold on Massdrop [2] before to reduce the cost of the PCBs (~$200 with the maximum number of people parti
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by thelambentonion 13y ago
I would personally recommend Ubiquiti or some ALIX-based pfSense router over MikroTik. They seem like a better value for the money to me.
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by thelambentonion 13y ago
The world doesn't have to stop, Twitter just needs to give the original owner his handle back. The evidence that the original owner was extorted to give it up has been making the rounds on HN for the past day or so. Believe it or not,

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