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Elon Musk doesn't understand Sweden's unions. If he did, he'd work with them(theguardian.com)
9 points by vodou 3y ago|9 comments
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by vodou 3y ago
I really do wish you luck!
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by vodou 3y ago
I've been in mission control for a satellite when this is going on. It is the worst stress I have experienced in my professional career. Things sorted out in the end (some bias calibrations were just plain wrong). I hope for the best f
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by vodou 3y ago
Maybe I'm just old and grumpy, but the subscription business model just puts me off. Nowadays when I read about some development tool (or just any product), I start with the price page. If there are only subscriptions available I stop
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by vodou 3y ago
PLUTO is already a reference language for test and operations procedures for satellites and spacecrafts. https://ecss.nl/standard/ecss-e-st-70-32c-test-and-operation...
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by vodou 3y ago
If I mostly want to keep my own document repository (pdf, word, etc) with search ability over all included documents and, maybe, the ability to do notations, is this the right tool? If not, any suggestions?
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by vodou 3y ago
I totally agree on "One Hundred Years of Solitude". It is almost a page-turner. Don't let this list scare you away from it.
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by vodou 3y ago
I have personally removed exceptions (to be fair, it was only few) from an embedded application and introduced the -fno-exceptions flag. The binary size was reduced by ~20%, which can be important if you are doing SW updates to space and ha
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by vodou 3y ago
One thing that surprised me a bit was that exceptions are more or less recommended in these guidelines. In the section "4.18 Exception handling", it is mentioned that "most compilers provide options (such as -fno-exceptions)
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by vodou 3y ago
Most of this goes back to the "Saltsjöbaden Agreement", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltsj%C3%B6baden_Agreement . To quote myself from the other day: "Basically, the government has left to the industry
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by vodou 3y ago
The collective agreements in Sweden are pretty much a win-win between workers and employers. It is something that most of the industry and the unions care about. Basically, the government has left to the industry and unions to agree on a lo
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Shane MacGowan, Pogues songwriter and Irish music legend, dies aged 65(theguardian.com)
4 points by vodou 3y ago|1 comments
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by vodou 3y ago
You can use quite a lot of STL even with -fno-exceptions. Things that you probably need to ditch are: std::vector std::list std::map std::unordered_map std::set std::unordered_set std::sort std::transform std::merge std::string std::regex s
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by vodou 3y ago
I really love this era of sci-fi, a kind of short window between the immature boy fantasies before and the dull hard SF the came after. The weirdness, the hallucinatory, the craziness! And most importantly, so many great writers.
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by vodou 3y ago
This is partly due to less satellite coverage, something this project is trying to fix: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Meteoro...
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by vodou 3y ago
Can you give one example of state propaganda that is behind paywall?
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Ask HN: Why are decades old Gravis Ultrasound cards so expensive?
5 points by vodou 3y ago|4 comments
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It's Quieter in the Twilight (2022)(imdb.com)
1 points by vodou 3y ago|0 comments
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by vodou 3y ago
Good work Mr Ousterhout. 30+ years later Tcl/Tk is still in active use. In space industry (maybe more on the old side of the old/new space dichotomy) it is used everyday to command and control satellites (both simulators and flats
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by vodou 3y ago
I now regret making this remark. My purpose was not to be dismissive of economics as a proper science. It was just a clarification the this prize is not part of the Alfred Nobel's will, it was instituted in 1968 by Sweden's centra
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by vodou 3y ago
> except for rejecting PEP 355 which was a big mistake Looks like you are the author of PEP 355. Well, we got pathlib in the end. It's not that bad.
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by vodou 3y ago
(Sorry for hijacking the thread with a general fuzz question.) I want to do fuzz testing on a library/framework written in C++. The actual target to test against is a simulator that takes input from a socket according to a network prot
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by vodou 3y ago
Can you elaborate a bit regarding the -mflat compiler option? Why does it improve timing jitter etc? I am not sure I understand the description from the GCC docs. Is it disabling the register windows? Isn't that one of the big selling
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by vodou 3y ago
You don't normally use public key encryption in satellites, it is some sort of block crypto. CCSDS (a bunch of standards for space applications that is quite popular in the industry) recommends AES-HMAC for authentication and AES-GCM f
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by vodou 3y ago
Satellites larger than cubesats usually use rad-hardened processors, e.g. in Europe the LEON processors are quite common. These are basically rad-hardened SPARC v8 processors. They are also clocked quite low since they are often implemented
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by vodou 3y ago
Can you please ask him why he removed Jason's bass guitar! (Sorry, I had to.)
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by vodou 3y ago
My god. This almost brings tears to my eyes. I haven't played games for years. Small children and adult life kind of came in the way... I don't miss gaming that much, but I miss Zelda. The sheer perfection of the Zelda games are j
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by vodou 3y ago
A bit meta (sorry): Why do Americans keep calling it abortion clinics? Isn't maternity care center or maternity clinic a bit more suitable. Abortions is just a small fraction of what they do, at least at my corner of the world.
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by vodou 3y ago
This is pretty uncontroversial in an embedded system context. As others have said in this thread, nothing spectacular happens if STL throws, it just boils down to a std::terminate. You can mitigate this by being careful with what you do wit
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Ask HN: Is there demand for the data produced by all EO satellite companies?
2 points by vodou 3y ago|0 comments

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