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Firing your subordinates because you don't like the number they report to you is how you obliterate the functioning machinery of government.

Except when tarrifs make western industry so expensive that it is no longer competitive whatsoever...

Agreed, the cost of housing is the primary driver of every other increased cost in the Bay Area except for the cost of gas.

High rent means high wages, which means high costs for business, which means high prices for consumers...

States like Texas keep housing low, which means lower wages for workers and lower prices for consumers, but I don't want us to artificially impoverish people in order to achieve the goal of "affordability."

Instead we have to lower rent without lowering income as much. This would cause an explosion in average spending power and therefore a much stronger middle class.

Great right? Yes it would be, except for the landlords, real estate investors, and middle aged homeowners who will do anything and hurt almost anyone to keep the value of their properties artificially inflated to preposterous levels. Unfortunately, those are the people in charge in most cities.

The problem is that the tools are still weak. The languages are difficult to use, nobody has made something more widely adopted than Verilog or VHDL. In addition, the IDEs are proprietary and the tools are fragile and not reproduceable. Synthesis results can vary from run to run on the exact same code with the same parameters, with real world impacts on performance. This all conspires to make FPGA development only suitable for bespoke products with narrow use cases.

I would love to see the open source world come to the rescue here. There are some very nice open source tools for Lattice FPGAs and Lattice's lawyers have essentially agreed to let the open source tools continue unimpeded (they're undoubtedly driving sales), but the chips themselves can't compete with the likes of Xilinx.

I'm frustrated that they push their product on undergrad engineering classes so heavily. Except for a few poorly taught weeks of C++, most of my classmates never leaned anything else. Admittedly, Matlab is a very good product for modeling and learning about controls, but they use this advantage to make sure all the fresh undergrads only know how to program in their product.

Welding isn't a job that you grow old in. It's physically taxing and exposes you to poisonous fumes and low levels of radiation from thoriated filaments. That's part of why kids are getting job offers, there needs to be a steady supply of meat.

They're pretty similar, but RTEMS targets higher end embedded machines and supports more common programming interfaces, like POSIX

RTEMS is under active development and is running around the solar system right now :)

I did not work on the HDA algorithm which is responsible for landing site deviation, but this technology was inherited from NASA's Project Morpheus, which could intelligently detect hazards and divert to safer sites.

The lasers are smaller and lighter than most radar systems. They're also pointed out at about 45 degrees from the lander and they're not supposed to be used for the last few dozen meters of descent.

Welp, I worked on this one. Specifically, I worked on the laser rangefinders which are under so much scrutiny. I no longer work at Intuitive Machines, but I'm certainly interested in finding out what happened to the lasers this time.

Laser is angled outwards at approx 45 degrees, I think it's well away from the exhaust plume.

the tanks aren't empty when you land, since you always want to have reserve fuel (and pressure)

Definitely concerned about the laser rangefinders not working on descent. My recollection is that they were very finnicky instruments.

A lot of discussion is happening around the aspect ratio of the Noca-C landers. Part of the reason they're so tall and skinny looking is that the lander is built around two linerless composite fuel tanks. Two big tanks are more efficient than four smaller ones. The legs should definitely be wider on the next two landers.

Meters, not miles :)

That was a separate lander, from Japan!

As a former Intuitive Machines employee, I feel obligated to correct the title! IM-1 landed on the moon last February and although it didn't stay upright, it was still operational and returned some decent scientific data.

Seeing my health insurance deny hospital claims that were pre-authorized has been insane. The hospital checked in advance with my insurance that several operations would be covered and the insurance approved. Now that the bill comes, the insurance company has repeatedly denied and denied their claims. Health insurance companies are horrible and parasitic to everyone involved.

I wish more developers knew Ada. It got a ton of things, especially its strong types, right all the way back in 1983.

I can't read through the paywall, but the numerous pictures of the skin with the metal folded in are a pretty dead giveaway that there was an explosion nearby that crippled the aircraft

Ball?

Boeing should be put under financial oversight by the US government, the same way GM was in 2008.

It's apparent that the FAA's oversight powers are not strong enough to to overcome the financial pressures of management on their own.

For what it's worth, I work for a smaller aircraft manufacturer right now. Aerospace will always be a day late and a dollar short when profit is the focus instead of safety and sound design.

Anecdotes don't equal data. "Always" and "never" don't exist in medicine. I'm sure that your experience is accurate to yourself, but these studies have to cast a wider net since there is always variability in results.

Linux real-time has existed for many years, but it's still Linux. That means that it's a big, underspecified project. RTEMS is designed for high reliability embedded environments, especially spaceflight. These systems are smaller and have very high standards for reliability and verification. Linux doesn't fit well in that niche, but RTEMS is very good.

Those are great, and I'm all in favor to alternatives to gasoline, but most people aren't buying new cars these days. In fact, the age of the average car in the US is at all time highs. These subsidies aren't moving the needle enough. The reality is that most people will simply be forced to pay more for their commute.

This is the government using the stick when they should try and use the carrot.

Without reasonable alternative such as frequent and reliable public transit or major support for electric vehicle adoption, this will hurt most Californians much more than it helps.

While I don't claim to be an expert on policy, perhaps a $0.65/gal tax which funds public transit would be a better use of this increase in cost.

+1 for RTEMS! Great fully featured RTOS

I've used Linux on the payload processor computer of a spacecraft so I know it happens :P

I've also worked with a payload running Windows Embedded.

Do these companies simply sell verilog source trees? Or do they deliver fully packaged wafers?

I recently did an interview with them and found their perspective to be a little... flippant? A bunch of screw NASA, we sleep in the office, etc etc. I admit that I only spoke with one person in the company but it was enough that I realized it wasn't the work environment I wanted for myself. Regardless, I wish them all the best.