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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.

No, it's really stricter than that in my experience. You verify your software against the requirements. There shall be no deactivated code, even code which as previously flown before is not safe. See the first Ariane 5 launch for a reference. I assume that is why they removed it.

Of course, this isn't to say that Boeing doesn't have much more serious problems going on, they clearly do.

NASA may be taking a different approach, but in civilian aerospace it is prohibited to have code that doesn't run or doesn't trace to a system requirement. I assume that was their rationale for removing it.

If people want to look at some Real Deal Space Code, here's some parts I like:

CoreFlight System's executive code: https://github.com/nasa/cFE/tree/main/modules/es/fsw/src

Any code from the core of RTEMS: https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/rtos/rtems/-/tree/main/cpukit...

The code isn't special but it is neat and tidy, and very very clear. It says what it does, and it does something small and does it well.

You also can't take your belongings, and people have nowhere else to put their things.

Arizona is a great case where agrovoltaics could really work. Solar reduces the sun load to something reasonable and minimizes evaporation, plants cool the air under the panels. Human / nature infrastructure symbiosis.

Because the wealth of the state is being raided and hoarded by for profit companies instead of benefitting the people living there

The most incredible wonderland for anyone doing electronics. You could spend days digging in there and always find something new and bizzare. Best part was that the building was practically a Faraday cage and there was no cell reception to help you identify what you were looking at.

I bought an old ADF there (cheap avionics), great vacuum florescent displays, tubes, reels of SMD parts I still have, PIC microcontrollers for unreasonably good prices, and bags and bags of other old parts. The back wall of the office area was entirely lined with Halicrafters S-38 longwave radios.

People who are short term homeless usually still have a friend's couch to sleep on, so they won't be victimized

That and they're heavily marketed towards their target demographic now instead of being meant for work. It's like a designer handbag for men, except that handbags actually appreciate in value.

Then we should start knocking down the less valuable office space and start putting up new living space.

Affordability is great, but it'll be dictated by supply and demand. If, like contemporary SF, supply is strangled, then nothing will possibly fix affordability.

It's been frustrating to see how the past decades of focus on the office and the suburb have left American cities so vulnerable to this kind of dilemma. There's a simple solution: create a pleasant, walkable downtown that people will want to actually live in.

Same experience at EDR. It was a great research platform, but nowhere near ready for the real world. Compute, power, functional safety... The "real" working robots of today are completely different. A successful product from EDR would have looked completely different.

That said, I love your farm robots.

I keep all my negatives because they're the physical artifacts of the experience, but they're really blown out of the water by slide film positives. Instead of the color inverse, the slide film holds the honest-to-god image of whatever you photographed perfectly. No color tricks or prints needed to display it. It will never be as perfect as digital, but it's surprising how close it can get, especially with slides. There's something visceral about holding a piece of film to the light and seeing an exact image projected right back.

Once more, this is _exactly_ why Ada has arbitrary precision decimal arithmetic. One merely needs to specify

type Result is range -100 .. 100 delta 0.0001;

and the compiler will figure out how to give you fast math with only the accuracy and resolution that you need!

Wow, this sounds pretty nice. I remember watching a MedCram video recently that pointed out that long wave IR light has anti-inflammatory properties and that modern IR blocking glass is actually depriving people of many of the beneficial effects of sunlight. If this could get people more IR, it could raise the bar for health across the board. Still, I have some concerns. It's a polymer nanomaterial, so it's probably fairly fragile. The "self cleaning" part is just that it's hydrophobic, which is nice but relies on the nanostructure. Again, probably susceptible to damage. The chemical itself, poly-dimethylsiloxane is pretty common but it appears that they're forming the nanostructures using a mould made via silicon lithography? That's not going to scale at all, nor does the coating seem durable enough for decades of outdoor use.

I only skimmed the paper so please correct me if I'm wrong but this is very far from production-ready.

Here's the paper, shame they never link to them directly: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48150-2

Horses all retired. They successfully automated their jobs and now live in a post-scarcity Horseconomy

I took a look at the press releases and I can't see a lot of information about payloads, but if they're operations were anything like Nova-C (which I worked on), then they generated lots more data on landing than they could downlink at the time.

Man, that thing keeps chugging! Great news for JAXA, I wonder what additional science they're getting out of it. I know that we would have used any extra time for further downlink. So much data, such little bandwidth!

I'm a little confused - is this just a wrapper around https://alire.ada.dev/ ? That tool itself isn't very hard to install.

I'm rewriting an embedded BIOS for an Intel processor at work and It's been a bit of a clicking point for me about how modern X86 really works. Nothing EFI or the like, but still very instructive.

Now if only I could get DCI to work...

At that point it takes such a team that you might as well bring production in house. There's inherent trust in your supplier when you outsource.

I remember 10 years ago the smog was quite rough on summer days. It's still there, but it seems less grim these days

Has anyone else had this burrito? I got it once or twice last year (when it was probably only $16). Pretty good but not exceptional. I believe the owner when he says he's trying to charge a premium for a viral product. Anyone who doesn't want to pay that much can go next door to El Faro and get a 90% similar burrito for considerably less.

A coworker of mine formerly worked on Nvidia's proprietary drivers. They remarked at just how wrong the Nouveau driver was about certain things, including the functionality and reasons for certain registers.

Simple: we have timer counters in the code. This is easier than handling them rolling over.

I'm working on an aircraft program right now. We have a requirement to power cycle the plane every N days. It's in the manuals.

While it's vital that we remain aware of any attempt to manipulate our perceptions of reality (via social media, advertising, the press, government outreach), this report reads like a takedown piece.