jamesmontalvo3

It’s fascinating how different peoples’ bodies are. Maybe try a slight variation? My father in law has been restricting his food intake to 600 calories per day a few days a week for years, and it’s done wonders for him. The exact numbers might not matter; 700 calories twice a week may be better for you, for example. I’m just thinking this might be good for you if you need some constant (but low) calorie intake.

If your git history were a tree: cherry picking is ripping a leaf off and gluing it some arbitrary place on the tree, fast-forwarding is ripping the leaf off and moving it to the end of the branch it’s on, and rebasing is ripping a branch off and gluing it somewhere else.

EDIT: cherry picking is actually making a copy of the leaf and gluing it elsewhere. And fast forwarding isn’t really moving the leaf, it’s taking the leaf you call BRANCHNAME and now calling a leaf further up the branch BRANCHNAME.

You want to remove fast-forward and rebase from a graph based version control system? What would you do instead? Always merge?

Genuinely curious: what would you rename cherry picking, fast forwarding, and rebasing?

> the low performance of CPython is hard to swallow

African or european swallow?

Interesting that the bad characters are all women and the good are all men.

If I need to visualize the network of commits I use this alias in .gitconfig:

network = log --graph --abbrev-commit --decorate --format=format:'%C(bold blue)%h%C(reset) - %C(bold cyan)%aD%C(reset) %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset)%C(bold yellow)%d%C(reset)%n'' %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(dim white)- %an%C(reset)' --all

Perhaps also to enable the French to read and understand it? You wouldn’t want them just reading the gripes (which are short and simple) and then not reading the responses.

Nice. On track to beat https://xkcd.com/2014/

Perhaps there’s a point at which you become advanced enough to not need SO. I’m certainly not there after a decade of software development. Do I have to dig a bit sometimes and go beyond the first few results on google? Sure. And if that doesn’t work I submit a question. I normally get an answer fairly quickly.

I posted that then read more comments. This post is Mainer-heavy. Nice!

I grew up in Maine. The blueberry field a half mile down the road from my house was burned periodically—probably yearly but I was young so I don’t remember.

In 90 minutes the space station is back at the same point in its orbit, but Kennedy Space Center has rotated ~1500 miles east.

Approximately 36k deaths per year in the US are from traffic [1]. About 88k from alcohol [2]. Poverty and pollution is harder to pin down with a quick web search. According to [3], deaths-per-day from COVID-19 flattened at about 2000 deaths about three weeks ago. So in that time ~40k deaths from COVID. That’s with the curve flattened...with the curve flattened it was approximately equal to traffic deaths. If exponential growth had continued what would it be? I think deaths-per-day would doubled about 4 times. So 32k per day. Each day we’d be in the ballpark of traffic deaths. Wait a few days and it would have eclipsed alcohol-related deaths.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_...

[2] https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...

[3] https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en

NASA EVA Mission Systems | Software Engineer | Houston, TX | INTERNS, ONSITE, REMOTE (maybe, see below)

We are looking to hire interns who can help build several products in support of ISS [0] and lunar EVAs [1]. The primary project is working on a procedure authoring tool which handles multiple actors working in parallel. We are making EVA procedures human and machine readable, and transforming procedure authors' workflow from a cumbersome process of sharing Word documents to something closer to a software development workflow. Part of this project includes getting non-programmers to use Git to maintain their procedures without them having to know much about Git, by building Git into our application and abstracting away many of its confusing details.

We are looking for interns for summer, fall, and spring, and prefer people who can support multiple semesters in a row.

Tech: NodeJS, React, Electron

Regarding REMOTE possibilities: Due to COVID-19 it _may_ be possible to support remote hires. This is not something we've done for interns in the past, but we're pushing for it since everyone is remote now anyway. I cannot guarantee it will happen, but if you're interested in this position but can only support remotely, I recommend applying.

How to apply: NASA interns apply through a generic process, so your application will be made available to a wide range of employers. Also, like any good bureaucracy, there is more than one process for application. Here are two of them:

Application process 1: Contact Linda Drobnich at Linda.Drobnich AT sjcd DOT edu.

Application process 2: Create an account at intern.nasa.gov and search for "EVA Informatics / HHP Model - 17500". The specifics for this posting are out of date, and will soon be updated to match what I wrote above.

I recommend applying to both application processes. In either case, let me know you applied so I can look for you (either as a comment here or emailing me at <my-hn-username> at gmail dot com).

[0] ISS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station

[1] EVA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_activity

For me, I feel like it is highly dependent upon what I’m working on at the time. Some projects are motivating and 40 hours a weeks isn’t enough—I want to work more than that. Other times I work ~40 but a lot of it is wasted by by working inefficiently (when the drive to work on the project isn’t high enough to outweigh fatigue)

Supporting your position: My daughters’ preschool, in the area of Johnson Space Center in Houston, did a video of all the kids saying what they want to be when they grow up. A lot of them said astronaut.

I copied my wife’s motions when we had our first. She worked in child care for a while, and (when standing) does this sort of 2-phase motion: sway back and forth at about 1 Hz plus a up/down light bounce at about 3 Hz. Works well in my experience.

ISS is at 1 atmosphere, except in the airlock when preparating for a spacewalk.

Isn't the worse case you're describing still debt but more like giving a multi-million dollar line of credit to a person with low income? A series of small deficit expenditures eventually builds into debt that can never be paid off.

Nope, we're still using the same system. Wow...the first time I mentioned that here was 2013. Ouch. It's something I've wanted to work on all this time but just haven't been able to fit it in. Some students used it as a group project [1] last semester, though, and another group of students may pick it up this semester...so I'm hopeful.

[1] https://github.com/jamesmontalvo3/spacewalk

There is so much stuff packed inside the space station and there's such a high likelihood of things getting lost (you can't just set something down on a table and expect it to be there when you come back) that it's not surprising that things like this show up occasionally. This may have been on a lost items list for long enough that it was assumed to have been trashed at some point. Or perhaps it was still on a lost items list. Every item is tracked, and the inventory managers do a great job tracking it, but some items slip through the cracks... particularly items from 20 years ago.

+1 complexity ceiling

Leidos | Houston, TX | Full-time | Onsite

I'm not involved in hiring for this position at all, but I'm posting it here because (a) it's one of the coolest jobs on the planet and (b) I want more HN people as my coworkers.

About my job: I work at NASA's Johnson Space Center in the Extravehicular Activity group involved with the International Space Station. People in our group are in charge of Extravehicular Activities (spacewalks)[0], such as this one [1][2] that I developed in September. This group plans on-orbit activities, trains astronauts to perform spacewalks (at the NBL [3] and other facilities), and assists astronauts with execution of missions from the Mission Control Center (MCC) [4]. In addition to working on projects that you get to see played out in space, you get to do things like SCUBA dive in the NBL and train in the spacesuit (EMU) [5] yourself.

See the official job posting here [6]. While not officially part of the job posting, having a software background would be awesome; there are huge portions of our jobs begging to be automated. For example, I've long wanted to improve EVA procedure building [7].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_activity [1] https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2016/09/eva-37-first-externa... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er3WrGKilD4 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Buoyancy_Laboratory [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C._Kraft_Jr._Missi... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_Mobility_Unit [6] http://jobs.leidos.com/ShowJob/Id/1016474/Satellite-Systems-... [7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5585535

True. From my perspective (I train astronauts and work in Mission Control) it's most important to be able to quickly learn a wide range of general engineering principles. You need to be able to understand how the International Space Station works, which in some cases requires a computer background and in other cases more of a mechanical background (and everywhere in between). Astronauts are constantly in some training program learning (or re-training) some aspect of their job. In some respect they are full time students.

The stated minimum requirements and the actual minimum-to-have-a-shot requirements are different, and they are different now than they used to be. Nowadays astronauts training for the ISS need to be generalists capable of doing everything. During the Space Shuttle era astronauts flew for a couple weeks at a time, and they were able to specialize in certain aspects. This meant that some people focused on EVA (spacewaks), some on robotics, some on flying the Shuttle, etc. Now, amongst other things, everyone needs to be EVA-capable, which means everyone needs to be physically capable of operating inside the space suit. I train astronauts to do EVAs, and working inside the space suit is a very physically demanding job.

Steve Swanson is a CS PhD: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/swanson.html

Consensus view doesn't need to be presented with condescension.

While I'm an American engineer who prefers working in metric, since this is a space-related article I have to point you to this: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/69/ae/01/69ae0104b...

If they're questions others might have I'd prefer to answer them here so I don't have to duplicate effort.