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by h3half 7mo ago
Anyone who’s worked inside the sortation centers has also seen sorters crash and rip packages to shreds. Obviously that’s not “normal” damage to packages, because those things certainly aren’t getting delivered, but it’s not like these thin
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by h3half 7mo ago
They might be getting mixed up with the “close door” button, which is something always included because it makes people feel better but when you order the elevator you can choose whether it actually does anything or not
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by h3half 7mo ago
Pot, kettle
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by h3half 8mo ago
The vacuum is the problem. It might be cold but has terrible heat transfer properties. The area of radiators it would take to dissipate a data center dwarfs absolutely anything we’ve ever sent to orbit
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by h3half 8mo ago
Subjectivity is implied. You’re shadowboxing against a claim that the person you replied to never made. Communication is more than the simple dictionary definitions of the words being written. And as has been pointed out, you are yourself a
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by h3half 8mo ago
There’s also the fact that nearly 1/4 US states require no emissions or safety checks whatsoever [1]. So everything is valid by default and realistically the only thing stopping you from driving a literal rust bucket, with tailpipe dra
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by h3half 8mo ago
My understanding was that each satellite broadcasts a coarse ephemeris for the whole network, and that that “almanac” isn’t accurate for very long (on the order of weeks). Without uploads to the satellites, those almanacs will go stale. I d
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by h3half 8mo ago
This is a great plot for a B movie or a trashy military action book. “The bad guys are jamming GPS uplink and we only have two weeks until the almanacs are out of date and the whole system breaks down. Millions of innocent Americans will dr
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by h3half 9mo ago
The way NASA did it for decades was conference calls. Nowadays it's Teams meetings. The outputs of the meetings are decisions that are later encoded in very many very long documents. It's just faster to hash out engineering detail
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by h3half 9mo ago
Perhaps. Sometimes the scale is "one" - the amount of engineering that goes into bespoke space missions is very large, and very little of that work is re-used for anything other than direct follow up missions
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by h3half 9mo ago
Even then... the reason we use the aero toolbox is because everybody in the aero industry trusts that MATLAB's results are accurate. I don't need to prove that the ECEF<->Keplerian conversions are correct, I can just show th
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by h3half 1y ago
I can attest to that. I was using Gemini to help with some spherical geometry that I just couldn't figure out myself. This was for an engineering system to define and avoid attitude deadzones for a system that can rotate arbitrarily. A
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by h3half 1y ago
Do you have links where I can read about that? Sounds interesting
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by h3half 1y ago
As someone totally uninformed, are you saying that all those YouTube ads about e.g. Private Internet Access (et al), which specifically cite getting around geo restrictions in the ad copy , are BS? Which sounds like a silly question (&quot
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by h3half 1y ago
They are either thinking of Vladimir Komarov (who died during Soyuz 1, in 1967 - six years after Gagarin's orbit, for whom Gagarin was the backup crew) or referencing the conspiracy theory that the Soviets tried a couple times to orbit
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by h3half 1y ago
Just anecdotal, but I've met a few hundred NASA contractors (and am one, and work on the field) and I'm not aware of anyone ever using MacOS as their primary OS. The laptops are all issued by the government (or a prime contractor
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by h3half 1y ago
My employer (a small space services company) also had issues with our .space TLD. For a while every email from everyone at the company to anyone external was getting caught in their spam filters. We eventually just had to get a .com domain
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by h3half 1y ago
I think your final sentence would be a more specific/more correct to say "five acres away", but in reality I don't think I've ever heard anyone use a furlong as a serious unit in conversation. I have heard sentences
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by h3half 1y ago
A similar interesting situation is how in some cases murdering a pregnant woman counts as a double homicide because the law includes the unborn child
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by h3half 1y ago
I must be misunderstanding because that seems like the most common morality basis in the world. People who equate running over a squirrel in the road to vehicular manslaughter (as if you had hit a human child) are seen as extremists, and so
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by h3half 1y ago
Why so snarky? It's pretty clear cko understands that and is trying to convey your exact point to the person they responded to (who made the opposite assumption)
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by h3half 1y ago
My read of the thread is that this discussion is specifically about Microsoft Copilot, not GitHub Copilot. Which I guess just goes to show how confusing Microsoft insists on making its making scheme
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by h3half 1y ago
Do you expect coffee from fast food restaurants to be hot enough to send you into shock? That whole incident is a great example of a story confirming peoples' assumptions (frivolous lawsuits are everywhere) despite not being an example
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by h3half 1y ago
>Sorry Apology accepted. If you wrote anything after the apology you'll have to have your AI talk to my AI because I didn
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by h3half 1y ago
This is very true; I've experienced both extremes. In one neighborhood there was a yearly block party where we closed the street and cooked out, kids played together in the street consistently and visited each others' houses, neig
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by h3half 1y ago
This is also extremely extremely common in engineering services contracts, both for government and private sector contracting. RFPs (or their equivalent) will specifically lay out what level of effort is expected and will often denote effor
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by h3half 1y ago
Why are you commenting to disagree with something the parent comment didn't say?
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by h3half 2y ago
Not really, yes (though possibly not for the actual landing, depending on accuracy), and it's actively being worked on: https://www.intuitivemachines.com/post/nasa-awards-intuitive... IM didn't win the contac
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by h3half 2y ago
They'll be using sidelobes. This is what's done at geo altitude which is also above the GPS orbits. At geo the commercial satellite I worked with had position accuracy within about ten meters, and we always had access to 6-8 GPS s
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by h3half 2y ago
Seconding GMAT. It's a distant third in the space in terms of adoption (behind FreeFlyer which is itself (anecdotally) far behind STK) but as a GN&C contractor I've used GMAT over FF and STK for a few jobs. Particularly when i

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