skovati

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by skovati 1y ago
I'm curious how many ICs are truly excited about these advancements in coding agents. It seems to me the general trend is we become more like PMs managing agents and reviewing PRs, all for the sake of productivity gains. I imagine many
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by skovati 2y ago
Congress hasn't actually agreed on a FY2025 budget though right? We're just running on Continuing Resolutions currently. So the budget is actually subject to change when this CR runs out March 14th.
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by skovati 2y ago
reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by skovati 2y ago
If you haven't already, look into the avionics and flight software of the Ingenuity helicopter. First time Linux ran on Mars!
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by skovati 3y ago
Interesting note about this: the speed of sound on Mars is only ~70% of that on Earth, due to less atmospheric density. Might change your Mach numbers!
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by skovati 3y ago
Signal does have offline backup support though? https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
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NASA Launches Psyche Metal Asteroid Mission(nytimes.com)
2 points by skovati 3y ago|0 comments
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by skovati 3y ago
FWIW, Java does have the "final" keyword.
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NASA to Release, Discuss Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Report(nasa.gov)
4 points by skovati 3y ago|1 comments
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by skovati 3y ago
My philosophy has been to let the distro package manager handle system packages (kernel, OpenSSL, etc) but then use flatpak [1] to install user progs like Chromium and VSCode so I get bleeding edge releases and sandboxing. [1] https:/
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by skovati 3y ago
FWIW, musl has implemented DNS-over-TCP recently [1], so future Alpine releases shouldn't have DNS issues in k8s anymore. [1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/tsc/-/issues/43#note_2...
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by skovati 4y ago
Interesting read on the official golang.org proxy DoSing git.sr.ht https://sourcehut.org/blog/2023-01-09-gomodulemirror/
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by skovati 4y ago
They've recently built their own proxy [1], not sure how much of their total traffic it handles though. [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-t...
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by skovati 4y ago
Essentially, energy is carried throughout a circuit by the electric field created by a voltage differential, not by electrons pushing other electrons like how sound is transmitted through a medium. So signals propagate on the same order of