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sheepybloke
·hace 10 días·discuss
It's funny this came out today! Just at lunch we were googling the highest and lowest capitals of the world. Lowest is Baku in Azerbaijan, at -28m!
sheepybloke
·hace 2 meses·discuss
> battle-tested like TLS instead of reinventing data encryption

Working in the industry, CCSDS SDLS is quite battle tested, albeit in a different way than TLS. It's not reinventing everything from scratch; in most cases, companies have common libraries and services that they've been using since the 90's that implement the standards. I found it interesting that a lot of the CCSDS standards sound a lot like internet standards because many were developed alongside the internet standards, just targeting constrained space systems rather than ground systems.

TLS is difficult because it doesn't work well when you get to large latencies (e.g. 700ms in LEO to ~1.5s in GEO). CCSDS standards target general space systems, so they have to account for that latency.
sheepybloke
·hace 3 meses·discuss
It's most likely using vxworks for it's OS, since I believe it's one of the only fully certified ARINC653 OS's for human flight. It's used in most Aircraft and space missions.
sheepybloke
·hace 6 meses·discuss
My uncle works in the industry and was getting a new car recently. His two options were all electric or all ICE, because from his experience, EHEVs have the problems of both ICE and BEV vehicles.
sheepybloke
·hace 6 meses·discuss
> But it seems that the pinnacle of human intelligence: the greatest, smartest, brightest minds have all come together to... build us another ad engine. What happened to superintelligence and AGI?

While we all knew it was inevitable, I think this quote from the article sums up the feeling nicely.
sheepybloke
·hace 8 meses·discuss
That's why I always have a clear case on my Macbook I cover with stickers. That way, I can take them with me when I leave, or take them off if I have a big meeting/presentation!
sheepybloke
·hace 9 meses·discuss
A lot of the chips have started including NPUs. How are applications supposed to access that acceleration now with embedded Linux? Does linux handle this for you, or do you need to leverage some specific drivers like CUDA?
sheepybloke
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Exactly. We've looked at using Wireguard at my company, but because it can't be made FIPS compliant, it makes it a hard sell. There is a FIPS Wireguard implementation by WolfSSL, interestingly enough.
sheepybloke
·hace 9 meses·discuss
It was interesting to see that they didn't show the robot folding laundry; rather, just it laying out the clothes.
sheepybloke
·hace 10 meses·discuss
> Switch to someone who won't? And who would that be?

The issue is that it's not as simple as just "switching" and giving another company your money. How would you migrate your 5-10 years of Confluence pages and Jira tickets if you wanted to switch from Atlassian? You're going to put all of your members through the hassle of switching a booking service/payment process? You know you're being screwed, but the cost to switch is often more than the increased cost. The modern economy is balancing cost increases to your customers with the cost to switch to a competitor.
sheepybloke
·hace 10 meses·discuss
For me, it's the first true upgrade in the design of a phone in a long time. It's not a slightly better CPU or battery, but a different way to work with this key device in my life. I think it will be the default phone format in ~5 years, especially for younger people.
sheepybloke
·hace 10 meses·discuss
As mentioned by others, I think the art world has reached a major schism where there are two types of artists: those who target rich collectors and those who are more grassroots. I've been to a lot of the larger art shows in the US and it's always amazing to me how expensive so many of the pieces are. I couldn't even justify buying a cheaper piece I want on a software engineer's salary. Instead, I've found that local art fairs have been where so much of the growth is at. Things like Cherry Creek Art festival or the myriad of smaller markets around, you can find amazing artists selling interesting and beautiful works. Between markets and social media, there's a path to being a sustainable, working artist. And personally, I think being a collector of smaller artist's prints and works is more fun than the expensive ones!
sheepybloke
·hace 10 meses·discuss
That's what our genetic councilor said as well. It's important to note autism is a spectrum and quite varied, some of it genetic and some of it related to other factors.
sheepybloke
·hace 3 años·discuss
I agree. I read most of this as an internally facing focus. I feel like now days we are so cynical. You can't take pride in your work, or want to do a good job because you'll just be "doing it for corporate profit". To me, it's more internally focused, learning and building for your own benefit, because you want to know more or do it a bit better. I think the big thing is that you're not competing against anyone else; rather, you're just trying to do and be a bit better than who you were.
sheepybloke
·hace 3 años·discuss
IMO this comment goes too far in the other direction. There is a lot of "natural aptitude" in what we can learn, and more specifically, what we can learn to do well. I can theoretically learn ballet, but I have no "natural aptitude" and so I will never be even OK at it. Similarly, my wife could try to learn programming, but her brain isn't able to make sense of how programming works. The big thing is that just because you don't have "natural aptitude" for something doesn't make you a worse human. It just means your strengths are elsewhere.
sheepybloke
·hace 5 años·discuss
Like this being tweeted: https://twitter.com/YourAnonOne/status/1445082304393719818?s...
sheepybloke
·hace 6 años·discuss
Cold light helps you wake up in the morning, since it's more stimulating. That being said, it shouldn't be harsh like midday light; closer to an in between. I've heard it described as more of a green light than blue.