sheepybloke

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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?

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.

It was interesting to see that they didn't show the robot folding laundry; rather, just it laying out the clothes.

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.

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.

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!

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.

The take away from the teacher graphs were very different than my take aways. The author was bullish because ~55% used AI to help prep lessons. However, looking at the graph, I would be very bearish about the adoption of AI. Most of the graphs show that a vast majority of teachers aren't using AI. This leads me to see a huge discrepancy between real world usage and the amount of money that's being invested.

As a zennial, there are a couple things that contribute: 1. No one has a car when you're younger unless your parents are well off. Most people I know didn't have access to a car until college. Makes it hard to get to parties when only 1 of your friends has a car that fills up instantly. 2. Most of your friends are online anyways. You're going to hang out with friends every night because they're on discord, waiting for you to get on and play your social game together. Why would you hang out in person if you can hang out online? You can't get to their house anyways. 3. Similarly to that, none of my friends live near each other anymore. We all moved to different cities for different reasons. So many people I've talked to are similar. It also makes it harder to find new friends, since everyone has their friends. They're just not near.

One of the coolest ones in my opinion is Xiphos Systems. Lots of cool space hardware!

https://xiphos.com/

Also looks like this is supported in Gitlab as well!

Example from the Mariner repo[1] after doing a quick google and finding a link to the site.

[1] https://gitlab.com/radek-sprta/mariner/blob/master/README.md

I agree. Honestly, looking at the most recent icons, they look like what I remember the icons from 2024 looking like. I weas surprised to see that they were not the icons I remembered.

This has been happening in the US for the past 10 years. The big switch has been away from coal and some slower natural gas generators towards more nimble natural gas generators. Coal and other natural gas generators take a while to start up and shut down (think on the order of a day), which don't work well for coordinating with renewables and are much more expensive to operate. So companies have been switching to faster natural gas generators that start up in minutes to hours to support when demand is higher.

In LEO, there is a lot of testing and mitigation you can do with your design to help reduce the chance and impact of radiation single events. For example, redundancy for key components, ECC for RAM, supervisor hardware, RAID or other storage tooling, etc.

The caveat to this is that that this also dependent on where in the lifecycle of the satellite you are at. For example after launch, you might just have your survival heaters on, which will keep you within generally an industrial range (e.g. >-40c), and you might not reach higher temps until you hit nominal operations. But a lot of the hardware specs for temperature often are closer standard "industrial" specs rather than special mil or NASA specs.

The biggest difference is radiation. Even in LEO, you will get radiation-caused Single Events that will affect the hardware. That could be a small error or a destructive error, depending on what gets hit.

How does this compare with something like IronBank? Looks like that could be a great partnership!

Same, I use bitwarden and it keeps all my passkeys in it and is available on all my devices.

I was thinking the same thing! I was looking all through the repo and site to see if they had any pictures of the apps running, or a setup using the device. To me, this is the easiest way to sell your project and show how cool it is!

Airlines will run the aircraft as long as possible. As another commenter mentioned, if an aircraft isn't in flight, it's in maintenance. All of these times it's on.

That's the example my wife always uses.

My wife was diagnosed with ADHD when she was very young, and this rise of people believing they have ADHD is something we talk about a lot. We think most of this comes from social media and ADHD memes. Many of the memes touch on things that are connected with being ADHD, but are more so just things that are human or are about living in the modern age with distractions and entertainment. People connect with these memes, and then have something that they can blame for when they forget to do the laundry or get distracted doing the dishes.

Like dexwiz says, we are not machines! And I think with the rise of social media and these relatable memes, it provides the perfect scapegoat for the distraction that is modern life.

I come from Michigan, and have found that the two fastest ways people identify me are 1) calling fizzy soft drinks "pop" and 2) that I add an "s", e.g. King Sooper's or Meijer's.

I agree! I find systems like OpenEmbedded's Yocto to be super helpful with learning how to build Linux.