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Aerospace engineer working to make aircraft greener & safer.

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nyrath, to random
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https://www.space.com/nasa-mars-sample-return-obstacles-oig-report-february-2024

swope,
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@nyrath I think the recent layoffs at JPL hit Sample Return really hard.

nyrath, to random
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I'm trying to remember old pulp scifi stories containing an old scifi troupe.

The idea was in the story, there existed telepathy and other mental powers. Some people's powers were latent, they had them but could not use them. Often were unaware that they had them.

BUT ... if another telepath tried to read their mind, they could see (internally) how it is done. Suddenly the latent telepath was a full telepath.

Can you remember scifi stories like that?

swope,
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@nyrath I don't remember any specific instances.

But I remember talking about this with friends and analogizing it to a hearing person living in a community of deaf people. When they encounter a speaking person, they probably do not understand that spoken language's words, but the tone of voice are still understandable.

rail_, to random
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IMPORTANT!!!!!!

swope,
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@rail_

sudo seek shelter immediately

nyrath, to random
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https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/it-turns-out-that-odysseus-landed-on-the-moon-without-any-altimetry-data/

swope,
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@nyrath I hope fediverse links work here

https://beige.party/@Lana/112002697606647182

swope,
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@isaackuo @nyrath I totally agree regarding design decisions. Hearing that someone forgot to switch on the lidar has me wondering about their checklists.

swope,
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@nyrath @isaackuo right, something along those lines. I want to stop myself before diving into speculation.

Yet an even a greater degree for spaceflight:
“Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.” – Captain Alfred Gilmer Lamplugh

rakyat, to random
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Someone posted this on Threads:

Header: Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Infographic content:

  • China blames feminism on foreign influence from Taiwan, Japan & Korea

  • Taiwan claims that feminism is funded by China

  • Japan blames feminism on anti-Japanese groups in China, Taiwan and Korea

  • Korea blames feminism on forces in China

Source: https://www.threads.net/@shanshan88023/post/C3vt-KKyBA6/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

swope,
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@rakyat a Japanese woman I knew who came to USA for her master's in women's studies told me that women's rights in Japan started with Douglas MacArthur and the US occupation after the war.

swope, to random
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FAA gets into environmental regulation
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/faa-adopts-carbon-limits-for-airliners/

swope, to random
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@nyrath is this sci-fi?
https://youtube.com/shorts/NHat7IaZ488?si=yd1ztgiGruYcQfR_

austinkocher, to random
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The human brain is powerful when focused, but most of our everyday work suffers from a constant barrage of email.

Email forces our brains to constantly “context shift” which has a heavy cognitive load.

Batching work (and ignoring email for periods of the day) can help.

swope,
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@austinkocher I've got 99 distracting notification sounds, but email ain't one.

nyrath, to random
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High-level radioactive waste disposal (1974)

Contains a short discussion on using the Space Shuttle to send radioactive wastes into deep space

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4313401

Click on the green "View Conference" button to download PDF report

swope,
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@nyrath interesting that the diagram shows a delta wing shuttle growing a horizontal tail on ascent.

nyrath, to random
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https://www.sciencealert.com/long-covid-seems-to-be-a-brain-injury-scientists-discover

swope,
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@nyrath it feels like we are a long way off from an effective treatment.

nerd4cities, to random
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Livestream tomorrow (Sunday), 6pm ET/3pm PT. Gonna react to and discuss the “Urbanism YouTube Has a HUGE Problem” video that LOTS of my viewers have been telling me to watch. I’ve only watched a little, so this is going to be a bit of a high wire act!

swope,
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@nerd4cities somewhat on topic... most of the Los Angeles County supervisors are up for election on 5 March. LA County has more people than 40 states. Of course, housing and transportation are major issues.

nyrath, to random
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The movie industry is going to go ballistic when they see this. The AI is capable of making movie clips in response to simple prompts.

In the sixth slide-show, the seventh clip done in tilt-shift mode was impressive

https://openai.com/sora

swope,
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@nyrath amazing. But immediately after watching these I saw a regular ad, and I can't tell if it's a real thing or some meaningless AI generated thing.

swope,
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@isaackuo @nyrath I agree, and it's also perfectly symmetric in perspective, which generative AIs often get wrong.

I guess my point is that looking at a series of impressive generated videos has created a new doubt in my mind that has be questioning mundane images.

swope,
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@tkinias @isaackuo @nyrath now I want to add "covered in excessive greebles" to prompts.

swope,
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@hakirsch I presume it's easier to go up stairs than conventional dollies, but I'm thinking it's still a challenge.

swope,
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@nyrath I fully expect Amazon to be swamped with fake items with AI generated images, if it isn't already.

dr2chase, to random
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#GoPro released new software recently for editing on a laptop/desktop, their software still sucks rocks. Does not display camera GPS or camera highlights. WTF is the point of these hardware features if the software loses support for them?

swope,
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@dr2chase I think my research team used this: https://github.com/gopro/gpmf-parser

Also, get the "Labs" firmware and the QRcontrol app. Enable GPS Time Sync.

nyrath, to random
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The Scarcity of the Long Term

The chief hurdle in constructing a Death Star is not the energy, materials, or even knowledge needed. It’s the long time needed. A society can change their mind mid-way over centuries, and simply move on. The galaxy is likely strewn with abandoned Half-a-Death Stars.

https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-scarcity-of-the-long-term/

swope,
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@LordHivemindofCeres @nyrath I don't know the artist's intention, but I just saw it as an abandoned technological development, decaying like an ancient ruin.

It reminds me of the Portal and Horizon games.

swope,
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@nyrath they write "There’s an ethical dilemma around transmitting a mission into the far future."

However, transmitting the default mission (tradition, status quo, institutions, etc.) is also a choice. The ethical dilemma is inevitable and persistent.

It think the dilemma is familiar to parents who want their children to be prepared with skills and experiences, but also want their children to have many paths to choose from.

nyrath, to random
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US army cancels the Fara helicopter program, after seeing what the Ukrainian army can do with reconnaissance drones.

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/02/army-cancels-fara-helicopter-program-makes-other-cuts-in-major-aviation-shakeup/

swope,
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@isaackuo @nyrath 😆

nyrath, to random
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Frank Herbert's DUNE and its roots in hallucinogenic drugs

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/pharmacology/

swope,
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@nyrath I mean, is kind of obvious, right?

DreadShips, to random
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Permit me to suggest the claim on Wikipedia that His Majesty's Airship Number One "provided valuable technical experience for British airship designers" is an overly sunny assessment of the featured predicament.

swope,
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@DreadShips learning things like SpaceX.

nyrath, to random
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https://www.planetary.org/articles/jpl-msr-layoffs

swope,
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@nyrath I hope all these folks land good jobs, and it looks like a good economy for them. But it's NASA's loss because they are unlikely to come back.

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