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Re:Kerbal Space Oddities
on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:28PM (#14871459)
You need to get used to kOS scripting language but it is extremely powerful. You can script your whole mission from launch to landing to return. So it can be used for autonomous probes simulations or to automate parts of the mission (Apollo style).
Re:YouTube down?
on Friday June 16, 2017 @09:59AM (#14569002)
The productivity of the whole tech industry has just increased!
Re:Should I fire an engineer for working on his side projects during o...
on Friday April 28, 2017 @08:46AM (#14218924)
That is spot on I think, some people will spend a whole lot of their personal time on work tasks just because they like it. The issue could be with the colleagues that clock-in/clock-out and see him work on personal stuff and think they can do it too.
Google Announces Montreal Region for Google Cloud Platform
Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down?
on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:07PM (#13757363)
For some reason, reading about "believe we understand root cause" made me think of: "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."
Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down?
on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:18PM (#13756869)
* Hipchat file sharing no longer works, hangs forever
* CircleCI cannot access artifacts
Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down?
on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:15PM (#13756841)
Same outage in ca-central-1
LastPass Does Not Encrypt Everything in Your Vault
Washington Post automatically inserts Trump fact-checks into Twitter
Re:MacOS Sierra 10.12.2 Removes 'Time Remaining' Battery Life Indicator
on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:50AM (#13176835)
Even though the time estimate was not that accurate and that it constantly changed based on workload, I found it useful to get an idea of how urgently I need to plug my laptop.
MacOS Sierra 10.12.2 Removes 'Time Remaining' Battery Life Indicator
Re:Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for months?
on Saturday November 12, 2016 @05:42AM (#12937358)
Google products have one connecting line in them. They make it easy to adopt and are used to collect data. Whether it is user data or users helping in training a system (captcha, Google voice, ...)
How Riot Games manages docker containers in production
Re:Basic Flashlight Tutorial
on Thursday November 10, 2016 @09:55AM (#12920821)
It certainly seems like a basic/simple topic but it is hard to see what other branches you could have covered except maybe laser diodes. Would you put those in a separate category or they could be considered as a flashlight with a very narrow beam?
From a human perspective, there has never been a successful Olympics
Re:Show HN: Gesture controlled Smart Mirror
on Friday July 29, 2016 @09:54AM (#12186792)
It would be great to get a tutorial on how to assemble the project and how to use the software. I am also curious to know where the camera was placed on the mirror. The NoIR cameras are quite "raw".