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New comment by anogrebattle in "Calculus with Julia"

anogrebattle — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:40:51 +0000

Yes, in the aerospace industry. We love it.

New comment by anogrebattle in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

anogrebattle — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:20:33 +0000

Very neat project. Just in English though? Any plans for questions in other languages?

New comment by anogrebattle in "Bluefin LTS Is Released"

anogrebattle — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 23:59:44 +0000

Same but for Kinoite and Aurora. I recently rolled my own image off Kinoite using the template you linked. I highly recommend it! It’s fun, pretty straightforward, and it feels good to have a custom base for your exact needs.

New comment by anogrebattle in "Apollo Lunar Surface Journal"

anogrebattle — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:30:57 +0000

If you want to enjoy more Apollo history, definitely visit https://apolloinrealtime.org/

New comment by anogrebattle in "Accenture to Acquire Udacity"

anogrebattle — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 01:24:35 +0000

I share the same sentiment! I also worked at Udacity until 2018. Those were some of the most fun years of my professional life. It was sad seeing the original people leave and, with them, dedication to the original mission. I know some folks are still kicking around edtech ideas, so who knows? Maybe Udacity 2.0, once again focused on "Double the world's GDP," will pop up one day?

New comment by anogrebattle in "Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal"

anogrebattle — Mon, 15 May 2023 12:44:02 +0000

Love it! I've been evangelizing Distrobox in my lab. We do robotics and often have to interface with machines running outdated distros or outdated software. Distrobox has made it trivial to spin up containers running arbitrary versions of whatever we need, while keeping our host machines up to date. In fact, today I'm running hardware demos where I'm controlling an arm by dispatching commands through an ancient version of ROS that I set up with Distrobox.

New comment by anogrebattle in "Apollo 13 in Real Time"

anogrebattle — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 02:13:41 +0000

Amazing! Is your team hiring? :)

New comment by anogrebattle in "Apollo 13 in Real Time"

anogrebattle — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 15:49:10 +0000

Here's hoping we get a similar website for Artemis! How could would that be following along with the mission live with all the mission control data like this!?

New comment by anogrebattle in "NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles above the surface"

anogrebattle — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:39:40 +0000

To be fair, NASA _is_ probably reviewing the high res imagery before releasing it, but for a much more mundane reason than any conspiracy theory. A lot of contractors worked on Orion. NASA is responsible for not accidentally leaking any trade secrets that may be visible in imagery.

NASA Astromaterials 3D: Use WebGL to peer inside NASA's space rock collections

anogrebattle — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:33:46 +0000

Article URL: https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/astromaterials3d/index.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25434048

Points: 4

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New comment by anogrebattle in "Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux"

anogrebattle — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:29:03 +0000

Really happy to see that Lenovo is improving Linux support.

I picked up my first ThinkPad, an X1 Carbon with a i7-10710U and touchscreen, on sale last year and installed Manjaro Linux (with a vanilla Gnome DE). It's not a perfect hardware/software integration - the fingerprint reader doesn't work and neither does the onboard mic with the 5.4 kernel - but otherwise this is one of the best laptops I've ever used.

I don't think of it as a workstation. It's a portable premium keyboard with a decent screen attached. It's been great for light web dev and long form typing on the ~go~ couch. It barely weighs anything in my bag. Battery life on Linux is comparable to what I was getting on Windows, which is ~8 hours for light use.

Speaking of batteries, I had some issues with my battery not being recognized recently (it started by randomly reporting 0% charge before the machine started refusing to charge it altogether). The Lenovo support experience was surprisingly fast. I dropped off the machine at FedEx on a Tuesday morning and it was back in my hands by that Friday afternoon.

If you're thinking about going down the same path, my advice is that the Arch wiki is your friend.

New comment by anogrebattle in "Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?"

anogrebattle — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 23:55:32 +0000

Love that the author recorded a YouTube summary. This is something more people should start doing!

New comment by anogrebattle in "Ask HN: Is there a way I can learn programming within 4 months?"

anogrebattle — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:59:38 +0000

Totally possible! I went from zero to being employed as a web developer in about 6 months (no bootcamp). Over those six months, all I did was code.

Wake up - read about code. At work - find good excuses to do my job with code. Come home from work - code. After dinner - code. Before bed - code.

And so on. I also got lucky because I found a couple engineers at my company who were willing to mentor my early projects. What kept me going was finding projects I thought were interesting and challenging and learning everything I could to solve them.

As a lot of commenters have said, we're all learning all the time. The learning never ends! There's never a better time to start than now!