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Are you saying that it’s impossible for the lack of persistence or focus to be problematic in someone’s life?

This happened to me a couple months ago. My Facebook account was disabled, as well as my instagram account, since it was connected to the Facebook account. No explanation, and no p…

I work at NASA and I review SBIR proposals from time to time. Most proposals are pretty mediocre. Some are physically impossible. Coherent writing and formatting helps. Clearly exp…

Are you suggesting 85 year olds typically have more wisdom and are less easily fooled by things?

IPv4 + all the other stuff you need to actually make it work in the real world actually seems more complicated than IPv6 to me. Maybe they’re comparing the minimal implementation o…

Project managers are right until proven wrong, and engineers are wrong until proven right.

Rickover: Did you do your best? Carter: No, sir. I didn't always do my best. Rickover: Why not?

What makes you think an LLM is internally consistent?

I guess if one color pixel was significantly less efficient, and that color was also overrepresented on the display, then MAYBE changing to grayscale would require slightly less po…

Every single example given under “In Chinese, affirmation is often compiled through negation:” sounds completely natural to me, as a midwestern American English speaker. However th…

Option 1 isn’t really an option, unfortunately. There are no viable single launch options using it. So it’s really SLS x 2. But building and launching one SLS at a time is almost t…

I think we use the same PPBE process at NASA. Many of the systems and procedures that NASA uses are are defense-derived. If it's anything like what we do, then it's a total mess an…

I'm a NASA civil servant and I'm regularly involved with SBIR contracts. While there are definite wins that make the SBIR program feel totally worth it, those are probably exceptio…

As a NASA employee, I think this is extremely true. I would bet most of the second group doesn’t or even comprehend that they’re doing it.

It’s amazing how many times I search for some space-related technical thing and I end up with a paper from NASA Glenn (used to be Lewis)

NASA was originally formed as NACA to research aeronautics technology and help advance our uncompetitive nascent aerospace industry. Building spacecraft and space transportation sy…

The mars probe unit problem was mismatched between different software programs. One was telemetry reported by the spacecraft to the ground, the other was software on the ground tha…

I work at NASA in tech development and I have found that we have a lot of poor quality support service contracts. The faceless contracting companies supply staff that technically f…

Well, there still isn't. It's not really a new line, just an indirect connection via existing high speed lines that takes over 8 hours. I don't think that's gonna be very competiti…

They stated a hypothesis and asked if anyone had collected data that could support it. You responded by asking that person if they have any data. Perhaps you scored poorly on readi…

And that’s not really the same thing. Did someone invent the LED bulb in 1920 and that cartel crushed it? Not really. In reality, the biggest problem was they had no incentive to i…

So far it has definitely saved me a lot of time googling api docs and stackoverflow for me. Anything that requires applying things in novel ways that doesn’t have lots of examples …

Are you saying that the universe cannot be represented by mathematics? I imagine you could use that argument to shoot down pretty much any explanation.

Probably the same reason the Space Shuttle wasn't cancelled even through pretty early on it was clear that it didn't make sense. Upper management decisions are seldom made for good…

I used to see it more like that. But the reality is that one of those candidates is going to get elected whether you vote or not. So not voting is basically just letting other peop…