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The Ben Franklin effect is real! My experience at conferences has improved significantly by ending talks on a personal note and explicitly saying that I have trouble approaching pe…

1. Safe as in type-safe, memory-safe, and null-safe in contrast to the state of the art which is mostly C++, Java, and tons of ancient Fortran. 2. At the moment, we are using it fo…

Nah, not really. I sometimes wish that this was all about Rust but as of now the library is mostly being used through the Python wrapper.

We already have the possibility to get positions of celestial bodies with very high precision via JPL ephemerides but you would have to write and integrate your force model yoursel…

Nyx is the OG Rust-based astrodynamics library and much more mature. Lox started as a vehicle for myself to learn Rust and at that point I did not feel comfortable contributing to …

Oh, hi! Project creator here. I am very happy that you folks are showing interest but I am also terrified because this thing is definitely not ready for primetime, yet. The discern…

Shower thought: People vote for Trump because he is actually predictable. You never have to guess whose interests he is protecting. It's always his own. You never have to guess whe…

I owe my career to the incompetence and greed of Arianespace. For my master's thesis I reverse engineered launcher ascent simulations for ESA because Arianespace was unwilling or u…

I have quit caffeine twice in the past few years with the longest abstinence being around one year. Before that I was chugging up to four double espressi per day which I replaced w…

The French horn is a holy instrument. Because if you blow into the mouthpiece, only God knows what will come out of the other end.

A second degree acquaintance of mine in Germany had his house raided by police and all of his electronics (including his work laptop and phone) temporarily confiscated on suspicion…

Disclaimer: I am one of the (many) engineers working on the project. Before COVID I worked for a European lunar exploration startup and access to a constellation like this would ha…