So apparently Open.Space got renamed to MoonRF, because Kratos Defense owns OPENSPACE trademark, for a military satellite control software apparently.

To quote their email about it.
"To be fair, their marketing team deserves respect. Naming a classified military network OPENSPACE is right up there with Greenland, Full Self-Driving, and the Patriot Act."

The open.space here being the folks with the very interesting scalable 5.7GHz band SDR antenna array thing, suitable for EME with enough units

Just Excel fucking up simple things...

... amusingly enough, Just Today, I was talking to someone about how Excel isn't SIL rated software, and the knock-on implications if you're doing calculations on such a project.

NB: this has happened before, it's annoying... but today it even came out in a copy/paste of a column, so the data "physically" changes shape, it's not just about how it's displayed. 🤦‍♀️

Birthright citizenship is not even remotely ambiguous in the Constitution.

The fact that suddenly conservatives are so obsessed with its drafters' "intent" being different from its plain language is proof textualism and originalism were always bad faith vehicles.

I'm 19 months into unemployment due to illness, and I just got a letter that my earlier payment for storage didn't go through, and I have until the 1st to pay 2000$ or they're auctioning off my storage, which has 12 years of games & retrotech.

Any help you can spare would be amazing.
https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing/goal?g=0

#mutualaid

RE: https://social.riley.pub/@robin/116313183325858396

Age verification is simply identity verification.

The government wants to know what you read and write. There is absolutely no other point to this. That’s literally the whole point of this. Furthermore, this whole plot is being pushed by fucking Mark Zuckerberg

https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

you may fascinate a roz with even the most elementary of control systems

i had to whip up a barebones LQR for a satellite orbit tracking problem, just for comparison purposes; i sat running the simulation over & again with childlike glee going "look! the feedback makes it work better!"

ok the bit that's genuinely is amazing is how well a control system designed to be optimal for an extremely crude dynamical model still works very well when run against a fairly accurate model. i mean, we're literally talking about modeling the three-body problem as a system of linear ODES, designing a controller for the ODEs, and hoping it works with no changes for the three-body problem. it would be reasonable to expect total failure with such an approximation, but feedback is shockingly good at what it does.