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gte525u··on I Bond’s variable rate will rise to 9.62% with the May reset
Closed end bond funds - but their price hasn't been stable lately due to pricing in expected rate increases.
gte525u··on I Bond’s variable rate will rise to 9.62% with the May reset
The treasury direct website.
gte525u··on Ask HN: How do you cope with possible nuclear threat?
FWIW, I was in the position in my mid-30s where my partner was diagnosed with uncommon type of cancer. That particular subtype had an extremely low 2/5-year survival rates associated if it went metastatic.

Most people are going to suggest avoidance strategies. That does work to an extent. You can try to firewall your personal life from work. It doesn't stop intrusive thoughts, other people bringing it up in conversation, or finding something that will remind you of it.

What helped me the most was the opposite - I took to "negative visualization" from stoicism [1].

Meditate for 15 minutes - visualizing one possible negative outcome, really live in those moments, imagine what your life would be like, what hardships you would face, what you would look forward to in that situation. After that 15 minutes, take a deep breath - and realize that hasn't happened. Savor the little joys in your life.

For my particular situation, it helped with mindfulness. I would actively seek out and create those moments of joy.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic-ebook/d...

gte525u··on Lasershark: Fast, bidirectional communication into air-gapped systems
Flood insurance in the desert may be a bad example. There is a reason Arizona has the "stupid motorist" law and it has to do with soil dynamics in rain in the desert.
gte525u··on The communications systems at the US Central Command headquarters
The plain numbers are likely the incoming lines/numbers. Like an indicator to show whether or not 'line 1' is ringing.
gte525u··on The communications systems at the US Central Command headquarters
Usually with government systems, they use a lot of commercial off the shelf (COTS) either configured or modified (MOTS) to only use FIPS certified implementation/module.

You'll see technologies like S/MIME, IPSEC, and CAC Cards or other tokens/smartcards.

gte525u··on Ask HN: What software do you use to gather requirements?
Second this - excel seems to work well unless you have a large number of requirements or you need to do multi-level tracing. Scripts can help with the later.
gte525u··on Gnat 2021 GPL Community Edition Ada 202x compiler released
There are multiple distributions under different licenses.

If you compile this source (CE) - yes your code must be GPL. Adacore's distribution is the most up to date.

The FSF distribution has the normal gcc exceptions. The FSF distribution is normally what's shipped with linux distros. It tends to be slightly older.

gte525u··on Rust is for Professionals
Certified toolchains only factor into play in DAL A for DO178. Either that or manually inspecting the compiler output and tracing it to the source.
gte525u··on NASA's Through-Hole Workmanship Req (2002)
NASA and aviation in general are later adopters of lead-free. It definitely wouldn't have been reflected in older standards.
gte525u··on Boeing quietly pulls plug on the 747, closing era of jumbo jets
The original 747-100's engines were underpowered. That's whey there's extra space for the lounge and more space. As engine technology caught up the aircraft seating increased density.
gte525u··on Wi-Fi over Coax
It could 10base2 which is Ethernet over coax. It used a different connector (BNC) than what cable boxes use.
gte525u··on Dow Falls 2997 points worst drop since 1987 crash
It's both - but the supply side could take up to a year to fix. I work a small company but our lead times have tripled.
gte525u··on uLisp – ARM Assembler in Lisp
GP was talking about common lisp. Even CLISP requires ~4MB for the heap.
gte525u··on uLisp – ARM Assembler in Lisp
They also had several megabytes of RAM.
gte525u··on The Infamous SCSH Scheme Shell “Acknowledgements” (1994)
He also wrote a chapter in the unix haters handbook.
gte525u··on The Infamous SCSH Scheme Shell “Acknowledgements” (1994)
No - I believe he's at Northeastern University. It's humor - don't take it as anything but that.
gte525u··on The Infamous SCSH Scheme Shell “Acknowledgements” (1994)
I didn't mean to imply he screwed up his life. My intent was just to convey the anecdote as I remember him telling it. I recall he referred to it a 'CLM' at that time. That was likely just his oratory flair.
gte525u··on The Infamous SCSH Scheme Shell “Acknowledgements” (1994)
He did and he turned out fine - he co-founded a dotcom and then afterwards became a professor.
gte525u··on The Infamous SCSH Scheme Shell “Acknowledgements” (1994)
I had Olin as a professor while he was still at Georgia Tech.

Below is roughly as I recall from him telling the story. Olin has a colorful sense of humor (see his usenet posts).

The anti-acknowledgements page was originally intended for his doctoral thesis. It was going to contain everyone who discouraged or otherwise hindered his efforts to degree (e.g. parents, girlfriend). His advisor talked him out of it.

Later when he was at the one of MIT's lab he puts in the SCSH manual. The manual gets printed and distributed. He doesn't hear anything. Later he gets called into the head of the lab's office. Olin comes in and sits down. The director takes out the manual and opens it to the acknowledgements section. The first question is "Who has been stealing your work?", the second one is "do you need to go into rehab?". Olin tells him it's a joke. It ended up being a career limiting move for him.

gte525u··on Zephyr: A scalable Real-Time operating system for IoT embedded devices
It's not directly derived or related to the VxWorks family - it's derived from what became Wind River's Rocket.
gte525u··on The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster (2017)
Obsolete might be a strong word, the U-2s are still in service.
gte525u··on Qatar's F-15s Will Feature New 'Low Profile' Heads Up Display and New Cockpit
The article lists Elbit (an Israeli company) as the touchscreen provider.
gte525u··on Distributed Simulation and the Time Warp Operating System (1987) [pdf]
Georgia tech at one time had code base based on these ideas as an HLA simulation architecture. I'm not sure if it is under active development still or not. If I remember right, it was free as in beer but you had to contact someone to download.

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/pads/tech-parallel-gtw.ht...

gte525u··on America Needs Small Apartment Buildings
Isn't that, in essence, a trailer park?
gte525u··on Ask HN: How to obtain a QNX non-commercial license?
Micrium has a make hobbyist/maker license as well. I just got contacted by them after putting in a license request ~30 days ago.

Did you end up doing the 30-day eval of QNX?

gte525u··on BeagleBone Blue – A complete, Linux-enabled robotics computer
The page linked seems to indicate a cortex-M3 on there somewhere. I don't see it in the OSD3358 docs or on the BOM. Anyone know if that's a mistake?
gte525u··on Ask HN: How to obtain a QNX non-commercial license?
I understand your frustration. I actually had what they called a "hobbyist license" up until 6.5. Around that point QNX stopped granting new ones or upgrades to old ones.

I'm not sure why it's still on the website or what the criteria to get one now. Every time I've tried to contact licensing regarding the license type - I've gotten an abrupt brush off.

The evaluation license is the best bet. QNX has amazingly good docs and I think it just requires a support account.

gte525u··on Georgia Tech Offers Online Master of Science in Analytics Degree for Under $10K
He was a associate professor in the early 00's.
gte525u··on Compute Card, a Credit Card-Sized Compute Platform
Intel puts out edison (headless) and joule (4k graphics). Those are their linux capable system on module product lines.
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