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kejaedon Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise

Yes, you can add it to Control Center

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT212775

kejaedon Using a "proper" camera as a webcam

At work we had to create a streaming setup to provide remote training to a customer on the other side of the world that involved parachute packing & guided drone integration. Stuff that was usually done in person but due to the pandemic traveling was not an option at that time.

vdo.ninja and a couple of iPod Touch's (RIP) were really useful to give the trainers the ability to walk around the parachute loft to get up close and personal with a specific set of equipment. Combined with OBS, some powerpoint plug-ins, and vdo.ninja, we were able to bring something together that worked really well in no time at all.

kejaedon Ask HN: Where's that waitlist for a free G Suite transition?

Good question, still waiting and looking...

kejaedon EBUG: The NHL's emergency backup goalie rule

Thanks for posting. We watched the retrospective as a family with breakfast today.

kejaedon The Apple M1 Ultra Crushes Intel in Computational Fluid Dynamics Performance

This ExtremeTech post is a link to the hrtapps post that was discussed last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31195914

kejaedon Ask HN: What Happened to Evernote?

Apples built in Notes app does pretty well these days.

kejaedon NSA employee indicted for transmission and retention of defense information

It’s a little more than “letter of the law” when he’s using a personal email address for NSA work, and also sending anything classified outside of official channels. He definitely knew better.

kejaedon Using FujiFilm SDK on a Camera Voids Its Warranty

https://cascable.se/ios/

For those looking to use something in between some of the horrible official camera apps and implementing something with this SDK, Cascable is really quite nice. I find it well worth the subscription.

Before the official SDK came out, I tried using this project that was working on reverse engineering the protocol for Fuji cameras:

https://github.com/hkr/fuji-cam-wifi-tool

Alas, I’m working with an X-T2 and it is not supported by the official SDK.

kejaedon Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

same, what a pain.

kejaedon Ask HN: Please recommend a free online movie/documentary

AlphaGo - The Movie https://youtu.be/WXuK6gekU1Y

kejaedon $2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles from Cash

So which one was it? :)

kejaedon Recording 660FPS Video on a $6 Raspberry Pi Camera (2019)

An approach I’ve seen used in the past was to add lines to the video frame and write other sensor data in “extra” lines in the frame before writing to disk. You can then parse the data after the fact and know what the sensor data was for each frame.

kejaedon An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib

Some scripting and PlantUML might work.

kejaedon Google Cloud and Space X Partner on Starlink

When I read this partnering announcement I can’t help but wonder how related this might be to Amazon’s Ground Station product. The cloud competition is expanding to space.

https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/

kejaedon Gnuplot is not GNU

/. was done in this vein.

fp!

kejaedon Ask HN: Any programmers making a living off of GitHub Sponsors and/or Patreon?

The novel feature for this is the Immediate Mode GUI paradigm

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki#about-the-imgui-paradi...

kejaedon Ask HN: Startup that was selling plots of Fiber Optic Installation

https://www.wifidabba.com/

kejaedon Vizy, an AI Camera for the Pi

https://hackaday.com/2019/08/10/660-fps-raspberry-pi-video-c...

kejaedon Ask HN: Pivoting from Medical Device to Aerospace Industry

I also realized my comment assumed you were in the USA. If not, I think it will be tough to get in at SpaceX specifically due to ITAR restrictions, which are a whole other new layer of 'fun' in aerospace and defence.

kejaedon Ask HN: Pivoting from Medical Device to Aerospace Industry

Hey Astro, I’ve often looked and thought about the jump the other way from aero to medical, thinking the same thing about the dev and quality processes.

What pops into my head is to start reaching out to SpaceX. Their job posts indicate they will hire smart people and get them to work. The formal high design assurance type work from your medical experience will be a plus for sure. Step one just start reaching out.

Step two would be working on the background to explain why the medical SW experience is transferable. Know the DO-178C, DAL, ARP4754 buzzwords and flows, and I’d say even how the equivalent medical ones you are familiar with map over. This could even be a series of blog posts for you. It’ll show your communication abilities, your experience in the med side of things and then that you are working on the jump to aero.

It’ll form a good base for your knowledge, be a talking point when trying to make contacts and then in any interview. A banner at the top of the blog “I’m making the jump to aerospace, get in touch to hire me!”

But in the end at any established company, all the processes will be in place. If you join a 10 person startup then that would be tougher but that can come after a couple years at SpaceX. But I don’t have to tell you this part with your medical industry experience.

Good luck, feel free to reach out.

kejaedon Gyroplane Accidents 1985-2005

We feel the same way about auto gyro based cargo delivery

https://www.mmist.ca/cq-10.html

kejaedon Ask HN: How often do You write a comment/reply to this forum but not submit it?

kejaedon How to be more productive without forcing yourself

Do you have any specific type of professional to suggest?

kejaedon PixelCraft: A Pixel Art Editor

This is really nice. I have a long term not moving very quickly project that has a robot making skittle art and always had an idea to add a front end to let people design a 16x16 drawing online that the machine would “print”. This would work great for that...

kejaedon Ask HN: Who would like to see an on-premise issue tracker?

We’ll need to migrate to something new over the next couple years. We need on-prem due to the military nature of our business. What we’re really going to miss are the workflows that we just finished implanting a huge amount of engineering process in. Honestly the EOL was personally devastating (at least work-wise).

kejaedon Ask HN: Best Apps/Systems to Organize Reading Material

I started using Zotero this year and have been really happy with it.

https://www.zotero.org/

kejaedon Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (1987) [pdf]

Ad-hoc is a great term for this, thanks.

kejaedon Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (1987) [pdf]

This is perfect, thanks!

kejaedon Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (1987) [pdf]

I've worked in the past with code bases that have what were called 'state machines' implemented with at best switch statements and at worse a lot of if's and else's and some state variables.

I've also worked with code bases with a formally defined state machine object/concept, with pre-defined states, events, and state transitions driven by events.

Question for the crowd: what would you call the non-state machine state machine in the first case?

kejaedon Ask HN: Application Engineering Design Documents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-498

The lineage ends up at a lot of the IEEE / ISO standards in use today for more formal systems and software development.