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mattofak commented on UA 1093   windbornesystems.com/blog... · Posted by u/c420
nine_k · 5 months ago
What are the power requirements of ADS-B? How much more battery would the balloon have to lift?
mattofak · 5 months ago
The uAvionix EchoESX [1] claims 4W continuous and with antenna probably adds 400g (0.8lb.)

WindBorne claims "12+ days typical flight, with demonstrated capability for 75+ day missions." So 1150Wh minimum (80Ah at 4S, which is probably like 16lb.) But you're up in the atmosphere and probably need to heat that battery so... more. But we're already at 18lb additional weight... Maybe you could offset with solar panels...

But, given that the entire balloon and payload weighs 2.5lb we're already way off the edge of feasibility for an active ads-b out.

Maybe there's something that would only listen and then respond when it heard something and that would reduce the power draw. But we're needing something 2 orders of magnitude less massive.

[1] https://uavionix.com/general-aviation/echoesx/

mattofak commented on Google's Liquid Cooling   chipsandcheese.com/p/goog... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
liquidgecka · 7 months ago
As somebody that worked on Google data centers after coming from a high performance computing world I can categorically say that Google is not “re-learning” old technology. In the early days (when I was there) they focused heavily on moving from thinking of computers to thinking of compute units. This is where containers and self contained data centers came from. This was actually a joke inside of Google because it failed but was copied by all the other vendors for years after Google had given up on it. They then moved to stop thinking about cooling as something that happens within a server case to something that happens to a whole facility. This was the first major leap forward where they moved from cooling the facility and pushing conditioned air in to cooling the air immediately behind the server.

Liquid cooling at Google scale is different than mainframes as well. Mainframes needed to move heat from the core out to the edges of the server where traditional data center cooling would transfer it away to be conditioned. Google liquid cooling is moving the heat completely outside of the building while it’s still liquid. That’s never been done before as far as I am aware. Not at this scale at least.

mattofak · 7 months ago
It's possible it never made it into production; but when I was helping to commission a 4 rack "supercomputer" circa 2010 we used APC's in-row cooling (which did glycol exchange to the outside but still maintains the hot/cold aisle) and I distinctly remember reading a whitepaper about racks with built in water cooling and the problems with pressure loss, dripless connectors, and corrosion. I no longer recall if the direct cooling loop exited the building or just cycled in the rack to an adjacent secondary heat exchanger. (And I don't remember if it was an APC whitepaper or some other integrator.)

There's also all the fun experiments with dunking the whole server into oil, but I'll give you that again I've only seen setups described with secondary cooling loops - probably because of corrosion and wanting to avoid contaminants.

mattofak commented on Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide   spillhistorie.no/qa-with-... · Posted by u/Retrogamingpap
mattofak · a year ago
For it's 30th anniversary, the BBC released a free to play version: https://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2game

It is not easy; but there are hints! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3tmVKGc4dR463kWs0g...

mattofak commented on "Rules" that terminal programs follow   jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/26/t... · Posted by u/charlieok
mattofak · a year ago
In the same category of command line program guidelines: https://clig.dev/
mattofak commented on A programmable FPGA SoM in the tiny microSD form factor   crowdsupply.com/signaloid... · Posted by u/LorenDB
mattofak · a year ago
This sounds fun to play with and get feet wet in HDL, but it's only a lattice ice40, I have no idea what you'd seriously do with this. Usually ice40 are used as glue logic, or multiplexing/buffering a bunch of ADC/DAC chips so the processor can do large data transfers instead of a bunch of tiny ones.

The website claims hardware acceleration and... I doubt they got timing closure on the soft CPU at anything greater than 100MHz and you still have to get data to/from it at likely 30~40 MB/s via an SDMMC bus.

mattofak commented on Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit   spacenews.com/intelsat-33... · Posted by u/milgrim
ThrowawayTestr · a year ago
How does a satellite break up in orbit? Was it struck by something?
mattofak · a year ago
Could be struck by a micrometeorite, or if they were doing a station keeping maneuver something could have gone wrong with a thruster. (Apparently the first in it's class Intelsat-29e was lost due to a fuel leak, so maybe there is something systemically wrong in the spacecraft bus.)
mattofak commented on Guys what is wrong with ACATS   bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/martinky24
mattofak · 2 years ago
I've had to get a medallion before to move a small retirement account and there were two things I very much did not like about the process:

(1) Most institutions require you to have been a member for 6 months before they will grant a medallion. I was transferring money between Fidelity and Schwab. Neither of which have branch offices within an hour of where I live. And I only have a virtual bank. There was no one willing to give me a medallion because I have no local banking relationships. I had to pull a favour with work to get our controller to vouch for me at our business bank.

(2) I've done domestic and international wires for much more money without needing anything like a medallion. Why can't I do something like log in to Fidelity and wire the funds across directly?

(Also, have fun finding the forms required to transfer your retirement account. Fidelity at least made the process exceptionally difficult, and their customer service agents acted like they didn't know what a Simple IRA was or why one would want to transfer out. Sure there's a page about transferring, but it likes to loop you into the "transfer funds into" flow.)

mattofak commented on JITX – The Fastest Way to Design Circuit Boards   jitx.com... · Posted by u/Teever
Zamiel_Snawley · 2 years ago
Commercial license is $1000/month. How does that compare to other EDA software?
mattofak · 2 years ago
Altium is about $10k to start and then $2.5k ~ 3.5k per year depending on plan.
mattofak commented on Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs   ev-edition.com/2023/06/ri... · Posted by u/belltaco
kozziollek · 3 years ago
Offtopic: could people that write news titles please learn how to capitalize words? Or can we make sure that at AI will know it, when most of news are written by it?

Took me 3 tries to parse the title.

"Rivian Joins Forces" - is that name of an organization? - "with Tesla"... nope, that doesn't make sense.

"Rivan Joins forces" (somebody to do something), syntax error got "with".

"Rivan joins forces with Tesla" - yay!

And you know that person who wrote this knows about lowercase, because of "with" and "for"...

mattofak · 3 years ago
This style of capitalisation is called Title Case [1] and is quite common in English print media.

There are quite a few automated tools to convert back and forth, maybe a future site improvement for Dang in the user preferences.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case

mattofak commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
mattofak · 3 years ago
allocortech | Software or Electrical Engineer | Waynesboro, VA | Prefer Local | https://www.allocor.tech/about/work-with-us/

allocortech is a small company (14 people) building control electronics for, typically, unmanned electric aircraft and watercraft. Think motor controllers, battery management systems, and communication hubs. We do both commercial off the shelf sales and custom designs on request; which ultimately means that there is a lot of variety in the month to month projects.

Our vision is to have qualified hardware devices that our customers are free to build their software and vehicles on top of. We provide the initial know-how for robust, redundant, safety critical, and certified software development and have a framework they can leverage if they choose to do so. Ideally this means less re-inventing the wheel for them and more chance of their success.

We're searching for

* A software engineer competent in C and/or C++ with big bonus points for experience in writing device drivers and other low level hardware abstraction layers.

* An electrical engineer to help us do schematic capture and board layout. Bonus points if you've worked with or better: 6+ layer boards, 4/4mil rules, moderate pitch BGA (0.65mm), and have done signal integrity (less than 1GHz) or power domain analysis work.

We're hardware focused and haven't figured out a way to allow 100% remote; but if you come with ideas on how to make it work, we can figure something out. Otherwise we're happy to pay relocation costs and allow 50/50 time splits.

$80~150k full time + options based on experience. We deal with ITAR, so unfortunately US residents, green card holders, asylee or refugees only.

careers@allocor.tech

u/mattofak

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