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Hopefully we can move to a micro solar system where everyone is responsible for a fraction of the generation and storage

Sorry, that doesn't look like a walnut desk. That looks like stained pine wood.

No, this is really the whole point of an RTOS. It can preempt low priority tasks to respond to critical events.

Sadly I think not. They had their opportunity in 2020.

Amazing article, thanks! However, I think when you said "...heat was transmitted by convection through the metal plate inside each page...", you probably meant conduction, right?

Convective heat transfer in metal would be a worrying event on the Space Shuttle!

SpaceWire is also just LVDS with an uber-minimal routing protocol. It runs on a lot of satellites.

When you get to the really tightly controlled industries, your "formal" language becomes carefully structured English.

Oh almost certainly. PROCHOT is programmable.

I have these taped up above my desk at work. I've been able to point to at least half of them from one time or another

I'd like to see a prison sentence for corporations.

Wow, this could be quite useful for poking at the head unit in my car. It's also running QNX.

Absolutely. If you look at an extensively used standard like DO-178C for avionics, it really says very little about how to program. Instead, the emphasis is on making sure that the software has implemented system level requirements correctly.

Ah, not coming to the US.

Framing "less code written" as a trade-off is a red flag to me. Anyone who judges productivity by lines of code written should inquire with me about a limited time, fantastic deal on a bridge...

For the past 10 years, I've worn a slide rule every day. It's a small circular one modeled after the E6B aviation slide rule, with markers for common aviation conversions.