marsRoverDev

I've been told that acceptable software margins are around 75%. Hardware focused yields closer to 20%-40%. Hence why there is such a strong push towards software-only.

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I fly to germany when I can, or take any other operator's train. I am way, way more familiar with Karlsruhe than I would like to be.

Dropping things is one of the primary purposes of the P-8A. They drop sonar buoys for submarine warfare.

I would put good money on the US Navy already having a map that is superior to this.

The purging has really picked up pace in the last couple of years, and I think a major highlight will be the upcoming cleansing of Place de la Concorde.

Taxis in Australia, like many other places, used to abuse their customers. Uber truly made a difference; these days, Uber may represent questionable value in Australia, but at the very minimum they managed to change the behaviour of an entire industry, which is a huge positive.

Have worked at both, Airbus pays worse but has a much better engineering culture. Also arguably, because of the location(s) the quality of the engineers is quite high despite the pay as they can afford a pretty good lifestyle.

Airbus also functions very much like a quasi governmental institution in many parts, so there's less interest in squeezing everything to death to save money.

Finally, Airbus generally has a KISS mindset, and are very conservative w.r.t change in engineering practice and tooling. When I was there we spent way, way, way, way, way more time testing than writing software - and the software was written in a way that any software engineer could walk off the street and understand it.

Oh, and quite low levels of outsourcing in critical software - they save that for things that don't have people's lives on the line.

A propos the likeness point, a question to get people's opinions. What is the difference between your skills today which lead to earning potential and an actor's likeness which gives the actor more rights to a continued income stream?

Same reason why the car industry encountered chip shortages, despite there being plenty of chips. They don't want to have to go through the time and expense of re-certifying everything due to all of the red tape. As a result, you end up with the system "that always worked fine".

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Our connectivity to mars is on the order of 12kbps, presumably better for the moon.

My other question would be whether this is due to the need to radiation harden stuff? We were developing for what effectively was equivalent to an arduino in terms of processing power due to the need for radiation hardening (and other legacy / slow moving reasons).

They probably do this because they don't want anything committed to text. It still doesn't excuse it, but yeah, they're doing that intentionally.

At a minimum they should say "this is not something you've done wrong".

Me too - ESA is a pretty heavy user of RTEMS.

My understanding of this technology was it was usually a hash or fingerprint of some form of the material, to be compared against a database of hashes of known-bad material. I doubt EU countries have the infrastructure or budget to run models across everything, no?