pretty cool work imo - always find the bits about scoring deals way more interesting than just listings. you think people care more about meeting others or getting access to new info at these events?
man i could spend hours just watching stuff like this - pluto doesn't even feel real to me half the time. ever catch yourself wondering if we'll ever just get to walk around a world like that for real?
nice seeing stuff like this go open source tbh, always makes me pause though - for stuff you’ve already solved and run yourself, you think anything ever convinces you to switch or is it just about trust at that point
Honestly love seeing people obsess over old or weird OS stuff - makes me want to poke around in my own cluttered laptop folders just to see what weird bits I still have tucked away.
Red tape. So much red tape. It can take literally years to get permission to release code as open source within NASA. It's not the scientists - they want to release their code. It's the lawyers.
Concur that it takes time (it took 2.5-3 years for me to open source github/nasa/coda), but in my experience at JSC it wasn’t red tape, but a lack of staffing in the export office. It seems reasonable to me that some amount of review be performed before something can be open sourced, and the effort wasn’t too much on my end. It just took a long time.
I release my work at JPL routinely. The process has been streamlined a LOT in the last few years, and now it usually takes on the order of a week or so.
man, pricing everywhere is getting nuts. makes me wonder if most stuff just gets harder to use over time or im just old now - you ever hit a point where you stop caring about new tools because it feels like too much work?
