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is it possible to implement what a time-of-flight chip does in software if you have a triple axis accelerometer?
If you know the acceleration an object undergoes and it starts stationary relative to your reference frame, wouldnt you be able to use that information to reconstruct its position relative to a starting point?
PossiblyAre you sure, you are maybe not mixing two different things up? I just looked at what a time-of-flight chip can actually be, and found something that is used in laboratories for calibrating experiment results.
The usual way to measure the time of flight of a rocket is to merge multiple sensor data streams in a computer to get as precise information about launch and landing as possible, for example a switch or pull-out wire for detecting lift-off more reliably, while using accelerometers to detect ground contact (unreliable - e.g. when parachutes come into play).
Dled Orbiter 2016 for the first time since 2013?
Ran the Checklists/DG-ISS scenario just like I did way back in 2011, got to orbit and couldnt figure out why the hell my orbit kept degrading, even at 400km
Took me almost two orbits to realize I accidentally hit the hover engines key with them running at ~5% the entire time ?
With all of the high res terrain & texture packs my Orbiter install is almost 70Gb, eyewatering
Lord knows I begged martins back in the day for terrain in Orbiter, so cool to see it happen
I havent really seen it yet. Im still stuck in LEO trying to figure out TransX again, Id hoped it would all come back to me again but it looks like Ill have to read the manual.This terrain really distracts from the important tasks, right?
Had to waste a whole saturday chasing a critical bug because someone with a university degree seemed to think it's no problem to have the frontend rely on an undocumented naming convention that relied on all data having the prefix "test" in the name that stretched through several libraries and was hardcoded in string literal arguments. Like, would it have to be so difficult to at least make a properly documented static const if it was this important? Because of course I "fixed" that perceived little oversight in one library when looking for another issue, only to have all production feeds of a certain type just stop delivering data.
Like, I didn't even go to bloody highschool, but it's obvious enough to me that this is insane. Do they teach people anything actually useful at these establishements??
I took an intro CS course or two, they seemed to spend a lot of time obsessing on functional programming as a paradigm beyond the point of reason to me.Had to waste a whole saturday chasing a critical bug because someone with a university degree seemed to think it's no problem to have the frontend rely on an undocumented naming convention that relied on all data having the prefix "test" in the name that stretched through several libraries and was hardcoded in string literal arguments. Like, would it have to be so difficult to at least make a properly documented static const if it was this important? Because of course I "fixed" that perceived little oversight in one library when looking for another issue, only to have all production feeds of a certain type just stop delivering data.
Like, I didn't even go to bloody highschool, but it's obvious enough to me that this is insane. Do they teach people anything actually useful at these establishements??
In my humble opinion, there is no point beyond which obsessing over a functional paradigm can reasonably be stressed, because people will then go to write in languages not designed for it and immediately throw out all the concepts that make code so much more safe if you didn't hammer the point home to the max... It's not so much about applying everything dogmatically, as it is about applying the things you can reasonably apply, but for that you have to be very familiar with the concepts as a whole. I never want to write backend code in a purely functional language again, but the 2 years I was forced to write in clojure were the most valuable coding lessons in my entire life.I took an intro CS course or two, they seemed to spend a lot of time obsessing on functional programming as a paradigm beyond the point of reason to me.
Sounds like quite a different kind of university than our guy went to. Could I have somebody from that university, please? Because that all sounds very appropriate... (though one can overdo it on the documentation front IMHO. I tell my developers that they'd rather invest time in making their code readable rather than into documentation to make sense of an incomprehensible mess...)It did stress the importance of unit tests, documentation, type safety, etc. tho
Sounds like quite a different kind of university than our guy went to. Could I have somebody from that university, please? Because that all sounds very appropriate... (though one can overdo it on the documentation front IMHO. I tell my developers that they'd rather invest time in making their code readable rather than into documentation to make sense of an incomprehensible mess...)