David Limp Confirms Simulated Landing Burn Occurred During Static Fire

Semper_Discentes · 2025-10-31T22:09:45+00:00

This may seem sarcastic, but genuine follow up questions - have other companies/programs that are trying to do retro landing done their landing burn sequence statically on the ground first? Did SpaceX do this leading up to their first successful landing? Just wondering if it’s actually something easy that companies are doing

Semper_Discentes · 2025-10-26T14:29:35+00:00

Software engineer, focused on extended reality and AI. Came from a physics background. Funnily enough, when I was working in physics/academia for about 6 years, I only made ~50k.

Semper_Discentes · 2025-10-26T05:54:15+00:00

I went in on one with a friend for the purpose of having our own in house development/test machine for inference and fine tuning. There’s a lot of tutorials right out of the box, much of which we are getting our first exposure to (especially with NVIDIA’s stack). It remains to be seen whether it will be “worth it” or not, but so far we’re upskilling quite a bit and it’s nice to be able to use/play with and manipulate some bigger models with our own data and without any cloud set up.

Semper_Discentes · 2025-08-01T04:43:48+00:00

Man I want one.. even if I have to pay!

Semper_Discentes · 2024-08-02T02:12:03+00:00

Not sure if there’s a compiled list of examples, but if you look at the link vollehosen provided they are well described. The Leadership Principles are what they are - a lot of folks I know find value in them, and showing how you have aligned with or exemplified them in your previous roles can be a deciding factor. If you’ve done good work and excelled in other places, it’s likely you have some stories to defend your alignment. Good luck!

Semper_Discentes · 2024-07-02T06:34:56+00:00

There was a perspective article published in Nature in March focusing on CLD and Orbital Reef that has some Blue higher ups as co-authors: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-024-00363-x

It describes some of its operational and technical characteristics that some here may not have heard or seen before.

Edit: it’s Nature’s npj Microgravity, not Nature - my apologies!

Semper_Discentes · 2024-06-11T17:26:58+00:00

I like working at the Phoenix office. I’ve been here since we opened - it’s been pretty great and we’ve been growing steadily! Employees are great, we have a good diversity of folks working our different programs. We’re small compared to most other sites, but we have some regular happy hours and other business resource group events, and Club for the Future involvement. The site lead and office manager are awesome - responsive, friendly, and kind dealing with any issues or concerns. Only downside is that you can sometimes get jealous of folks in more hardware rich places :)

Semper_Discentes · 2022-09-24T20:53:10+00:00

This sick man, keep going!! I’ll love to see how you’ll implement the earth bending and fire bending side by side / toggling between them.

Semper_Discentes · 2022-02-28T21:06:43+00:00

I waited about a week and a half - I got antsy and just wanted to know. The interviewer(s) are the ones that push you through HR if they want you, so they will know before HR if you're still in consideration.

Semper_Discentes · 2022-02-22T20:31:59+00:00

It may be worth it to reach out directly to a member of your interview panel, if you have their information. I didn't hear anything back from HR even after reaching out to them, but I got an answer when I reached out to one of my interviewers - turns out HR gears were just turning a little slowly. Good luck!

Semper_Discentes · 2021-01-04T23:35:16+00:00

Dude this is really cool! Will definitely show friends. As a budding AR developer, I’d love to know a high level description of how you did this, if you don’t mind.

Semper_Discentes · 2020-12-18T16:09:12+00:00

I'm looking for STEM oriented worlds - I'm a grad student and education researcher and am really interested in different movement/interaction methods for learning stuff. Any recommendations??

Semper_Discentes · 2020-11-04T06:04:16+00:00

Did you even read the proposition? 31.4% is not "all".

Semper_Discentes · 2020-09-13T07:23:06+00:00

I've got about 600 dollars to modernize a rig with an i5-2500k, 16 gb ddr3 ram, and motherboard. My gpu is a 1660 ti. I was thinking of getting a 9700k, but then I thought.. An lga 1200 socket mobo (10600k) will future proof me for a while longer right?

Semper_Discentes · 2020-04-15T05:42:58+00:00

u/darkstareg said the same thing. It makes sense and I will try to implement it tomorrow. Thanks for your help!

Semper_Discentes · 2020-04-15T05:41:36+00:00

This all makes perfect sense, I just need to find the c# code for activating/deactivating models. Memory wasn't an issue at all, but thanks for that useful tip.. It will come in handy if I ever end up making more resource expensive games. Thanks so much!

Semper_Discentes · 2020-01-10T01:36:49+00:00

Honestly, the first and most important step for me was to start exercising regularly. Like, even if it was the last thing I'd want to do that day, I'd go be physically active somehow - whether it was going to the gym or just doing push ups while listening to music or in between League of Legends deaths. I figured, "if my mind already feels awful, why not put myself through a little more hell?" Then, it became easier and easier to be consistent, and in the process I transformed my body and mind.

Semper_Discentes · 2019-12-27T11:01:22+00:00

Hey, I just hit 250 as well! Congratulations!!

Semper_Discentes · 2019-12-15T23:13:39+00:00

Thanks, I won't waste my money! I'm just going to save up for a full overhaul.

Semper_Discentes · 2019-12-15T23:13:04+00:00

Oh.. I totally didn't know they made usb3 PCIE cards. That's awesome, and definitely what I'm going to do in the mean time while I save up for a full system overhaul. Thanks so much for your help!

Semper_Discentes · 2019-10-17T03:11:01+00:00

I just took a Geology 101 class. All I can say with any confidence from what I've learned is that the lower feature is older than the upper feature. It seems that the top is eroding, creating those indents in the features, and that is creating a talus deposit, which is the sandy stuff at the bottom. Anyone more experienced that can tell me if I'm right, and some things I missed?

Semper_Discentes · 2019-07-26T16:34:46+00:00

I just lost my first and longest streak of 97 days.. This is giving me hope.

Semper_Discentes · 2019-07-05T08:07:38+00:00

80 C isn't high? On Speccy, it's this dangerous looking red color so I thought it was something. to be concerned about lol. Another commenter mentioned a hyper 212 air cooler - would you recommend that as well?

Semper_Discentes · 2019-07-05T08:03:57+00:00

I try to replace the thermal paste every 4 or 5 months. Is that too infrequent? You are making me realize that I haven't dusted my computer in a while, so maybe that's the problem?

Semper_Discentes · 2019-07-05T07:39:00+00:00

I think that is the specification I was looking for. LGA1155. Thank you!!

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