"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
03/29/2020 at 19:55 • Filed to: Spacelopnik
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
03/29/2020 at 19:55 • Filed to: Spacelopnik | 0
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Two links caught my attention this evening.
This company is preparing a commercial time-sharing service for satellites:
https://www.exodusorbitals.com
Conversely, Amazon is added to its suite of cloud (ha!) services with antennas and compute services to allow you to manage your existing satellites.
https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/
We live in exciting times. Rather too exciting, in too many ways, but still, welcome to the future.
AestheticsInMotion
> Just Jeepin'
03/29/2020 at 19:59 |
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Ah yes, I have been thinking lately that I need a better software solution to handle all of my satellites
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Just Jeepin'
> AestheticsInMotion
03/29/2020 at 20:03 |
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I just want a good camera up there I can use to scope out some interesting back roads during the winter, when the tree cover isn’t a problem.
PyramidHat
> AestheticsInMotion
03/29/2020 at 20:19 |
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I’ve been tracking my satellites with an Excel spreadsheet and it’s a bitch...
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AestheticsInMotion
> PyramidHat
03/29/2020 at 20:22 |
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I’ve learned that you can say you do literally anything with an E xcel spreadsheet and get away with it. People just nod and I imagine their internal dialouge is something like ”this guy obviously knows what he’s talking about”
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Just Jeepin'
> AestheticsInMotion
03/29/2020 at 20:29 |
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A friend of mine once wrote a web server using PostScript; sent the job to the printer and then queried it with a browser.
Now I’m wondering whether I could write a web server using Excel VBA...
SiennaMan
> Just Jeepin'
03/29/2020 at 20:41 |
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Amen to this. Excellent idea, especially if it is one of those that can see changes in elevation as well..
Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> AestheticsInMotion
03/29/2020 at 20:59 |
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Back in 1987 I built an ERP system using Excel. This is literally true: it was my first job out of college.
The company I worked for had bought their first computer, an Apple Macintosh, and didn’t have any budget left over to buy, y’know, *software*. So their industrial engineering intern got to do whatever he could using only what came pre-loaded. Four months and 4500 lines of Excel Macros later (Excel didn’t come with Visual Basic back then), they had a system which tracked Work In Progress through the factory, forecast production output, and generated component orders based on BOMs and demand forecasts.
One of my proudest career moments came a few years later when I was talking to a friend’s dad who ran a computer store in the small town this business was in, and he told me he’d been called in two years after my internship finished to fix their broken ERP system. Turned out it had only broken because the backups had filled up the hard drive - my lashed up mess had been running quite happily all that time with no need for anyone to touch it.
On the other hand, I’ve recently had to explain to one of our customers that no, you can’t run arbitrary pivot tables on 4.5 * billion* rows of data using Excel...
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Just Jeepin'
> SiennaMan
03/29/2020 at 21:05 |
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I looked for prices online; the cheapest I can find is $1/km^2. I won’t be making my own satellite image of my state any time soon.
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Just Jeepin'
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
03/29/2020 at 21:30 |
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That’s impressive as hell. After 25 years in IT, I still wouldn’t know how to do most of that.
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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> Just Jeepin'
03/29/2020 at 21:51 |
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It’s amazing what you can achieve when you do n’t know enough to know that what you’re doing is hard...
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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> Just Jeepin'
03/29/2020 at 21:55 |
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One of my workmates is a real consumer tech fiend, and she’s set herself a challenge to fully automate her home using nothing but IFTTT for comms . She’s making surprisingly good progress.
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SiennaMan
> Just Jeepin'
03/29/2020 at 21:56 |
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It's a shame, especially since our next best option (Google maps) tends to leave only fuzzy details for the roads we're most interested in..
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PyramidHat
> AestheticsInMotion
03/29/2020 at 22:10 |
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I used to work with a guy that literally did everything in Excel - not just data, but also word processing and presentations. We called him spreadsheet Pete.
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AestheticsInMotion
> PyramidHat
03/29/2020 at 22:29 |
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I bet spreadsheet Pete knew Excel tricks that would blow the programmers' minds
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AestheticsInMotion
> Just Jeepin'
03/29/2020 at 22:30 |
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You’ve quickly exceeded the limits of my knowledge, but since I see “Excel” near the end I’m going to assume everything you said is legit.
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AestheticsInMotion
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
03/29/2020 at 22:32 |
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Imagine being called in to fix that and realizing it was done up on Excel. It would be like tearing out drywall and revealing a lego framework