I share the same sentiment! I also worked at Udacity until 2018. Those were some of the most fun years of my professional life. It was sad seeing the original people leave and, with them, dedication to the original mission. I know some folks are still kicking around edtech ideas, so who knows? Maybe Udacity 2.0, once again focused on "Double the world's GDP," will pop up one day?
Love it! I've been evangelizing Distrobox in my lab. We do robotics and often have to interface with machines running outdated distros or outdated software. Distrobox has made it trivial to spin up containers running arbitrary versions of whatever we need, while keeping our host machines up to date. In fact, today I'm running hardware demos where I'm controlling an arm by dispatching commands through an ancient version of ROS that I set up with Distrobox.
Here's hoping we get a similar website for Artemis! How could would that be following along with the mission live with all the mission control data like this!?
To be fair, NASA _is_ probably reviewing the high res imagery before releasing it, but for a much more mundane reason than any conspiracy theory. A lot of contractors worked on Orion. NASA is responsible for not accidentally leaking any trade secrets that may be visible in imagery.
If the fundamental delay to NASA releasing images is leak of proprietary data, that is a pretty good argument against the continued existence of NASA as a public agency.
There is an enormous spectrum between "we cannot release some proprietary data from COTS components" and "we cannot release images without approval from our vendors".
(Not that I am convinced that this is the real reason why NASA is not releasing images quickly.)
Really happy to see that Lenovo is improving Linux support.
I picked up my first ThinkPad, an X1 Carbon with a i7-10710U and touchscreen, on sale last year and installed Manjaro Linux (with a vanilla Gnome DE). It's not a perfect hardware/software integration - the fingerprint reader doesn't work and neither does the onboard mic with the 5.4 kernel - but otherwise this is one of the best laptops I've ever used.
I don't think of it as a workstation. It's a portable premium keyboard with a decent screen attached. It's been great for light web dev and long form typing on the ~go~ couch. It barely weighs anything in my bag. Battery life on Linux is comparable to what I was getting on Windows, which is ~8 hours for light use.
Speaking of batteries, I had some issues with my battery not being recognized recently (it started by randomly reporting 0% charge before the machine started refusing to charge it altogether). The Lenovo support experience was surprisingly fast. I dropped off the machine at FedEx on a Tuesday morning and it was back in my hands by that Friday afternoon.
If you're thinking about going down the same path, my advice is that the Arch wiki is your friend.
Totally possible! I went from zero to being employed as a web developer in about 6 months (no bootcamp). Over those six months, all I did was code.
Wake up - read about code.
At work - find good excuses to do my job with code.
Come home from work - code.
After dinner - code.
Before bed - code.
And so on. I also got lucky because I found a couple engineers at my company who were willing to mentor my early projects. What kept me going was finding projects I thought were interesting and challenging and learning everything I could to solve them.
As a lot of commenters have said, we're all learning all the time. The learning never ends! There's never a better time to start than now!
