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by spiritplumber 2248 days ago
Hey, I'm old and operate in a space where most things run at single Mhz speed (but have to work underwater, in a vacuum, and other interesting places).

What does your service do? Is it like VNCing into my dev box in the shop, except (I hope) more responsive?

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That sounds really interesting. Where do you work?
I’d guess he’s a spacecraft engineer who does work in a neutral buoyancy tank. In the Us that usually means NASA/Johnson. That or he’s a spacecrqft engineer at a contract firm that picks up side projects doing underwater automation work, which is not that uncommon in this small field. Oceaneering Space Systems, for example.
The second one. I've done a couple things at NASA/Ames and it has been generally fun, although there have been a couple of weird episodes (Like me not being authorized to check out stuff from my own repository due to not being a US citizen, and being told that it wasn't a unique case).