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NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), is set to lift off at 8:10 a.m. EDT (5:40 p.m. IST, 12:10 noon UTC), Wednesday, July 30.

More details of the mission can be found here:

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/nisar

https://www.isro.gov.in/Mission_GSLVF16_NISAR_Home.html

https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov

Press release about the launch: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-launch-coverage-for-earth-tracking-nisar-satellite

*Videos*:

As per this video, satellite data will be freely available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwfvKO9LUnA

Promos and short explainers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AFEbG16mY4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM_0aXxGN6g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjdwdVKK11Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJLraRzWVh8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX6lL0c4vEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RclF5xRSuJA

Detailed explainers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKOZyv0Ux-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVDDcUNi_mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmGr5rT_QEQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWuxfecV3l8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtVlA0-ykO8

Prelaunch news conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEjqjv3Li8A

Live streaming links:

https://www.isro.gov.in/GSLVF16_NISAR_LiveStreaming.html

NASA's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waTmU9hyOqo

NASA's streaming platform: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nisar-launch

https://www.nasa.gov/ways-to-watch

HTH

I am interested in understanding how would a solo tech founder hire the initial sales, marketing, operations, cyber security and DevOps team members?

Assuming that I don't know anything about or have zero experience in the skill-sets I am hiring for, how does one start? What questions to ask, what to look for and where to look for the talent?

Recently I came across some data from the UK government on how many people use IE11 to access their services. The figure is around 350K. That is quite a sizeable number. The data, if I recall correctly, was from 2022.

So, I was wondering, how many of you still support IE11; and how many of your users, in absolute numbers, access your app using IE11, and what is the percentage of that user base compared to your total users?

And do you nudge your users to install latest evergreen browser, and also try to understand why they are not able to do so, and what are the challenges that they face?

A random number generator uses a seed value. The larger the seed value domain, the more unpredictable the "randomness" of the generator. The "randomness" of a generator with finite domain(even if it derives new seed values from old values) ultimately becomes predictable and hence useless.

The "AI" systems, as currently designed, could face a similar problem as a random number generator with finite seed value domain. The present AI systems are seeded with information generated by humans or derived from it. But as humans start relying on AI generated information, the seed value domain of the AI systems will become finite as the AIs will start rehashing new information from the same old values or values derived from it. Like a finite seed value domain random generator, the AI systems of today will eventually cease to generate new information. The point of intersection on a graph that plots contribution by AI and humans to the information domain is the one to look out for. At present humans contribute more than AI, but once that graph flips, then the limiting of the information domain starts.

It will be a tragedy if humans lose the ability to generate new information on their own and the AI systems become constrained to a finite information domain. The AI systems will lose their ability to generate new information. It may not happen immediately, but at some time in the future we are going to hit that point.

One of the things early-stage solopreneurs grapple with is the storage cost. And one major factor to increase storage cost is the database size.

So, as a solopreneur, what are your strategies to keep your app's database size as low as possible?

We come across some web frameworks and technologies that we think will succeed, but they wither away as time passes by and don't succeed to the level we expected.

Which web frameworks and or technologies did you come across that you thought would succeed but did not as per your expectations?

For example, I thought that Opa Lang[0] and UrWeb[1] would succeed but did not, even though the ideas were sound.

[0] http://opalang.org

[1] http://www.impredicative.com/ur

Say, I have a webapp and I decide to charge customers per month for using this app. I base my price on infrastructure cost, operations cost, labour cost, profit etc.

That price goes up as per the rise in the costs and profit margin. But there is also something that incurs cost for the app developer, and that is data retention cost. For example, say, a customer generates 5gb of data each month. And my cloud provider charges me 10cents per GB per month to store data. So I charge 50cents to that customer. The next month the user again generates 5gb data. Now my cloud provider will charge me for 10gb of data and my cost has increased. That means the price for the customer also has to increase. This will be like increasing the price of the product every month.

Is there a better way to calculate price where the customer generates monthly data and has to retain it?

Say you have built a product or about to build a product. And you have identified some prospective customers. Now you want to connect with them, via email, phone or in-person. So what is the base template you use to communicate via various channels like email, phone etc. Of course you will customise it for each prospect, but you will be starting from some base template that will be customised for each.

Say you have built a product or about to build a product. And you have identified some prospective customers. Now you want to connect with them, via email, phone or in-person. So what is the base template you use to communicate via various channels like email, phone etc. Of course you will customise it for each prospect, but you will be starting from some base template that will be customised for each.

I skimmed through Nim website and some code snippets, and see very exciting features such as macro support, pythonic syntax, transpiles to C/C++/JavaScript, no VM, systems programming language, suitable for hard real-time systems etc. So why has it not caught on as wild fire like Rust?

Also, what is its FFI story? How easy it is to interop with C++ and JavaScript?

Please could you recommend to a novice web developer a web UI framework for web browsers without JavaScript support?

I heard this book recommendation on NYT podcast with guest Fareed Zakaria. He said that the book investigates how imagined communities are formed around religion, nationalism etc. Sounds very interesting topic. Has anyone read this book, is it good?