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fsagxon Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

DHL shipments seems to still be moving OK

2025-02-08 23:00:00Processed at FRANKLIN PARK - USA,FRANKLIN PARK - Illinois - USA 2025-02-08 22:51:00Clearance processing complete at FRANKLIN PARK - USA,FRANKLIN PARK - Illinois - USA

fsagxon Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line

You were fast asleep at Crewe and so you never knew That he was walking up and down the station;

fsagxon Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

I have a jclpcb job that finished today :o

2025-02-06 01:52:00 Shipment information received,ZHUJIANG DELTA AREA - CHINA, PEOPLES REPUBLIC

fsagxon Building a Medieval Castle from Scratch

Anyone who's been there -- How would you recommend getting there from Paris without a car? the closest train station I saw was 25km.

fsagxon Jimmy Carter, the great deregulator (2023)

Reagan often gets the credit or blame for many policies that actually began during Carter's administration.

fsagxon Ask HN: What did "computer geek" type people do before computers were invented?

Ham radio, Hi-fi (often home-built stereo equipment), model trains.

fsagxon Cory Doctorow's prescient 2019 novella about health insurance and murder

https://archive.is/Utw38

fsagxon Bitcoin and Hawk Tuah Aren't So Different

https://archive.is/kNRh2

fsagxon The Fragility of Bluesky's Difference

https://archive.is/SqIdL

fsagxon How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world

Weren't most or all of these just as true before the election and even before Musk bought twitter?

fsagxon Eric Berger: Space policy is about to get pretty wild, y'all

The New York Times reported that Musk has advised Trump to hire key employees from SpaceX into his administration, including at the Department of Defense. This reflects the huge conflict of interest that Musk will face when it comes to space policy

How would this be different from the revolving door that happens in any other administration? Big names off the top of my head: Lloyd Austin from Raytheon, Dick Cheney from Halliburton, Robert Rubin from Goldman Sacs?

fsagxon Ask HN: Do you or those you know have US election contingency plans?

I know of one business in Minneapolis that has made plans (ie the communications are already written, extra private security headcounts have been scheduled) to shut down their locations in case of civil unrest of the sort in 2020. I'm not from there, so I don't know how likely this is.

fsagxon 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (2016)

(2016)

fsagxon 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (2016)

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fsagxon First images from Euclid are in

52! even has its own website:

https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html

fsagxon What's with All the Trumpy VCs?

https://archive.is/WFBAA

fsagxon Paul Harrell – I'm Dead [video]

Some really great content, even if you're not into guns I'd think. My favorite was his recreation of the FBI 80's Miami shootout.

fsagxon I Swore Off Air-Conditioning, and You Can, Too

https://archive.is/lxKBc

fsagxon Boeing, Lockheed Martin in talks to sell rocket-launch firm ULA to Sierra Space

ULA doesn't build Starliner -- Assuming that's what you mean. But ULA does launch it with the Atlas rocket (that has a very good record). I think it also makes some of the adapter bits that attach Starliner to the Atlas rocket, but I haven't heard of any problems with those.

fsagxon Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over 'harmful content' letter to Elon Musk

https://archive.is/4wPmq

fsagxon Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now

"Pre order - ships in late August"

fsagxon The News Is Information Junk Food (2022)

It's not a new observation. More than a century ago, Mark Twain observed: "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."

fsagxon A brief interview with JSON creator Douglas Crockford

I think I still have a copy of Javascript: The Good Parts somewhere around here.

fsagxon What happens to US food production if the groundwater runs out altogether?

https://archive.is/rEtVt

fsagxon Rich, western countries face a stark choice: 6-day workweeks or more immigration

"The best slave is the one who thinks he is free" --Goethe

fsagxon Fiber optic drone control beats any RF jammer

The anti tank guided missile designers of 50+ years ago would find this rather obvious.

fsagxon Banks find AML "ineffective", propose access to social media

AML : Anti Money Laundering

fsagxon Ask HN: People who were alive when walkmen were introduced. What was it like?

>I probably wore it more around school off my ears and around my neck as some sort of status symbol more than actually listening to music between classes.

My parents bought the Panasonic knock-off for my brother for Christmas and he was mortified. He wouldn't even use it, so I got it. I think most people didn't know the difference anyway. Especially if the unit was in your pocket and all people saw were the headphones.