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jhpankow··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
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jhpankow··on What Gets Kept
"Oh yeah. Tappets."
jhpankow··on Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Homes in the upper midwest are well-sealed and insulated. Bedrooms can hit 2,000 ppm with two adults sleeping in them.
jhpankow··on Spaceballs 2 Will See Rick Moranis Return as Dark Helmet
The flamethrower was the first thing that gave me pause.
jhpankow··on How X-Plane Works
ChatGPT
jhpankow··on Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska's Night Sky
Unfortunately Sealab 2021 was more accurate in predicting the future.
jhpankow··on Gordon Moore has died
I hope the company is not buried with his passing.
jhpankow··on FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions
I had an employer tie a forced arbitration clause to a stock option refresh.
jhpankow··on Quantum winter is coming
There was as far as marketing. My family members stopped asking me about ads they saw on TV for IBM's quantum computers.
jhpankow··on More than half of Silicon Valley residents want to leave: The mood is darkening
CA is the future. Transplants are just exporting it to your area.
jhpankow··on Economists are flocking to Silicon Valley
Yep. You can see Reed-Hillview airport on the left and 680 on the right.
jhpankow··on Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes
Is it possible that your "Structure of an inverter" image is mislabed? NMOS would be on the left and PMOS on the right. My thinking is the PMOS has the extra diffusion step to create the n-well for the channel under the gate.
jhpankow··on L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source
At my school the password was the person’s username. Someone guessed it one day. Which in hindsight was inevitable when the login screen was exposed to hundreds of bored kids every day.
jhpankow··on Meterorite chunk crashes into house, bedroom, pillow
I can't see gravity perfectly canceling out forward velocity while simultaneously contacting the surface. It would have to come through the body first. Which, I suppose, is terrifyingly possible.
jhpankow··on Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up
Clean, pure, delicious semiconductor wastewater.
jhpankow··on Reasons to Quit Social Media
The eternal September continues.
jhpankow··on Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing?
I'm sure it would make sense if you saw the balance sheet.
jhpankow··on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
Or as TFA speculates: an endemic virus like the flu that kills 10k-60k in the US every year.
jhpankow··on Tesla Autopilot thinks the moon is a yellow traffic light
just speed up a little bit
jhpankow··on A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015)
Years ago when I moved for my first job out of school I decided to set my clock radio to the local NPR station (KERA Dallas) to wake up to the news. I had to switch to a hard rock station because I'd fall back asleep to their soft voices.
jhpankow··on A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015)
If it is a female my misophonia suggests it is Mary Louise Kelly. I've gotten used to it. There is also a male voice on one of the weekend shows that might be who you're describing.

I wrote in to a cable TV show a decade ago to call out the nose hair whistling and mouth sounds. They never replied to me, but they rolled off the highs for the remainder of the shows.

jhpankow··on Intriguing new result from the LHCb experiment at CERN
How can we monetize the Higgs boson?
jhpankow··on The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed
Lockheed and Boeing were building protoypes in the 1990s and the contract was awarded to Lockheed in October 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Strike_Fighter_program
jhpankow··on Is Wildfire Smoke Making Our Fog More Persistent?
It's just an emitter and detector with a fan pushing air between them. It counts any particle large enough to block the light source. If you look up the sensor there is a datasheet which describes how they arrive at the counts.
jhpankow··on Is Wildfire Smoke Making Our Fog More Persistent?
Note this sensor only counts particles without regard for size and then estimates distribution of particles based on an equation.
jhpankow··on Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay?
"programmers most likely know by heart a sizable bunch of Bash commands and their options"

ha. case in point.

jhpankow··on Noise Mapping with KSQL, a Raspberry Pi and a Software-Defined Radio
That wouldn't show you the real power of KSQL though.
jhpankow··on World's longest sea crossing: Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge opens
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail
jhpankow··on RAM Doubler 2 (1996)
I always thought newegg was Egghead's online presence. Oops.
jhpankow··on China's largest electric scooter maker Niu files for $150M IPO in the US
I suppose it makes sense for incumbent brands to delay: they'd like to control when and how this cannibalizes their existing product lines.
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