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nick7376182··on After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days
Sorry bro it's contextual.
nick7376182··on Another intermediate-mass black hole discovered at the centre of our galaxy
Which is enough to cause severe relativistic precession of the orbital major/minor axes! (Schwarzschild precession)
nick7376182··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Sorry, the comment wasn't meant to be a personal judgement on you.
nick7376182··on 10-acre underground home and gardens in Fresno (2023) [video]
You can accomplish better thermal mass?
nick7376182··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
You would think automated test would come before your teammates work stations / commit to head.
nick7376182··on Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)
Because on HN we like titles to have information and not be click-bait. The WSJ title is prime click-bait.
nick7376182··on Five common English words we don't know the origins of–including 'boy' and 'dog'
Probably about a hundred different words for that in urbandictionary
nick7376182··on Nyquest NY8A051H – 1.5 cent microcontroller: weekend die-shot
This chip: 8 MHz, 8 bit processing  1K x 14 bits EPROM.  48 bytes SRAM.  6 general purpose I/O pins (GPIO), PB[5:0], with independent direction control.

In comparison to the usual suspects like Apollo guidance computer or TI-83, it has a higher clock speed but shorter word length and extremely limited ram and memory. Precisely due to the cost engineering - this is meant to run simple, limited size programs.

nick7376182··on Nyquest NY8A051H – 1.5 cent microcontroller: weekend die-shot
With small chips like this do you think they would test at a high sampling level?
nick7376182··on SpaceX Tender Offer Said to Value Company at Record $210B
Elon cashing out to pay interest on his margin loan. Could be he finally doesn't want to sell any more Tesla stock.
nick7376182··on SpaceX Tender Offer Said to Value Company at Record $210B
However it did make some Spaniards wealthy
nick7376182··on SpaceX Tender Offer Said to Value Company at Record $210B
If they offered 51% of the company on a US ipo would they still be looking at getting banned?
nick7376182··on The enduring mystery of how water freezes
What's the reasoning here? You think that life would not have survived ice ages if ice didn't float? Life would probably have adapted even if the oceans froze bottom-up with deep sea "snow" no? It could even have led to a more consistent global temperature as the albedo of earth didn't change through colder periods.
nick7376182··on Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records
Does it degrade when hermetically sealed? I thought it was down to moisture and getting it in a double glass would be good enough
nick7376182··on Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe
Like chess on a Scrabble board
nick7376182··on Serious Sam handled massive amounts of enemies on 56k modem connections
It's quite memorable in VR as well! If you get the chance I highly recommend playing HL Alyx with a valve index setup.

It was on par with my first playthrough of the original HL so many years ago.

nick7376182··on Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
I believe they are referring to a 10b5-1 plan that includes price-based sale triggers.
nick7376182··on Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
And the government got it, in the form of a cost effective usa-based launch solution.
nick7376182··on Draw an iceberg and see how it will float
Would be cool if it melts preferentially, choosing either air or water to be "warmer".
nick7376182··on The state of the art in copter drones and flight control systems
Ref 61 as the single citation for a lot of content in Section 3 claiming that hex and octa copters have more endurance than quads. I'm not sure I agree with that statement and it needs a lot of qualifiers if it is to be relied upon.
nick7376182··on How Running a Business Changes the Way You Think (2011)
"used to" - did you stop paragliding? I'm a mid - P3 now.
nick7376182··on Donating forks to the dining hall
I would bet that running a single load of synthetic clothes in the dryer creates more microplastic than making 1000 cut and crimped connections of PEX tubing.
nick7376182··on So good, it works on barbed wire (2001)
What is the impedance of a gopher's teeth?
nick7376182··on 'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back to the public
The law could easily include a liability disclaimer. People just don't like other people, want their privacy, and want their "I got mine" land locked public lands.
nick7376182··on One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence
You can do it with lasers, see this paper and references. Seems like small trials have been initiated since 2017 but no widespread use or FAA approval yet.

https://www.sto.nato.int/publications/STO%20Meeting%20Procee...

https://www.wired.com/story/boeing-jaxa-turbulence-lidar-las...

nick7376182··on Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban
"Police officers in SF and Austin circumvent city bans on use of facial recognition."
nick7376182··on Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020)
It seems the camera could use optical flow to get a baseline reading and calibrate the inertial frame offsets. They don't need to point accurately for a long time?

Or maybe that is the method they assume for the second solution and they calculated that it's infeasible.

nick7376182··on Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)
Some medicinal compounds are hygroscopic and may go bad over time due to the permeability of moisture through the packaging. (Hence the use of metallized foils, which have nearly zero moisture permeability). Same for oxygen/oxidisation.

But yeah, depends on how far past expiry you go.

nick7376182··on Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)
As a parent, bananas are by far the cheapest and easiest "healthy"(?) food to transport, prepare and get kids to eat. Maybe that has something to do with it.
nick7376182··on Insects and other animals have consciousness
Apologies, that was meant to be humour rather than criticism.
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