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someguydave··on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public
yeah or the ye olde P90 I guess
someguydave··on Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public
I could see that as being a useful role for a VIP protection team where you might not be able to carry larger guns for whatever reason but still want to designate some team members to suppress a potential attacker
someguydave··on KiCad and Wayland Support
Yeah I don’t know any of the details but KiCad is a pretty serious engineering gui tool and I find it easy to believe that the Wayland devs would exclude those uses cases from their designs
someguydave··on Ditching Obsidian and building my own
Don’t use plug ins
someguydave··on Gmail to SQLite
This does not happen if you use a well known MX host
someguydave··on Gmail to SQLite
It would also help if you did step 0: buy your own email domain
someguydave··on Launch HN: Enhanced Radar (YC W25) – A safety net for air traffic control
He’s write about the bandwidth and latency of voice, but the problem is that you can’t immediately know who should react to instructions. “GO AROUND IMMEDIATE!” - now all the pilots on frequency are wondering who’s the addressee

Also, AM voice on VHF is not full duplex and the blocking problem is very real and could be addressed potentially

someguydave··on Launch HN: Enhanced Radar (YC W25) – A safety net for air traffic control
- I think the ultimate safety improvement would be to move the human out of the realtime control loops and getting him focused more on the big picture.

- there is opportunity for permissionless passive RF sensors like this startup shows. Imagine the pilots in the CRJ received an immediate notification that an intercepting aircraft was getting blocked with(transmitting over) ATC comms on their UHF frequency. I think this could be done without decoding the voices.

- Passive radar combined with direction-finding of the VHF/UHF voice transmissions could also be integrated as another source of high-resolution tracking data

someguydave··on Designing a Star Tracker for Astronaut Don Pettit to Use on the ISS
Nobody involved wants to take the risk, no matter how trivial
someguydave··on Tesla excluded from EV buyer credits in California proposal
Can you think what would happen if your enemies applied this logic to you and your friends?
someguydave··on Medicare Pays Different Prices for the Same Drug
Yes. Yes.
someguydave··on Medicare Pays Different Prices for the Same Drug
The existence of some amount of emergency care should not drive the structure of the whole market
someguydave··on Medicare Pays Different Prices for the Same Drug
https://www.fda.gov/industry/import-basics/personal-importat...

No, you are not allowed to travel there and take it home, but often the border guards look the other way

“ In most circumstances, it is illegal for individuals to import drugs or devices into the U.S. for personal use because these products purchased from other countries often have not been approved by the FDA for use and sale in the U.S.”

someguydave··on Medicare Pays Different Prices for the Same Drug
Reform health care by returning to a free market
someguydave··on The Atlantic Did Me Dirty
Haidt’s evidence is weak https://reason.com/2023/03/29/the-statistically-flawed-evide...
someguydave··on The Atlantic Did Me Dirty
“ The evidence that cell phones are hugely detrimental to the development of young people is pretty overwhelming these days”

Then it would be easy to furnish a few links to source this claim

someguydave··on AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted
Agree, I was also confused on this point. I guess the name “evaluate a three term binary expression” is less snappy though.
someguydave··on UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Their “relief” comes in form of US dollars to be deposited
someguydave··on LlamaF: An Efficient Llama2 Architecture Accelerator on Embedded FPGAs
gotta prototype the thing somewhere. If it turns out that the LLM algos become pretty mature I suspect accelerators of all kinds will be baked into silicon, especially for inference.
someguydave··on Why GitHub won
Relatedly, it is hard to understand how operating Google Code in a manner “never trying to win”, “not trying to make money, or whatever” and “just to prevent … a monoculture” was in the best interests of Google the corporation and its shareholders
someguydave··on Baseline pupil size related to cognitive ability in proper lighting conditions
this is nonsense, you can easily tell race by looking at DNA and it corresponds strongly with historically identified racial groups https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2020/06/29/a-race-by-race-br...
someguydave··on Creating invariant floating-point accumulators
Seems crazy to try to paper over hardware implementation differences in software. Some org should be standardizing floating point intrinsics
someguydave··on Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
how many other products do you ideologically affiliate with?
someguydave··on City of Columbus sues expert who exposed extent of cyberattack
It could be that there are assholes on four sides here (blackhat guys, city, whitehat guy, journalists)
someguydave··on Wells Fargo employee found dead at desk after 4 days
The interests of employees and employers (and investors) are indeed not aligned
someguydave··on The Thin Purple Line
No, the police cannot be held liable for failing to protect you which is slightly different
someguydave··on Unrealized Gain Tax–A Coming Sea Change in FY2025 Budget Proposal?
This thread is about how taxes with small rates applied only to the rich have a historically documented tendency to grow in scope and rate, and that therefore it is legitimate for all potential taxpayers to worry about a new kind of tax, no matter how tightly scoped and low in rate in initial proposals
someguydave··on Final two communications from MH370 support controlled descent scenario (2021)
Yeah I am personally skeptical that WSPR data could reliably track anything
someguydave··on Unrealized Gain Tax–A Coming Sea Change in FY2025 Budget Proposal?
Read some history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_Sta...

“In 1894, Democrats in Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman tariff, which imposed the first peacetime income tax. The rate was 2% on income over $4,000, which meant fewer than 10% of households would pay any. ($4,000 was 19.3 times the 1894 nominal GDP per capita of $207.23; the corresponding income in 2021 is $1.3M.)“

someguydave··on Intelligence is not like height
The author has a known ideological axe to grind, read his tweets
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