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bokohut commented on Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in nearly 12k years of records smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/pseudolus

defrost · 19 days ago

Bang on.

.. and pretty much why I worded the first line of my comment above as I did.

Sea level changes, glacial retreats, etc will all change crustal pressures and impact the frequency, placement, and nauture of volcanic activity in times to come.

Not a lot of that in Ethiopa for now though (to the best of my current "haven't specifically looked at the map for this" gut feeling).

bokohut · 18 days ago

I thank you as well defrost, Keep cool or Stay warm whatever your objective is! :)

bokohut commented on Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in nearly 12k years of records smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/pseudolus

jiggawatts · 19 days ago

Search for “post-glacial rebound” or “glacial isostatic adjustment”.

This has been thoroughly studied and is well known to geologists, especially in Northern Europe where changes can occur over human time scales.

I remember watching a documentary about a landslide disaster that occurred because clay saturated by salt water had lifted above sea level due to GIA and the fresh rainwater had washed the salt out. Clay without salt ions is more liquid and eventually moved catastrophically.

bokohut · 18 days ago

Greatly appreciative of the intellectual verbiage guidance that will certainly lead me down a deeper rabbit hole for my interests. This HN site has been one of my greatest finds on all of the web and the knowledge I have learned and put to work from those here choosing to share such insight has forever changed me. Thanks again.

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bokohut commented on Idempotency keys for exactly-once processing morling.dev/blog/on-idemp... · Posted by u/defly

bokohut · 18 days ago

This was my exact solution in the late 1990's that I formulated using a uid algorithm I created when confronted with a growing payment processing load issue that centralized hardware at the time could not handle. MsSQL could not process the ever increasing load yet the firehose of real-time payments transaction volume could not be turned off so an interim parallel solution involving microservices to walk everything over to Oracle was devised using this technique. Everything old is new again as the patterns and cycles ebb and flow.

bokohut commented on NRC Completes Safety Review of TerraPower Natrium [pdf] nrc.gov/sites/default/fil... · Posted by u/mpweiher

bokohut · 19 days ago

The only thing one needs to understand for the future direction of power is contained within a single sentence in this document that many will glance over. Future generation plants will be built different as version one of the grid has proven to not work but this version one is so critical no one has yet attempted version two. The new design will be generate>store>consume albeit at a loss of some power in conversion but persistent availability will quickly overcome those losses as acceptable. This has already begun in some consumer markets as those fortunate enough to have solar with batteries comprehend my words exactly. Everything will have a battery to store energy, even things producing it.

bokohut commented on Unreal Tournament 2004 is back old.reddit.com/r/unrealto... · Posted by u/keithoffer

bokohut · 19 days ago

A standing applause for those undertaking this effort as I look forward to losing even more of my future time given how much I lost to it in the past.

Many moons ago I worked with an individual whose wife was employed in marketing by a large well known video game company involved around UT. One day he came into the office and brought a load of leftover UT swag and it was a feeding frenzy. I still have and wear my long sleeve black UT embroidered tee and as a point of fact I just wore it again last week. Looking forward to the progress on this effort as an old head UT fan still.

bokohut commented on Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in nearly 12k years of records smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/pseudolus

defrost · 20 days ago

Not as any significant factor of cause of this eruption, no.

There will be some contribution to atmospheric makeup, of course. Whether that increases or decreases current insulation factor depends on what the cloud makeup is, where it rises to, how far it spreads, and how long it stays aloft.

bokohut · 19 days ago

I have located no accredited scientific studies yet that discuss how the loss of gigatons of ice compressing the entire planets structure from the poles will impact the planet as a whole. With even a basic understanding of mass and physics however one can deduce from that comprehension an irrefutable change will occur in the planets crust. If one were to research the pattern of volcanic activity from the start of human recorded existence alone then one may learn something new. Most of our species fails to think in time, only worried about today, however as the changes in our only planet set in from 'progress' more will be forced to look back over time and reconsider where we failed.

bokohut commented on We're committing $6.25B to give 25M children a financial head start onedell.com/investamerica... · Posted by u/duck

frellus · 21 days ago

What kids really need is a mandatory personal finance class at the High School level. This would teach them how to handle money, debt, spending, budgeting and general financial health.

Nothing would help the next generation more, even above giving them seed investment money, than helping them avoid the pitfalls which are just waiting for them around every corner.

My daughter took an elective for this in HS, and every day would come home and say how much she was learning and how empowered she felt about money afterwards.

bokohut · 21 days ago

Some U.S. States have moved on this, such as Ohio, yet it does not get the coverage and press it deserves. Consider how much the debt driven capitalism machine would change if we force educated our up and coming young adults to understand how finances function. Very few think in time in our perceived as instant world and the social cost of this has only just begun.

bokohut commented on Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering? · Posted by u/_1tan

bokohut · a month ago

_1tan I have emailed your posted contact data should you see value.

I have personally founded, architected, and coded in entirety several acquired payment processing companies in the last 30 years of which were near 100% uptime as well as PCI Level 1 compliant among several other audit stipulations. Your mention of energy trading *immediately* caught my eye as I am now building an energy storage company that is founded in design on top of my decades evolved secure highly available API transaction engine that I am refactoring to support VPP to manage the energy storage array I am patenting.

My ying appears to align with your yang from my understanding of your words so if this is something of interest please feel free to engage from my outreach.

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bokohut commented on NTSB report: Decryption of images from the Titan submersible camera [pdf] (2024) data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Docu... · Posted by u/bmurray7jhu

cloudbonsai · a month ago

Among the interviews, one with the former engineering director was the most eye-opening for me.

https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=17236880&Fi...

It appears that all the engineers -- system designer, material engineer and structural analyst -- thought that OceanGate CEO was going to kill himself:

    If you ever find <name-of-the-engineer>, he’s not going
    to have a whole lot of nice to say. He was very frustrated
    with the company. (...) And I understand why. He thought
    Stockton was going to kill himself.

And the director himself declined to dive on Titan when asked:

    Now, the question is, why wouldn’t the engineer get inside
    his own vehicle? It was because of what I felt -- and I have a
    background in Navy diving in EOD operations. I knew firsthand
    that the operations group was not the right group for that role,
    and I told him as much, that I don’t trust operations and who he
    has there.

bokohut · a month ago

'And the director himself declined'

An anecdotal personal story as it aligns with this exact statement although no one got killed but data breaches certainly occurred.

Many years ago now I was propositioned to be on the board of a financial technology company and they spared no expense in literally rolling out the red carpet for my arrival. I found it all very laughable being solely focused on business and the technical details as I was not being fooled by all the schmoozing. After hearing all the unrealistic business objectives and the promise of having the Philadelphia Flyers involved I then asked to meet the technology team that built the product to see a demo. They bring in one young guy who built it all, the executives are still present mind you, and they allow me to ask any and all questions about the platform that nearly no one in management comprehended. After seeing the demo which involved several blatant security issues I asked only one more question of the sole developer: "Would you put your financial information into this system?"

He provided his answer in front of the companies executive board and I can still see their reactions to this very day. I then stood up and thanked everyone for opportunity and left.

bokohut commented on Middlemen Are Eating the World (and That's Good, Actually) inchpin.substack.com/p/mi... · Posted by u/LinchZhang

bokohut · a month ago

Ah, the term "Middlemen" of which I have personally been one in fintech as the core architectural founder several times.

Given that much of technology originates and is perfected by the adult content industry, for those unaware, payments is no exception to this rule just as live video and audio software development was directly impacted from this adult content demand. It is claimed that sex sells and I can attest 100% to this claim being correct as a movie was even made about the payment system I was foundational in building and that movie was ironically called "Middlemen". I was younger then and the personal stories from those days I carry could have a great mini series created.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Men_(film)

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