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gg82 commented on How to make a Smith chart johndcook.com/blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/tzury

OldSchool · 2 months ago

Heh, this reminds me, don't worry:

One of my extremely intelligent roommates in the 80s switched from EE to CS, seemingly due to Smith charts and Electromagnetics coursework.

He went on to make a large fortune in software.

gg82 · 2 months ago

Sounds like it was the right decision then.

gg82 commented on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission cnn.com/2025/10/20/scienc... · Posted by u/voxleone

mikkupikku · 2 months ago

I am sure the astronauts know and accept the risks, but does that really mean the public should be funding such reckless activities? They can go paragliding or base jumping on their own dime if they want an adrenaline rush.

The public has spend billions of dollars on this program, if the end result is astronauts getting cooked during reentry then how could that possibly be an outcome worth the expense?

gg82 · 2 months ago

It is not even "if" they should be funding these activities.... it is whether the public would "support" funding these activities, if there was a trail of deaths.

gg82 commented on Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/pabs3

roenxi · 3 months ago

Just to be clear, I never said anything about the left wing. I don't think they were involved in that one. Suppressing speech is generally opposed by the leftists.

gg82 · 3 months ago

Just compare X and Blue Sky. There may be some principled leftists who oppose suppressing speech, but in recent times, it has been the left that has been censoring/blocking peoples speech. Another comparison is what is actually censored. Of course there is a certain amount that would be censored by both sides - criticism of power.

gg82 commented on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England news.sky.com/story/facial... · Posted by u/amarcheschi

varispeed · 4 months ago

This is the kind of techno-utopian fantasy that keeps authoritarianism looking respectable. “Just encrypt it and only decrypt with a warrant” sounds lovely on paper, but in practice you’ve still built the infrastructure for a 24/7 panopticon - you’ve just wrapped it in a legal fig leaf.

Governments break their own rules all the time, warrants get rubber-stamped, and “heavy fines + prison time” magically evaporate when the offenders are the state or its contractors. The technology isn’t the hard part - it’s the fact you can’t meaningfully enforce limits on a system whose entire purpose is to watch everyone, all the time. You don’t make mass surveillance safe by adding a padlock. You stop it by not building it.

gg82 · 4 months ago

Because if you build it, they will come and use it for any purpose they can think of in the end!

gg82 commented on Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth ft.com/content/cfb77a53-f... · Posted by u/hhs

rrrrrrrrrrrryan · 4 months ago

Normally they're accurate enough, and the revisions/refinements are small.

The initial estimates haven't been accurate recently, because many workers have been completely dropping out of the economy because they're afraid of immigration raids. Information about these workers is just harder to gather and takes longer to verify.

gg82 · 4 months ago

Actually the major complaint was from last year when Biden was president (I'm not sure about this year). Every month, prior months were adjusted downward, often 100,000's thousands and wiping out the previous months positive figure.

gg82 commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian

gg82 · 5 months ago

The safety rules are also being used to block content about protests in the UK. How convenient for them.

https://freespeechunion.org/protest-footage-blocked-as-onlin...

gg82 commented on A better Ghidra MCP server – GhidrAssistMCP github.com/jtang613/Ghidr... · Posted by u/jtang613

gg82 · 5 months ago

I wonder if embeddings could be created from open source and library code and then used to convert back the code with all the correct variable and function names.

gg82 commented on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update 0x44.xyz/blog/web-request... · Posted by u/deryilz

worik · 5 months ago

Yes to everything except the first statement:

> The answer is antitrust.

Anti-trust is crucial to make the capitalist economy work prperly, I agree

But another answer is "Firefox"

gg82 · 5 months ago

I would love to say another answer is "Firefox" (which is my default browser), but Mozilla have gotten fat of Googles money over the years and got distracted by other things.

gg82 commented on Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody... · Posted by u/drankl

zug_zug · 5 months ago

It's interesting because there are two diametrically opposed ways to interpret what you said

One is - everybody thinks they have disorders, so just ignore that feeling it'll mess with you.

The other is - everybody thinks they have minor version of disorders, because we all do, we live on continuums, and therefore we should probably all think about it more

gg82 · 5 months ago

The other idea is that people who go into the field are screwed up themselves... and are trying to work out how to treat/understand themselves.

gg82 commented on CO2 sequestration through accelerated weathering of limestone on ships science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

adrianN · 5 months ago

What do you mean exactly? We could plant lots of trees and make charcoal from them and bury it. That scales with the amount of money spent. The problem is that nobody wants to invest a big chunk of gdp into burying coal.

gg82 · 5 months ago

It would be better to create bio-char and use it to improve the soil for farmers to grow food. This would also help them with the changing climate, because bio-char assists with moisture retention.

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