Hacker News: birdiesanders

New comment by birdiesanders in "One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm"

birdiesanders — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:45:49 +0000

Oh wow. That’s wild.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Open Source DMR Modem Implementation in SDR with GNU Radio and Codec2"

birdiesanders — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 14:26:47 +0000

Trunked is essentially useless to HAMs, and we never really use it much. We have essentially everything that trunking was meant to solve for a company; large pre-authorized spectrum space, self-coordination in that space without having to get fcc involved. Use of 25khz FM where part 90 is now only 12.5 also is enabled by being a ham.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Cannabis smoking associated with persistent epigenome-wide disruptions"

birdiesanders — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:10:01 +0000

I’ve learned that people on this site don’t understand cannabis very well.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Anonymous sources: Starship needs a major rebuild after 2 consecutive failures"

birdiesanders — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 03:19:54 +0000

Exceedingly close to zero people are at risk no matter how severe my mistake, because I build things that don’t carry risk.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Chrome disabling uBlock Origin is a serious security threat"

birdiesanders — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:25:25 +0000

I installed Ubuntu for many people in their 80s. Give her some time with FF, you don’t have to remove chrome, just hand her FF. I bet she does just fine.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records"

birdiesanders — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:19:30 +0000

Sheriffs are elected, and wholly part of the state govt. Cops can be more easily coerced by fed enforcement.

New comment by birdiesanders in "WASM will replace containers"

birdiesanders — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 02:03:32 +0000

The author has not seemingly considered the vastly different networking in wasm. You don’t have networking. There is an entirely different utility in these environments, containers are meant to host applications, wasm is an application. Don’t even get me started on disk access, env handling, etc. wasi is great, for the places it does well. It is not a replacement for writing a pure golang/rust/c/julia app and running it in a container, it doesn’t have the facilities for that task.

New comment by birdiesanders in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

birdiesanders — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:12:17 +0000

Only if you expect them to play by the rules. They have indicated they do not wish to do that.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Nvidia Stock May Fall as DeepSeek's 'Amazing' AI Model Disrupts OpenAI"

birdiesanders — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:54:24 +0000

State subsidies. China will happily make up a loss for a company if it can take dollars away from US corporations.

New comment by birdiesanders in "JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023"

birdiesanders — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:02:58 +0000

Building a homebrew interposer is truly impressive.

New comment by birdiesanders in "FTC Sues John Deere over Its Repair Monopoly"

birdiesanders — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:20:06 +0000

How is being happy with someone’s job performance celebrity culture?

New comment by birdiesanders in "SEC Sues Elon Musk over Securities Violations"

birdiesanders — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 04:37:06 +0000

Many people, millions of us, care very deeply about his legacy of shame and regret.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Plant CO2 uptake rises by nearly one third in new global estimates"

birdiesanders — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:55:27 +0000

That’s not what this says.

New comment by birdiesanders in "VR Has Had a Phase Change and I Didn't Know It"

birdiesanders — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:41:29 +0000

I have been using the Quest 3 for work for a month and a half now, daily driving it as a trio of monitors for 6-10 hours a day. So far, no major complaints, but maybe we should start wanting for focus distance adjustment, 4 foot may not be ideal all day. I’d like to be able to bring focus in a few inches and out a foot, so that I can at least vary where my eyes are sitting all day, but outside of that I am very excited for whatever the quest 4 will be, because that will likely be a big enough leap from where we are now to be compelling for even more general usage as a computer instead of an “interface” device like they are now.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Building the Ultimate Pi Kubernetes Cluster: A Journey into Cloud Scalability"

birdiesanders — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 04:29:38 +0000

100%. Talos is wonderful.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Spike protein at skull-meninges axis may drive Covid-19 neurological effects"

birdiesanders — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 21:32:07 +0000

The Moderna spike and the Pfizer spike are both “inflated” by edits to the gene that cause some different arrangements of the protein structure that causes the spike to be more rigid and closer to the shape it has when embedded on the virus surface. I imagine that there is some threshold where something too thin or too small begins to be hard to clean up, and the vaccine-induced spikes are above that line, while the natural spikes detached from the virus are under. I’m a computer person so probably not correct, but I’m not blindly guessing, either.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Francis Crick's "Central Dogma" was misunderstood"

birdiesanders — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 21:22:38 +0000

The “dogma” is “information flow from proteins back to genetic material does not occur” not that proteins can’t transfer information. Regardless of considering “shape” as information or not, the transfer is not violating that statement, the information is fully trapped in the protein and not flowed back to DNA.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Black Friday is a trap"

birdiesanders — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 20:03:23 +0000

This literally is the method of pricing used on Amazon and many other retailers, raise the price 20% and then offer a 15% discount is actually common as well.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Aftershock II"

birdiesanders — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 01:22:00 +0000

Dear lord, one mile per second and built outside of a corporate/science lab! Truly remarkable work.

New comment by birdiesanders in "Urban Machine: robotics and AI to reclaim lumber for reuse"

birdiesanders — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 04:42:36 +0000

Better stay off my pallet wood, that is mine.