Hacker News: dhuk_2018

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "MacBook Neo"

dhuk_2018 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:41:48 +0000

Good question... I wonder if the 5G chipset adds significantly to the price? IP licensing?

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)"

dhuk_2018 — Mon, 19 May 2025 13:50:49 +0000

Can you further explain this?

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "The US Stock Market as a Quasi-Ponzi Scheme"

dhuk_2018 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:18:55 +0000

I believe the US stock market has become too big to fail. Which is one of the reasons why the central bank has stepped in, to stabilize and essentially prop it up. Too many American investors have their life savings in it, and if the bottom falls out, the pitchforks will be coming for those (who think they are) in power.

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "Carnarvon's NASA satellite dish receives first signal in almost 40 years"

dhuk_2018 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:50:45 +0000

This goes back to the "olden days", we'd call them optics because there's a lens, an aperture, focus, waveguides, etc. Newer antennas actually DO have fiber optics (RF over fiber) conversion so you don't have to deal with waveguides and/or coaxial cables, just convert right to fiber at the feed.

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "Building a replacement 386/486 CMOS battery"

dhuk_2018 — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:17:40 +0000

Why not use lithium AA? Duracell aklaleaks are the worse, in my experience. At least if the alkalines do leak, they're in a carrier away from the MB.

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "Taking low-dose aspirin is associated with 20% reduction in cancer deaths"

dhuk_2018 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 02:00:01 +0000

Tomorrow's news will say it will be a 20% increase in some other desease...

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension"

dhuk_2018 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 23:59:29 +0000

THANK YOU. I was feeling dumber after reading it, not smarter.

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "Have you been to the library lately?"

dhuk_2018 — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 02:43:36 +0000

Don't worry, we're opening another pseudo day shelter in NoBo!

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "Ask HN: Why is everybody copying layoffs?"

dhuk_2018 — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 01:03:35 +0000

All of the above, plus:

E) We f*cked up and hired too many so we'll blame it on the economy.

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "FAA Continues to Stall on G100UL"

dhuk_2018 — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 23:24:24 +0000

GAMI would probably have to license the tech to the big boys for production in high volumes.

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "FAA Continues to Stall on G100UL"

dhuk_2018 — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 23:23:47 +0000

While I'm not disagreeing, according to WikiPedia the amount of 100LL sold per year is 0.14% of that of MoGas (2008). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas#Consumption Shell, Exxon, etc. probably see AvGas as a pain.

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "Jack Dorsey says he agrees with reversing Trump's Twitter ban"

dhuk_2018 — Wed, 11 May 2022 12:41:11 +0000

Wonder if they're trying to bait him away from Truth Social (his failing competitor platform)

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "Russian Aviation Has About Three Weeks Before It’s Show Over"

dhuk_2018 — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:09:51 +0000

Yes. In the US, all of the FAA charts and descriptions expire after a few weeks and it is not legal to fly with them, in order to keep everyone current. I'm guessing other governments have similar rules.

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "Are We Really Engineers? (2021)"

dhuk_2018 — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 22:02:25 +0000

Don't get me started with "network engineer"...

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "Bouncing a LoRa message off the moon"

dhuk_2018 — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 19:58:28 +0000

Hams around the world are already bouncing signals off the moon with a lot less power and gain, using modern signal processing techniques.

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day"

dhuk_2018 — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 13:47:03 +0000

Sadly, shrimp are all now made of plastic.

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "The Zen of Weight Lifting"

dhuk_2018 — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:42:22 +0000

This, and definitely watch the Starting Strength YouTube channel...

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication"

dhuk_2018 — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:23:20 +0000

https://ast-science.com/spacemobile/

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication"

dhuk_2018 — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:23:03 +0000

https://ast-science.com/spacemobile/

New comment by dhuk_2018 in "The Graphics Gremlin – An Open Source Retro ISA Video Card"

dhuk_2018 — Tue, 18 May 2021 12:57:23 +0000

Lots of server IPMI interfaces do this. IDK of an add-on card for old computers though...