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New comment by elromulous in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

elromulous — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:51:27 +0000

Did anyone else think this was Cirrus Logic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Logic

New comment by elromulous in "FAA prohibits SFO's parallel approaches"

elromulous — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:06:09 +0000

https://archive.ph/LQeqK

Adding the unpaywalled option

FAA prohibits SFO's parallel approaches

elromulous — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:55:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/faa-imposes-restrictions-some-landings-san-francisco-airport-2026-03-31/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640850

Points: 11

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New comment by elromulous in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

elromulous — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:13:48 +0000

P.s. And as usual, TSA doesn't understand anything about queueing theory and doesn't implement round robin / starvation prevention. Global services and clear get absolute priority over other queues.

New comment by elromulous in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

elromulous — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:22:50 +0000

I _just_ went though the line. It wasn't too bad (5-10min, despite having bio ID), but it was by far the worst I've encountered at SFO in the decade I've been flying out of there.

New comment by elromulous in "Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution"

elromulous — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:38:24 +0000

Agreed. But also why are you speaking like Yoda?

New comment by elromulous in "FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treatment"

elromulous — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:57:54 +0000

The audience of this website is disproportionately aware of the Therac-25 compared to the general public. For the obvious reason, engineering, but also geographically: The Therac-25 being a North American incident that affected Canada and the US. Whereas Theryc is a French company.

New comment by elromulous in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"

elromulous — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:45:28 +0000

There are asics for ai. They're called gpus / tpus.

New comment by elromulous in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

elromulous — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:17:48 +0000

My brain initially parsed the title as an obituary title and I was really sad for a moment.

New comment by elromulous in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

elromulous — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:45:34 +0000

In my experience, a grad student hour is treated as free :(

New comment by elromulous in "Rust’s Standard Library on the GPU"

elromulous — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:00:25 +0000

It was ahead of its time!

When I was in grad school I tried getting my hands on a phi, it seemed impossible.

New comment by elromulous in "Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios"

elromulous — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:03:07 +0000

Stock price by itself is meaningless. Instead what you want is market cap (number of shares x share price).

New comment by elromulous in "[dead]"

elromulous — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:28:02 +0000

"He noted that taking ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat the cancer did not work"

New comment by elromulous in "guys why does armenian completely break Claude"

elromulous — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:50:24 +0000

Reminds me of how in the original the matrix plot the humans were being used for compute power, but the studio execs decided audiences wouldn't understand it.

New comment by elromulous in "guys why does armenian completely break Claude"

elromulous — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:39:15 +0000

The Jeff Goldblum virus one?

I believe fans have provided a retroactive explanation that all our computer tech was based on reverse engineering the crashed alien ship, and thus the arch, and abis etc were compatible.

It's a movie, so whatever, but considering how easily a single project / vendor / chip / anything breaks compatibility, it's a laughable explanation.

Edit: phrasing

New comment by elromulous in "Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem"

elromulous — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:16:23 +0000

You realize correlation does not imply causation?

Edit: this was written before OP edited their comment

New comment by elromulous in "BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove"

elromulous — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:35:14 +0000

They must have thought it's _so_ clever that the screw/bit is their logo.

New comment by elromulous in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

elromulous — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:59:14 +0000

"every engineer"? Should a chemical or nuclear energy engineer have to know about PoE?

New comment by elromulous in "Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen"

elromulous — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:13:08 +0000

Love the rotring pencils.

If you haven't already, give the Alvin Draft/Matic a try, imho it's up there along with them.

New comment by elromulous in "How Tesla is proving doubters right on why its robotaxi service cannot scale"

elromulous — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 16:48:28 +0000

Literally the plot of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.