Hacker News: fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fsagxHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:02:47 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"]]>If this has been true, perhaps at some point the pendulum will swing back the other way. BTW the current CEO of Boeing is a mechanical engineer.

https://www.boeing.com/company/bios/kelly-ortberg

]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:07:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499413fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499413https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499413<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "The Worst-Case Future for White-Collar Workers"]]>https://archive.is/av48P

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:18:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399976fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399976https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399976<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"]]>I still have my 28s from the late 80s. Also really rugged except for the achilles heel of a battery door.

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:09:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377501fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377501https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377501<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"]]>https://phys.org/news/2014-01-smooth-rough-surfaces.html

A quick search looks to show the same general topic from more than a decade ago. I too have a recollection of this being discussed in the late 80s or early 90s. Maybe some folk wisdom that's just now getting quantified.

]]>Mon, 25 May 2026 03:15:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263105fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263105https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263105<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "The jobs apocalypse: a (very) short history"]]>https://archive.is/tFa8O

]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 13:04:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168585fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168585https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168585<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "America is experiencing a productivity miracle"]]>https://archive.is/rjkzC

]]>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:55:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163237fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163237https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163237<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "Iran war disrupts the circuit board supply chain, raises costs for tech firms"]]>Just re-ran an identical order from December, and a PCB from Shenzhen is up just around 4% so far.

]]>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:01:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967492fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967492https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967492<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"]]>>They have hundreds of office / home locations where the parts are printed / assembled

This shouldn't be a big surprise to Russia or anyone else, as it has precedent. German aircraft production peaked in 1944 at the height of allied strategic bombing.

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

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:11:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847671fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847671https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847671<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "How a subsea cable is repaired (2021)"]]>https://www.google.com/search?q=blind+mans+bluff+book

Has a good story of how it was done several decades ago. Not sure how it works these days.

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:44:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847437fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847437https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847437<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "Europe Is Accelerating a NATO Fallback Plan in Case Trump Pulls Out"]]>https://archive.is/hW0yr

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:34:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777678fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777678https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777678<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "Relics of the Heroic Age of Manned Space Flight"]]>Worth visiting this site just to see the menus.

]]>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:19:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739293fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739293https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739293<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s"]]>The USA oligarchs were watching Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler and New Dealed just hard enough to blow some steam off and keep things mostly as they were.

If you believe Smedley Butler, at least some of those USA oligarchs were big Mussolini fans.

]]>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:09:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638762fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638762https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638762<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]>Seems likely to be even worse now. USS Ford out of action, removed from region due to "laundry fire" and some socks in the toilets. Also USN has far fewer carriers to deploy. Three or more were deployed continuously off Vietnam for years at a time.

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:41:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599536fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599536https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599536<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire

(~20kg warhead)

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:14:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595594fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595594https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595594<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die"]]>I asked my dad for the 16kB expansion. He said no.

]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:55:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580197fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580197https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580197<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "Why Little Was Done to Head Off Oil's Strait of Hormuz Problem"]]>https://archive.is/vopDr

]]>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:42:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383002fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383002https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383002<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink"]]>300km?

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:40:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47378435fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47378435https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47378435<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "Apollo's Private Credit Logic Is a Lot Like Goldman"]]>https://archive.is/VJAj9

]]>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:57:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359420fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359420<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "The Billionaires' War"]]>What makes you think this is a fad? (unless you are using a bit of sarcasm)

When have any elite not thought they were the smartest, most virtuous, anointed by god, etc? I don't think you can just point to Rand or something -- That's just the modern context we view it through.

]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:09:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350744fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350744https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350744<![CDATA[New comment by fsagx in "I baked a pie every day for a year"]]>I didn't get it, so I looked it up.

22/7 ~= 3.14

]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:35:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171665fsagxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171665https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171665