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New comment by gg82 in "How to make a Smith chart"

gg82 — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 01:03:14 +0000

Sounds like it was the right decision then.

New comment by gg82 in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

gg82 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:49:12 +0000

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.

New comment by gg82 in "Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism"

gg82 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:44:48 +0000

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.

New comment by gg82 in "Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England"

gg82 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 05:24:12 +0000

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

New comment by gg82 in "Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth"

gg82 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 07:46:00 +0000

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.

New comment by gg82 in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

gg82 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:14:51 +0000

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...

New comment by gg82 in "A better Ghidra MCP server – GhidrAssistMCP"

gg82 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 04:25:44 +0000

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.

New comment by gg82 in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

gg82 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 02:36:55 +0000

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.

New comment by gg82 in "Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels"

gg82 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 01:42:23 +0000

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.

New comment by gg82 in "CO2 sequestration through accelerated weathering of limestone on ships"

gg82 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 06:41:15 +0000

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.

New comment by gg82 in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

gg82 — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 08:28:20 +0000

He didn't pay them to vote. He paid them for signing a pledge. He had no way to determine who they voted for.

New comment by gg82 in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

gg82 — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 08:05:05 +0000

I think a great deal of that was because X owned a percentage of X.AI stock.

https://www.teslarati.com/x-investors-winning-big-elon-musk-...

https://archive.vn/F36yh

New comment by gg82 in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

gg82 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:25:51 +0000

Probably not. If it suppresses your hunger response, you will likely lose the ability to deal with hunger when you go off it.

New comment by gg82 in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

gg82 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:49:54 +0000

All the court cases being brought is going to end up in the SCOTUS over https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory . There is a pretty good chance that this will be confirmed.

New comment by gg82 in "20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says"

gg82 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 06:11:24 +0000

If you believe the unreliable polls. He actually started higher than he did in his first term. His job approval is near the highest it has ever been. It is higher than 7/8 of Bidens term. See

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump...

New comment by gg82 in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

gg82 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:11:13 +0000

I don't think what Kamala and Walz said/showed about guns was in any way reassuring to gun owners.

New comment by gg82 in "'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly"

gg82 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 01:20:16 +0000

If you went by many of the media though, you would assume the numbers were the other way around.

New comment by gg82 in "Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs"

gg82 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:55:30 +0000

They mostly do it by measuring the family bank accounts!

New comment by gg82 in "Anti-scale: a response to AI in journalism"

gg82 — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 03:06:15 +0000

Perhaps they could work hard at reporting the news and not reporting their opinion. Perhaps, instead of having a 24 hr news cycle, they could produce less, but higher quality content.

New comment by gg82 in "Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now"

gg82 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 23:20:39 +0000

One of the more productive uses of all those millions of dollars that Mozilla received. These days, Let's Encrypt is more important than Mozilla... and would have no difficulty receiving donations to keep the service running. It also shows what a well run technical non-profit looks like!