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New comment by howard941 in "Iran's South Pars Gas Field Is Attacked by Israel, Sending Energy Prices Soaring"

howard941 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:07:29 +0000

I'm not sure why the US has refrained from lasing these optical recon birds. Is it a fear of escalation? How many have to die before it happens?

New comment by howard941 in "The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing"

howard941 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:29:37 +0000

Those things happen right now. My concern is with government and powerful corporate watchers. Ubiquitous sousveillence ends that. It answers the question of "Who's watching the watchers." You'll be watching the watchers and heaven knows they need watching.

Think cops with always-on cameras, not grandma poking around beneath your mattress.

New comment by howard941 in "The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing"

howard941 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:25:01 +0000

With great difficulty? The watchers don't want to be watched. I know the solution but I don't know how to get there.

EDIT: IIRC Brin addressed this in his fictional treatment of the concept in the novel Earth

New comment by howard941 in "The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing"

howard941 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:51:36 +0000

It only chills when the watchers are hidden. See David Brin's The Transparent Society for an example of how sousveillence ought to work.

From spacecraft to cancer research: why pi matters

howard941 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:47:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/skjs0011xqzx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47378498

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by howard941 in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

howard941 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:27:56 +0000

Hyperion cries out for a good film adaptation.

New comment by howard941 in "Fixed-Wing Runway Design"

howard941 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:53:03 +0000

You might be interested in the Airman's Info Manual section 2-3-3

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...

New comment by howard941 in "The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered"

howard941 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:05:19 +0000

With the PDP-8E we used to do this with an AM radio.

New comment by howard941 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

howard941 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:37:59 +0000

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Location: Sarasota

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No thank you

Full time or freelancing

Technologies: C; Sensors; Communications; Drone/UAV/robotics: New product development; Sustainment; Embedded/firmware/bare metal, FreeRTOS, NuttX; *nix/RF/crypto; Kinetis KE Cortex M0+ & M4, Nordic Semi's M4 SOC, ST's M4 ARMs, Espressif's ESP8266, Microchip dsPIC; realtime; IAR, gcc via MCUXpresso & Kinetis Dev and TrueStudio & unix like systems; MPLAB-X IDE; Embedded FreeBSD; Embedded Linux on for ex. Raspberry Pi / Broadcom BCM2837; PX4 drone NuttX on STM32F4; gdb; clang; UML; debugging development prototype hardware; embedded HTTP server; grid support power generation systems; TCP and UDP over IP; Ethernet; power line communications; RS-485; RV-C CANBUS; Bluetooth LE; LoRa; Battery powered devices; storage scopes; visual studio; Java w/Android Studio; GNSS. Licensed attorney & pilot (ASEL/IA); amateur radio extra class

Resume: Please request by email

Email: hginfla@gmail.com

Avian Influenza H5N5 Washington Death

howard941 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:09:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.idse.net/Influenza/Article/12-25/First-Person-Dies-From-H5N5-Bird-Flu/78941

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46040491

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

Maybe that's not liquid water on Mars after all

howard941 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:58:54 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-11-liquid-mars.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46023213

Points: 53

# Comments: 34

New comment by howard941 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)"

howard941 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:18:25 +0000

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Location: Sarasota

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No thank you

Full time or freelancing

Resume: Please request by email

Email: hginfla@gmail.com

New comment by howard941 in "The Arduino Uno Q is a weird hybrid SBC"

howard941 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:28:04 +0000

Is this Arduino hobbled by the lack of JTAG debugger support? I've always stayed far away from Arduinos because of this unforgivable omission.

New comment by howard941 in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

howard941 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:40:57 +0000

Took out the archive.ph and .is sites too?

New comment by howard941 in "Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left"

howard941 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:32:34 +0000

The subtopic changed from energy gained during descents to descents in general

New comment by howard941 in "Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left"

howard941 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:27:26 +0000

Well it's not all lost otherwise it'd be a stall spin accident caused by performing the maneuver with too little airspeed. And that's hard to do. It's a noisy maneuver, the air slamming against the fuselage makes itself heard. Once performed it's not easily forgotten.

More dangerous than inadvertently spinning with too little airspeed is the possibility of shock cooling when relying on a forward slip for too much altitude loss. It really does need to be well-controlled.

New comment by howard941 in "Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left"

howard941 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:27:28 +0000

Yes, being that one is cross-controlled they must be used very carefully. It's really obvious that one is cross-controlling. It's the only time outside of really powerful crosswinds that you see what's below and ahead of you out of the side window. That view is what makes it fun.

New comment by howard941 in "Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left"

howard941 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:15:23 +0000

The glider guys would always suggest a forward slip. It's a lot of fun to do. It's not taught often enough during primary training for powered airplanes.

New comment by howard941 in "Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society"

howard941 — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:02:59 +0000

This very much varies state-by-state (ignoring prenups and emergency med treatment as edge cases). In my marriage and state (FL) debts incurred by me remain my own. Wifey owes none of it. Compare with states that have community property or purchases made as tenants by the entirety.

New comment by howard941 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)"

howard941 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:32:38 +0000

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Location: Sarasota

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No thank you

Full time or freelancing

Resume: Please request by email

Email: hginfla@gmail.com