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New comment by platybubsy in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

platybubsy — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:18:40 +0000

GPS jamming has been happening for years and it's not like dead reckoning is an insane new concept

New comment by platybubsy in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

platybubsy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:04:20 +0000

Bait or genuine techbro? Hard to say

New comment by platybubsy in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

platybubsy — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:44:28 +0000

It would be great to have some actual numbers. How did reuse work out for Falcon 9? How much does the reused boosters for SLS cost? What's the cost and performance of an expendable Starship vs SLS?

New comment by platybubsy in "Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same"

platybubsy — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:41:47 +0000

Thanks, just seeing the hash made me literally shake

New comment by platybubsy in "The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable"

platybubsy — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:01:35 +0000

As a Swede, "Svenska Freds" is not an entirely uncontroversial organization.

New comment by platybubsy in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

platybubsy — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:18:04 +0000

Most don't? Streaming isn't large enough to say that yet I don't think. Google Stadia wasn't a big hit

New comment by platybubsy in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

platybubsy — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:43:50 +0000

I'm sure 5 rpis will devastate the power grid

New comment by platybubsy in "Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing"

platybubsy — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 13:50:28 +0000

Wouldn't it be the same if you just decreased the transmission power?

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

platybubsy — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 17:26:25 +0000

Does Falcon 9 fail more often than other rockets?

NASA spending 35 years pursuing pork projects instead of useful technologies like VTOL sounds like the very definition of waste to me.

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

platybubsy — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 09:17:19 +0000

The waste does not at all stem only from different risk tolerances. SpaceX launches NASA astronauts which means that they also need to comply to the same standards. Pork barrel projects like SLS is the real reason why everything NASA does is so expensive and late.

The statement that NASA would have achieved reuse eventually is weird considering that NASA still exists today, 35 years later, without succeeding.

New comment by platybubsy in "The Origin of the Pork Taboo"

platybubsy — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:05:07 +0000

Doesn't this kind of prove his point? People got sick a lot before they found a pattern and fixed their diet.

New comment by platybubsy in "Grok3 Launch [video]"

platybubsy — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:22:54 +0000

>the successes of SpaceX have had to come DESPITE Elon's management

Can you elaborate on this? AFAIK all other rocket companies without Elon have not been as successful. Also Eric Berger and multiple employees at SpaceX seem to disagree with your statement.

New comment by platybubsy in "Words flagged in search of current NSF awards"

platybubsy — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:11:09 +0000

I haven't heard it be used like that before. It definitely has a positive association in my mind.

New comment by platybubsy in "Starlink's first constellation of direct-to-phone satellites is now in orbit"

platybubsy — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:56:19 +0000

The author probably meant that the last launch added 20 new satellites and with their addition finally completing the constellation. I'm pretty sure that they have over a hundred since many months back