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currently a googler working on TAP
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sabujp··on Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon with $400k Missile
two missiles apparently
sabujp··on Pentagon Declines to Answer If It Shot Down $12 Balloon with $400k Missile
you're wrong about the private waste, I'm angry about it also but I can't do anything about that. But as a tax payer in the top 2% in the US I am justified in my anger towards the US govt wasting tax payer dollars shooting AIM-9x in F-22s to blow up balloons.
sabujp··on TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem
I have to thank emacs OS (users) for this browser extension.
sabujp··on TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem
Be my guest, I'll run this in a vm. But what's even scarier is cross tab exploits. Want to steal data from another tab of a tabfs user?
sabujp··on Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application
I did a full design of an addition for my home with it, now i Just need to find a contractor in the bay area who doesn't charge an arm and a leg to bring it to fruition
sabujp··on 50% rejection rate for iPhone casings produced in India shows Apple’s challenge
where does india get the raw materials and equipment to produce the casings, don't they mostly come from the same place?
sabujp··on Google stores billions of lines of code in a single repository (2016) [pdf]
and my previous director is scaling github now :)
sabujp··on I had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song and recorded it
love it! now who owns the rights?
sabujp··on HSBC's Money Laundering Scandal (2022)
don't forget art markets too!
sabujp··on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
F22 service ceiling 50k ft, M61A2 vulcan 20mm effective range 2000ft, balloon was at 60k ft
sabujp··on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
i wonder if we could do it with a SHIELD laser weapon
sabujp··on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
ahh yea i forget that the amount we budget every year for training is basically the cost of a war
sabujp··on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34660282
sabujp··on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
they expand
sabujp··on U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
Spy balloon cost : $3k - $50k , you can even buy them on alibaba and some other sites:

    https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/China-hot-sale-surveillance-balloon-with_60454941082.html

    https://www.made-in-china.com/showroom/jennerjiang/product-list/catalog-1.html?view=0

Cost to shoot down balloon with F22 $400k for the AIM-9X, ~$85k for 1 hour of flight time, so ~$400 - $500k to shoot down one balloon that cost < $50k
sabujp··on NYSE Tuesday opening mayhem traced to a staffer who left a backup system running
yeah absolutely nothing to do the SPX hitting a target 4k level and messing up everything just as it hit that level
sabujp··on Coinbase halts operations in Japan
you'd like to see consensus algorithms wiped out?

https://appinventiv.com/blog/blockchain-consensus-algorithms...

sabujp··on Show HN: Futurecoder – A free interactive Python course for coding beginners
I would love to see something like this but for c++. I'm going to teach my kids programming but I want to go in this order c++ -> java, javascript/typescript, python -> rust, go -> perl, bash
sabujp··on Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
I started programming c/c++ then perl/python and i hated java initially, but it actually taught me CS. Java has very mature and powerful libraries, e.g. rxjava and guava.
sabujp··on Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
Here are the numbers from the current live discussion :

https://www.youtube.com/c/EnergyGov/live

300MJ in at the wall, 2MJ produced at lasers (using 1980's laser tech), 3MJ out from reaction

sabujp··on This to That
cgi-bin : What year is it?!
sabujp··on Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says
vegetarians that don't meat because of animal cruelty : will you eat lab grown meat?
sabujp··on Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?
this is due to the energy crisis in europe caused by the war
sabujp··on Building an e-ink weather display for our home
the lacrosse ones have an outdoor pressure sensor which it uses to predict the weather, works pretty well for me.
sabujp··on Building an e-ink weather display for our home
cool, but these : https://www.homedepot.com/pep/La-Crosse-Technology-Atomic-Di... are super cheap, last forever and don't require an internet connection. Sure you don't get multi day weather but that's what the weather widget on my phohne is for.
sabujp··on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
Wherever you have "high" inflation you have bank fixed deposit rates to match. Do you know what the FD rate is for major banks in India say for a 1 year FD (CD)?
sabujp··on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
India's central bank target inflation rate is 4% +- 2%, and even now the rate is still at 7-8% and they're in no hurry to try to reduce it (https://www.reuters.com/world/india/exclusive-india-govt-in-...).
sabujp··on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN
Why does the US need to stick to a 2% inflation rate? India's has exceeded 5% for decades (https://www.worlddata.info/asia/india/inflation-rates.php#:~....). Indian stock market shows no signs of recession. If you held since 1990 (or inception) (data from tv https://www.tradingview.com/x/rGnAJxlH/) :

Ethereum +9110%

India NIFTY50 +6059%

Bitcoin +5566%

Nasdaq100 +4705%

Shanghai SSE Composite +2307%

NIFTY100 +1709%

SPX S&P 500 +908%

SSE50 +227%

SSE100 +67%

sabujp··on Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth
tx this is what i was looking for, also this agrees https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/schwarzschild-radius
sabujp··on Our conscious experience of the world is a memory, says new theory
I tried this a few months ago, my brain moved faster than my body would and i messed up my knee for a few weeks , getting old sucks
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