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vpribish··on Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?
no. this is a clickbait, bullshit, question that's been making the rounds of social media for weeks. You'd think that people here would not fall for this crap
vpribish··on Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again
Where did they talk about the Wrights? This on the wrong article?
vpribish··on Lightweight woven helical antenna could replace field-deployed dishes
it's just a helical antenna - where are you seeing any reference to phased-array?
vpribish··on Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but appears to be upside-down
It’s not upside down. The up-side is facing away from the camera. This is basic stuff about this mission.
vpribish··on A Theory of Grift
it is so obvious that it is a globe-spanning conspiracy by all the leaders, educators, and heads that talk!! you have cracked the case wide open for anyone to see!! how could we have been so blind? do you think also that the sports-celebrities are in on it?
vpribish··on NASA Peregrine 1: US lander will not make it to moon's surface due to fuel leak
That’s a lot of racism you think you’re being clever about, jack. You are not welcome here
vpribish··on The Seneca Effect: Growth is slow but collapse is rapid (2017) [pdf]
never heard of it
vpribish··on The Seneca Effect: Growth is slow but collapse is rapid (2017) [pdf]
peak oil will happen, hopefully soon. but not because we run out of oil - it is nearly goddamn endless - but because we choose to stop burning it for all the reasons we are so familiar with.
vpribish··on Porsche Design System v3
their cars have a very good reputation for reliability
vpribish··on How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip
how much of that power actually reaches the chip though? (it's hilarious that this is one chip)? this thing is mostly a water pump - I just can't - everything about it is just wild
vpribish··on How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip
20,000 Amps has to be a mis-statement. or there's some qualifier they are not mentioning. it doesn't look like an industrial arc-furnace
vpribish··on Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
that's ridiculous. I live in SF now and the driving situation is seriously challenging.

Even the straight, flat, streets can be nuts - like Polk St: pedestrians can jump out anywhere, slalom of delivery trucks, delivery scooters, ride-hail cars, double parallel-parked, with bike lanes - its a major cyclist route also busses and those little tourist scooters - oh and the electric unicycles that are always blowing stop-signs! the type, shape, size, and behavior is all over the map. go two blocks over and you have to deal with cable-pulled trolleys having the right of way across the 12% grade intersection. last week there were hundreds of drunken santa-clauses jay-walking between bars. oh and the line of tourist cars (who knows what traffic behavior they might follow!) heading up to see the crooked street - as the high school is getting out.

LOL get your memory checked, memory checked, if you recall driving in SF as unproblematic.

vpribish··on Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
VMW-AVGO was held up by the Chinese and South Korean regulators - it gets geopolitical. sure would be nice if everything was clear and clean for businesses but also it would be nice if I had a pony and magic shoes.
vpribish··on The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
I appreciate your contribution to the conversation, but have to disagree : "Had fascism succeeded" is kinda of an impossibility. it's bad at doing things and internally eats itself as soon as it gets power. Fascism is not just <Alternative Government Style> as if it was a choice of haircut, it's cancer
vpribish··on The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)
"Don't let your mind speak louder than your heart" - I think many have this so very wrong. Is support for fascism is a sensible, logical, well-thought-out policy? No, it's a heart-felt, emotional appeal to scared, proud, paranoid, crude, brutal people (who seem to be about half of our neighbors). surely the mindful decision is empathetic, constructive, and wise - not just base.
vpribish··on It's weird how design systems are so rote, yet so difficult
same. i'm fairly conversant in lots of 'design' things and this is remarkably opaque. The discussion is so generic, so removed from specifics, that it looks like it's architecture astronautics.

"A design system is really a high-level concept uniting various things together around shared objectives"

so it's a concept - uniting things - around objectives.

so it's everything and therefore nothing.

back in the real world this is just graphic design and user-interface guidelines and standards on how to present information - even to the extent of actual software components you can use to implement software. sure, cool, yay.

vpribish··on Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields better results
hear hear. keep hacker news sincere
vpribish··on The Drums of War Are Growing Louder in South America
I would not, no.
vpribish··on The Drums of War Are Growing Louder in South America
Just a little bit of geographic, economic, political, historical sense would be adequate to raise that doubt.

china imports around 10% of its food needed. the specifics get complex depending on how you measure and what you measure - but it is not at all credible that 36% of china's food is from south america. and in the recent past they were far less integrated with global trade

https://tradingeconomics.com/china/food-imports-percent-of-m...

vpribish··on IRS says Microsoft may owe more than $29B in back taxes; MSFT disagrees
I think the level of rudeness was carefully calibrated and perfectly appropriate.
vpribish··on The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
just like growing your own barley, amiright?
vpribish··on Cisco pulled out of SentinelOne acquisition after due diligence
Corporate Feng Shui gets pretty technical, but that’s basically it. Spirit medium con is more seance than size. Amazing times we live in!
vpribish··on Cisco pulled out of SentinelOne acquisition after due diligence
If it was indeed an off-by-one error (hard to see why not), I wonder if it is one of the more embarrassing ones.

If it was indeed a spirit-medium con (who could say otherwise), I wonder if it is one for the ages.

If it was indeed a Feng Shui conflict (many might say it was), I wonder if it is one of the more consequential ones.

vpribish··on Flexport CEO resigns a year after joining logistics company
That’s some hard won wisdom there. Thanks for sharing
vpribish··on E-ink is so Retropunk
that page lists a few devices they _don't_ recommend (kindle) because they are not openly hackable. what are some ones that are more so? anyone here recommend a cheap, hackable, e-ink reader?
vpribish··on Asyncio, twisted, tornado, gevent walk into a bar
What a good, clue-full post! I hope there is a trio-like future for async. And I really wish python had not added it to the standard library - it’s tricky, complex, and doesn’t play well with the rest of the ecosystem. It’s really a fun challenge to use, and better than reasoning about threads but definitely not ready for mass usage.
vpribish··on Air Force funds ‘blended wing body’ design for long-range, fuel-efficient flight
xvector is a troll or a tankie. No use talking to them, but thank you for responding so the impressionable don’t think their ideas are normal.
vpribish··on Air Force funds ‘blended wing body’ design for long-range, fuel-efficient flight
Ok, Vladimir
vpribish··on Why heart attacks are rising in young adults and what to watch out for
no. i'm attacking the credibility of the publication
vpribish··on Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm
it's a garbage clickbait article.
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