sonograph | 4 years ago | on: U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Material and Evacuate
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sonograph | 4 years ago | on: Interactive Linear Algebra (2019)
I hope that GATech one day offers an affordable online math MSc program, like their CS program
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)
I didn't mean it negatively. I wrote it with a smile. They should take pride in their work!
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)
It is being demolished now. The company doing the demolition must be very proud of destroying things, because they make drone & time-lapsed videos of it:
https://johlerdemolition.com/portfolio-items/motorola-schaum...
Edit: I meant this in a positive tone, not a negative. I'm glad they take pride in their work.
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)
I actually haven't heard of the Honor Harrington series; I'll look it up. Do you recommend paperback or audio for it?
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)
(spoiler warning) I gave up on the ExForce series after a half dozen books; it was good, just repetitive. But I couldn't force myself to purchase the Bobiverse #2. While the Bobiverse author's style was irritating to me, I thought the alien interactions in Bobiverse were laughable compared to ExForce and Hail Mary (spoiler sorry). The antagonist also left much to be desired.
But Ray Porter's voice needs to be applied to many more books. I generally only stop reading audiobooks if I can't listen to the reader any longer
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: NY Governor Cuomo Says He Will Resign
While this is good news for the state of New York, I don't think it meets the site guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: Launch HN: Financial Choice (YC S21) – Checking accounts with market returns
Putting the Checking account into a fund/security and then selling the fund/security for ATM withdrawals, or individual expenses etc will be a headache come tax time. How does your product simplify this?
From your description, it sounds like this is not FDIC insured?
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it SV culture, or tech in general that is entitled?
Comparing New York, the midwest, the south, and SV, it's mostly SV that is entitled. NY has this to some extent (finance) too
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: What Irony Is Not (2020)
> Irony” is a term that everyone uses and seems to understand. It is also a concept that is notoriously difficult to define.
I've always thought this. It's easier to explain irony using examples than to define it.
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: Powering the Lunar Base
The market for retirees who are willing to pay $100M annually to live in a pressurized bubble on the moon is maybe one or two, for only one annum
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: One simple design fix for the Olympic medal tally
I would like to se it weighted by the number of athletes sent.
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file
> Sure, RAM is always faster.
Well, why not shove it all into L2 cache and leapfrog RAM?
/first joke I ever made on HN
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”
Same with Google. I searched a covid-related question, and Google's preferred answer at the top was "There is no evidence of this", while the next two links were medical journals that did show evidence that directly contradicted Google's statement.
It amazes me.
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol
Collision attacks can still be useful in an attack tree
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: Ethereum London Mainnet Announcement
> Basically every random walk down the timeline leads to 100% of coins lost in the course of time.
Rather, I believe it will result in the remaining 20% being held by a few exchanges, whose endgame will be to still charge the fees but just balance them internally without actually costing anything.
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring
I don't follow. Do you mean to say that the calculator would produce .333333333 repeating but the student was expected to write 1/3 ?
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup
Not really. His team paid the price of carrying the burden of his laziness/treachery for a year. If they hired a competent person, they would have been better off.
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review
I remember getting excited about this telescope a decade ago. I haven't heard of it since; but I thought it's budget was cut and it was over.
I'm excited NASA is finally going to get it up in space!
sonograph | 4 years ago | on: Launch HN: Enso (YC S21) – Visual programming and workflow automation tool
This looks fantastic and I'll dive into this more when work abates. Meanwhile, I'm curious if the visual/diagramming framework for the Enso language (on this page: https://enso.org/language ) is open source as well somewhere?
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Nonetheless A terrible situation for Afghanistan; I wish the world could help them but I'm not sure what else could be done after trying for two decades.