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megaloblasto
·26 days ago·discuss
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megaloblasto
·last month·discuss
Personally I think the valuation is detached from the company itself. In theory Tesla's valuation is too high, but it doesn't seem to be coming down any time soon. Plus there seems to be ways to manipulate stock prices when you control such a highly valued company, to the extent that the stock price reflects actions taken in the stock market more than the underlying assets and balance sheets.
megaloblasto
·4 months ago·discuss
I strongly disagree. Just because compression is common in pop music (and perhaps overused in some genres) doesn't mean new music isn't innovative and dynamic. When I listen to music say from 1920 to 1950, it is so often so incredibly lame (not always). It's basic ideas and chord progressions and simple melodies with lyrics that don't say much.

Music is a way for people to express themselves and relate about how they see the world. People didn't stop doing that recently. In fact, I'd say people have been emboldened to say even more and push what music really means.
megaloblasto
·5 months ago·discuss
It sounds like you're saying that low will power leads to depression.
megaloblasto
·8 months ago·discuss
I hope this is a joke. Calvin's dad lying to him wasn't supposed to be idealized.
megaloblasto
·8 months ago·discuss
Looks like they missed Major League Cricket (MLC) founded in 2023
megaloblasto
·9 months ago·discuss
Everyone loves to compare AI with the dot com bubble. My question is, were there any policies put in place after the dot com bubble to mitigate a similar crash? Or did we learn nothing?
megaloblasto
·9 months ago·discuss
50 cent's intrinsic value doesn't decrease over time so to maintain that value, his name must go up.
megaloblasto
·9 months ago·discuss
How is thinking that a company might be doing PR work in a hacker news tread a conspiracy theory?
megaloblasto
·9 months ago·discuss
It takes the great minds at yale to figure these things out
megaloblasto
·10 months ago·discuss
Keebio LM is really nice. I've had one for about 3 months now and it's been great https://keeb.io/products/iris-lm-keyboard
megaloblasto
·10 months ago·discuss
It often seems that people think that the answers to the important questions must align with the subject they know best. Statisticians think life is all about probabilities. Economists think it's game theory. Computer scientists think it's computational.

"Everything can be understood through mathematics" is usually said by a mathematician.
megaloblasto
·10 months ago·discuss
HackRF One can go up to 6GHz ($400 new or $100 on alibaba for a similar device). Any higher frequency than that you'll be paying thousands.
megaloblasto
·10 months ago·discuss
They will continue to orbit for about 150 years, slowly falling towards earth until the drag from the atmosphere burns them up.

"Like many older satellites, the POES satellites do not have thrusters to support a controlled reentry into Earth’s atmosphere at the end of their mission life. Instead, once passivated, they are safely powered down, placed in a non-operational state, and left in a stable orbit. Without onboard propulsion or significant atmospheric drag at their current altitude, NOAA estimates they will remain in orbit for roughly 150 years before gradually reentering the atmosphere and disintegrating."[1]

[1] https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/legacy-orbit-noaa-decommiss...
megaloblasto
·10 months ago·discuss
Sadly, you can't really get NOAA satellite images any more. NOAA-15 and 19 were decommissioned August 19, 2025, and NOAA 18 was decommissioned in June. It's my understanding that you'll need a much more powerful antenna to get images from the new satellites. Still, SDR is great fun. It's incredible to realize that all this information is stored in electromagnetic waves and passing through us all the time.
megaloblasto
·10 months ago·discuss
This is great info. Thanks.
megaloblasto
·10 months ago·discuss
Kind of. I don't use grapheneOS and I'd like to, but de-googling your phone by buying a Google phone seems a bit sketchy. I don't want to take away from a privacy focused project. I'm super thankful for this option and I can't stand android or iPhone. But in the back of my mind I wonder if I'm being tricked.
megaloblasto
·10 months ago·discuss
Someone clearly replied with the same link. I'm not sure how many people would keep replying the same thing without even doing a simple thread search.
megaloblasto
·10 months ago·discuss
Thanks

> These devices meet the stringent privacy and security standards and have substantial upstream and downstream hardening specific to the devices

It still seems strange. A big part of GrapheneOS is to provide a safeguard from Googles data hoarding, yet it works primarily on Google phones.
megaloblasto
·10 months ago·discuss
I've always found it strange that GrapheneOS only runs on Google hardware. Can anyone explain this choice?