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John Wiseman
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Persistent sousveiller. Walt Disney R&D Imagineer. DM for Signal. https://heavymeta.org
If I had to guess, it's a combination of wanting to get a good return on the training investment (I believe it can take up to 3-4 years of training & supervision) and decline in mental acuity with age (solving 4D puzzles in real time with high stakes).
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
And mandatory retirement at 56.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
That’s correct. Most recently at bsky.app/profile/advi...
bsky.app
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
When I first moved to LA I would drive around to purposely get lost, then pull out the Thomas Guide and figure out where I was and how to get home. Again and again. It was fun, and it got progressively harder to get lost as I learned the city.
November 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The RFI data comes from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) data. The map shows their average estimate of RFI for June 2025. The GPSJAM data is from June 15, 2025. salinity.oceansciences.org/smap-radiome...
NASA Salinity: SMAP Radiometer RFI Maps
Monthly global maps showing the percentage of SMAP samples flagged as radio frequency interference and removed during data processing
salinity.oceansciences.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Hm, armfarm.com and arm.farm are both taken.
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
In this video I show off some of PIMINTO’s features.
youtu.be/EjH0kMEz4YY
PIMINTO Demo 01
YouTube video by John Wiseman
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November 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
There’s no indication the shutdown or staffing problems a had anything to do with this accident.
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Chart (slightly tweaked) showing the total number of jobs posted to HN's "Who is hiring? posts. Data from hnhiring.com. After July of 2022 the numbers are *dismal*, about 1/3 what they were before COVID. January 2025 was the worst month ever since 2018.
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM