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Misha Panchenko
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CS Nerd • Software Engineer (C++/Python) • 🎮
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🔭 Orion and the Ocean of Storms

Image Credit: NASA, Artemis 1

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December 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🔭 Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater

Apollo 17 Crew, NASA

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December 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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The reason we know Radiation causes bit-flips in DRAM is pretty hilarious.


In the late 70s, Intel Ram was occasionally producing soft, uncorrectable errors.


Turns out, the ceramic packaging on the chip itself had a little bit of Uranium.

You know, as one does.
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Everyone knows that the x86 ISA is big.


Modern CPUs have ~1000+ mnemonics. Guess how many make up 90% of compiled C/C++ code?

TWELVE. I'm not kidding.

The question is…what if we shrank it?
September 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Quite impressed by the engineering in this project:
youtu.be/J3CnDXh7hH0?...

#LEGO #DIY
Building a Cat-Sized Lego Train
YouTube video by Brick Technology
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August 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
August 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Interesting chart. It may help explain the current right-wing shift around the globe. With all the reservations, intergenerational transmission of values cannot be completely ignored.
Source: www.ft.com/content/a08c...

#Demographics #Politics
August 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Here is the Fallout season 2 trailer. Yep I’m in it. I love this show.

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Fallout Season 2 - Official Teaser Trailer | gamescom 2025
YouTube video by IGN
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August 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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July 31, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Refusing to "trust the experts" is meant to be a brave, responsible position.

But (as Carl explains in the thread) there is too much knowledge in the world. You have to trust *somebody*, much of the time.

If you have no trust in experts, you end up trusting the idiots.
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.scrippsnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"Capital expenditures on AI data centers is likely around 20% of the peak spending on railroads, as a percentage of GDP, and it is still rising quickly. And we've already passed the decades ago peak in telecom spending during the dot-com bubble"

paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-cap...
Honey, AI Capex is Eating the Economy
AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom
paulkedrosky.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Ep 491 - Extract, Merge, Insert: C++17 Node Handles
C++ Weekly - Ep 491 - Extract, Merge, Insert: C++17 Node Handles
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July 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM