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Hari Nair

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Software engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, supporting Europa Clipper, Dragonfly, and others!

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30.10.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's especially common in India. My kids call my female cousins "Ammayi" (... which means Aunt). I never understood this third cousin once removed nonsense.

29.10.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trader Joe's has this spiced chai latte powder. I mix it with hot water and some heavy cream. One time I just mixed it with the heavy cream and ate it all before the water boiled. If I ever kill someone and am on death row, that's what I'm requesting for my last meal.

07.10.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is how I think of it.

30.09.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What is the intention behind these resolutions? They seem like gotcha statements. What do you gain by playing?

19.09.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And if Harris had won the pundits would have proclaimed it was a brilliant move for Biden to drop out with three months to go and a masterful strategy by the Democrats.

27.08.2025 11:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

His recent tweets have been hilarious. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

15.08.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's a stunning coincidence that Neptune and Jupiter had such a close conjunction just a couple of years into Galileo's observations.

15.08.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I fell asleep watching this one and didn't bother to rewatch. I very much enjoyed episode 2, although I was disappointed the resolution was exactly the same as in the original series.

27.07.2025 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The first man to leave the moon!

20.07.2025 19:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Couldn't this job be done by AI? Or maybe it is.

12.07.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Any church that does so will have its tax exemption revoked because separation of church and state. Any church promoting Trump's successor will be fine because first amendment. Both arguments will be in Alito's majority opinion, maybe in the same paragraph.

08.07.2025 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He is speaking to an audience of one.

22.06.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Much better!

16.06.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Using sin(lat) is fine, but sin(lon) doesn't give enough information; you still need something for east and west hemispheres.

We could use complex notation (sin(lon), cos(lon)). If the government mandated that it wouldn't even be the third worst idea this week.

16.06.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Or we could simply use the sine and cosine of the appropriate longitude bin which would be unambiguous.

I have many more such ideas if you would like to subscribe to my newsletter.

16.06.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Hmmm, he only has immunity for crimes conducted as "official business". Crimes during his personal time are fair game.

22.05.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We all can't get into Hollywood Upstairs Medical College, you know.

07.05.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Best wishes, Laurie!

07.05.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

San Dimas High School Football rules!

03.05.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And a Gilligan's Island!

02.05.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a group of people are standing in a line and one of them is wearing a pink hat . Alt: Judge Smails taunts Danny Noonan as he makes his last putt. "Well... we're waiting"
26.04.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Elon came to me, with tears in his eyes, and said Sir, I have to go back to work at Tesla."

24.04.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Made in China, with a tariff exemption.

17.04.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If on one side you have "some say", and on the other you have "many people are saying", and some of those many people have tears in their eyes, well, I just won't know who to believe.

17.04.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I did the same, rebalancing from 70/30 stocks/bonds to 30/70 stocks/bonds a couple of months ago (oh ... around the end of January or so).

I don't know what to do if Treasuries lose their value. Buying gold is a sign I've turned into a crackpot.

09.04.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What real sanctions can judges place on the administration or the lawyers who argue obviously in bad faith?

08.04.2025 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How about looking for his biggest campaign donors, and asking them if they still support a member of Congress who goes along with this nonsense?

07.04.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Which will be the excuse to fire Jerome Powell and lead to the next market meltdown.

06.04.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wondered how long it would be before Powell gets fired. That would be the next obvious thing to do if I wanted to tank the economy.

04.04.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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