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- Comment on Scientists create 3D images of ant morphology with particle accelerator that captured high-resolution images of internal anatomy in seconds; the library, spanning 792 species, may inform robot design 21 hours ago:
This is really interesting. I actually think that’s better than theory. We live in a data-centered world now, right? That means hard experimental knowledge has high value. So, in theory we keep speculating what the math means, or you can tell a computer to try to figure it out. But in experimental you get hard facts.
This is a scientific exercise of hard experimental work. I think it’s valuable. We’ll get to understand insects and their morphology better. At least it’s money spent not on health issues only. It broadens science; we get to actually understand the world and not focus on insects for safety/health issues like “Why is a mosquito a vector for Dengue?” or “How can we eliminate invasive insect species from crop fields?”. This is science beyond the obvious.
- Comment on This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials 2 days ago:
Why are people so pissed at this FelixCress guy? He is just wrong, there is no need to debate.
- Comment on This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials 3 days ago:
Hacking isn’t about reinventing the wheel. This isn’t a finished product destined for a market. Even if it was, think about the small business utilities involved in local knowledge (“low-tech”): many small producers (farmers, shops, etc.) still use “obsolete” mechanisms and improvised mechanical technology. If that could reflect personal or community knowledge into real technology, even if “low technology”, that’s already a social gain for those people.
Besides that, it’s worth it for a personal project where the end goal is obtaining knowledge about how things work in the world. Not everything is about stocks, and stocks doesn’t fill all of the “market” also.
- Comment on This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials 3 days ago:
the reddit discussion is interesting
- This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentialswww.hackster.io ↗Submitted 3 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 59 comments
- I’ve spent many hours walking down memory lane with the Commodore 64 Ultimate, and it’s wondrous if sometimes intimidatingwww.techradar.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel 3 days ago:
I’m hopeful ARM will follow more the licensing path than the going full Android path. I think stronger ARM computers, built at the ISA level by any company are also stronger RISCV computers. Builders like Rockchip (China) show that ARM and RISCV computers will bring alternatives to people, possibly with smaller fabs or on demand.
- NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intelwww.tweaktown.com ↗Submitted 3 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 74 comments
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- Comment on Should Scientists and Engineers Run Society? 2 weeks ago:
It’s exactly that. Politics isn’t about managing. This is what it’s all about: politics is about people, not being a CEO. If you are to be a CEO, you’re already a technocrat, since which CEO wouldn’t want the most technical people on the team?
The problem is twofold: finding technical solutions for society as if it was a machine limited by degrees of freedom, and thinking that the best fit people should be on ruling positions.
Politics is about people!!
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to science@mander.xyz | 11 comments
- Comment on Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models 4 weeks ago:
Remote computing is very expensive. It’s just the gated (owned by companies) LLMs that are cheap for the final consumer. Training a 2b LLM on remote compute will cost thousands of dollars if you try to.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 4 weeks ago:
bullies!
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 4 weeks ago:
Palantir only cares about one philosophy. The “philosophy of God”. You may like some enlightenment figures like Kant or Leibniz, since the sense of hierarchy is powerful on the epoch, but that’s about it. You’re supposed to reverb/echo the “philosophy of God” or get out! Critical thinking without hierarchical thinking is just a pain on the ass for them, so you can “go home and eat our metaphysical shit” or submit to the Mathematical God which will create all the rules and philosophy we need.
I guess that’s what he means.
- Comment on Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System 4 weeks ago:
Did these two people (publishing on Cambridge!!) just try to give a deep scientific coating to Curtis Yarvin idea of aristocrats (“CEOs are monarchs”)?
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 weeks ago:
Well, it’s weird that it gets 16%
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 4 weeks ago:
You’re giving Microsoft too much credit. The market in general doesn’t want you to think of an alternative.
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- Comment on Local solid-state processes adjust the selectivity in catalytic oxidation reactions on cobalt oxides 1 month ago:
I have noticed Nature articles (and Physical Review articles as well) are very well written and interesting to the general public as well.
Some journals articles from other journals are preoccupied with the formulas and data, but I guess Nature editors and publishers are also very preoccupied with the writing quality.
- Local solid-state processes adjust the selectivity in catalytic oxidation reactions on cobalt oxideswww.nature.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to science@mander.xyz | 2 comments
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- Comment on Native Americans? 3 months ago:
That’s common culture/knowledge. But I don’t know, seems like rubbish to me. If English colonization has different methods, what can you say about Trinidad & Tobago? And the English Guyana? Let’s not go to Africa and Asia. It doesn’t seem to be their “modus operandi” to me.
I don’t think there is some big extermination plan for America and Australia. I think there’s just something different to those places, but that requires more study. Not of the common knowledge kind. Why would you want some kind of extermination colonization strategy for Australia? It’s weird. It’s more of a “counter-study”, but I believe there are people fighting the good fight out there. I’ll put it on my list and research it.
- Comment on Native Americans? 3 months ago:
That’s good. It’s similar to Brazil in the sense of recognizing and preserving tribal cultures. That’s important, but it doesn’t extend to all native people. There are movements here advocating for the recognition of the urban indigenous—people who live in the cities but aren’t officially recognized as having native ancestry.
Even more, it’s increasingly expected that there were big cities in the Amazon, featuring complex trade routes. However, this topic still needs to be studied more profoundly for various reasons.
It all depends on History, specifically how groups like the Aztecs in Mexico and the Inca in Peru dealt with the Spanish. Their elites were often made kings (or viceroys) in the early post-colonization period. That makes a significant difference in the subsequent social structure.
- Comment on Native Americans? 3 months ago:
Not children. People of any age. They’re dark skinned, sometimes slightly dark skinned. They look like japanese, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they’re hispanic without a spanish surname. They’re not told they’re hispanic, they’re just marked as hispanic by the demographics. They don’t need to be told what they are for people to oppress them.
That’s how it works: you mark someone as something and don’t give a shit about what they think about it. Sometimes, the person just thinks: “This is how I look like, and this is what my family looks like, so I’m correct and don’t know anything about this heritage thing.”.
They don’t need to be told anything, that’s how it works.
- Comment on Native Americans? 3 months ago:
I think the french are more pasty? Any child of a frenchman had lots of rights. That’s how Haiti got to rebel, no?
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