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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utter nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  i always thought that the idea of synthons should be taught early on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utter nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  i’d say it’s more important to learn mechanisms because this way you can notice these patterns of reactivity easier. at some point you’d only get new reactions that are really just pieces of other reactions you know put in a new way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utter nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s zero reason to make chart like this, it’s both barely comprehensible and touching surface level stuff only (where are palladium couplings for one)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom they're fighting again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physics!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These things are under high voltage, so no. And then there’s several kg of mercury inside

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physics!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  no, but they will also kill you (but not by magic)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the same way they did in 2021

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ah yes chatbot seller says these things will become so capable, they’re gonna destroy the world, just you wait and see, but need trillion dollars in financing first. op have you already eaten your daily recommended pebble today?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever been shown the "clarity"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if your brain does that without drugs i’d suggest you check it with a neurologist because it’s not usual. maybe there will be some new kind of epilepsy named after you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever been shown the "clarity"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have excellent vision normally and don’t need glasses, I can see things from extremely fair away and my eyes have a wide FOV (my peripheral is great)

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  it sounds a lot like psychedelics and not any usual human experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  can these things be reflashed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cause and Effect⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i think that conspiracy theories are more about feeling special about knowing some secret knowledge, lots of people fall for this and even create conspiracy theories without realizing, no matter how smart they are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Radio transmission doesn’t require state-level capacity (yes there are other barriers like cost or skill) and waves don’t care about borders. Receiving foreign radio was a big thing and it doesn’t require special equipment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aristotle said so much dumb shit, like he said that womrn have less teeth and never bothered to check

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What use a smart card reader?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New-ish EU national IDs have NFC capability and certificate in them so you can probably sign something with that if you figure out how

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shape up.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe his neck just did that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah and german toy makers were critical in supplying parts for arty fuzes in ww1. (i heard that soviet milk bottle filling machines could be repurposed for filling shells with molten explosives - both are dispensed hot, size is similar, not sure how real it is). company making complicated machinery out of many parts, requiring tight tolerances, made on-site, that already has tooling to make most of gun parts probably except barrels, makes sense that it could be pressed to make simple handguns.

  so what. manufacturing got much more specialized, so that even if in past car factory could crank out entire tanks, they probably can’t do it today easily (parts, sure, even entire engines and transmissions. not armor plate, or ceramics, or tungsten inserts or whatever these have). that factory could make stamped steel parts of jdam, but probably not much more. mk80 series shells are basically 30cm-ish wide, 1cm-ish thick steel tubes, with notches on inside and necked down while hot from both sides. can’t do that without highly specialized machinery

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s little overlap unless usaf decides to use samsung galaxy note 7 as warheads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  wdym, that’s the point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word for the happiness in finding the exact right word?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i think there is, but i don’t want to spread associated cognitohazard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people young enough to not even remember Pokémon Red/Blue who are old enough to be parents now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i’m saying that what you see as generational divide can be partially also class divide

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people young enough to not even remember Pokémon Red/Blue who are old enough to be parents now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  have you considered that there are people your age that were broke as kids, or non-westerners, that also don’t remember pokemon red and blue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  only if you keep backups

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Writing with LLM is not a shame.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yes they do, wtf are you talking about futurism.com/openai-use-cheating-homework

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Writing with LLM is not a shame.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  if that task is offloaded to spicy autocomplete, all and any learning of this skill is avoided, so it’s not mega useful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and stops working when us-east-1 burns down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it also requires zero effort on their part

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government suggests deleting files to save water⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Show me how do you want to dissipate 10GWt without evaporative cooling towers, i’ll wait

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government suggests deleting files to save water⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on local climate, season and proximity to cities or industrial customers, this is often done, but you’ll still have to dump lots of heat in the summer when space heating is off

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government suggests deleting files to save water⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  straight up not feasible for many serious and necessary facilities like powerplants and refineries, unless you prefer very warm lake or river nearby (which also cools down by evaporation later)