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- Comment on Shape up. 3 days 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. 5 days 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. 6 days 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 2 weeks ago:
wdym, that’s the point
- Comment on Is there a word for the happiness in finding the exact right word? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks ago:
only if you keep backups
- Comment on Writing with LLM is not a shame. 2 weeks ago:
yes they do, wtf are you talking about futurism.com/openai-use-cheating-homework
- Comment on Writing with LLM is not a shame. 2 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
and stops working when us-east-1 burns down
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks ago:
it also requires zero effort on their part
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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)
- Comment on What if a billionaire wants to help you? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 5 weeks ago:
not an immunologist; i don’t want to undersell this to you: immunology is fantastically complex subject with many redundancies, feedback loops, and frustrating number of moving parts, many of which are still unknown in sufficient detail. that said, if you want any chance for it to go: first you’d have to figure out what exactly mealses virus does, then you’d have to find a disease that can be cured or treated by obliterating whatever mealses virus is obliterating, and then if there’s any match (big if) it’ll probably still won’t work just with wild type virus and require significant modifications. and even then, that effect as is known in mealses today is not very reliable and lasts only months to years
maybe in the course of figuring the first one there will show up an option to modify mealses virus in some significant way that might allow it to target something else, and maybe target other kind of disease, because in no way it’d be a blanket cure for all immune diseases ever. maybe someone made an observational study already that tracked how prevalence of some immune diseases changes after mealses infection, but many of these are rare diseases and it’d be massively hard endeavor
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 5 weeks ago:
I think it would be comparable to situation where all mRNA is suddenly unusable, ie protein synthesis can’t run at all. This would be something like ricin or diphteria toxin poisoning, but instead of being limited to gastrointestinal lining it’s spread all over. I’d guess hours to days before anything visible starts happening (symptoms only start to appear when deficit in new protein synthesis becomes noticeable; all protein already made continues to work for sone time)
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 5 weeks ago:
it wasn’t a problem before they started doing this
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 5 weeks ago:
because it’s cheap, easy, compact, well understood, and makes numbers look good. number in question is ratio of energy used by entire facility to energy used by silicon only (i forgor how it’s called). alternative is dissipating heat from radiators, but this makes this number like 3. evaporative cooling makes this number closer to 1.2
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 1 month ago:
llms allowed them to glide all the way to the point of failure without learning anything
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 1 month ago:
helical antennas work fine too and look goofy as hell
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 1 month ago:
i’ve used the same (800ml can) and this one works well
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 1 month ago:
wait i thought for some reason that pringles can sized waveguide would have cutoff frequency above 2.4ghz. nevermind, there’s something better because bigger aperture can get you more directivity like this lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/cup.html i made two out of cookie tins and it works over 500m at least
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 1 month ago:
about #1, not only this makes number of potential leakers higher (intentional or not - by opsec failures) but also this narrows down number of loyal, reliable people who also won’t fuck up the job real fast
- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 2 months ago:
maybe check from openai didn’t clear
- Comment on How not to lose your job to AI 2 months ago:
80000 hours are the same cultists from lesswrong/EA that believe singularity any time now and they’re also the core of people trying to build their imagined machine god in openai and anthropic
it’s all very much expected
- Comment on ‘Martyrdom or Bust:’ Texas Man Caught Plotting Terror Attack Through Roblox Chats 2 months ago:
bro tried to recruit jihadists in roblox (failed) and now screenshots from this all are a matter of public record 💀
- Comment on Seeking for funding 2 months ago:
is the evil funding man going to eat the gimp pepper
- Comment on Seeking for funding 2 months ago:
iirc L-aminoacids and D-sugars, that is these observed in nature, are very slightly more stable than the opposite because of weak interaction
probably it’s just down to a specific piece of quartz or soot that got lucky and chiral amplification gets you from there
also it’s not physics, or more precisely it’s a very physicy subbranch of chemistry, and it’s done by chemists because physicists suck at doing chemistry for some reason (i’ve seen it firsthand)
