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by Enginerrrd 4mo ago
https://archive.org/details/ExplosivesEngineeringPaulW.Coope... (30 seconds of googling.) Or perhaps you meant Q clearance nuke stuff? That would be QUITE a bit harder to find and illegal to share. But it’s lack of
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by Enginerrrd 4mo ago
Admittedly my knowledge was based on work I did in academia, and I now work in transportation, so I suppose it’s possible I’m in error, but I’d be surprised if much survives the RO stage, and isn’t eaten up by the oxidation stage. My unde
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by Enginerrrd 4mo ago
Revolutions almost always involve one faction of the elites using the masses against another faction.
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by Enginerrrd 4mo ago
That’s been a solved problem, engineering-wise, for a while. The advanced treatment stages take care of it. Between UV, ozone, and nanofiltration, etc. we can remove the pharmaceuticals. Actually the problem is the water comes out too pure
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by Enginerrrd 4mo ago
Municipal waste water is a much cheaper way to get desalinated water in the first place though.
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by Enginerrrd 4mo ago
It’s pretty common in the security world to have a red team and a blue team. There is overlap in the skillset for both, but there are good reasons to have separate people develop each team, and we wouldn’t expect people to have a talent fo
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by Enginerrrd 4mo ago
This quote resonated with me: “ Tom Hudson told me, “If you’re going to use an LLM to write me an email, I’d much rather you just send me the prompt; at least then I’d have an idea of what you actually meant to say.” In my personal life I u
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by Enginerrrd 4mo ago
Actually the fact that we don’t have immortal mice is what makes me feel like this current optimism with respect to life extension is pretty unrealistic.
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
You’re not wrong, and this is speculation, but I suspect you’re just missing the subtext I added in my edit: that some people are burnt out on the evangelism of agentic workflows in the same way they were about blockchain or whatnot.
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
I can only guess at the actions of others, but I would guess it’s because your comment is a tangent and at best only vaguely related to the featured article? The article is really about solving a particular problem with the backend of their
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
I disagree a bit with the neuroticism and agreeableness being so obvious. There are many professions I would be TERRIBLE at precisely because I am so agreeable. And, I have real world experience with a business partner that is MUCH high
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
I would be genuinely shocked if this isn’t already integrated into the US intelligence apparatus, it just may not be commonly used for domestic cases targeting US citizens, or it currently requires parallel construction to justify how they
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
Ive had nothing but issues doing that. I think I’ve had a Debian upgrade actually succeed maybe one time? (After some manual intervention to fix some issue other booting on my work server) For updates, Debian and Ubuntu are great. For u
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
Go ahead and have that conversation with the billionaires running a worldwide satellite grid of data centers to power their AI surveillance dragnet and autonomous robot soldiers. See how far it’ll get you.
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
Ah... I understand what you're saying now, my apologies. In that case though, I actually still disagree, but again I must refuse to elaborate. I will only say that in an asymmetric conflict, creativity disproportionately favors the un
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
You don’t think the power grid is one of them? What about your water supply? Your air? Fuel for your car? Where is the line for you exactly if it’s not one of the defining characteristics of the modern world: power for your home? And tho
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
For stuff like this the real answer is if someone’s going to abuse their power and fail to uphold their part of the social contract granting them monopoly, then the people being wronged shouldn’t be expected to either. Let egregious bad b
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
Right but it's famously difficult to cool things in space since you have basically zero convective or conductive heat transfer, so I don't think that makes a lot of sense.
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
Yeah, I agree. A massive radar network, passive or active is the most likely possibility I have come across. You'd need a LOT of compute at each node to get the most out of the network. I found this video[1] to be a pretty convincin
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
It sounds plausible to me since this is pretty en par with most other engineering disciplines. I’m a civil engineer. My responsibility is ultimately mostly to produce a constructable plan set. I spend far less than 5% of my time drafting
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
On 2, there's a surprising amount of very intelligent people that are really underutilized for all kinds of reasons. Some don't like to sell themselves and compete. Some have confidence issues. Some have ADHD and an on-paper track
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
> 100% but it doesn’t benefit an AI company to properly assign credit. Does credibility really mean nothing anymore?
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by Enginerrrd 5mo ago
I mean Palantir’s targeting product led to EXACTLY that outcome and it seems to have been largely forgotten already, and they managed to avoid a lot of bad press about it.
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by Enginerrrd 6mo ago
Prison IQ is a very different distribution. As I recall, the top 2% IQ of the general population makes up something like 20% of the prison population. You also have quite a few at the other end. The gifted are more over represented in pri
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by Enginerrrd 6mo ago
The latter is an interesting mindset to advocate for. In almost every other engineering discipline, this would be frowned upon. I suspect wisdom could be gained by not discounting better forethought to be honest. However, I really wonder
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by Enginerrrd 7mo ago
Not really. I have a pretty solid 5+% edge over a long time period even on the competitive markets I bet in. On many markets I think it's closer to 10-20%. These are things that inside information can't really help as much as y
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by Enginerrrd 7mo ago
That's not been my observation at all. Rationalists are some of the only people to really embrace fuzzy and probabilistic thinking. Am I missing something?
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by Enginerrrd 7mo ago
Can we add microplastics to the list?
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by Enginerrrd 7mo ago
I think the people that dismiss this concern are just as bad and unscientific. It's a pretty decent Bayesian prior to assume that regular exposure to synthetic organic compounds in quantities or concentrations that hominids didn'
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by Enginerrrd 7mo ago
> it simply does not require much intelligence (relatively speaking) to build something that points a gun at something and pulls a trigger? I could not disagree more. A big part of that is also knowing when NOT to pull the trigger. And

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