GlibMonkeyDeath

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by GlibMonkeyDeath 5mo ago
I'm in my sixties and reflect sometimes on how much freedom I had as a kid, and why things have changed so much in terms of risks parents are willing to accept. One correlation with "safetyism" this article doesn't menti
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 5mo ago
>The traces go between the holes That's what I was curious about - otherwise there would be effectively be through-vias along the traces (so traces could be probed between devices.)
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 5mo ago
The PCB construction is curious (which you say is multi-layer) - why use a grid of 0.1" holes? Is that so it could be easily jumpered? Can you tell if the traces run through the holes or between them? I don't have the patience to
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 6mo ago
So your default model (1 m diameter) stores about the same energy as ~100 mL of gas? (~3 MJ) Might be interesting to have a button to fill in the parameters for Commonwealth's magnets https://cfs.energy/technology/
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 6mo ago
Wonder if it has anything to do with the New Yorker article... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659135 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may...
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 6mo ago
Disclaimer: I have no association with any AI company and have never met Altman or any of the other top AI scientists. The real question is: can anyone be trusted if the fever dreams of super-intelligence come true? Go ahead and replace S
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 7mo ago
I clicked on the clickbait for you: "Leonie Mueck, formerly the chief product officer of Riverlane, a Cambridge-based quantum startup, said Google’s statement did not necessarily suggest there would definitely be a working quantum comp
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 7mo ago
Doesn't surprise me in the least. The EV charging companies (except Tesla) chose pro-active enshittification over "drive up, insert card, start charging" like gas stations. I've never had to download a shitty app to fill
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 7mo ago
The amusing description of what would happen to Lolita if it went through today's workshopping and editing is worth reading, but the rest of this essay? Not so sure. FTA: "Writing with aspirations of publication must conform to re
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 7mo ago
Caveat emptor. I am a grandparent now, so I think I have some perspective on this. Of course we love our kids, and we had (and still have) a lot of good times with them. But kids can really break your life and marriage, too - amongst my pee
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 7mo ago
I agree at the first-line manager level (which this article is about), it's tough to get hired from outside, so getting the same position somewhere else after a layoff will be a tough job search. My comment was more on the next levels
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 7mo ago
The arguments: * It's a bad time to move away from tech As a manager your role isn't to be the "best technical person" anyway. You still need to understand fast-changing capabilities of course. But you are managing peopl
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 7mo ago
Couldn't find any cost estimate, but from https://openquantumdesign.org/the-quantum-computer (scroll down to "What's Inside") I'm guessing 100's of k$ for the bill of materials (let alone keepi
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"Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage"(nature.com)
1 points by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago|1 comments
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
I will note that 1.6 Gbit/mm2 in 301 layers works out to about 5 MBit/mm2 - compare that to mag tape which is 300 MBit/mm2 (30 Gbit/cm2). I bet tape at this areal density would last a long time too...
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
The graph showing risk factors in age groups 18-49 is interesting - obesity, "sugary drinks (>2/day)", and sedentary lifestyle (>2 hr TV/day) are each about 1.5-2x increase in risk factor. Obesity has roughly doubl
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
Thanks, fixed
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"Nicotine Is Not Addictive"(senate.ucsf.edu)
2 points by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago|3 comments
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
In light of Mark Z's testimony today...
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
https://senate.ucsf.edu/tobacco-ceo-statement-to-congress Tobacco CEO's Statement to Congress 1994 News Clip "Nicotine is not addictive."
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
Tobacco CEO's Statement to Congress 1994 News Clip "Nicotine is not addictive." https://senate.ucsf.edu/tobacco-ceo-statement-to-congress
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
These guys get posted here every now and then Looking through https://www.openstar.tech/technical-resources , I don't see any indication that their thermal shielding will ever work for a levitated dipole magnet within a
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
I can't get access to the full article either to see how they adjusted for confounding (which they said they did) - but I thought this tidbit was interesting: https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsro
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
This guy really illustrates the problem with mental illness in otherwise functioning adults. Since he is getting emails from his mom, and admits he "comes from a relatively privileged upbringing", my guess is he could get help fr
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
"a challenge that also should motivate Mr. Trump to rethink a large range of his policies." Thanks for the laugh!
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
'Earlier that day, Clavicular confessed that knowing he could have sex with a woman was in some ways better than the deed itself, which “is going to gain me nothing.” “It’s a big time saver,” he said.' '(Though Clavicular has
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
It's hard. Particle physics faces the problem that in order to dig down to ever smaller scales, ironically, ever larger experiments are needed. We've pretty much built large enough colliders for our current understanding. No one r
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
What really blows my mind about this is that they are using off-the-shelf T4 Ligase to ligate the junctions. I figured this was going to be some tour-de-force of enzyme engineering, but nope, all the reagents are pretty much commercially av
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
I think the Gibson quote is applicable: "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." Some people are going to remember the 2020's as a time that AI was new, and the eventual winners will look back wit
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by GlibMonkeyDeath 8mo ago
I haven't heard a frankly optimistic piece of pop music in a very long time - the example I can think of from the 80-90's in the US is 10,000 Maniacs ("These are Days" was a Clinton campaign theme song.) Some people bash

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