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by Luc 2y ago
I found 'So You Want to Learn Physics...' helpful: https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics Agreed on prioritizing financial freedom.
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by Luc 2y ago
Can you use modifier keys spanning the two keyboards? E.g. shift on the left, and a letter on the right to type a capital?
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by Luc 2y ago
Meh, there's no lack of consumer stuff, it's more the test equipment that's too expensive (logic analyzers etc.)
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by Luc 2y ago
> find pre-owned equipment and getting frustrated That's the problem - in the US there's an abundance of surplus electronics equipment at low prices. In Europe there isn't, and it's priced too high. I.e. the problem i
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The Selfish Machine(maartenboudry.substack.com)
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Why Has the Number of Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded Since 1960?(escholarship.org)
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A $100 DIY muon tomographer(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by Luc 2y ago
'Placebo' in the second one appears to have the meaning of 'sycophant' ('hielenlikker' in modern Dutch, see e.g. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twaalf_spreekwoorden ).
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by Luc 2y ago
I wasn't expecting to be able to see through the lattice structure. Amazing amount of detail. Naively, it seems to me that the many needle-like artifacts further away from the tower could be filtered out?
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by Luc 2y ago
True in the most trivial sense, but no, not really. Eating cotton for breakfast is being considered on HN at the moment.
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by Luc 2y ago
The bamboo will be glued together with something like polyurethane though. That makes up a smaller percentage of the board of course.
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Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone(hforsten.com)
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We Live Like Royalty and Don't Know It(thenewatlantis.com)
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by Luc 2y ago
> So where is this magic money going to come from? It's not a French government investment. It's coming from investment funds, Amazon, the UAE, data centre firms, etc.
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by Luc 2y ago
In the follow up video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgXwD3TD43A ) he mentions there was a whole lineage of comparable code placed on the internet over a period of 30 years. He seems to say only a more basic version of
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ChatGPT o1 preview and mini Wrote My PhD Code in 1 Hour – What Took Me ~1 Year [video](youtube.com)
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The World Needs a Plan for the Inevitable Asteroid Strike(bloomberg.com)
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Testing Smart Devices for Handheld Celestial Navigation(hrcak.srce.hr)
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Differential protection against SARS-CoV-2 reinfection pre- and post-Omicron(nature.com)
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Some Xband Recollections(web.archive.org)
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by Luc 2y ago
> Linus has an article on sprite-crunching (mind-blowingly complex). https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/lunatico/misc.php Great article.
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100 Or so Books that shaped a Century of Science (1999)(web.mnstate.edu)
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by Luc 2y ago
For those who want some pictures: https://kargilmuseum.org/gallery-1
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Bacteria (and their metabolites) and depression(science.org)
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by Luc 2y ago
Flag of convenience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience
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In 36h, I built a neutron-producing nuclear fusor in my kitchen using Claude(twitter.com)
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AI unveils chip designs, while discovering new functionalities(techxplore.com)
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by Luc 2y ago
Better link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03345-4
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Experimental verification of an indefinite causal order(science.org)
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Do Insects Feel Pain?(newyorker.com)
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