UnpossibleJim

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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
What an odd statement. I had shoulder surgery not all that long ago and they prescribed me 100 Oxy's (far too many) and I took one of them. I was woken up with waves of paranoia and nausea... obviously the dosage was too high. I'm
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
Don't the modern Small Modular Reactors (SMR's) greatly reduce both the cost and time (more importantly the time) for a nuclear reactor to get up and running? Or have I been sold on a lie?
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
Take all of this for what it is, advice from strangers on the internet. I'll lay out what I think is the best advice I can give, but do realize that we are strangers on the interwebs. First, everyone has regrets. Some you can't fi
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
I was waiting for it! Thank you. I knew the most educated, elite among us would arise. All hail Esperanto. Duly elected leader of the post industrial, constructed languages =)
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
I understand your point and it's well taken. Just to point out, as I feel I misspoke or was mischaracterized by my statement, because I hold the Republicans in disdain doesn't mean I hold any less disdain for the Democrats. I have
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
That's a fascinating paper. There are a couple of issues I take with it. Their dismissal of recruitment of engineers because they use them recklessly in terror attacks doesn't seem to hold much water. If They were recruited on the
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
If people are truly worried about electing people like Donald Trump they'll broaden education and, in particular, education in the hard sciences like maths and computer science to bolster critical thinking and logic. At that point we w
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
>>Advancing knowledge and understanding is a fundamental public good. In some cases, however, potential harms to the populations studied may outweigh the benefit of publication<< Are they really advocating for self censorship in
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
There are jobs that offer 1 to 2 hours (I've heard of 4, but haven't actually seen them) Fridays to work on passion projects. Now, this all hinges on how busy your current project is at work... I work at a company that gives an ho
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
Build, create, promote what's good. Do the hard thing. Exactly what I said at the beginning of the statement.
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Promotion is difficult, creation is difficult... destruction is always the easiest path.
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People have time for midlife crises? ;)
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Ah, poor Wales. You'd have to murder your wife to sit on the throne there.
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
Nevermind, I answered my own question =) I found an Encurtido recipe made with red onions and I think I'll try it: https://lacooquette.com/encurtido-curtido/ Thanks for bringing this up. Never heard of it, now I h
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
Ummm, that sounds awesome! I don't suppose you have a favorite recipe, or should I just search for "Chilero" and "Encurtido" recipes? It almost sounds like a Central American spice palette version of Kimchee, which
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
It's relatively well and widely known that the Kim Jung's and the military are supplied by China, partially to keep the peace, but partially as a diversionary state under their thumb. It isn't even conspiracy theory at this p
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
Kim Jong Un doesn't exist without China, full stop. ISIS doesn't exist without the US and Russia. Those existential threats are pawns in a greater game left over from the 50's, 80's and 90's. As for the EU, why woul
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
So, in the 2022 released budget military spending accouted for 10 percent of all spending and 50% of discretionary spending. While we're spending that on active campaigns (not the dark ones), we aren't spending that on health care
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
OK, the animal welfare angle makes more sense to me than the environmental concern. I apologize if I spoke out of turn if I misunderstood. So many people are bringing politics into conversations, which it turns out I may have done, inadvert
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
>>Maybe so, but your food choices seem to be similarly driven by some kind ideological motivation.<< I'm not a conservative on most issues, but youthful (18-39) conservatives might be more ecologically bent than you would e
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
If you're looking to an up and coming game engine project, there's "Bevy", which is an ECS game engine (like Unreal) that's also open sourced, which is Rust based: https://bevyengine.org/learn/b
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
I always thought it was a play on the play, "Waiting for Godot" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
Especially a trillion dollar company who routinely exploits foreign labor [1] not to mention Apple still collects your data, so long as it is "aggregated and annonymized" [2]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/tec
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To be honest, I think most people aren't at the extreme but the most extreme voices are amplified so loudly that it seems like there are many more of them than there actually are. Unfortunately, corporations and politicians are placati
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
I'm outside Academia so I'm asking, but you don't think that the idea of "Engineering doesn't matter" has started to change with the introduction of AI and ML into business and the popularization of CS in moder
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
>>but I rather live in a world where the police or CPS chase every frivolous compliant than them unable to do anything without a court order or not stopping abuse enough.<< This is a noble goal, but there's a very serious f
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
I mean, it may not be the same thing but if they're really just looking for some comraderie, those "bar coder" meet ups where a bunch of local engineers meet up at different local bars once a week to talk about stuff and make
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
You know we didn't really want to enter into WWII until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? and there wasn't huge support for it, either. Until we went to war with Japan, the Nazi's hadn't actually declared war on the U.
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
https://blog.suborbital.dev/assemblyscript-vs-rust-for-your-... This is a pretty good rundown of expected comparisons, but I doubt there will be any surprises here.
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by UnpossibleJim 4y ago
For some reason no one wants to blame a lack of education, poverty or a lack of opportunity on crime (per your above statement). Everyone wants to get into these weird, esoteric arguments about what might have cause the crime rates that are

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