lokimedes

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by lokimedes 2y ago
Good riddance. I for one look forward to real technology becoming valued again, not digital rent seeking. Let’s build something useful and amazing that elevates the human experience, rather than sucking the last drop of dopamine out of cons
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by lokimedes 2y ago
Government infrastructure under attack, Musk is demanding nuclear retaliation as we speak. (Misinformation disclaimer :: Joke)
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by lokimedes 2y ago
RISC is good.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
Indeed. And with the wheel of history turning, the organizational structure and political maneuvering that it took to invest in these newfangled modes of warfare, is also important to understand.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
This is a story that really needs a “Richard Rhodes - The making of electronic warfare” treatment like the Manhattan project got. I work in radar (and formerly in nuclear research) and have been stitching together a historical picture of th
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by lokimedes 2y ago
Here's the downside of being an experimental particle physicist, while our theorist colleagues famously just need paper, pencil and a trash can (and perhaps not even the latter), it is hard to be a gentleman experimentalist without ver
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by lokimedes 2y ago
My boss tells me we need it in Comic Sans for the next meeting with our board of directors. Thank you.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
Our corpo year starts May 1. Please add an offset functionality to your free solution immediately, as it has now become a core component of our operation, or we will be forced to take legal action. Also, we appreciate if you could sign a re
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by lokimedes 2y ago
NATO runs on this principle, “silent procedure”.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
I literally got the t-shirt (came with the game), and later became a particle physicist, working at CERN, we received a crowbar for the initial startup of the LHC. This game defined my life.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
I love the ADHD meets ASD of this one! As long as it requires self-control, and long-term memory, it is DOA for me. Oh the curse of knowing what one requires, but always having it out of reach due to misfiring dopamine regulators/recep
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by lokimedes 2y ago
He is researching this stuff for s living as well.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
Sabine really represents the “apathetic disillusioned” - no hope for fundamental physics. I left after we discovered the Higgs based on similar observations, there was too much invested in group think. If you have to raise $50B to ask “what
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by lokimedes 2y ago
It was pretty dead last time I checked.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
I've been there (when it was 100GBs scale, 15 years ago), trust me, it can and do happen :)
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by lokimedes 2y ago
I’ll bet you some CERN PhD student has a forgotten 100 TB detector calibration database in sqlite somewhere in the dead caverns of collaboration effort.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
You have go go back to the collapse of the British empire to witness anything this grand. And that was driven by external factors.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
As if the whole anti-intellectual hunt wasn’t enough, now PhD is a category implying holder of rote-knowledge at the highest level. I guess it is hopeless to fight this, but a PhD is 100x more about the apprenticeship and real-world traini
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by lokimedes 2y ago
Awesome. We need that law in Denmark. Uh, perhaps we already have, thank you, EU.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
I like the idea of either augmented computing or calm computing. Either it is fitting comfortable on/in me, or it is seamlessly integrated in the ambient environment. The basic idea that we are a mechanistic factory line, where computi
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by lokimedes 2y ago
Damned being a social media platform living of people’s desire to gossip.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
He is also not cheering its “coming” but worried about the misuse of its power. You can say the same thing about other powerful inventions and their inventors.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
My own reflection on this idolatry has been along the lines of how readily some people are at negating their own and humanity in general’s fundamental agency. Having AGI, SAI, etc. is completely meaningless if we as our own agents are not t
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by lokimedes 2y ago
I’m from a not-so-starving country, but I stil appreciate the low-friction of Anna’s archive when looking for a book or article. The important thing is then to go out and buy the ones that proves valuable. In many ways, this has replaced wh
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by lokimedes 2y ago
Framing bias or perhaps attentional bias.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
Based on the names of the authors, it seems to be in danish.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
Disk defragmentation for wet sponges was my intuitive take.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
In all honesty, this gives a delightful if frightening look into how physicists are thinking amongst themselves. As a (former) particle physicist myself, I can’t remember the number of times an incredulous engineer has confronted me with “t
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by lokimedes 2y ago
My friends with Teslas seems to have more than their fair share of issues too. I haven’t yet had any problems with my car so far, at 90000km total, with 40000km on the electric motor.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
He is wrong on many things simply from not sharing the fundamental values that makes Europeans and Americans different. Yet, even on the things he’s right on, it is not his responsibility as a foreign agent, to change. He can fix his adopte

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