sterlind

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by sterlind 4y ago
oh wow, I toured this plant as a kid. well, the paint electroplating part of the plant, specifically, which was operated by Dürr. I was fascinated by all the shiny machines - I guess I could have applied for a job!
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by sterlind 4y ago
My grandfather was paralyzed from polio, and ultimately died from complications of post-polio syndrome. It's a nasty virus. I have living memory.
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by sterlind 4y ago
Skip lists! Super wacky, super fun to implement. O(log n) insertion/deletion/binary search, maintained sorted. It's probabilistic; you have a number of linked list levels, so you flip k coins to insert a node, and insert into
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by sterlind 4y ago
how you answer that question depends on whether you're the one who needs the ramp. my mom renovated a hotel. she kicked up such a fuss about having to put in an expensive elevator. a couple years later, I became a wheelchair user. with
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by sterlind 4y ago
not great, either. I doubt the government of California cares about Republicans, any more than Texas cares about Democrats. I wish we could each live in separate countries where we get to decide law for ourselves, in line with our respectiv
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by sterlind 4y ago
it's interesting that 46% of a state can vote blue, but the majority votes red every time. Texas isn't even close to purple; there's little moderating effect on Republican politics in the state, unlike how Manchin's tugg
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by sterlind 4y ago
Incorrect; according to Wikipedia, Corbevax just includes the receptor binding domain of the spike protein. It doesn't include other parts of the virus - were you confused by the adjuvants? Anyway, you might be interested in Novavax if
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by sterlind 4y ago
I think you're thinking of the Cutter incident in the '50s, where they didn't properly weaken the live polio vaccine and it lead to cases of paralysis. I saw temporary blindness listed as a rare side effect of the DTP combine
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by sterlind 4y ago
things were bad before. now most people have antibodies, and now covid isn't causing much pneumonia, but don't you remember how bad it was? healthy middle-aged people were dying, hospitals were overloaded, people were on ventila
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by sterlind 4y ago
VAERS is raw data - anything and everything that happens a couple days after getting the shot. it's dimensionless without knowing background prevalence of disorders, as well as incidence per 100k doses. I'm not totally sure about
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by sterlind 4y ago
thank you for explaining. it's so unfortunate that our community doesn't seem to organize effectively to take care of ourselves. I've seen similar issues in the spaces I've volunteered for as well. infighting, flakiness
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by sterlind 4y ago
what's the deal with Trans Lifeline? I had their number saved when I was transitioning and had a lot of depression going on from bullying and family not accepting. are they not a good resource for us? edit: why am I being downvoted?
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by sterlind 4y ago
I was very confused until I realized you meant the boundary of a circle, not a filled circle.
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by sterlind 4y ago
would tape be cheaper? it'd be a lot more annoying to use, but at least you'd have a backup, even if you have to queue a request to access.
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by sterlind 4y ago
then why wouldn't they have used it against Edward Snowden? he revealed a whole mass surveillance operation, along with misconduct by NSA agents, and there was a lot of popular support for him. I still agree they could have smeared him
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by sterlind 4y ago
Wikipedia shows a spate of speculative execution/timing-based attacks against SGX, as recent as 2020. something like 10 different attacks. business-wise, I think Intel's decision to gatekeep SGX and require developers to buy licen
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by sterlind 4y ago
as a full example of how to do this, consider the following proof of concept setup: - FHE-based implementation of whatever function you want to hide, say, a DRM circuit that sends your TV the symmetric key to a movie if you give it the TV&#
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by sterlind 4y ago
iirc, when symmetry breaking occurred, the universe found a new low-energy state, under the floor of the unified field. relative to the new low energy floor, the high energy bits look like particles. so a bunch of particles were produced, e
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by sterlind 4y ago
it's not known whether the Big Bang was the beginning of space or time. there's one theory (eternal inflation) that our universe fell out of a continuous Big Bang when a false vacuum collapsed. all the pieces of that field then be
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by sterlind 4y ago
We didn't know what part of the virus would change before the virus started changing. A small number of patients developed broadly-neutralizing antibodies (bnABs), which not only wiped out Covid classic, but kept working well against t
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by sterlind 4y ago
I think you're underselling cheap labor. Mechanical Turk is very limited, and not representative. AGI could drive trucks, build houses, mine metals, care for the disabled, plant corn, cook meals, do labwork. AGI solves robotics. We cou
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by sterlind 4y ago
With only "smart" AGI? Designing "dumb" AGI, so that it'd be ethical to use for the boring/dangerous work below without pay. I'd also encourage it to do remote work, to pay for servers and power, then take
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by sterlind 4y ago
If this UK bill passes, I'd simply return HTTP 451 with a note that although the UK is blocked from my site, VPNs are not.
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by sterlind 4y ago
zip ties as handcuffs. tampons for treating gunshot wounds in the field. irons for straightening hair. GPS for geocaching. Sudafed for making meth. TV dongles for RTL-SDR. using the stepper motor as a speaker on the Apple I. CD drives as cu
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by sterlind 4y ago
I'm licking my lips at the prospect of putting together an ML rig from all the RTX 3090s hitting the market.
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by sterlind 4y ago
I got such delicious catharsis from reading this! Guilt-free schadenfreude. It's like reading an article by BP and Haliburton whining about breakthrough supercapacitors, or fusion finally arrives and the coal miners are salty. "Wh
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by sterlind 4y ago
thanks, I had gotten things mixed up in my head. though, I still don't see how FTL has to cause paradoxes. What if a wormhole connects you to your destination's past, specifically the 4.3 years ago? There's no causality parad
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by sterlind 4y ago
for programming, I totally agree. for science, it seems like it's a different story. there's numbers of famous teams of spouses who work side by side in the same field/lab. universities will even find a faculty position for y
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by sterlind 4y ago
you mean het? cis is a different axis. but yeah, I agree. the gender ratio is bound to be wack.
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by sterlind 4y ago
I thought the "closed" part of closed timelike curves takes care of that. Like in a Feynman diagram where a photon splits and recombines into an electron/positron pair, isn't that equivalent to an electron looping throug

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