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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02564-0 The paper has more details. What's interesting to me is that the key innovation isn't the deformable mirror but rather the design…

> But somewhere along the lines we're going to have think about the R&D of the big picture in non-hand-wavey ways. How?

The article feels like it was written by ChatGPT, and it doesn't explain anything about the "special reflectors" or the overall theory behind the optical design that enables shadow…

>Outcome-oriented design involves orchestrating experience design with a greater focus on user goals and final outcomes, while strategically automating aspects of interaction and i…

Mine has proven equally reliable to a mechanical toilet, while providing considerably more comfort. This actually makes sense when you consider all the mechanical complexity in a t…

There was a good Chinese Pod episode on this but I can't find it now. One of the things I recall was to express emphasis, make the tones really obvious (almost like a beginner migh…

If your operation has reached the point where milliseconds matter..something likely has gone wrong. I'd be curious to see data on how other cognitive metrics change in absence of a…

It'll be hard to make traditional motor windings out of this particular material because AFAIK it's a ceramic, but perhaps with thin films on flex PCBs it would be possible. I'm im…

They've optimized the fitness function "cuteness^2 - propensity to bite". So even when they're tearing up my arm it's still so adorable.

The paper glosses over the technical design of the solar shield spacecraft. I'd like to understand how they will maintain their attitude given how huge they are. Would gyros be eno…

Another perspective if we consider AI akin to nuclear weapons (a simile many have made already): If the law-abiding cease development and malicious actors do not, the worst case ma…

Key point I think should be more prominent: The effect was on cultured brain cells. The reason brain tumors and other disorders of the brain are so hard to treat is that the blood-…

That's sad. My dad had a subscription to these, so I read them quite a bit when I was younger. I think I still have a few lying around. At the same time, there's more exciting stuf…

> ... reaches up and flips the pressurization switch, cutting off bleed air to the cabin. The airplane rapidly begins to depressurize ... I cannot believe that a "kill everyone" sw…

My pipes are all copper, and the hot water contains a non trivial amount of lead (from the solder used to join the pipes). I had it tested - around 20 ppb. We don't drink or cook w…

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The article tries extensively to dance around the fact that all else being equal, if your head is hitting the ground you're better off wearing a helmet. In the worst cases, you are…

A few years ago that would be true. These days, minimum wage workers are getting harder to find. But that's only if the search is constrained to immediate locality. The "great" thi…

I'm skeptical there's any value being generated here then. Who are the customers? How do they know this fancy looking biological design is any good at all? It's fine not to actuall…

I think adding another animal to the situation would only exacerbate the problem. Let's say we add lions. Then not only goats are eaten, but other animals. Hunting goats to local e…

We'll fix it till it's broke!

Exactly - and that maximum is the "minimum maximum" across all batches of the device. You might get a particularly resilient one that handles the 10V just fine. The encryption idea…

Many comments are permutations of different suggestions do here's mine: Get the business to buy into "fixing" this before doing anything. Convince them to hire more, sounds like th…

The best approach is to assume there's a renegade employee constantly trying to screw the company over. Granularity of permissions should be set to minimize the blast radius to the…

The powershell script is a minor part of the screw up. The real issues are multitude... 1) hardcoding actual production credentials in a script at all. Seriously what the fuck. 2) …