Viewing profile — kagakuninja

Guitar strings do not generate sound, unless plucked. However there are devices like the Sustaniac and the short-lived Moog guitar that do use electromagnets to induce vibrations i…

If The US goes to war against China, we are screwed, because we outsourced our manufacturing to China. We cannot quickly ramp up our manufacture of ships, tanks, aircraft or ammuni…

I was a jurist on a murder trial. The defendant had spent 1.5 years in jail awaiting his trial. Then went back to jail after the hung jury did not deliver a verdict.

My 40 years of alienation was not about equity, I was pointing out that the optimistic "We are all going to be rich" vibe of the 90s was wishful thinking due to the massive inequal…

At age 62, I'm wondering which mythical decade did not alienate software developers? There was a brief ray of hope in the late 90s, with the startup gold-rush idea that we would al…

A friend of mine spent some time living in homeless shelters. Even having one room mate was a problem at times, as many of the people there have mental issues (my friend included).…

Captain Kirk did that a few times in Star Trek, but with less fanfare.

Young Padawan, C++ was once a cool language, and I had to battle at multiple companies before I was finally able to make the career switch from C. The conventional wisdom was "Wher…

With Trump, assume there will be massive kickbacks and corruption, most likely nothing useful will happen.

My meditation teacher says what works for him is cannabis.

That is what traditional US foreign aid was all about. We give money to allies, they buy our military hardware or farm products. Trump of course has shit all over the system, so wh…

I'm 62, I've been a mid-tier engineer all my life, working with tons of H1Bs starting in the '90s. My current employer is 90% Indian contractors now. None of us are working on "The…

Pranayama is 2000+ years old, and has many warnings that you can fuck yourself up if you do it wrong.

There are 2500+ years of prior art on "breath work", but group think here is to dismiss it as woo. The abstract does clearly mention HVB as being similar to hyperventilation, so pr…

We hoped that the party of law and order, of Christian morality would not re-elect a convicted rapist, convicted financial fraudster, serial adulterer, pathelogical liar and instig…

The Republican leaders could have removed Trump from office after Jan 6. All those traditional conservatives and "lowercase-L libertatians" could speak up now, and do something abo…

Republicans could, and should have removed Trump from office after the Jan 6 attack. They are the real cowards.

You might say "PHP is a fractal of bad design"...

I am 61, and have been working for almost 40 years. I don't really have a lot of personal connections, because I am on the autistic spectrum. Yes, I have many former co-workers lin…

And it is the same cut that console companies take from developers. And then when we point this out, people respond with some bullshit that consoles are not "general purpose comput…

In the Foundation books, he revealed that robots were involved behind the scenes, and were operating outside of the strict 3 laws after developing the concept of the 0th law. >A ro…

In the late '80s, I was in the Air Force. Directive from the top was that all military projects should standardize on Oracle DB, "because it is portable", and projects should use A…

Our US mega corp is having us hire all remote contractors, in person is completely out of the question.

No. Using AI requires a depth of knowledge to spot the mistakes in the generated. code, and to know how to fit all the snippets of code in to something that works. We need to know …

We have been interviewing people who are obviously using covert AI helper tools. Ask them a question and they respond with coherent response, but they are just reading off of a win…