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That's taking entirely the worst interpretation of what I said. I assume Thomas is sensitive about his appearance, took the worst interpretation possible and flagged all my posts. …

Also "I've tortured the meaning of this to make Ray look like less of an idiot." I'm pretty sure gunshot detectors, which arguably date from WW-1, don't qualify as "Public and priv…

Seriously man, do you just follow me around and flag my comments? It means a weedy little narrow minded woman with no life experience of violence is probably incapable of writing a…

That's a great point (also cool article bro), but as a participant in "bro culture" (power lifting, BJJ, kick boxing, etc etc you name it; hell I used to be a goddamned auto mechan…

This is a ridiculous PR puff piece by her publisher, and even a vague perusal of the translation indicates it's an atrocity, which is exactly what you'd expect from a "young adult …

Which, if you read old english, you know is an unconscionable travesty. No doubt not as bad as the desecration by a nitwit young adult writer discussed above, but pretty bad.

I'd rather write python than matlab any day (I made this choice, literally in '98): it's a statement about reading. Matlab is closer to a a math notation and python is a clunky pro…

Particularly when you go look for "eugenics" statements and don't find any. Who died and made you internet cop, anon?

Inflationary pressures and pent up demand no doubt. Also, you can just look at the chart and see it's basically already there. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/iron-ore

It's a regression as far as code readability goes for fairly straightforward reasons: almost everything in Matlab is a matrix. Matrices are not first class citizens in Python, and …

Looking around at all the enormously fat people, I suspect it's more likely to be thyroid and biome problems than cancer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6915086/ http…

People noticed: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/october-2020-talc-lawsu... I never understood why one might use talc over, say, chalk or corn starch.

Because even a reasonable set of first steps towards creating artificial mechanical life forms made out of arbitrary atoms do not exist and probably never will. Drexler wrote a stu…

It's not a problem if you assume, as most affirmative action does, that 2+ sigma talent (baseline physics professor) and motivation is evenly distributed across populations. It pro…

I didn't downvote, but maybe because it is an insipid and disgusting question? FWIIW in high altitude aviation where digestive gas could cause debilitating pain or even life threat…

I usually like Collision articles, and agree with the title, but this is a terrible measure for physics. Horgan's book is a better resource for this sort of thing[0]. Obviously the…

> there is a good chance that bugs like this one will be eventually be used to illegally spy on domestic dissidents and whistleblowers. These things and considerably smaller were f…

Of course the capital costs of this are absurd (that's basically what you're saying here), but if it results in tomatoes and strawberries which don't taste like paste, it's worth i…

I charge by the hour, so my "free time" is billable too. Focuses the mind knowing whatever you're doing when you're not working is billable hours (hence no vidya). I still mostly m…

> And all it costs is my time, which is free. Well my time is definitely not free; people pay lots of money for access to it. The problem with "muh welcome to upper middle class pr…

Yeah, I didn't miss their clever little double entendre, nor did I miss they portrayed Shannon as a doddering old fool. This was not a docudrama; it was a desecration. Are you actu…

Because I paid for the book, paid with hours of my life reading it, and am hopping mad that it is total garbage which wasted my time and money with a puerile, long winded stack of …

Sadly Soni's book is reads like a precocious high school student's summer book report, and he and his coauthor (who doesn't seem any more qualified than Soni is to write such a thi…