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First job out of college in 1986 was at Teradyne, working in BLISS.

this is so true. There's huge variability in competence. and many doctors have fled to boutique medical care, or whatever it's called, since the recent changes in healthcare.

cf. paracelsus on the dose and the toxin

the internet i grew up with didn't exist yet

This feels to me like a transitional problem. People will learn not to do this. I hope.

The stuff by Peter Watts, Blindsight and so on, is fun.

it should apply to all public sector unions, they're a disaster. That's the real problem. Should never have been allowed.

I sense a great disturbance in the force.

I worked with a woman who kept isopods as pets. She had a little terrarium at work with all sorts of breeds of isopods. That's where I learned you could buy isopods online.

Except for Keith Moon. All the stories about him are true and if anything underplay the truth. :-)

Is it possible to reset the source once you've started modifying it?

General class in USA, not currently active. More interested in tech/building than conversation/contesting although POTA and SOTA hold some interest, as does field day. Perhaps when I retire those might become a thing I do.

Seymour Cray down in the tunnels, communing with the Machine Elves.

The City Fathers from cities in flight

While I think it is true that mistakes cannot be undone, it's also the case that most mistakes (even fairly bad ones) are not a sentence of doom. There are still choices to be made in the future (if you think there are choices) and you can always take the stoic route which is imo quite useful regardless of the question of free will.

what were the conclusions? I skimmed it but did not see any.

No, the high school project is talking about this.

There is no "why" -- it happened and was not selected against; it may have been adaptive and that is a kind of why, I guess. I think it would be better to be clear about this in science communication.

rapa-nui-cin

neurotoxic? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22130466/

Daughter recently told me: "that was a very chatgpt explanation."

https://youtu.be/3vUPhsFoniw?si=L-c0aOqeyP4rvOLg

Celebrity death match: Olin Shivers vs. Derek Sivers

Managers are a form of government; that is to say, a necessary evil. Companies should spend as much energy reducing the number of managers as they spend worrying about useless employees. But it never seems to be that way.

Orson Welles voice "Do you have a favorite kind of cardboard?"

He's just got a lot of energy.

Can we get the Guided By Voices logo added to unicode? http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7087/1132/1600/rune.1.jpg

I have this feeling that all of Musk's comnpanies are technology development ventures intended to support his primary goal of getting humans to live off-earth. Note: I am not defending his goal, or idolizing him. But consider: boring company: finance learning about tunnel construction; tunnels needed on moon or mars for habitation; solar cells: very useful on moon or mars; hyperloop: finance learning about vacuum seals and related technology. My explanation makes much more sense for each of these than the ostensible goal of the company. which brings me to the point in Cthulhu's post: tesla is selling cars to understand the techne of energy storage for use in space habs.

cells are not the same thing as batteries; it's possible tesla is making batteries with cells from Panasonic or whatever.

Never trust anyone who says things like "never trust anyone who ..."

Ok, yes, I get that he's got a larger point under that clickbait-ey slug but ehhh.