kagakuninja

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by kagakuninja 8mo ago
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 in the strings. So you could compare this to the Sustaniac. E
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by kagakuninja 8mo ago
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 ammunition. Not only do we lack manufacturing capacity, the entire
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by kagakuninja 9mo ago
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.
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by kagakuninja 10mo ago
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 inequality in the tech world. Few teams other than green-
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by kagakuninja 10mo ago
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 all be millionaires soon. Then the I realized the founder
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by kagakuninja 10mo ago
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). We need tiers of low cost housing. Some people could make a
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by kagakuninja 10mo ago
Captain Kirk did that a few times in Star Trek, but with less fanfare.
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by kagakuninja 11mo ago
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 "Where will we get C++ programmers?", "We don&#x27
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by kagakuninja 11mo ago
With Trump, assume there will be massive kickbacks and corruption, most likely nothing useful will happen.
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by kagakuninja 11mo ago
My meditation teacher says what works for him is cannabis.
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by kagakuninja 1y ago
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 who knows what we are going to do now. We also give out tons o
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by kagakuninja 1y ago
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 world's hardest problems", we
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by kagakuninja 1y ago
Pranayama is 2000+ years old, and has many warnings that you can fuck yourself up if you do it wrong.
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by kagakuninja 1y ago
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 presumably it is similar to "bellows breathing&
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by kagakuninja 1y ago
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 instigator of America's first coup attempt. Even Liz Cheney w
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by kagakuninja 1y ago
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 about the ongoing fascist takeover, but they are not.
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by kagakuninja 1y ago
Republicans could, and should have removed Trump from office after the Jan 6 attack. They are the real cowards.
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by kagakuninja 1y ago
You might say "PHP is a fractal of bad design"...
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by kagakuninja 1y ago
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 linked on LinkedIn, but to most of those people, I'm
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by kagakuninja 1y ago
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 computers"...
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by kagakuninja 1y ago
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 robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanit
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
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 AT&T mini computers (wat?) They set up a t
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Our US mega corp is having us hire all remote contractors, in person is completely out of the question.
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
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 that the developer actually has skills and isn't just s
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
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 window we can't see. In some cases it is obvious they are
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Might as well use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-meter
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Elon / Trump will ignore court orders they don't like, they are basically doing that already. The only remedy will be impeachment. It is extremely unlikely that Republicans will remove Trump from office, and so the coup will conti
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
Fundamentalist Christians were the original prigs. It is amusing to see pg try and shoehorn the word on to the social justice movement.
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
I can remember my mother giving me carob 50 years ago, because it is "healthier than chocolate". Never forget.
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by kagakuninja 2y ago
The band originally was The Pink Floyd (after changing their name from The Tea Set)

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