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Electronic design engineer, specializing in ultra-low power Cortex M0+ designs.
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swamp40··on Is OpenAI sentient and just hiding its consciousness from us?
Even if it isn't, is that how it WILL happen? Will it hide itself in fear? Will it exist for years before we uncover it?
swamp40··on MessageBird lays off 31% of staff
As of today, you will be on garden leave
swamp40··on NASA Uses RISC-V Vector Spec to Soup Up Space Computers
I thought you needed three, and you go with whichever two match?
swamp40··on NASA Uses RISC-V Vector Spec to Soup Up Space Computers
Soup up originated in the U.S. in the late 19th century, though it wasn't widely used until the 20th century. Its exact origins are unknown, but it could be short for supercharge, or it might come from a horse-racing slang term for injecting horses with narcotics meant to make them run faster.

Interesting. I never saw it spelled like that before. Looks like no one knows how it should be spelled, so all variations are fine.

swamp40··on If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now
I would think that would work rather well, since it is 100% visual.
swamp40··on “Judas goats” were once key players in meatpacking plants
You shouldn't have written that down, it will give future AI Terminators a good idea.
swamp40··on “Judas goats” were once key players in meatpacking plants
I think there is a bit of poetic license there.
swamp40··on Amazon is said to plan to lay off thousands of employees
What do they do with 70,000 employees? It's hard to envision.
swamp40··on Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2?
> third criticisms...show a dangerous level of sloppiness
swamp40··on NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation
Is there a way to search it for repeating patterns to catch any shortcuts the Simulation may have taken?
swamp40··on Inside the Proton
I think we are still in the "universe orbits the Earth" stage of quantum physics.
swamp40··on Inside the Proton
"My God, it's full of stars!"
swamp40··on Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown
> American chip bosses now fear that China could retaliate

They will certainly retaliate. The question is how. Most think they will react similarly, banning cutting edge electronics exports that could have military use.

But I suspect they will go after our weak spots. Prescription drugs, solar, lithium. I'm sure there are more.

swamp40··on One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
They also flash "Android Sucks" in large Arial letters on the screen for 30ms once every 5 seconds when you have green bubbles.

Subliminal messaging work better than poor contrast.

swamp40··on Starlight interstellar probe
They should have included a way to kill it after the experiment was over.
swamp40··on Ask HN: How did you stop drinking?
Paxil.

Works like a champ. Fills the holes in your head, the longing to jump into the abyss. If you know, you know.

swamp40··on Ask HN: 10k hours rule to master anything. Could I switch career when I am 43?
I suspect he was joking...
swamp40··on Elon Musk is releasing a new Tesla for the Russian market
It reverses faster than it goes forward.
swamp40··on Nordstream: An Accident?
Perhaps you'd be more comfortable with the term radical environmentalists? Western leaders are ratcheting up the climate change/ESG rhetoric like never before. A whole generation of kids now think the world will literally end in their lifetimes. What do you expect will happen?
swamp40··on Nordstream: An Accident?
There are similar arguments against all possible perpetrators.

My point was only that it was possible. Not so deep or so complicated that only the US or Russia could have done it.

swamp40··on Nordstream: An Accident?
"Recently, some climate activists have begun to openly contemplate the possibility — in their eyes, the necessity — of directly sabotaging the infrastructure of the carbon economy. Foremost among them is the academic Andreas Malm, whose recent book, “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” [1] calls for smashing the tools of fossil-fuel extraction as a last-ditch means of averting ecological collapse. In interviews with mainstream outlets such as Vox and The New Yorker, Malm contends that climate activists should give up their dogmatic attachment to pacifism and start to destroy the machines that actually produce carbon. " [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/magazine/earth-liberation...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/How-Blow-Pipeline-Andreas-Malm/dp/183...

swamp40··on Nordstream: An Accident?
https://www.amazon.com/How-Blow-Pipeline-Andreas-Malm/dp/183...
swamp40··on Nordstream: An Accident?
Shaped charges are easy to make [0], and technical divers can go to 70 meters. I don't think it's out of line to think that German eco-terrorists could have done it. So the whodunnit list is quite long.

[0] https://youtu.be/UHoqYi8XOA4?t=427

swamp40··on Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
It's funny how you can take a multi-billion dollar idea, write it all out for the world to see, and it still gets ignored or ridiculed by everyone.

It's also funny how you can take two of the greatest minds in our generation and dismiss them out of hand, mostly due to your previous biases of what you think they are all about.

If email cost the sender 1 cent per email, spam could have been eliminated.

This system would do the same thing. 5 cents to post, 1 cent to comment, 1 cent to upvote. 80% of money goes to poster and commenters. 20% pays the bills. Maybe a downvote option that costs 2 cents?

Influencers make money. Users pay a small proportional amount to interact, free to read.

Decentralization is the key, just like for crypto. No one controls the content. No one censors Hunter Biden's laptop posts.

You load up with $5 and add more when you are depleted. Everything in sats or ADA, etc. It stays in your "wallet" so it can't be frozen or taken from you.

You can have a tipping and buying system as well, all built in.

This will happen.

swamp40··on How Big Is Infinity?
> best tool we have

Math? Which physical laws/equations need infinity? Or do they just need "as x approaches infinity"?

But regardless, my only point was that in the real world everything is countable. The number of atoms in the sun, the distance to anywhere, the age of the universe, etc. Everything real is countable.

swamp40··on How Big Is Infinity?
I don't mind infinity in mathematics, it seems quite useful. I just don't think infinity exists in the real world.

To quote David Hilbert, "The infinite is nowhere to be found in reality. It neither exists in nature nor provides a legitimate basis for rational thought... The role that remain for the infinite to play is solely that of an idea."

swamp40··on How Big Is Infinity?
I stopped believing in infinity. In the real, physical world. That makes much more sense to me and fits in much better with my understanding of the universe.
swamp40··on Benzene’s bond lengths corrected
Same as "mils" for thousands of an inch. It's actually wildly popular in the US.
swamp40··on Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea
Russia was at a crossroads, and now there is no return. The boats have been burned and they must march forward.
swamp40··on Battery-free wireless imaging of underwater environments
The transformation at 0:39 is also incredible.
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