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6d6b73on I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise mixer and self-test

It's Saturday today and I have to work on this other project. Maybe I can do it tomorrow, I should have more time since it's my day off.

6d6b73on Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship

There's fraud everywhere where Musk is, so there's that. When it comes to the engineering team Starship is not engineering by the same team as Falcon - some key people left the company. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to know that the Starship is flawed. SpaceX doesn't hide the fact that it currently can't do 100T as promised - only 50T is likely. Unfortunately they can even get it up when empty so there's that.

6d6b73on I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise mixer and self-test

Really can't do it today. I will have to try tomorrow.

6d6b73on Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship

Let's start by acknowledging that there is no Starship and it's likely that the current iteration of that system is not viable. It will need to be redesigned, and no one even knows if it's possible not to mention economically feasible.

6d6b73on I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise mixer and self-test

As soon as I loaded the page, I wanted to click on the Procrastination page..but I guess I can do it tomorrow.

6d6b73on Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol

Oh so now we can just ingest the bacteria and be pain free because of all the micro plastics in our body. Wonder what has more side effects?

6d6b73on What Is "Induced Atmospheric Vibration"?

It's a fake term, used by the government to hide the real cause - deteriorating magnetic field, that will flip in 15-25 years, but we will start seeing a lot of issues similar to that event more often.

6d6b73on C. Elegans: The worm that no computer scientist can crack

OpenWorm is dead afaik. Larson took some of the code and started his own company Metacell. It's not that we can't crack it, it's simply that nobody really dedicated enough time and resources to do it.

6d6b73on Extracting DNA from the air – DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises

I wouldn't be surprised that some some agencies *cough*Mosad*cough* are gathering DNA of leaders of all countries, and analyzing them, and potentially building bioweapons to target them. It looks like all you need to do is to get the HEPA filter from the room where the target was .

6d6b73on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon

Spaceship - Starship who do hell cares, it will never get to the Moon anyway.

6d6b73on Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act

Folks, let me tell you, our Big Tech is going to be absolutely massive—bigger and better than anybody's ever seen. We don’t need Europe, okay? Their tech companies? Total losers. We’re going to keep on winning—so much winning you’re gonna say, “Please, Mr. President, enough with the winning!” But we won’t stop. If we don't win the first time, we'll slap tariffs on them so fast their heads will spin. And if tariffs don’t work, guess what? We’ll just buy them out—it’ll be huge. And if that doesn’t do the trick… well, let’s just say you really don’t want to know what comes next. We’re gonna win bigly, folks. Tremendous.

6d6b73on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon

Spaceship fiasco will delay Artemis so much that there is no need to even consider landing on the Moon in the next 10 years.

6d6b73on AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'

AI designed electronics and software will be security nightmare, at least in the beginning.

6d6b73on I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease

My son nearly died, and my persistence was the only thing that saved him. I kept insisting on more blood tests, despite being told he was just dehydrated or going through typical teenage malaise, and that it would pass. Eventually, a blood test revealed something was seriously wrong, and we rushed him to the ER. The doctor told me that if we had waited another two or three days, my son likely wouldn’t have survived.

Now, I spend my evenings trying to learn as much as I can about basic medicine and delving into endocrinology. I don’t blame the doctors themselves—they’re overworked. But I do blame the system that pushes people toward becoming YouTubers instead of doctors.

6d6b73on Hitting the Jackpot: The Birth of the Monte Carlo Method – LANL (2023)

"He would not even agree to being classified as a mathematician." That's a weird thing to write about someone who wrote an autobiography called "Adventures of a Mathematician".

6d6b73on Experience the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

The Apollo 11 Lunar Landing was really a great movie. It's nice to enjoy it in a way that's close how they people of that time got to enjoy it. J/k

6d6b73on Computer scientists prove that heat destroys quantum entanglement

Some day, when I have moree time, I will work on proving my theory that the entanglement doesn't really exist, and the whole quantum weirdness is just bs. But know I have to finish coding that data acquisition system. Priorities..

6d6b73on Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

You're confusing cooperation like normal countries do with actively supporting murderous regime. Soviets actively supported Nazis during the WW2.

As far as Allied country that did not commit horrific war crimes:

- France

- Poland

- Czechoslovakia

- Belgium

- Luxembourg

- Netherlands

- Norway

- Greece

- Yugoslavia

- Ethiopia

- Philippines

- Canada

- Australia

- New Zealand

- India

- South Africa

- Brazil

- Mexico

- Mongolia

6d6b73on Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

What's more likely to happen in 30-40 years is what you're trying to do - make people forget that there were two equally evil empires - Nazis and Soviets. You want people to remember only Nazis.

The Soviets killed millions - there is no way to deny it. Holodomor alone resulted in 3-5 mln deaths. At least one million were murdered in Russia alone. In total, up to 60 mln people are estimated to have died at the hands of the Soviets. Millions more were forced out of their homes, raped and maimed.

There is only one difference between Germans and Japanese on the one hand and Russians on the other. Germans and Japanese admitted to these atrocities and apologized for them. Since the end of WW2, they have not attacked anyone else.

Russians, on the other hand, are still trying to whitewash the crimes committed by the Soviets, and they keep invading other countries. We can only hope they will either grow up and join the civilized world this century or the Russian Federation collapses.

6d6b73on FCC liability for radio pirates operating on your property

Someone should put a hidden radio station on one of the properties owned by the FCC, or better yet commissioner of that agency and see if they fine themselves

6d6b73on Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

The question is not if the Nazis were the bad guys, but if the Russians were bad. I think the answer is pretty simple. If anyone has any doubts they should ask millions of starved Ukrainians, thousands of killed Polish officers, hundreds of thousands of killed eastern Europeans and millions of people sent to gulags. Oh wait, you can't...wonder why? Probably because Soviets were really such a nice group of people.

6d6b73on Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

If Russians were so worried about Slavs being exterminated why were they sending supplies and resources to Nazis until the day German invasion?

Oh now I get it.. Poles and other eastern European nations should be thankful to Russians for killing millions of them and enslaving the rest instead of just exterminating everyone. Got it.

6d6b73on Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

I believe there is a simple reason for that - if you're sandwiched between two genocidal maniacs and every decade of not being subjugated by at least one of them is a success, you take pride in every small accomplishment. If you add to that the fact that even these small accomplishments are often not only not recognized but often usurped by others as their own - it can make you little too protective of your history.

6d6b73on Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

German genocide of other nations consisted of exterminating weak people and forced labor for the strong. They integrated people with "Aryan features" into their society and we're slowly getting rid of the rest.

Soviets exterminated scientist, priests, doctors and officers - the very people who could fight back. They integrated poor and weak. Their idea was to melt the remaining people into one nation. This is a form of ethnic cleansing.

Both Nazi and Soviets had the same goal - to take over the world by killing the people they didn't like and integrating people they needed. They just had difference of opinion in show to achieve their goals. Fortunately they didn't succeed, unfortunately it still resulted in millions killed by both sides.

6d6b73on Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

In september there were about 300k soldiers in the parts that soviets later occupied. If you don't think that would slow Germans down you're wrong. But more importantly during the occupation Soviets killed thousands of people in Katyn and other places, and sent close to 2 mln to gulags. They stole art, books and removed machines from factories. They raped women. And they kept doing all these dispicable acts even after the war ended. There is not much difference between ethnic cleansing that Germans did, and the one did by Russians.

Poland didn't need Stalin and his murderers. Soviet Union, and mostly Russia is responsible for millions of deaths before, during and after the wars. Even 80+ years later Russians still think that killing people is a way to save them just look at what's going on in Ukraine.

Just because Soviets pushed back Germans doesn't absolve them from all the crimes they committed. Not to mention that they cooperated with Nazi before 1941. They even widened their economic cooperation in January 1941. They didn't care that Poles were being exterminated in the Nazi occupied parts. Why would they- they were doing their part to exterminate them at the same time.

6d6b73on Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

The war would take a different direction because it would take slightly longer for Germans to conquer the rest of Poland. That few weeks could help France and Germany to decide to actually join the war and attack Germany instead of just sitting there for months waiting for Germans to attack. The non-agression pact between Poland and Nazi Germany was signed to normalize relations between the country, and not to partition another country. Ribbentrop-Molotov act on the other hand had a secret protocol where they decided to divide Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland into their spheres of influence. Yes, Poland did take part of Czechoslovakia after 1938, but it was a tiny sliver of land with polish ethnic majority. It was a bad move but nothing that can be compared to Soviet invasion in 1939.

6d6b73on Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

Communists partitioned Poland in 1939 together with Germans. War would take a different direction if they didn't join Nazis. They were not really the good guys.

6d6b73on Volcanoes can affect climate

In other news the grass is green.

6d6b73on Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10022421/

Until 2022: "A total of 81 articles analyzed confirmed cardiovascular complications post‐COVID‐19 mRNA vaccines in 17,636 individuals and reported 284 deaths with any mRNA vaccine. Of 17,636 cardiovascular events with any mRNA vaccine, 17,192 were observed with the BNT162b2 (Pfizer−BioNTech) vaccine, 444 events with mRNA‐1273 (Moderna). "

6d6b73on Footage of Chang'e-6's land on far side of the moon

And a microchip is just a bunch of copper wires with sand around them