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Wait, I'm confused, are you arguing for or against S3? Did you mean factoring the time needed to obtain the multiple PhD levels of information in tracking the cost, usage, and security of those interoperable services plugged into S3?

Missing my biggest issues as you ask the agents to do larger tasks with less up front planning.

Is there already a pattern or code on in in the existing codebase that handles this functionality,

Do we really need net new code to achieve this functionality?

Can existing code be extended or abstracted to more cleanly implement this feature or functionality.

I think you are right, but this is a straw man.

There are some quantum consciousness cults out there, but plenty of people are interested in investigating the quantum nature of biological effects including consciousness that aren't quacks.

There is also a tendency for some scientists to react dismissively to hypotheses associated with pseudoscience, even when the narrower scientific question is perfectly legitimate.

Reminds me of the visceral reactions in history, like the Rejection of Continental drift (i.e. high level idea was right, but mechanisms hadn't been pinned down yet).

Not claiming that the quantum hypothesis is right, just saying we didn't jump to conclusions.

I've never understood this perspective.

The patterns that macros express are still there in the codebase, usually via uncompressed repetition.

You would need to learn the pattern regardless if you used a macro or not, and a macro at least formally codifies the repetition.

Indeed, one can make bad abstractions, or messy extensions to the macro, but that's true of functions or classes just as much.

Not supporting macros seems to me as an arbitrary limitation put in place as a stop gap for a symptom with a different root cause. (I.e. removing expressive power to solve poor engineering or immature macro tooling).

It's definitely easier to mess things up with macros, but it's also easier to mess more up the higher up you go in any abstraction ladder.

Now that I'm writing this comment, the very fact that we have to distinguish a macro vs regular code feels like a design smell to me.

Functions should operate on data or code, and controlling when it applies, comp time, run time, or some JIT, should be a separate lifecycle configuration detail, or decoupled in a different manner.

Not GP, but plutonium is overhyped in how scary it is.

Don't get me wrong, it's super deadly, but there are loads of toxins that are more deadly than plutonium. And while its radioactivity is seen as ultra scary, it's actually pretty nice, because you can at least detect it. Harder than beta or gamma, but still, it announces its presence.

How I wish I had a magic wand (spectrometer) that I could wave over my food to see if cyanide, ricin, mercury, or lead were there.

I hesitate to come to this conclusion.

When I was a kid, I could visualize things so vividly, I could almost overlay the visual signal onto my real visual field.

The visual cortex signal was "loud" enough that I could trick the propioceptive parts of my brain.

E.g. I could visualize falling so vividly that I would actually feel the stomach drop sensation.

As I get older, I still have a very visual mind, but not nearly what I used to have as a kid. It also feels more "far away" from my actual visual field.

Though some days if I'm stressed, I don't seem to have as much control/access to the visual side of things.

So I kinda get where aphantashisa people come from.

The currency press operator and manufacturer.

Two things:

1. Half of those drugs on the list do have medicinal uses.

Even methamphetamine and cocaine are used medicinally (admittedly rarely).

2. Tylenol poisoning is the leading reason for poison control center calls.

>80,000 U.S. Poison Control exposure cases in 2021 involving acetaminophen or an acetaminophen-containing product.

https://poisoncenters.org/news-alerts/13244374

Heroin (IV) ~6x

GHB ~8x

Ethanol ~10x

Methamphetamine ~10x

DXM ~10x

Cocaine ~15x

MDMA ~16x

Codeine ~20x

Methadone ~20x

Mescaline ~24x

Flunitrazepam ~30x

Ketamine ~40x

Phenobarbital ~50x

Nitrous oxide ~150x

LSD ~1000x

Cannabis/THC ~1000x or greater

Citation: Gable RS. Comparison of acute lethal toxicity of commonly abused psychoactive substances. Addiction. 2004;99(6):686–696. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00744.x

But the "Active dose" to "lethal dose" ratio, aka "therapeutic index" of alcohol is pretty bad.

Maybe some code is so important and heavily trafficked it becomes a public works project, and various legs can bid for pieces of the project, line how all infrastructure works.

Eh, I doubt it, GPS signal is so weak, once the EM field in the air has so much power, I think the literal hardware ADC of any receiver would be overwhelmed/clipped with a high power jammer nearby. I mean it's possible that the front end will be literally fried, not just clipping the analog front end. GPS is usually -130dBM, it's absurdly weak.

But in theory you're not wrong.

Only if it's used to obscure the meaning of a message.

You can encrypt passcodes and remote control commands for sattelites and other radio control codes for various craft or devices. You can also still use message authentication codes for integrity of plaintext messages.

Telemetry is fair game for encryption IIRC as well.

I think their point might be that matter is what defines the location of the force field. I.e. it's the EM field doing the actual work.

This happened in 2024 too.

This link (second one down, first event is missing control rods in Texas...) has almost the exact same wording as the article.

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/...

I found the root cause of the older issue on LinkedIn of all places.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robert-meyer-8672ab4a_st-luci...

Root cause of 2024 was apparently a procedural issue combined with electrical failure of the control rod grippers.

Lithium Titanate batteries can do this now, somewhat. I have some 35 Ah batteries that claim they can charge in 9 minutes (compared to traditional Lithium Ion, that would take hours).

I don't have a charger that can supply the necessary 350 Amps though.

They also have ridiculous amount of charge cycles. 10x higher than regular Lithium Ion IIRC.

They are more expensive and are larger and heavier for the same stored energy though.

And, while they CAN still catch fire, they are apparently way harder to do so.

I haven't even been convinced it's fundamentally different from biological intelligence. But it's clearly still missing a few ingredients. But we are really close.

Studies I read seems to show a marginal boost in cognitionl and memory, but only if you were otherwise overtaxed for some reason.

Like being tired, stressed, etc...

I stopped buying go pros when I drove from the top of Mt Blue Sky to the base. Had the camera mounted on my dashboard, planned to make a cool time lapse down the mountain road.

Turns out it overheated 15 minutes into the drive, and corrupted all the footage from my whole ski trip.

I'm also still salty that they cancelled my favorite fast video editing software (can't remember the name).

This was 8 years ago.

It's a multivariate system, the dragforce is determined by the car geometry + book, hand, whatever.

They are both causes to speed.

In fact you don't even need flow to infer speed. You can just use pressure calculations and temperature, which is how airplanes measure their speed.

Controlling drag is a major component of the inputs to speed when flying an aircraft.

Drag is a causitive input to speed though.

    nextCarSpeed(currentSpeed, wheelPower, dragForce, mass, deltaTime) =
    currentSpeed + ((wheelPower / currentSpeed - dragForce) / mass) * deltaTime

Increase "dragForce", and the resulting car speed decreases. That is a causal input, not an association.

That's just it though.

Yes, separating symbols/descriptions from the physics is a common conflation, rightfully avoided and called out here, but I think you might be overcorrecting unconflating the concepts too much.

Quantum information is strange precisely because the theory treats information-like relationships as physically consequential.

Entanglement, path dependent stuff, cloning theorum, black hole information paradox... There are so many areas you run into where its information-centric descriptions appear to fit unreasonably well.

Again, I'm not saying the symbolic representation is "real" per se (not saying it's not either, I simply don't know what it is).

I agree bits are just nomenclature, but I don't agree that "bits" and "information" are the same thing. Like distance, "information" has a deeper and general architecture to it.

And it's also weirdly physical in places that I wouldn't expect it to be, for reasons I simply don't understand at the moment.

I think you are prematurely dismissing something deeper here.

The more I learn about the fundamental nature of the electron, probability in quantum mechanics, and the wave function in general... the more information being fundamental substrate makes sense.

I'm not saying it is... just that it makes more sense the deeper you get.

$500 is a surprisingly good price for a 4x4 mimo SDR.

You nerd sniped with this one.

I looked it up, and apparently utility companies already use the lines for comms, so you would be stomping on those potentially (depending on frequency).

As for radiating... Possibly... But the tuning seems ridiculously hard/out of your control.

The conductors are huge, and I can't imagine getting a stable RF standing wave across grid scale infra like that.

I'm sure it's possible... Those lines are actually too long and changing electrical length for most useful RF.

I'm going to have to dig a bit deeper though.

Homeopathy actually works great depending on what you use it for: I've been trying homeopathic vodka and it's done wonders for my health.

This is amazing.

I just string the antenna across my attic.

Coupling into my power upstairs is a bit of a problem sometimes though.

Pirating power is something I've heard that happens, but I looked it up, and couldn't find an actual cited example of someone doing it via induction.

Plenty of people doing it via extension cords and device tampering though.

We don't know that electrons don't decay for sure.

If we live in a false vacuum, for example, that could allow them to decay.

There is a very small slice that amateur radio gets in this band, in theory it would be nice to have a bigger slice, but honestly, building antennas for this band to transmit anything worthwhile would be pretty hard.

My 7 Mhz antenna (HF, 40m band) is 67 feet long, and goes across by whole house.

The smallest antenna you could get away with for LF would be hundreds to thousands of feet long.

You might be able to go smaller if you enjoy suffering. Though, there are some pretty creative antenna designs that defy logic.