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raydiatianon Ketamine's effect on depression may hinge on hope

> at levels that only result in a little dizziness.

Anecdotal first hand account, I would have to completely disagree with you. I tried intravenous ketamine therapy about a year ago. I’m plenty experienced with psychoactives, having experienced several at varying doses, so I knew what I was in for. My IVKT experience was a full on trip, definitely not just passive dizziness.

raydiatianon The British Mosquito once carried Niels Bohr in its bomb bay

It certainly would have been interesting if Bohr had been found dead upon arrival because his oxygen mask wasn’t properly handled.

raydiatianon Jupe: Off-grid shelters that pop up anywhere on Earth

Good to know there are products targeted at exclusively the ultra wealthy. Was worried that with all of the calls for them to pay their fair share of taxes that the markets for them would dry up. /s

raydiatianon Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991

Fixed it for you.

raydiatianon Humid Heat Can Kill Us Much Faster Than We Thought

100C? Where we boil water? ;)

raydiatianon Microsoft SEC 8-K: IRS is seeking an additional tax payment of $29B

Yes we kindly accept iTunes gift cards.

raydiatianon Movie piracy is strongly linked to box office revenue

> Everyone I know who used to pirate music, now just subscribes to Spotify or whatever. So definitely not the case there.

Sure, people can ascend through income classes, but there’s always a new cohort of broke young people. I imagine young adults today are pirating plenty as well.

raydiatianon Show HN: Timbre – An app that finds the best sounds for your sleep

$5/mo for lullabies for adults feels… I mean do you, build that side-income

raydiatianon Movie piracy is strongly linked to box office revenue

There’s some economic idea I heard a long time back whenever I hear about piracy, where basically the argument for allowing piracy of digital goods is “well, the majority of digital pirates lack the income to be honest customers in the first place; even if you managed to stop 100% of digital piracy, you’re not going to find any residual revenue.”

I don’t know how I feel about it, but it always intrigued me.

raydiatianon Show HN: Timbre – An app that finds the best sounds for your sleep

> I could never really see which sounds genuinely helped me sleep

Have you tried “no sound”? Your free competitor is occupying market share and you need to figure out a way to pivot and compete.

Lmfao.

raydiatianon Is consciousness part of the fabric of the universe?

“Since Galileo’s time the physical sciences have leaped forward”

Wow, who is letting high school students write for Scientific American these days?

raydiatianon CEO of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company resigns

Found the CEO

raydiatianon CEO of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company resigns

If a rocket company CEO can be replaced by an e-tail company exec, what do CEOs do that warrant such high earnings again

raydiatianon The year Lou Reed gave up on music

Why do people unironically like “Walk On The Wild Side”

Answer: “can I kick it? Yes you can.”

raydiatianon Fixing for loops in Go 1.22

Thanks, must have missed the module versioning bit

raydiatianon Fixing for loops in Go 1.22

Can somebody please explain to me why this doesn’t constitute a major version due to a breaking change? Maybe I didn’t read precisely enough but it sure sounds like a breaking semantic, esp. with the fact that “this will only work for versions 1.22 and later.” Sounds like a version upgrade trap to me? What am I missing?

Or is it just because it’s Golang and they’re “we’ll never release a go v2 even if we actually do release go v2 and call it v1.x”

raydiatianon MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says

analyist

raydiatianon A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare

Imagine throwing away all of this lithium for batteries on “attritable war technology”

raydiatianon A.I. and the Next Generation of Drone Warfare

> “I flew stealth fighters in the Air Force. I flew the F-22. It’s an amazing airplane, but we only bought a hundred eighty-seven of them.“

> “When we look to the future, we just think that this economic model doesn’t work—so we’re going to increase the mass, just the number of physical things, that we’re able to bring into the theatre.”

I mean generally speaking wouldn’t you not want your enemies to get hands on your tech? Like, with solution it’s basically like saying “come join us, let’s make a shit show of it.”

raydiatianon Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens (2022)

Anybody with even a cursory understanding of Adversarial Networks and critical thinking skills can conclude that this is a horrible idea. The end result will be better forged information, indistinguishable by anyone (in the limit). We probably need rubes as a buffer.

raydiatianon Modern Robotics: worth reading in 2023?

I’m trying to bootstrap some robotics knowledge for myself to try and start building a portfolio of robotics projects and then go look for jobs. I’ve got an industry background in SE, from distributed cloud computing to low level embedded systems & os driver development, plus a background in higher maths & physics (diffeq+group theory, qm), and a familiarity with the SOTA of ML from 2022.

Is this book a good starting place for theory, or would I be better served looking elsewhere? Is my approach of trying to build a small private portfolio stupid, can I get hired without a degree? I’m interested in trying to get into industrial automation.

raydiatianon Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers

It’s the AI thing. Everybody is building walls around their data.

raydiatianon Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers

So stop using chrome. Tell your CTO that your engineer department no longer wants to develop for chrome as the primary web app target.

raydiatianon Poor people ‘surviving not living’ as UK social contract collapses, says report

Didn’t think I’d see “social contract collapse” in 2023 but here we are. Anyway, cute the flames, let’s eat the fucking rich already

raydiatianon Klack – Satisfying sound with every keystroke

Why

raydiatianon He created the Katamari games, but they’re rolling on without him

Man, I wish we could all write a card to Keita, all the kids of the 00’s, and tell him thanks for a good time rolling around.

raydiatianon X violated its own policy by blocking First Amendment group’s ads

The En-xitification of Xitter

raydiatianon X violated its own policy by blocking First Amendment group’s ads

Twitter. Twitter. Twitter.

Not X.

raydiatianon North Korean science fiction

I feel like Andy Weir did a phenomenal job with his handful of books. The Martian, Project Hailmary. Both of these felt more like team effort emphasis, which I liked.