I did once and the next day i could hear my roommate shrubbing the bathtub with some cleaning utensil … so i guess it smelled and he was sensitive to it? But i couldn’t smell anything, idk.

You might have to learn from the republicans then, how to life without thinking.

The death of the empire won’t be a loud bang but a boring ever after. Nothing to do, nothing to distract you from all these memories of what you have done. The worst thing for a worker to happen is nothing at all. If nothing happens at all, nobody needs you, nobody employs you, how do you spend your time? How do you justify your own existence?

To a worker, the worst that could happen is literally nothing at all. As long as anything happens, and i mean anything, there’s business to be made and work to be done. As some poet put it: “Do not go easy into this silent night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Do not go easy into this silent night.”

And that is why Trump starts this war; Because if all was perfect, and everybody had everything they need, the economy would come to a screeching halt. To ensure that things continue to be done, and business to be made, windows must be broken repeatedly (planned obsolescence), and buildings need to be smashed, so they can continue to be rebuilt, in a never-ending cycle.

I was under the impression that Trump launched this war to have a pretense to give money to the weapons industry. Because more weapons -> higher profit -> higher stock valuations, and as we all know, Everything’s Fine as long as the Dow Jones is over 50k.

Like, literally anything that happens makes the economy go up, as long as anything happens at all. When you build schools, the economy goes up, because somebody has to build these schools. When you build rail network, economy goes up. When you start a war and produce lots of weapons, economy goes up.

I wonder why the economy is always made to go up in ways that hurt people, instead of ways that, you know, actually help people.

Do you have a source for that quote? I would like to send it to some people.

Ia litni kwri shmali

did i get your username right?

If only we had some way of generating energy independent of oil and fossil fuels.

theoretically you should be right but there’s software hidden in the hardware that you can’t uninstall or modify that could (hypothetically) be surveilling you. like in the networking equipment that’s inside the phone.

realistically, i think the chances for that happening are actually very low, also because the networking firmware could only see your encrypted data packets, but it could still figure out the IP addresses that you communicate with. i’d rate it a none/low risk level. your ISP could also surveill you in the same way, with probably less technical difficulty. also you could circumvent that by using VPN.

also people can actually check what the networking firmware actually sends through the air (you need special equipment to intercept the packages mid-air) so it’s risky for them to do it because they could be caught and exposed.

it’s cheap. mine was like $200 new. can recommend.

I actually bought a new Motorola phone 2 months ago precisely because i wanted a phone with an unlockable bootloader, and motorola delivered that.

Vote with your wallet.

This could be interesting for a mars settlement.

yeah i guess it depends on the time frame that you look at things. I was only considering the next 1-3 years.

The price is dropping but not that rapidly. IIRC the price dropped like 95% over the last 25 years … That’s a 12% reduction annually on average. Compare that to computer chips where prices dropped 60% annually IIRC and solar panels where it dropped 30% annually.

This also reminds me of something else: Yes, you can have all kinds of problems in space missions. Not just bit flips.

I have been thinking about planning a mars mission. And one of the things that you need to guarantee is the safety of the crew in untested environments. Like on the surface of mars, you have to guarantee that the crew can survive at least until the next ship can arrive to help them. And launch windows to mars appear only once every two earth years (once every martian year), so crew has to survive that long.

You also have to survive when there’s a power outage for any reason. Could be that the coworker stumbled over a cable and pulled out a power line’s connection. Could be that there’s 3-months-long dust storms (which would block solar panels). (they appear each martian year, sometimes more sometimes less severe, i think typical duration is less than 50 days, but just to be sure make that 100 days). Could be that there’s a problem with your electronics and they simply won’t work anymore and you can’t figure out why.

So imagine you’re standing in your apartment. I recommend you live inside the Starship for the first few years because it’s already a habitat since you flew in it for 6 months to get to mars in the first place.

Power outage. How do you get out of the door? There’s obviously a pressure door between your apartment and the outside world. And the power line’s outside. So if the power line disconnects because a rover messed up and pulled it out, there’s a power outage. And if the door is electrically operable, you can’t get out of the door to repair it. That is why i say that every door has to be manually operable. Like, pressure doors should have manual operation mode. You need to be able to operate the pressure door with your bare hands. I already thought of some designs that can actually deliver that, but i’m too lazy to do a drawing now.

Like, very interesting article. It also mentions bit flips.

I think the major protection against bit flips is to use larger structure sizes. Like, today’s desktop computers use structure sizes around 2 nm or sometimes even less than that. Which means you only need to shift a few electrons around to cause a bit flip. If you use larger wires inside the processor, they store more electrons so it takes more energy to flip them around. So there’s a much much smaller number of radiation particles that have a minimum of that energy, so lower risk of bit flips.

Does anybody have actual numbers on the structure sizes needed to effectively prevent bit flips? I mean, outer space missions like NASA flights already need this today.

You know how much it costs to transport stuff into space? Well, currently, around $1k/kg of material. Let that sink in.

Note this is only payload. Ship’s own weight is already included in this.

Nope. there’s three domains that are typically distinguished: the biochemical, mechanical, and neural level.

You wouldn’t call a thinking process a “motor activity” since the ideal neural net has practically no moving parts, similar to an ideal computing machine.

No i think there’s also rhythm to it.

Fun fact: Many people who stutter can sing just fine.

I attribute it to the fact that music enforces a certain rhythm and that makes you move on with your speech more fluently than you would otherwise do.

I think i should know that because i also used to stutter a bit earlier in my life. I never got the hang of talking. I started adding a bit of rhythm to my speech, so when i talk it always has a certain rhythm in its background. If you actually listen, you could notice. It’s subtle, though. It helps me stutter far far less. :-)

It’s all random bullshit. Reality is just monkeys on typewriters. You can safely ignore it. Don’t let it ruin your day.

right, i misread it as ممكدن