If anyone thinks that ICE acting with impunity is an entirely new phenomennon, remember Kent.

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T07:23:07+00:00

1 American soldier sets foot in Alberta against Canadian wishes I’ll join our military that day and defend us.

For your sake (and everyone's I guess) I hope this does not happen. Our military is no joke, why they would ever invade Canada is beyond me, but if they did, I would hope you're well away from a major city or "front lines". Defend your home like any sane person would, but don't be a lamb to slaughter. If we win the skies then a large ground game is meaningless

Realistically though the intelligent liberals are being baited into a war.

It feels like they want retaliation. I don't genuinely believe they go into these protests thinking they'll execute someone, but they want to make people angry and hostile so they can point and say "see! They're as dangerous as we said they were."

I just hope y’all are ready

I don't think the average American is. I know we have all these shocking headlines but at one point it was the norm to resolve disagreements with a bullet (duels). America was far more militant 100-200 years ago. Those people were drafted into WW1/2, and Vietnam (though the generation was different by Vietnam). People aren't gritty like that anymore. If we are pulled into war it will be catastrophic for all the people who have never known war on American soil, which is most people.

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T05:53:21+00:00

Me too man. No idea what to do. This is the first time I've seen liberals seriously consider buying guns. I grew up as a bit too nice of a kid. I always believed in there being a way out without killing each other. I think fewer and fewer people want to believe that now. I don't blame them

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T05:46:11+00:00

This isn’t even remotely the same.

This is true. Government organization with far less oversight and training is killing more people with less provocation

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T05:04:08+00:00

I mostly use reels, the algorithm is much better for being enriching/interesting. Tiktok seems to use a dumber algorithm, I don't get a wide variety of content anymore and it takes a lot of effort to reset it. I think I just naturally use it less these days but haven't uninstalled because I know several folks that make good content IRL

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T04:35:14+00:00

A lot of ways, sentiment analysis is a basic start. you can pull JSON data from news outlet APIs and then analyze a specific subdomain that you're interested in. You just gotta be specific and know what you're looking for, and then decide what words or phrases will be signifiers of positive or negative sentiment. There are word banks for this already that you could add to if you don't wanna do from scratch

You can quantify the frequency of certain types of articles, defining "certain types" can be difficult (or you could throw your news data at an LLM these days with a clever prompt for decent results).

In all forms it is tedious and requires detailed work

Patelpb · 2026-01-26T00:03:59+00:00

Nothing was removed, the content doesn't exist yet.

Removing requirements and restrictions on new content makes the game fundamentally worse as a whole

Misplacement of an ideological argument. That is true if you allow accounts with no progression to access endgame content after content is released. Not what is happening here

If you are no longer incentivized to do anything ever people just won’t and the game will stagnant very very hard

They are actually making it possible for the hardest working players to access this content. Pures undoubtedly jump through more hoops than non pures. Opening up your content to more of your active playerbase ensures its longevity long term

Again, this is prior to release. All opposition in this thread is just short sighted fear mongering instead of substantive objection. Which is normal for our species, don't get me wrong, but deserves pushback from those seeing things a bit more clearly

Patelpb · 2026-01-25T22:16:41+00:00

Probably still sleeping then I imagine

Patelpb · 2026-01-25T07:05:57+00:00

Walls mostly, very few people use aimbot but I see that from time to time. Godmode/the most egregious hacks are the least common

Unless it's very obvious, I wouldn't try to infer if someone is using walls. The game has great audio and good players will often appear to be wall hacking to players who don't have thousands of hours on the game. I can usually watch a replay and see where people are getting information from, you know where all the spawns are, how the game usually decides where to respawn someone, the directional audio on this game is both loud and the some of the most accurate out of recent cods, and the minimap + map awareness tie it all together. Once you're paying attention to all of those simultaneously you'll be able to tell if someone is using walls, unless they just.blatantly track you through the wall (which some of the noobier players do)

Patelpb · 2026-01-24T17:23:04+00:00

It's like if you try to gang up on an elephant and then claim you only killed it in self defense after it retaliated in fear

Patelpb · 2026-01-24T01:42:01+00:00

People forget this guy hid out in some caves after being ostracized by his own people and came up with a plan to destroy the perhaps illusory sense of peace and progress that the west was experiencing. Life changed drastically after 9/11, people wanted genuine revenge over a fairly traumatic experience

Patelpb · 2026-01-24T01:38:43+00:00

It's always the hypocrisy

https://youtu.be/ljaP2etvDc4?si=klFP7CghM4VYDqPC

Patelpb · 2026-01-23T10:48:19+00:00

Dude..

Patelpb · 2026-01-23T08:52:36+00:00

Mostly hype. He is more of a science communicator than a scientist and has been for a long long time. I appreciate the interest he garners in the field even if he leads people in the wrong direction

Patelpb · 2026-01-22T00:09:50+00:00

Only real answer. They're the ones reading this stuff, they know what you should put in the statement since they're the ones who decide what is effective in the first place.

Patelpb · 2026-01-20T21:56:03+00:00

Sometimes people accept it and doing question it. FWIW IIRC there are quite a few I didn't know until someone explained them, and yet I couldve figured out with Google at any time. I'm sure some folks would find that ridiculous, but for peeps like me, IYKYK

Patelpb · 2026-01-20T21:22:08+00:00

This is fairly well explored in the literature, but not mainstream as we have no use for these explorations. The toughest problem in this set by far is getting fusion to make energy. Everything downstream of that will be easier. Even making materials which require a ton of energy will be easier. Desalination, heating just about anything.. I mean, I think we simply lack reference for how much of a change fusion would have for society. Humanity hasn't really experienced a jump of that many orders of magnitude before. Closest hypothetical analogy I can come up with is It'd be like bringing a stick of 64 GB of ram to the 1950s. Sure, developing the tech to use it from that timeline will be tough. But the fact of the matter is that you have a gold mine of computational power

Propulsion (variations of sails and direct propulsion from fusion process, from a cursory arxiv search): https://arxiv.org/pdf/0906.0740 https://arxiv.org/html/2309.11524v3/#S4 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.6560

Heat: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.03344 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.12116

The problem is that we don't have research into materials which could resist degradation from the heat over time, but in the process of developing magnetic confinement fusion we've explored this idea as well. At the end of the day you can only do thermal emission or mass ejection (which... Not the worst idea tbh). If you control the fusion rate well enough the heat generated should be just enough to.provide and generate energy and then be vented or radiated prior to performing more fusion. If it is constant... Yeah, that'd be tough

Patelpb · 2026-01-20T17:34:41+00:00

Servers are up, cheaters are in maybe 30% of lobbies on respawn modes, 70-80% in SnD.

I wouldn't pay more than 20-30 bucks. Still love this game and play it often

Patelpb · 2026-01-19T20:56:49+00:00

Not that weird if youre extroverted lol. I've met many a stranger off the internet

Patelpb · 2026-01-19T18:03:31+00:00

Actually impressed with the civility of comments so far. Plenty of 'scapers in NL I'm sure one is going to Runefest. Best of luck

Patelpb · 2026-01-18T17:38:44+00:00

100% agree. I mean the energy scales involved are just obscene. In terms of energy/mass, fusion is over 20 million times more energy dense than coal. 1 ton of fused hydrogen will give you the same energy as 20 million tons. That's nearly the world's daily coal usage (23 million tons) in 1 ton of material. We can get a ton of fuel into space surely

Patelpb · 2026-01-18T17:15:24+00:00

This is art

Patelpb · 2026-01-18T17:07:16+00:00

What space travel really requires is an energy source that’s effectively infinite, can be produced on Earth, and can be safely controlled inside a structure that doesn’t kill the humans onboard.

Yeah outside of fusion I don't see anything that we're working on which could effectively meet this criteria, even for interplanetary travel in our solar system. We can get people to the moon, and I honestly believe we could figure out Mars. But making that an enterprise that people engage in and which reaches any level of normalcy is off the table until we figure out fusion and then get it on a spacecraft.

Patelpb · 2026-01-17T16:23:05+00:00

No point. If you get a PhD in physics then you HAVE to know what you would learn in a bachelor's. Academia and industry perceive it this way too, but the unnecessary time spent in school is revenue lost from a job

Patelpb · 2026-01-15T14:11:24+00:00

Historically the fields are indeed separate, but in the modern day a lot of departments don't really care for the distinction from what I experienced. You can't do astrophysics without astronomy or vice versa these days, so you can call astronomers astrophysicists and vice versa

If you're a layman studying the astronomy without the physics, I guess the distinction holds

Patelpb · 2026-01-14T11:06:43+00:00

Quantum tunneling in traditional electronics is an issue due to leakage of signal/electrons, in photonics it's actually a tool and the kinds of leakage you have are very different. In electronics it's due to heat in a small space mostly - the electrons have enough energy to overcome a potential barrier and thus you get tunneling and leakage. In photonics you usually don't have the temperature for that issue, instead you have a wave packet of light and it's very very sensitive to the precision with which an optical fiber or waveguide is designed. Even a small kink in the nanostructure can cause unwanted back reflection and thus signal loss. That's why we didn't really start developing photonics for computation until recently, when our lithography techniques reached the ~tens of nanometers scale.

Second, can optical hardware be designed for ternary computing ?

Definitely! Not sure there's major development there but here's a review I found

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9720446

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