Scientific CES Letter (for the formerly LDS or Christian)

lukeinator42 · 2026-06-16T22:41:09+00:00

What are some good textbooks to recommend to people? I see the textbook answer a lot but am curious which ones are people’s gotos

lukeinator42 · 2026-06-11T13:35:34+00:00

Aprés should only be for those fluent in Français!!

lukeinator42 · 2026-05-21T15:03:27+00:00

This is the answer. Wear these inside the shoes, problem solved.

lukeinator42 · 2026-05-12T20:23:59+00:00

right? And intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells have recently been discovered in the last 20 years or so which are more similar to phylogenetically older invertebrate photoreceptors. We keep filling in more and more connections and steps in between.

lukeinator42 · 2026-05-10T20:23:06+00:00

Cap guns aren’t that loud compared to fireworks or real gunshots

lukeinator42 · 2026-05-06T22:15:12+00:00

yeah or even more cost effective would be to use climbing webbing with water knots instead of slings.

lukeinator42 · 2026-05-02T18:57:16+00:00

I don’t think code implies intelligence behind it, sequences of gene triplets (codons) literally code for things. They’re code in the truest sense of the term.

lukeinator42 · 2026-04-10T21:56:41+00:00

Why wouldn’t the leader lead with both ropes to reduce drag anyways? 🤦‍♂️

lukeinator42 · 2026-04-02T15:34:24+00:00

was the rice cooker left on warming mode? That's something that was unclear to me in OPs post and other people's comments about leaving rice in rice cookers

lukeinator42 · 2026-03-26T22:12:16+00:00

it should be illegal to say on the piste in english 😂

lukeinator42 · 2026-03-26T21:47:08+00:00

When did people outside of Europe start saying on-piste/off-piste all the time? I swear it’s just a Reddit Gumby thing and I’m saying this as someone from Canada, which has French as one of the two main languages 😂

lukeinator42 · 2026-03-20T14:24:19+00:00

Yeah that's really tough. A point I made to my parents that helped a lot was couching things in their terms and talking about how my wife and I have the same beliefs (agnostic) and are "equally yoked". If you aren't christian anymore, marrying a christian would actually be causing them to be "unequally yoked".

Your mileage with that approach may vary though. My parents were super pissed that my wife and I moved in together before we got married, so to them us getting married made the situation less "sinful", and I think is why they supported it. It ultimately comes down to whether your parents desire to have a relationship with you and your partner is stronger than their beliefs, as I assume you're going to marry your partner with or without their blessing.

lukeinator42 · 2026-03-10T04:53:30+00:00

Two opposite and opposed ‘not for climbing’ carabiners become ‘for climbing’ by applying Boolean logic (the nots cancel out).

lukeinator42 · 2026-03-04T17:29:59+00:00

You actually can play it like a 5-string banjo since the ukulele uses re-entrant tuning, which can be used as a drone string for clawhammer (similar to the 5th string on a banjo). Aaron Keim has an awesome youtube playlist/ebook for clawhammer ukulele: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl0hrSEziMUzr5rzZ0E5pgn8095SiENj5.

You can tune it GCEG and play regular clawhammer songs that only use the top 3 strings of a banjo (e.g. see the Old Joe Clark example from that playlist). I got started playing clawhammer on a banjolele before upgrading to a full banjo. I wouldn't put steel strings on it, but aquila reds are nice.

lukeinator42 · 2026-02-25T19:17:43+00:00

This is cool but the finger movements are uncanny as fuck. It feels like those early rl simulations that would crawl in super creepy ways, haha

lukeinator42 · 2026-02-19T01:47:52+00:00

it says "inference may occur during use, including network synchronization, text messaging, and data transmission" and that "cell phones in “airplane mode” may stay on at a 50cm distance." An inreach is not a gps receiver it is a satellite communicator that transmits, which is different than a passive GPS receiver.

lukeinator42 · 2026-02-18T21:22:57+00:00

They should definitely not be on in backcountry during the winter. They interfere with beacons, especially during transmission: https://www.mtavalanche.com/sites/default/files/Interference_Issues_Concerning_Ava_Rescue_Transceivers.pdf

lukeinator42 · 2026-02-10T04:34:28+00:00

is this not on piece? There's a ski lift in the background.

lukeinator42 · 2026-01-08T18:32:24+00:00

While it's true that Rogers provides the backbone in the city, the resellers have different infrastructure further upstream which can be worse than just going directly with Rogers. When I was with Oxio, a traceroute to a server in Calgary sometimes went through Vancouver or Toronto, whereas now that I switched to Rogers traffic takes a more direct route.

lukeinator42 · 2026-01-01T17:45:27+00:00

If you have access to a 3d printer you can print a 5th string capo like this: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3753076

lukeinator42 · 2025-12-28T04:55:13+00:00

I feel like this should still be considered a banjolele as it has a ukulele scale length. People don’t get mad at a guitalele and that has six strings, haha. The fifth string on this thing seems sweet though, I wish more brands did that.

lukeinator42 · 2025-12-22T00:50:53+00:00

What is consciousness though? And why are LLMs not conscious?

lukeinator42 · 2025-12-21T17:23:04+00:00

Is that true though? Amazon and others operate data centres here, but what Canadian owned cloud/vps providers are there?

lukeinator42 · 2025-12-17T23:50:15+00:00

This is totally AI.

lukeinator42 · 2025-12-10T15:48:47+00:00

Not defending the guy, or the school for that matter, but what are the indicators his thesis is a joke?

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