turzaak.bsky.social
Mechanical Engineer who knows too much EE (and now CS) for their own good.
I build robots.*
*robots may or may not be apocalyptic in nature
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Yep. It also didn't accomplish what it was supposed to in terms of rural industrialization.
I'm honestly grateful for learning about the Russian and Chinese Revolutions in HS. No idea if you could with public education today, much less in the Midwest.
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So's physics, what with it always wanting to go towards some "equal state" and saying infinite growth is impossible.
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Unfortunately for them, as an engineer, I can tell you that we use those words too. And use them to do R&D.
They're cosplaying engineers. Badly.
(Apologies to any cosplayers)
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"Tell me you've never looked at the back of a $10 bill without telling me you never looked at the back of a $10 bill."
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Well, in a way, they are, but that's making the assumption he knows what a transistor is.
Which, I admit, is a very, very large assumption.
Yeah, I don't believe it either.
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This is why China beat Silicon Valley in an alternative to LLM algorithms. Because they're not stupid enough to ban words that are necessary to describe the THING YOU WANT TO ACCOMPLISH.
I literally don't think I can write about semiconductor fabrication without using some of this list.
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I didn't say that "correlation equaled causation". I said that attempts to enact communism on the national scale have all used protectionism as a tactic.
Just because it's A feature doesn't mean it's the defining one.
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You have an incredible amount of patience for trying to make "this economic policy has been a hallmark of approximately every attempt to do communism on a national scale" sink in.
It's the "every square is a rectangle" but econ.
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And surprise! There's a lot of people who also lived through it before!
Acknowledging it just requires realizing the US is not the center of everything.
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And also, despite all of that, Mom still was able to enjoy her comic books! That was also an important part of the childhood story!
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I guess it's different when this is the fun childhood story one gets growing up.
Yeah, things suck and you figure out how to survive and make them suck less.
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It's really helped me to remember that my mother was born in a literal colony & fled for her life into the fucking jungle before she was 10 because the US/UK were scared the elected leader was a "Communist" that instigated race riots to demonize those of that race. And also backed an authoritarian
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I'd take even the Chicago-machine.
...although considering Haymarket...
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Oh man, I hate the "Okay I Got It Now It's Hissing And Screaming At Me Halp" phase
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Drugs are especially aggravating, but I've found people have zero concept about what it takes to bring something workable from "idea in head" to "can purchase" if it is a physical object.
Might as well be drawing summoning circles on the ground and doing Ominous Faux-Latin Chanting.
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And by "certain people", I mean "people in a certain building with five exterior walls".
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One of these days I'm going to lose it and explain how much it costs to do R&D to mass manufacture in general.
Drug dev is that on Difficulty: Maniac
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Yeah, some of the issues with Na concentrations over time was why we were looking at Ca. BUT. It's the same idea! Targeting the channel on the nerves to block the pain signal and only that! I'm SO HAPPY they succeeded and we have it beyond just theory! Just SO many more possibilities now
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Actually, this now is giving me hope for some of that old research, because I know one of the physicians I'd been working with WAS working on a chronic pain issue. So even if this drug is just for acute, that doesn't rule out the general mechanism for the future. Which is SOME MUCH NEEDED GOOD NEWS
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This is NUTS. I'm having flashbacks to that grant where we were trying to convince people that, no really, targeting the Na+ or Ca+ channels was not secretly poison.
When I was working on this, it was amazingly powerful and reversible when targeted. I'm so curious now about this version!
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!!! Someone finally did the Na+ channel inhibition for pain as a MEDICATION?! I remember working on this sort of idea over a decade ago as an implant! (We were looking at calcium channels specifically)
Oh man just the implications and avenues that open up from this one method of therapy
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(The way the story goes about my grandfather is that before he had to jump off that ship and storm the beach, he prayed and promised he'd go to Mass every week if he survived.
Grandfather was a very practical man.)
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The deacon's wife had been a previous teacher of mine, so the instruction was said with the resigned sigh of a man who knew he couldn't fight a hurricane lol
(And then I got an Episcopalian for a Confirmation sponsor and didn't tell anyone)
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I want to staple the Beatitudes to his forehead.
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The only reason I went through with Confirmation was because my extremely-devout grandfather died that same year. (Turns out, surviving Omaha Beach on D-Day does that to a man)
The instructions from the deacon, who Knew My Bullshit, were "don't scare the other kids" as I did my readings
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I'm glad I'm not the only one whose seething hatred of JD Vance often boils down to I WAS HAPPY BEING AN APOSTATE WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME REMEMBER THE CATECHISM YOU FUCKING HERETIC
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Interestingly, someone (Isabel Kim) wrote that short story last year: "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole" clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/