knotimpressed

What’s SFE/PPE mean?

How much of this was written with/edited by an LLM? Some parts of it feel somewhat Claude-ish, and I’m very curious if that’s a false positive.

Super cool work! I had no idea UWB tags had gotten so cheap, or that CR2077 was a size.

Does anyone know what kind of anti-counterfeiting techniques he used?

That second paper is absolutely amazing, I’ve always heard this story and never bothered to find the source.

The section with oscilloscope traces showing the progression of the “designs” over time was extremely interesting - I’d love to see what the 10x10 grid of functions looked like at each snapshot.

Thank you!

Some of my least favourite nights and most cherished childhood memories involve troubleshooting broken or missing network drivers the only functional Linux box I had working. Never had to use a flip phone, but sure came close a few times.

Nothing I’d ever willingly re-live if given the chance, but always fun to look back on and grin.

Continuing to do things only because they’re funny as an adult is one of life’s little treats!

I was thinking about that while reading; in some ways I think this reality is on a worse track than Little Brother's. In the book, schools were using gait analysis because of privacy concerns about facial recognition. In reality, facial recognition seems to be able to be adopted by schools with little pushback.

I hope we all crawl out of the pot before we're turned into frog soup.

It's a fun idea too!

Not related directly to the article, but I’m so glad there’s a “tell me mistakes I made to fix” box. I wish more sites, hell even news sites had that.

Pretty misleading, to be honest. As the parent comment to yours said, the ROA + dose schedule + AUC + peak plasma concentration differ so vastly that "its the same compounds" almost doesn't matter.

The differences between street/illicit use and hospital use are so extreme even just from a physical point of view that it is unreasonable to compare the physical addiction/withdrawal they both cause.

That being said, physical addiction/withdrawal is definitely only one piece of the puzzle of why addiction happens and addicts don't stop their use. I think that using the data of hospitalized patients being able to push through it isn't as strong as an argument for that as you've made it out to be, but that doesn't mean it isn't true.

Addiction is a very hard problem, and I'm hopeful that we'll continue developing new treatments and support methods as a society, even if its semi by accident like with GLP-1s.

You mean the surveillance angle as reason for it being in Virginia?

…Do you have a link? I’m not sure if I want to see proof of that, but I’m at the same time curious how you’d manage to do it without disturbing the cat.

Titles can’t contain “China”?