SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
But the idea of twisting your body into some insane sports golem just feels wrong.
The idea is of course that other people twist their bodies into some insane sports golems. If it also ends up killing traditional professional sports, all the better.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
I think the wording of the rule is such that people who don't read it carefully and/or are less experienced with the forum culture can easily get the wrong impression of what it means
Not to mention people whose native language isn't English which applies to a fair numbers of commenters here.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
Aren't those considered crimes against humanity nowadays?
I've never once written a single engineering or lab logbook entry nor do I have any intention of ever doing so.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
Writing the lab report at 3 am the night before the deadline is a time honored tradition.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
I've had worse lab partners. I've probably been as bad as a lab partner.
Truly there is no hope for humanity.
I was mostly reminded of a couple of forced university project partners whose defining features that they were both clueless and utterly useless so I had to do both the thinking and all the work and writing as well.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
open democrats/liberals
What counts as "open democrat / liberal"? Having a "vote for Biden" baseball cap? Or is it simply enough to mention that you voted for a democrat in the state elections?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
That's exactly why homicides are used as a metric and proxy. They get reported via some route in almost every case.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
Stupid enough honor culture does mean that.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
9d ago
users on this board will immediately defend it as not illegal, not partisan, not an advantage, and not as bad as something that happened
You can see that right now in the thread where people dig out individual examples of "the other side" having done something as a reason why it's supposedly perfectly fine that Trump does that thing.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
9d ago
I'm not seeing the downside there...
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
9d ago
Why would the Senate be dissolved? Even the Nazis kept the Reichstag as a rubber stamp to give a veneer of legitimacy.
Metsuselah? What is that, some modern teenage slang?!
At least have the decency to stick to tried and tested traditions and call me a dinosaur!
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
10d ago
Pah. I remember The Good Old Times when you had to call a BBS and use an offline reader to handle email.
By being Finnish or living in Finland. There may be other similar associations elsewhere but this one relies on both social cohesion (many Finnish internet tech people are members and there's a strong belief that email should have similar privacy and impartiality guarantees as snailmail) and the Finnish law regarding associations (Finland is the promised land of associations with associations for pretty much everything possible) so the membership is restricted to "people with ties to Finland" (in practise people who can navigate the intentionally Finnish only website and pay the membership fee to a Finnish bank account).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
10d ago
I use a local email forwarder to gmail. The forwarder is run by a non-profit association with the idea that once you join as a member (currently for a small one time fee), you get to keep that alias forever and only need to point it to a different mailbox if you change your email provider.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre was infamous for being forbidden in Finland for decades. When the law was finally changed in the late 90s, we went to watch it with friends. Our conclusion was that it should have stayed forbidden. Not because of the violence and gore but because it was just so bad.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
11d ago
So what you're saying is that people should fuck around more (except if they're gay in which case they should stick with just one trap)?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
12d ago
I think it's more likely that the Catholics and Protestants set aside their differences in order to more effectively fight their common enemy: Romanian immigrants.
I'm curious what scale response The Troubles or even 80s / early 90s style IRA / UVF / UDA attacks against those immigrants would bring. Would it bring just condemnation or would the UK government actually deploy army troops there?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
12d ago
TBF, your derailing was much more entertaining discussion.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
13d ago
And our presence will be felt. He's not a fan of understated fashion, some of his suits are so loud that they attract noise complaints. He's kindly lent me one that is reasonable tasteful, on the grounds that my perfectly nice bomber jacket won't stand out.
So uh.. Advice? Suggestions?
I have no advice to share but I request, nay, demand that you write an extensive report after you have recovered from the event. For science, of course.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
17d ago
GitHub submissions always have an element of flexing and self-actualisation (the "become the best stamp collector in Sheffield" type of male hierarchy climbing pursuit)
What do you think is driving useful research if not just that?
Someone just going with the flow isn't going to email their prof with "I've been trying to solve this open research problem but got stuck two thirds of the way, do you maybe have some pointers..." followed with publishing several papers before even considering PhD studies (like I did way back in the day).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
17d ago
More importantly, what tools are people now using for expert level code that isn't trivial Javascript / Python boilerplate or doesn't interface to trivial apis using such languages?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
17d ago
I would have actually expected slightly more just based on the ratio I saw while working in a university lab 20 years ago but not massively so. Certainly nothing close to 30%. Once you account for how the number of useful papers are divided between publishing researchers (something resembling the usual 80-20 thing), the result I got isn't all that surprising.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
18d ago
I have a directory of some hundreds of dsp papers from the last 20-30 years I’ve accumulated over time and I’ve at least browsed through if not outright read every single one of them. The number of papers with a female first or second author is less than ten. The ratio has been similar in other subfields of electrical engineering I’ve read papers and books from.
This would prevent the majority of the patents that significantly advanced technology starting from the 19th or even 18th century. How does a "relevant tradesman" build an integrated circuit for example? Or a method for industrial production of some material?
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