I'm a person that regularly forgives people for "sins" committed in a time where what they were doing was considered normal by that time's standards but regressive by today's standards.

Honestly, it just feels refreshing to have a guy that's actually been pushing his ideals ahead of the status-quo and hasn't shirked from being "too radical".

Just look at some of the vehicles that aren't burt out. Some of them look more or less fine at first glance. Notice that all their tires are flat.

I remember seeing a video filmed by a Russian who's vehicle had been hit by a HIMARS strike, and he showed how the vehicle looked fine at a distance, but up close you could see that the whole thing was perforated by tiny holes. These little holes were made by thousands of small tungsten balls moving fast enough to pierce clean through the engine block.

It appears that all those flat tires are indicating that those entire trucks, and anyone who was on them, are similarly perforated.

Wondering how far they'll push this, it seems like they've breached the first lines of defence. If they're past any major mine fields and can start manuvering for real russia is going to have a hard time answering. Can only hope that we soon start seeing russian forces stuck between the border and these forces pushing in behind them.

I love how the mathematician ends the interview by saying

[this] may help us uncover something beautiful, or maybe even useful.

It's great seeing how these people work with science for the sake of science itself, because it's beautiful, not because they suspect that they'll find something that immediately changes the world. It makes me think that they see themselves more as artists than as engineers, and I think that if you have a career in science it's a healthy approach to have. Most scientists never have an "Einstein-like" breakthrough, but contribute pieces to the puzzle that may lead to breakthroughs long after they're gone. Being satisfied with that is probably key to having peace of mind as a scientist.

Very. There are people I know that had spent hundreds of days navigating technically challenging terrain on everything from dry rock to wet ice by the time they were 21. Not saying this guy was that experienced, but don't underestimate the fact that some people spend 2-3 days a week in challenging mountain terrain from the time they are 15.

The Russian conscripts that shot their conscription officer upon being handed their papers would argue otherwise.

A professor at my university tried that, but the students quite quickly made a huge fuss, got the principals office involved, and the universities lawyers informed said professor that what she was doing was illegal, and that she should stop before she got any more trouble. She stopped.

I really struggle to comprehend how you can debug hardware that is several light-hours away, let alone how you would proceed to split an OS (or whatever Voyager is running) into separate parts and then upload those parts to separate hunks of memory to make a functioning machine...

Also: What would they do if the code they uploaded was corrupted "in transmission"?

Some languages - specifically Norwegian that I know of, don't have separate words for "boyfriend" and "girlfriend". In Norwegian we have the word "kjæreste" which can be directly translated to "dearest". To me it always feels a little weird to use "boyfriend" or "girlfriend", i guess the same could be true for other non-native english speakers.

I recognise that I'm probably a minority here, but I have a much harder time staying focused at home. At my office I share a room with a couple others, on a floor with a couple dozen more. Pretty much everything I do (outside 1-3 meetings a week) is individual work.

For me, something about physically "going to work" helps me "switch on" much more. Taking breaks with other people, rather than alone, also helps me structure the breaks, and it's not uncommon that we get good ideas or resolve something that's been bugging someone during a break. Lastly, I really appreciate the option of "just dropping by" when I want to ask someone about something, and the fact that they can do the same to me. In my experience it's never gotten to the point that it happens more than maybe once or twice a day, so it's not really that disturbing either.

Wait till I show you...

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Still going on, I'm keeping myself slightly updated by reading the reports from the Critical Threats Project.