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[seriously, there are a few dozen posts like this today. if the goal is to never be the smartest person in the room, i'm winning life on mastodon in a big way] John Cormier writes: Long ago, the Cdn govt contracted my startup to test the detection of such explosives using the tech | invented. I ran a proof-of-concept simulation first, which showed there was no way for us to detect the off-gassing vapours of the explosive material at normal temperatures. | jokingly suggested it would work better if we heated the sample. No one at the funding org saw the problem with this approach. In the end, they paid us in full and didn't require us to do the test.

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[seriously, there are a few dozen posts like this today. if the goal is to never be the smartest person in the room, i'm winning life on mastodon in a big way] John Cormier writes: Long ago, the Cdn govt contracted my startup to test the detection of such explosives using the tech | invented. I ran a proof-of-concept simulation first, which showed there was no way for us to detect the off-gassing vapours of the explosive material at normal temperatures. | jokingly suggested it would work better if we heated the sample. No one at the funding org saw the problem with this approach. In the end, they paid us in full and didn't require us to do the test.
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Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 08:05:37 JST Kim Scheinberg

Twitter is still the best place if you want to get a brand's attention or follow politicians. Bluesky seems to have attracted the Big Personalities that have (mostly, but not completely) left twitter. Threads might have the user numbers for convos about Dave Grohl's extra-marital kid
But boy, if you want an in-depth understanding of how pagers can be used to kill a few high value targets and terrorize thousands more innocent brown people, Mastodon is the place to be
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