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Kye on March 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How come HN folks are so well-versed in so...

You never want a critical mass of physicists. I carry a screwdriver just in case.

hprotagonist on March 28, 2022 [–]

that just relocates the criticality point to wherever you lob the screwdriver.

… have you considered keeping an eye out for the neighboring statistics conferences?

Kye on March 29, 2022 | [–]

That was a joke about the Demon Core screwdriver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core#Second_incident

I'm not a physicist, but I play one at TeV.

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