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by ncmncm 1580 days ago
Do you ever miss chemistry?
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Sometimes, but in retrospect, what I was doing was really basic CS on top of a field of chemistry that had had zero love at that point.
Thanks for circling back.

It seems like the brain drain from every other field into computer stuff is a real and substantial loss for our culture. It makes me wonder whether we will keep it together, in the end. Societies decaying has happened; eventually they collapse. If it happens again, it will not be confined to this or that empire.