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by analog31 8mo ago
There was certainly a contingent who believed that 3d printing was going to replace all other forms of manufacturing. It was even going to make custom food for us on order. If you balked at the idea, then you were the bad guy, or treated wi
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by analog31 8mo ago
To me the best thing about Palm OS was the rule that you’re never more than two taps or a button press away from where you want to be. (I think that’s how I remember it). The beloved early GUIs were all on machines that didn’t do much, comp
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by analog31 8mo ago
I work in manufacturing. I don't think regulations are the only barrier. The other one is attracting investment. Manufacturing is simply second class compared to IT, the finance industry, healthcare, etc.
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by analog31 8mo ago
Vaccinate them. That's a policy failure.
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by analog31 8mo ago
One option is dual citizenship, which varies by country. I know about half a dozen people who are in various stages of applying.
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by analog31 8mo ago
>>> The "deal" often being made with academia is "we'll give you a place to do research, and even fund your research, but you have to teach the next generation." This isn't a bad deal, and is the reaso
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by analog31 8mo ago
This idea occurred to me while I was traveling in Europe. Many of their trains have two classes of cars, where the first class is just slightly nicer. This could be done with buses too. Just alternate buses on the same route, that are expen
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by analog31 8mo ago
This has always seemed like a paradox to me. Once I got past the initial learning curve, coding seemed easy and fun. But most people can't or won't get past that learning curve, for reasons that I don't think we understand. B
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by analog31 8mo ago
I wonder if they will make code fast in the way that McDonalds made food fast. For many business needs, knowing when a project will finish would be equally or even more valuable than knowing that it will contain more code or employ fewer pr
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by analog31 8mo ago
I think it helps to think in terms of keeping up with the demands of school without crushing their curiosity and interest. In my generation, at least where I grew up, school was less competitive and college admissions more laid back. We wer
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by analog31 8mo ago
Common core was a thing when my kids were in school, so I “did my research.” A number of states had published their CC standards online, so it was easy to figure out. The standards looked quite similar to what I learned as a kid, give or ta
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by analog31 8mo ago
I work in manufacturing, though this comment is a generalization, and depends on what industry you’re in. What happens in practice is that products are certified by a third party regulatory agency, probably Intertek. They’re the ones who hi
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by analog31 8mo ago
I'm not sure about the comparison either, but the cost of operating the LLM should include the worker's wages. I read an article yesterday about people working insane hours at companies that have bet heavily on AI. My interpretati
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by analog31 8mo ago
Deming taught statistical methods that regular workers could learn and use, mostly based on simple tables and pencil-and-paper graphing. It predates the computer age. And you can go far with those methods, or just a spreadsheet. Fancy stati
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by analog31 8mo ago
The big squiggly mess in the article is filled with people . I think Deming’s deepest concept was giving workers on the production line simple tools to improve processes on their own. His books are filled with exhortations to trust the wor
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by analog31 8mo ago
Quite a few years ago, I was looking for a way to program microcontrollers via an onboard interpreted language, and happened on the picol code. I still have my version somewhere. It was delightfully straightforward and easy for an amateur t
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by analog31 8mo ago
My hypothesis is that the $1000 cables help sell the $300 cables. I’ve seen comments to the effect of: “I’m not fooled by those $1000 cables, so I saved my money and got the $300 cables instead.” In other words, they got fooled. What’s happ
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by analog31 8mo ago
I think the notion of considering all points of view depends on the assumption that people are arguing in good faith. When this breaks down, I don’t think we can just throw up our hands and give up, but the baloney detection kit needs to be
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by analog31 8mo ago
As I understand it, Germany requires inventors to be paid royalties, so this may be a matter of ensuring that the actual inventors have been identified.
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by analog31 8mo ago
I'm a scientist. In the science world, the traditional lab notebook contained a narrative of what you were doing. You're kind of thinking out loud into it. One measure of a good notebook is if it contains sufficient information th
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by analog31 8mo ago
Amusingly, I tried. Your job is safe. ;-) I'm a scientist. I tried using a couple of free 3d modeling tools that are programmable in Python, using Claude within VS Code to design a part according to my prompts. It was a simple plate wi
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by analog31 9mo ago
Granted I'm not a software developer, so the things I work on tend to be simpler. But the people I know who are recognized for "knowing how the whole thing works" are likely to have earned that distinction, not necessarily by
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by analog31 9mo ago
Since I’ve worked on a lot of bikes for friends and family members, the condition of the front and rear brake pads tells me that many casual cyclists are afraid of their front brakes. The rear pads will be totally worn down and the fronts p
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by analog31 9mo ago
My interpretation is that for joints, these are like the muscle, and there still needs to be a tendon.
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by analog31 9mo ago
Similar story here. Sheldon’s site took the mystery out of wheel building, at least for my basic needs. I was motivated by acquiring a couple of ancient Sturmey Archer hubs and wanting to put them on modern rims. Those wheels have been bull
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by analog31 9mo ago
Math education has always been a failure, or a "crisis." The number of people who come out of school with any functional math ability has been fairly constant over the decades, and depends a lot on family background and economic c
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by analog31 9mo ago
This is the thing that really baffles me. My kids went through K-12 when Common Core was a thing, and there was a huge backlash about it, so I decided to look it up and to see how it was being used in our school district. A few states publi
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by analog31 9mo ago
The perception may be that anything AI related will be obsolete in months. So why pay to have it built into a laptop?
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by analog31 9mo ago
Michael Jackson is another. And there were child stars in the movies. One difference is how popular music is produced today. The members of the band are not just performers, and in fact, they're often mediocre instrumentalists and sing
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by analog31 9mo ago
It's the same as control open-apple reset.

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