analog31

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by analog31 10mo ago
Good lord I though Indiana was leading the geographic listings for a moment.
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by analog31 10mo ago
Not to mention farm animals being the source of most if not all flu strains.
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by analog31 10mo ago
While I haven't seen vinyl at performances, I've seen plenty of CD's. My family enjoys attending shows given by smaller indie acts in areas such as folk, jazz, and classical. There's often a merch table with CD's to
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by analog31 10mo ago
My relative is an administrator. One of the things he does is to manually process the flood of requests to override this or that policy because the system for enforcing the complex course selection and graduation requirements (e.g., prerequ
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by analog31 10mo ago
"Academic" is kind of a broad brush. A professor and a teacher are both academics. One difference is tenure and research. A professor is eligible for tenure, and expected to do research or scholarship. They can train grad students
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by analog31 10mo ago
The first thing I noticed was the graph of cost vs quality, with two quadrants. And I realize software is a unique industry, but in many other industries there's a third quadrant: Higher quality at lower cost. Electronics is an example
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by analog31 10mo ago
A continual point of debate is whether the front-page economic indicators tell the whole story about the welfare of the population. The US lags behind many countries in areas such as life expectancy, infant mortality, maternal mortality, he
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by analog31 10mo ago
To counter that, though without a precise economic analysis, both university admissions and employment grew during the affirmative action era. Everything looks like zero-sum if viewed as a static, local model.
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by analog31 10mo ago
I'm not sure that use taxes really support road maintenance, at least in my state. The reason is that money is fungible, and the income from use taxes can be offset by a reduction in support from the general fund.
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by analog31 10mo ago
I'm a physicist, and I love invariants. In my work, being able to use the optical invariant is a superpower. It governs the statistics of light beams.
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by analog31 10mo ago
I looked into the details at the time, and as I recall the camera had lower resolution than the 4 MP of the sensor because of the microlens array. A lot was written about this at the time. I remember a friend, who was a photography buff, wa
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by analog31 10mo ago
I wonder if it helps that a lot of people take more than one picture of the same thing, thus providing them with effectively stereoscopic images.
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by analog31 10mo ago
The article mentions a spatial light modulator, which I believe the Lytro camera did not have.
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by analog31 10mo ago
I remember "-tucky" being used in my part of Southeastern Michigan, in the early 1980s. It may have been related to the historical migration of people from Appalachia to the Detroit area during the heyday of the car industry.
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by analog31 10mo ago
That may be true, but a modern money system could get you pretty close to that ideal, where the main difference is the friction of transactions. It's close to ideal for a loaf of bread, or a bag of nails. I can hop on my bike and turn
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by analog31 10mo ago
That might be it, and a quick search suggests that there were some recalls associated with it. Also, my kids didn't really gravitate to it. Their "construction" toys were a hodgepodge of blocks, some cheap "thomas train&
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by analog31 10mo ago
First time parent? Just kidding. My experience as a parent, and the conventional wisdom of parents I've known, including my own, is that there's no predicting the influence of a given toy on a kid's development[0]. My hunch i
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by analog31 10mo ago
Something I'm wondering. My kids are grown now. When they were little, we got a toy with connecting magnetic pieces, don't remember the name. The magnets broke out of the brittle plastic easily and it was actually a pretty low qua
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by analog31 10mo ago
This is anecdotal, but I remember this sentiment becoming widespread in the 1980s, along with the imminent hyperinflation and currency collapse. Political candidates (Carter and Reagan) promised reductions in federal spending, but couldn&#x
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by analog31 10mo ago
It's easy to liquefy, so it has a density advantage over air, and would be bad if released but not super bad.
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by analog31 10mo ago
We've yet to propose an experiment that demonstrates the inadequacy of IEEE floats if used carefully. The simulation only needs to be good enough.
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by analog31 10mo ago
Or any users for that matter. The familiar "I can't see how anybody can stand to use Excel" is too widespread to be dismissed as a fluke.
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by analog31 10mo ago
My expectation (well, maybe my hope) is that the Arduino community will diverge from the Arduino business and become self sustaining. Arguably, the cloud based development environment may have been a good idea, especially since a lot of
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by analog31 10mo ago
This can be hard to explain to both engineers and laypeople because there's Arduino, then there's Arduino, and then there's Arduino... For instance, "Arduino" could mean the Arduino branded boards, and the cloud bas
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by analog31 10mo ago
Are racism, misogyny, and superstition useful or useless? Now one could argue that those things are not right or left wing. There is no epistemology for what any given ideology -- political or religious -- consists of. An apologist can simp
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by analog31 10mo ago
Where are the junior devs while their code is being reviewed? I'm not a software developer, but I'd be loath to review someone's work unless they have enough skin in the game to be present for the review.
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by analog31 10mo ago
In stores I’ve been in the highest density of cameras is directly above the checkouts.
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by analog31 10mo ago
One big disruption in the job market was that mandatory age-based retirement was outlawed. This created a span of several years when there were virtually no retirements. I should have mentioned that my dad's degree was in chemistry, an
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by analog31 10mo ago
For me the friction of dealing with licenses would make it hard to fully integrate a commercial package into my routine. Commercial developers have to decide how they expect a product to be used, so they can allocate finite resources. This
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by analog31 10mo ago
When I was a physics grad student ~35 years go, this was called "the birth control problem. I had every intention of going into industry. I described it to my dad who got his PhD in the 1950s and he said it was the same back then. But

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