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by analog31 1y ago
FTL means the bad guys have already reached you.
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>>> and how great your turds look I do not want to know how they turned this into a double blind study.
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by analog31 1y ago
>>> The joy of coding for me was literally the process of coding. Maybe I was lucky. For me, the joy was the power of coding. Granted, I'm not employed as a coder. I'm a scientist, and I use coding as a problem solving
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by analog31 1y ago
Oddly enough, within town, they're remarkably tame. Maybe with enough humans around, they learn that we're not a threat, and it's costly to evade a non threat. Likewise the turkeys. My daily bike commute goes past a public go
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by analog31 1y ago
Oddly enough, my mom taught computer programming at a community college in the early 80s, and she used the PB&J lesson, though without physically making one. She also used to remind her students: "Computers are stupid. They can onl
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by analog31 1y ago
I'm sure it depends on geography. In my area, the e-bikes are pretty much confined to the rail-trails, which are flat. When I get out into the hills, the bikes buzzing by me at twice my speed are all conventional. I've seen no e
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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed, I continue to feel humbled by the vastness of the natural world.
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by analog31 1y ago
I have a feeling that it depends to some extent on the organism. It would be hard for a breeding pair of Dodo's to hide for very long, whereas a colony of little shrews could creep around in the bushes without notice. "Last seen o
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by analog31 1y ago
Anecdote: My house mate in grad school was working in a national lab when an experiment caught fire and the fire consumed a certain amount of radioactive material. (Tiny little buttons used for calibrating detectors). He was on shift and wa
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by analog31 1y ago
I'm a scientist, and I work in a setting where there are a lot of non-scientists including engineers, managers, etc. A word like "extinct" sounds like an absolute, and a rigorous statement would include a detailed disclaimer
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by analog31 1y ago
Obligatory reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot
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by analog31 1y ago
I'm sure there will be many opinions, but here's mine. Win10 came with the computer that I chose for home use because it was a cheap refurb with a touch screen. It's fine. My workplace has switched to Win11 and it seems fine.
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by analog31 1y ago
Concur. I'm 62. It's jazz for me, but same deal.
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by analog31 1y ago
For me, it's just historical curiosity. I lived through that era, but had no hope of getting actual exposure to all of those OS's. I went from MS-DOS to 68k Mac, to Win95. I can't even claim to have been particularly prescien
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by analog31 1y ago
At that time was he talking about 68k or Intel Mac? I had a Power Mac.
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by analog31 1y ago
I was of two minds about that pardon. On the one hand it seemed like an abuse of pardon power. On the other hand, it was also reasonable at the time to expect abuse of presidential power to prosecute political enemies. So on balance I was O
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by analog31 1y ago
You still need some permeable membrane with a high surface area, to exchange dissolved oxygen. In this method, the customer supplies the membrane.
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by analog31 1y ago
I predict that if FTL travel is possible, it will happen in our lifetimes, perhaps even as soon as 20 years ago.
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by analog31 1y ago
Correct. Typical electrical solder won't stick to nichrome, and encapsulating the wire in a blob of solder sounds short term at best. If it's not a good connection, it will heat up and eventually melt the joint.
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by analog31 1y ago
The appliances I've opened up used spot welding.
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by analog31 1y ago
I'm not a Matlab user, but from what I can tell, even if the language can be cloned, there's a lot more to Matlab: It's a GUI driven software suite, with a lot of pre-written apps that eliminate the need for coding in many ca
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by analog31 1y ago
You can borrow a watt meter at my local public library. I'm not saying the average person would have the knowledge to think of doing this, but it's not out of reach.
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by analog31 1y ago
While we're on this topic, kudos to "Sears Parts Direct" for carrying a bewildering array of spare parts for those appliances.
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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed, been there. Just getting the dishwasher out of its cubby hole is a major effort, and involves dealing with not just the wiring but the hoses too. And if it's an older house, chances are good that the dishwasher had to be cramme
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by analog31 1y ago
Can the addition of type hints to the 2% be largely automated?
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by analog31 1y ago
The rule of thumb is that signal-to-noise increases by the square root of the sample size. This is a brutal curve, and suggests that simply gathering more data is seldom practical. Another rule that I use myself is, "multiply p by 10.&
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by analog31 1y ago
I make a device akin to a guitar pedal. If you want to use a plastic case, it has to be designed for mechanical ruggedness and protection of the innards. For small time pedal makers, the cost of design and mold tooling rules this out, thoug
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by analog31 1y ago
Also Dimebag Darrell
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I wonder if it's more readable to non-programmers than control flow.
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Interestingly, Excel provides "if" as a function: =if(condition, value-if-true, value-if-false)

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