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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed. See the tags at the end of the page.
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One other thing I remember is that you were always on the alert for the car in front of you suddenly bricking itself, due to a "hardware update."
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by analog31 1y ago
I'm thinking if the sun can warm the panels enough for a thin layer of ice to slide off, then it can't take that much more energy to make a thick layer slide off.
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by analog31 1y ago
I wonder if you could just run them backwards for a while to clear them. Use the V*I loss.
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by analog31 1y ago
I'd look at the accident stats, which I honestly don't know. But my hunch is that the newer cars are safer.
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by analog31 1y ago
I lost power steering every day during the winter in my old car, when the engine stalled while coasting through a particular intersection, and I was busy re-starting it and negotiating the turn. It's amazing how much more reliable cars
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by analog31 1y ago
Well, in fairness, it's informational and entertaining to everybody who doesn't have one of the cars.
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by analog31 1y ago
I learned BASIC in high school, so I'm mentally mutilated, but with that said, my dad got me a copy of Turbo Pascal for my birthday, in the early 80s. He knew virtually nothing about computers, but had read an article in the Wall Stree
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by analog31 1y ago
>>> you absolutely don't care whatsoever about performance and can guarantee that you never will. Those are actually pretty good bets, better than most other technological and business assumptions made during projects. After a
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by analog31 1y ago
Well, it's been 50 years since I first heard that the debt would cause an imminemt hyperinflation, so I'd say it could be another 50 years. Sometimes prophets have to revise the date of doomsday, but it doesn't seem to make t
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by analog31 1y ago
Did it have something to do with the Ford Explorer? But anecdotally, we were driving through Chicago in the family Subaru Forester, and got a huge gash in one tire. The Soob has so much automation in its drivetrain, that it still handled OK
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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed, at this point, there are possibly hundreds of Arduino compatible boards, and the other pieces of the puzzle are more important. Arduino is the Python of microcontroller development. Come for the odd little microcontroller board. Sta
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by analog31 1y ago
It was an extremely weak mandate, and in normal times (e.g., assuming the concept of limited government), a weak mandate would be a mandate to act with restraint. Thus a "mandate" doesn't justify what's happening. The Re
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"Moderation in all things, including moderation." -- St. Augustine
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GEB was what really turned me on to math. I mean, I was good at math by the standards of a mid-tier high school, but was satisfied to work through the problems and proofs, or use math in my physics class and electronics hobby. But my older
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I think it depends on the industry. If it's printed circuit boards, then it's China. If it's software and financial services, then the US. If it's health and science research, then probably Europe. In fact, where industr
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by analog31 1y ago
I remember for the past 50 years, that Americans have been warned that looking across the oceans (or even the Great Lakes) for policy ideas would lead to "stagnation." The latest propaganda point is that Europe is even poorer than
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by analog31 1y ago
I'm a bassist, and was aware that Parker made basses, one of them for the legendary electric bassist Steve Swallow. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/what-happened-to-parker-gui...
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by analog31 1y ago
I was pretty much the same way with my kids, with one more detail: Teaching a reasonable level of skepticism about advertising, marketing, and peer pressure in general.
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Also because loud. Most modern instruments have been evolving towards louder and louder variants.
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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed, I'm old enough to remember "all circuits are busy."
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by analog31 1y ago
We do. We subsidize agriculture, and virtually everybody gets at least a subsistence level of food. Beyond that level, it's easy to let people decide what they're willing to pay for, because it's based on what they want, and
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by analog31 1y ago
Coupled languages and programming tools had OK adoption back in the day: Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, HyperCard. But times have changed, perhaps in no small part thanks to the open source movement. I used LabVIEW heavily for a few years in t
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by analog31 1y ago
The 2nd amendment protects the 2nd amendment, that's it.
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by analog31 1y ago
I don't use Excel much, but I do the analogous kinds of things with Python and Jupyter notebooks. The problem is that adding some kind of layer requires the involvement of corporate IT, which blows away the advantages of DIY'ing t
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by analog31 1y ago
Not quickly at least, but technology can gradually reduce the labor content of a plumbing job thanks to things like solderlerss fittings, plastic tubing etc. For carpenters, prefab assemblies made in automated factories, etc.
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by analog31 1y ago
Using any tool but Excel has the same problem as finding programmers who are willing to use some obscure proprietary programming language. They're going to worry about career lock if they're not developing portable skills. Even th
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And it was probably created without approval.
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Other than a biomarker, does it produce symptoms?
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by analog31 1y ago
Unfortunately, I met a lot of people in graduate school who were in that top 20% in terms of their ability in their discipline. But they were on a collision course with expectations of employers for what kinds of work they were interested i

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