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by analog31 1y ago
Excel probably got a decade of runway thanks to piracy. Businesses were happy to buy site licenses. Individuals were happy with a "free" copy from work. Who would try to develop a stripped down alternative in that market? You can&
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by analog31 1y ago
From what I've read, there are also fluorescent compounds in the other fluids used in cars. A mechanic can shine a UV light under your hood and spot the leaks.
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by analog31 1y ago
Yes. Mostly, until relatively recently on a historical time scale. In the middle ages, musicians were employed by towns, and had a guild. They also worked for princes, the church, etc. I read an article saying that they often did double dut
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by analog31 1y ago
Ah, one of the luxuries of not having to support myself from music... I have no interest in making recordings. That audience means nothing to me.
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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed. On the other hand, I also know my limitations, since roughly half the people I play with are pro's with music degrees. And I'm still trying to improve. I'm inspired by the quote from Pablo Casals when he was in his 90
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by analog31 1y ago
General quantitative thinking, and a sense of statistics, are still valuable. If you don't learn them from Bayes specifically, you should learn them somehow. The "square root of n rule" is still a stern master. And we're
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by analog31 1y ago
>>> When I finished school in 2010 (yep, along time ago now), I wanted to go try and make it as a musician. I figured if punk bands could just learn on the job, I could too. But my mum insisted that I needed to do something, just i
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by analog31 1y ago
It would probably be hard to do. The really huge factor may be easier to study, since we know where and when every vaccine dose was administered. The behavioral factors are likely to be harder to measure, and would have been masked by the l
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by analog31 1y ago
Right. Nobody believed that the intensity would go to infinity. What they believed was that the theory was incomplete, but they didn't know how or why. And the solution required inventing a completely new theory.
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by analog31 1y ago
It's possible to understand both exponential and limiting behavior at the same time. I work in an office full of scientists. Our team scrammed the workplace on March 10, 2020. To the scientists, it was intuitively obvious that the curv
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by analog31 1y ago
What I wonder is how this didn't also happen to the right.
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by analog31 1y ago
At last, Pi-thon.
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by analog31 1y ago
It probably required negative power for some unexpected reason. CMOS has spoiled us.
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by analog31 1y ago
Auto mechanic: Consumer advocacy, business regulation, labor issues, safety, etc. Professor of Medieval history: Lots of political discourse makes claims about history or things like "the dark ages" that turn out to be mis-interpr
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by analog31 1y ago
I anticipated this moment. ;-) It was at a time of extremely rapid development of laser technology, where you built your own lasers to be at the cutting edge, which meant optics, electronics, and in my case, computer control plus data colle
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by analog31 1y ago
It also brought typesetting to academic research, which means it's doing something that wasn't necessary before it arrived. I was one of the last holdouts from a bygone era. I finished my dissertation in physics, in 1993. It'
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by analog31 1y ago
It narrows things down to about 20 departments. ;-)
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by analog31 1y ago
It could also be like health care, where the cost goes down when the government is paying for it. In fact my knee jerk reaction to the title of the thread was: Let the government buy generic buses in volume and give them to the localities.
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by analog31 1y ago
This really comes down to a matter of preferences, but I've never used the GPIO either. The reason is that a microcontroller board makes a much better GPIO for my use. Then I can unplug it and put it away when I'm done, use it wit
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by analog31 1y ago
What are you, some kind of quarry robber?
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by analog31 1y ago
The experts are likely to be skimming and interpolating your doc, so they'll get through it but you won't know why. You won't know if your doc works, or if it even addresses the subject matter. This is also true of academic p
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by analog31 1y ago
Heat loss due to resistive heating of the thermoelectric elements is a factor. I do some work using TECs for cooling optical sensors. Most of the industry has settled on a very small range of materials, such as BiTe, meaning that we're
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by analog31 1y ago
Yes, "thermoelectric" and "Peltier" are the same thing.
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by analog31 1y ago
I recently talked with a German exchange student who is attending our local high school for a year. She said that German students take an exam that sorts them into different levels of high schools. If this is the case, then it would be very
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by analog31 1y ago
The device being charged controls the charging current. Typically for smaller gadgets, a single resistor connected to the charge controller IC sets the current. Bigger things like laptops may be more sophisticated.
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by analog31 1y ago
Piece work was one of the driving forces behind labor union movements.
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by analog31 1y ago
It's also a weird kind of monopoly, in that the good itself has no meaningful elasticity. When people talk about ticket prices, I always tell them: "Come hear my band for 15 bucks at the door, and free street parking." But of
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by analog31 1y ago
I think that early on, people started using Python because they liked the language, before they used it for numerical computation. Many people were satisfied with an installation of Matlab, C, or whatever, on their desks. But they started u
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Sure, dump it on the lowest level employee, who has the least training and the most to lose. Punish them for someone else's bad research. Grad school already takes too long, pays too little, and involves too much risk of not finishing.
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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed, my orders never exceed 100 bucks, and I have an automatic sweep into my bank account when it exceeds X dollars.

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