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by analog31 1y ago
I've had a PP merchant account for well over a decade, to sell a boring, non computer related gadget. I make roughly one sale per business day, with typical statistical variation. PP has been nearly 100% reliable. Some advantages for m
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by analog31 1y ago
I'm not pushing back at all, especially since I made two pancakes from Krusteaz this morning. What I like about Krusteaz is scaling down to 2 small pancakes without thinking about the proportions. But when I'm on the ball, pancake
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by analog31 1y ago
So the EEs are right. Electrical circuits run on magic smoke.
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by analog31 1y ago
That's fair. But it turns "possible" into a statement about a company's or government's expected degree of restraint, rather than a mathematical statement about the robustness of an encryption scheme. The famous cas
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by analog31 1y ago
Apple II was an open system in a sense. Apple published the schematics and ROM source code. But it didn't have well defined interfaces that developers respected. A lot of published software, including some of the most popular apps, mad
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by analog31 1y ago
>>> A leak of the state's private key(s) could be devastating. Preventing this leak is what's technologically impossible. A leak includes when the government that's keeping the keys decides to start abusing their acc
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by analog31 1y ago
I assume you mean "defund." Another thing people are unaware of is that the majority of scientists are experimentalists, not theoreticians. Why would we want to be experimental scientists at all?
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by analog31 1y ago
Tuxedo works fine for a wedding. I'm a wedding musician, so I'm often in a tux, and nobody questions it.
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by analog31 1y ago
Is that because the wireless hardware on the phone can't pick it up, or because nobody has attempted to program it? Then again, it needs to be a laser detector today.
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by analog31 1y ago
Not to mention uranium. ;-) I've got the Fiesta Ware bowl that my mom kept along with her Geiger counter, until she moved from her house to a small apartment.
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by analog31 1y ago
True, but aren't we in a better place now? I think the move to free tools was motivated by programmers, and not by their employers. I've read that it became hard to hire people if you used proprietary tools. Even the great Microso
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by analog31 1y ago
My control theory professor (who was also my physics advisor -- it was a small college) explained it like this: Physicists like Fourier transforms because they go from minus to plus infinity, like the universe. Control engineers like Laplac
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by analog31 1y ago
I've read about similar requirements for physical products licensed in Europe, and my understanding is that businesses have sprung up to provide "representative as a service" to whoever needs it. So you don't need to hav
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by analog31 1y ago
My town in Wisconsin had a big program to replace all of the lead service lines. As I understand it, the alternatives they considered included installing some sort of filter in each home, and they decided on total replacement of the pipes.
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by analog31 1y ago
I wonder if reaction time is a factor. Driving in congested traffic, I've noticed that it's difficult or even impossible to maintain what we were all taught was a safe following distance. As a result, the drivers are not in comple
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by analog31 1y ago
Yep. O(sqrt(n)) is a tough slog.
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by analog31 1y ago
I'm fleeing towards a democratic country.
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by analog31 1y ago
I took a QC course, and have done some reading, but am hardly an expert. But my impression has been: "This is analog computation." To reinforce the similarity, the error level of analog computers can be improved by running many of
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by analog31 1y ago
It turns out that error correction was easy on digital computers, and was essentially a solved problem early in their development. In fact, "noise immunity" is arguably the defining feature of a digital system. And error correct
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by analog31 1y ago
Is this just a symptom of the economic cycle? I have two friends who are both retired from careers teaching at the regional community college. They've told me that the number and quality of students go up when the job market is weak. W
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by analog31 1y ago
I heard New Zealand is nice.
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by analog31 1y ago
Look on the bright side, it would have been much more harsh, had they worked in binary.
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by analog31 1y ago
Entropy also has units of measure: Joules per Kelvin.
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by analog31 1y ago
>>>>> Consciousness, creativity, love — all of these things are destined to disappear as the universe becomes increasingly disordered and dissolves into entropy. Those are evolved traits, and it seems more likely that evoluti
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by analog31 1y ago
I actually use straight matplotlib, or for quick-and-dirty, pyplot. Every notebook starts with the same boilerplate, turning on auto-reload, then numpy, pyplot, asdf. And then my own weird libraries, or those shared with colleagues. Occasio
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by analog31 1y ago
If it's a legacy system, then it lives at the edges. The edges are everything. I wish I could remember or find the proof, but in a multi-dimensional space, as the number of dimensions rise, the highest probability is for points to be l
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by analog31 1y ago
A concern of mine is where the insurance companies will get their guidelines, i.e., who pays. Also, being willing to pay out of pocket is not a panacea, as you can still be turned down.
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by analog31 1y ago
... as is farce majeur .
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by analog31 1y ago
My gut reaction is that becoming dependent on an employer to provide access to proprietary tooling is a step backwards for worker empowerment. My take on the past 20 years or so is that programmers gained enough market clout to demand a fai
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by analog31 1y ago
In my experience, there are people out there who don't program, or who don't feel that it's a productive way of doing things. I'm firmly in the Python camp, but recognize that my workplace has several JMP licenses, and t

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