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by analog31 1y ago
Now that the edit window has passed, I realize that I have to add a correction or a caveat. I realized this when I added a drop of oil to my brakes. The car is "unreliable" too, but comes with expectations for periodic maintenance
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by analog31 1y ago
>>> The old concept that 'new' ideas need to wait for the founders of old ideas to die off. (can't remember exact quote). I think Paul Feyerabend debunked that idea. Disclosure: Old physicist.
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by analog31 1y ago
Just for the sake of disclosure, and to provide one data point, I ride 8 miles per day, 5 days a week, year-round, on two bikes (summer and winter). That's about 2600 km/y. Maybe add a few hundred km for occasional weekend recreat
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by analog31 1y ago
This is a recurring theme in quality control. Let the workers investigate and solve the problem themselves.
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by analog31 1y ago
In my experience, virtually everything is less reliable on a conventional bike, than on a car. Many of the consumable parts last a couple thousand miles at most. This may be due to differing user expectations, or the fact that a bike is mor
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by analog31 1y ago
My neighborhood was platted in the late 50s, and it has what the kids call "secret sidewalks" that cut between the houses and connect the streets. It's the best of both worlds: Minimal car traffic, but easy to get around by w
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by analog31 1y ago
The Disney copyrights will still be around.
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by analog31 1y ago
On the other hand, newer cars have gotten more dangerous for pedestrians. Safety is indeed a luxury.
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by analog31 1y ago
There's a chance that in the heyday of tube electronics (mostly TVs), tubes were being stressed to within an inch of their life for cost reduction. I'm a musician, an an electronics expert, though I don't use a tube amp mysel
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by analog31 1y ago
There's a middle ground which is to watch and see what happens around us. Is it unholy to not have an opinion?
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by analog31 1y ago
It's quite similar to this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/267204880751 Basically a non-descript nylon bag with minimal accoutrements. I curse its lack of features (extra pockets, etc) on every trip, then it goes on the
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by analog31 1y ago
Almost 45 years after my first flight, I still carry a backpack. The same one in fact, though its waterproofing is long gone. More often than not, I get to stash it in the overhead bin. There's often space for something like 3-1/2
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by analog31 1y ago
That's a good way to think about it, though one still has to ask: "An apprenticeship in what?" Optimally thesis means you're given a nebulous problem within an area of interest and asked to manage a project to solve it a
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by analog31 1y ago
And physicists. Good degree programs involve labs, undergrad, and graduate research.
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by analog31 1y ago
Granted I've been out of school for decades. The textbooks were always an accessory to classroom instruction and not intended for stand-alone learning. Math students quickly figured out that the most important thing was doing the probl
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by analog31 1y ago
>>> A beginner would use them, trusting they are infinitely capable and precise, which can lead to problems. An intermediate programmer knows that they have some limitations, and so by using some good practices the problems can be
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by analog31 1y ago
I might have gotten my terms mixed up, but it's the suction cup thingy on the side of the tube. And it was disconnected, so the poke I got was from the charge built up on the capacitance. We had a procedure for discharging it, which I
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by analog31 1y ago
Beware. I took a poke from the focus anode of a CRT when I had a job repairing mainframe terminals in the early 80s. I thought I had discharged it, but apparently I didn't. I had to sit down in a quiet room for the rest of the work day
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by analog31 1y ago
From what I've read, the Vatican observatory bought one of Galileo's scopes, it didn't work very well, they bought an improved one, and confirmed his observations. They also recommended a compromise that had been suggested by
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by analog31 1y ago
Perhaps part of being rational, as opposed to rationalist, is having a sense of when to override the conclusions of seemingly logical arguments.
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by analog31 1y ago
I don't think so. Recent actions are not delivering an industrial policy, or promoting research. They are not addressing the distribution of "wealth and power" which is possibly more important than its magnitude.
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by analog31 1y ago
Well, my post sure was a doozy. I wasn't thinking along racial lines, and I'm sorry if it seemed to imply that. Downvotes humbly accepted. My kids went to a competitive high school, and I saw how the top students funneled themselv
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by analog31 1y ago
I think a century from now, we'll look back on privatized higher education the way we look back on privatized health care: Something that evolved by a series of compromises, that society depends on, but that is perpetuating inequality
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by analog31 1y ago
I compare it to day trading, where you always close out your position at the end of the day, and never leave anything running overnight. "Restart kernel and run all" when I finish a lab session. Assume that I might not come back t
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by analog31 1y ago
Don't worry about it. We'll all be allergic to meat eventually thanks to that tick.
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by analog31 1y ago
I live in Wisconsin. I'm a cyclist, and I love the roads. The urban folklore was that the state maintained good paved roads in order for the milk trucks to reach the dairy farms during the winter, when everything would otherwise turn i
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by analog31 1y ago
This reads almost like a precursor to the Declaration of Independence, which lists many of the same offenses of King George.
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by analog31 1y ago
Likewise here. After BASIC, I learned Pascal, in the early 80s. We were taught the principle that if you designed your data types right, the rest of the program would practically write itself. What I can't tell you is if data types in
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by analog31 1y ago
I was curious, so in case anybody else was, the first printed versions of these documents also retain this style. It wasn't just a habit of handwriting.
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by analog31 1y ago
The system that they serve could be held to higher standards. If prosecutors had to defend the behavior of the police when trying to convict someone, at the risk of having to set a guilty person free, the behavior would improve. Instead, we

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