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by analog31 1mo ago
Not any more. The governor of Wisconsin just renamed it.
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by analog31 1mo ago
Yes, there are electric recumbent trikes out there, such as the Tadpole. A friend of mine got one after he recovered from a stroke and could no longer balance on a conventional bike. He rode it to work. It got him outdoors, with "anyth
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by analog31 1mo ago
The only moving part right now is the fan. That's needed because even a small amount of forced air flow greatly reduces the size of radiating fins needed to transfer heat from the system to the outside. Any compact fridge also needs a
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by analog31 1mo ago
Or working while the child is at school.
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by analog31 1mo ago
Omnidirectional electret mics are nearly dead flat right out of the box, and cheap.
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by analog31 1mo ago
Who uses PayPal any more? I do. I have a side business that makes a gadget, akin to a guitar pedal. It has worked flawlessly for me, for well over a decade. Occasionally I casually search for an alternative (to have a backup) but have never
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by analog31 2mo ago
They're not robbing us blind. They're taking care of our manufacturing so that we can invest in things like the financial industry, fossil fuels, and AI.
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by analog31 2mo ago
A possible issue with consolidation is "too big to fail." The bigger the company, the more likely that the government goes into denial about it rather than meeting the problem head-on.
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by analog31 2mo ago
Do cows experience non-existence the way that non-existent humans do, or more like non-existent rocks, or something in between?
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by analog31 2mo ago
The POS handles it automatically. The workers know how the tips are split. Remember that tip income is offset by a lower base wage. They do expect tipping.
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by analog31 2mo ago
Both of my kids are tipped workers in the US. The places where they work do this exactly. One place is a very popular restaurant with counter service. The other is a bar. I also earn tips playing music on the side.
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by analog31 2mo ago
What's not existing like?
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by analog31 2mo ago
Oddly enough kpop is the result of American music taking over the world.
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by analog31 2mo ago
Ah nostalgia. At 17, I learned how to write programs in BASIC on a mainframe.
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by analog31 2mo ago
The Z80 was my "first" microprocessor, in an odd way. I've never touched one. It was the early 80s, and my mom was getting Byte Magazine, which I devoured. I had taken a high school programming class in BASIC, and was interes
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by analog31 2mo ago
What are some of our greatest long term investments? I can think of a few: The national parks, university system, Federal Reserve, NIH...
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by analog31 2mo ago
Ah, thanks. Now that I think of it, the "center of mass" is the center of equal torque.
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by analog31 2mo ago
My jimmies are hard to rustle. I'm fortunate that I have flexible hours, and can leave work if I need to visit a clinic. If either of my adult kids gets sick, they start making calls to find someone who can take their shift. So I suspe
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by analog31 2mo ago
Along similar lines, if you hang the shape by a string, the line of the string will go through the center of mass, and you can cut along that line.
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by analog31 2mo ago
Here's what happens in my locale. If you show up in an ER, they quickly decide whether you need emergency care, or regular urgent care, delivered in the same facility. And medicine is anything if not statistical, so they know the amoun
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by analog31 2mo ago
The first thing that came to my mind was "security theater." Making people think that AI is detectable could have the same effect as actually making it detectable.
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by analog31 2mo ago
I suspect that the "service" distinction is no less arbitrary than tipping in general. It might not seem that an occupation has a service component until it vanishes. How can counter service go wrong? Famous last words. If tipping
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by analog31 2mo ago
In my view, a drawback of tipping is that it's impossible to predict how much a job actually pays. This makes it harder for workers to compete for higher wages by changing jobs. Thus it probably has the net effect of depressing overall
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by analog31 2mo ago
I'm surrounded by scientists, in my family, at my day job, and in my community, as I live in the shadow of a major research university. Support for the current administration in recent elections has fallen somewhere between slim and no
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by analog31 2mo ago
Somehow when I was a kid, the local Schwinn dealer got a bunch of Solex bikes. I remember their primary use was trying to get the motor started.
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by analog31 2mo ago
Brakes handle this already. Rim brakes are attached to the frame above the wheel.
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by analog31 2mo ago
Except in the world of "anything is possible," mirror life would have no food. All biomolecules are chiral. On the other hand, the recommendations are all commonsense, and don't only apply to mirror life. For instance... >
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by analog31 2mo ago
What I've noticed in my area is that people just don't ride on rainy days. If I'm at work and it starts to rain, someone will offer me a ride. It doesn't occur to people that a bike can get wet. Bikes are sold without mu
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by analog31 2mo ago
It's less of an issue for this device. The reason is that the motor is further from the axle than a hub motor would be. Thus, there's less force on the frame for a given amount of torque.
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by analog31 2mo ago
SRAM Automatix. ;-)

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