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by analog31 1y ago
Sure, but they were giant beasts with limited functionality. My first boss's wife had one for her real estate business. It came in a shoulder bag. The investment that produced today's smart phones and infrastructure required broad
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by analog31 1y ago
I don't think directly, but wealthy people occasionally "buy a building" at a university, or fund an endowed professorship.
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by analog31 1y ago
In fact they depend on the upper middle class in order to have those things. I'm thinking about cell phones. Nobody can have a cell phone unless enough people can afford them to create an incentive to build and improve the infrastructu
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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed, on the main road through my locale, I'd be passed by 100+ cars per minute. On my 30 minute commute to work, via side streets, I encounter maybe 10 to 20 cars total. I consider car avoidance to be the #1 cycling safety measure.
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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed, that's a good point. My state maintains a map of reported crashes, and most of the dots on the map in my locale are on the highest speed roads. It seems like when the cars are going slower -- and there are fewer of them -- ther
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by analog31 1y ago
I wonder if this can be predicted by a heat map of car crashes in your area. This is based on my private hunch that car crashes are a predictor of bike crashes. After all, if a car can crash into another car, or a stationary object such as
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by analog31 1y ago
This is what I recall too. QuickBasic was perhaps BASIC's answer to Turbo Pascal, a relatively lightweight but usable text based IDE. I knew some happy users.
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by analog31 1y ago
>>> ...the United States, is building the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will have a primary diameter of 25.4 meters.... Last laugh for US units of measure.
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by analog31 1y ago
Something I'm on the fence about, but just trying to figure out from observation, is whether the AI can decide what is worthwhile . It seems like most of the successes of AI that I've seen are cases where someone is tasked with w
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by analog31 1y ago
I've not used MicroPython, but its fork, CircuitPython. My impression is that it's essentially a Python that doesn't interact with an operating system. Thus if there's a reason for a server to have an OS and interact wit
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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed, hell is being cooped up in a hotel with kids -- for the kids, the parents, the rest of the occupants, and the staff. I think this is a huge factor in why my family always camped when I was a kid. And to be frank, I don't like b
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by analog31 1y ago
In the physical sciences you can often estimate the noise level in a null measurement -- or even measure it. You often do this just to get your setup working before doing something like wasting a precious specimen on a "this time for r
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by analog31 1y ago
Just make it even more cutthroat than it already is. Replacing one hackable incentive system with another will just produce a new set of hacks. Disclosure: I left academia before I had to worry about any of this.
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by analog31 1y ago
You're churning the user experience for no reason. Maybe constant optimization churn is one of the reasons why UIs are so bad.
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by analog31 1y ago
Most mechanics won't fix a car on site, and there might not be space to do so. Also, a car that's been sitting for that long can't be started without at least charging the battery, and probably, replacing it. Then one wonders
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by analog31 1y ago
Much less overall traffic, in my view.
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by analog31 1y ago
Three wheeled cars and trikes mostly moved to having the two wheels in front for stability when cornering. Same reason why 3 wheeled all terrain vehicles were taken off the market. Otherwise, cool idea.
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by analog31 1y ago
This is a good reason not to throw away your old textbooks.
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by analog31 1y ago
Ironically, this method of managing suppliers was perfected by Wal-Mart.
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by analog31 1y ago
To some extent, the NSF did that. My graduate education was funded by the NSF, and my research didn't have an obvious practical purpose, except to enable further research. Today, I'm in a corporate research role, and I'm stil
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by analog31 1y ago
>>> But you can not just roll all your own electronics in a year. Naturally, there must be some scale threshold where this is true, so I don't doubt your experience. And my workplace doesn't make anything as elaborate as
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by analog31 1y ago
It's interesting that VB5 and 6 were what I call "object based." You could use pre-defined objects, but didn't have to create them yourself. In fact you needed some special "edition" to create objects, which I
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by analog31 1y ago
A thought just came to me, that the selling of indulgences triggered the Reformation.
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by analog31 1y ago
Maybe they can raise enough money for a pardon.
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by analog31 1y ago
Indeed, and there are interactions that I avoid, such as dealing with sales people. Why would I even want something that's sold to me via the best angle? I think there's a matter of degree, and if it's excessive, then it&#x27
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by analog31 1y ago
I think that the earliest methods of programming windowed computers were just way over the heads of mere mortals, including myself. For those of us where were comfortable with earlier computers, GUI required simultaneously grasping OOP, a m
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by analog31 1y ago
I have to admit that I get creeped out if I think that someone is trying to "read" me, to such an extent.
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by analog31 1y ago
Fascinating. I certainly haven't kept up.
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by analog31 1y ago
I'm not an expert in this, but I think there's an encyclical to the effect that Thomism is the philosophical basis of Christianity. I also think that his books were recognized by earlier encyclicals, but I don't know if there
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by analog31 1y ago
Some of the traditional insurance companies do this too, by having an ownership stake in the repair facilities, so they also buy repairs "at cost."

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