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by analog31 2mo ago
It says it has a wireless cadence sensor. With that said, torque sensors were an improvement over cadence sensors. To elaborate a bit, friends of mine have had bikes with both cadence and torque sensors. And I've tried their bikes out.
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by analog31 2mo ago
Let me guess, no sewage disposal.
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by analog31 2mo ago
I'd extend this to saying they exist in our nervous and sensory system, which includes the physical structure of our eyes and retinal cells, because that structure is definitely related to features of the world outside of our brains.
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by analog31 2mo ago
It's a convention. And at one time it was useful as the thing that could be replicated anywhere. Also, things that are white can be judged by the amount of light they reflect or scatter as a percentage, independent of the source of i
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by analog31 2mo ago
"Programming is too important to be left to the programmers." -- apologies to Clemenceau
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by analog31 2mo ago
GEB was one of the books that inspired me to study math in college. It made math come to life in way that my high school courses didn't.
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by analog31 2mo ago
This is a "better watch what you ask for" situation. Accountants and lawyers effectively controlled their customers. You can't use accounting or legal work for business purposes without those things coming from licensed pra
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by analog31 2mo ago
There was a time before "learn to code" when it was even more wide open. My mom taught programming at a community college in the early 80s, after learning it herself a year prior. Many of her students were working manufacturing or
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by analog31 2mo ago
Great, we can use open or closed models, now that the money is in running the models through their data centers either way.
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by analog31 2mo ago
Published schematics go back to the earliest days of radio. Electronics magazines and the Radio Amateur's Handbook are roughly a century old. Before that, there was science. Although the rules were loosely defined, scientists were expe
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by analog31 2mo ago
The majority of teaching is done by "adjuncts" who are not professors, are ineligible for tenure, and don't do research. They have to re-apply for their job every semester. People rarely do it long-term, though it sometimes e
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by analog31 2mo ago
Compounding the mystery is that it crops up everywhere, not just electronic noise plots. But outside of a few systems such as electronic noise in a laboratory setting, it's phenomenally hard to measure. For one thing, to get into the 1
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by analog31 2mo ago
Maybe we could use college teaching as a model. College teachers are for the most part non-unionized. Disclosure: I was one of those teachers for a semester, many years ago. Also, teacher pay is not as rigid as it seems. In my state, the go
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by analog31 2mo ago
>>> Peter Block's quote is a great reminder that between two adults, saying 'No' is always an option and not something to feel weird or anxious about. So next time you're being ask to do something, pause, and co
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by analog31 2mo ago
Every way I can think it through, isolated mode means your house is disconnected from the utility when you lose power, which requires more equipment than can be contained in a plug in solar panel.
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by analog31 2mo ago
I've cooked every day for 40 years. Before that, I learned to cook at home on an old fashioned electric stove with the coil elements. Sure, the reaction time is slower. You learn to think ahead. Nothing is optimal. The tenements that m
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by analog31 2mo ago
I am older. ;-)
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by analog31 2mo ago
Not in my house. It's annoying.
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by analog31 2mo ago
You and Claude agree. ;-) And me too, I must admit.
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by analog31 2mo ago
I'd prefer one way of doing things. I do understand that the improvements to string literals are improvements, but it means there are multiple things to learn.
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by analog31 2mo ago
>>> Of course, woe betide those with social phobias.... True but maybe a blessing in disguise. As a shy college kid once (although not with any real disability), being forced to get up in front of people helped me get over it. And
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by analog31 2mo ago
Indeed, and I get that one can ignore those features (I do), but finding them in existing code or having the AI coding agent use them diminishes the "easy for beginners" aspect.
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by analog31 2mo ago
Deming wrote, "quality control is a management problem." When you see a plant where workers are cutting corners on quality, they're probably under pressure to do so. Factories face liability already, either due to the cost of
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by analog31 2mo ago
>>> The pay is also so much worse in my experience. The result is that anybody who can program well enough to develop software is doing so. Those with any programming skills who remain behind are smart-but-undisciplined programmers
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by analog31 2mo ago
You do have to protect them from deer for the first few years.
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by analog31 2mo ago
Indeed, all I do is live performance. Recording is too much work. ;-)
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by analog31 2mo ago
I had some level of faith as a scientist. Today, I expect that scientists will be replaced by faith in AI before we're replaced by AI. Either one is a threat to my job.
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by analog31 2mo ago
Agreed. I'm a musician. Talking pictures. Then piracy, and a few things in between. Now music is either a spectacle, is carried out in private, or as a labor of love by people like myself who have some other means of support. Support t
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by analog31 2mo ago
I don't think this is as absurd as it sounds. Come to the US Midwest. "Wisconsin nice" is a stereotype, and makes us seem a little bit like hicks, but it's real. People really are polite to one another. A friend from one
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by analog31 2mo ago
Wow, we're heading back to mask-programmed ROMs. I'm feeling young again.

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