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by analog31 4mo ago
Car headlights are regulated. My hunch is that the regulations are based on technical background that is not up to date with modern light sources including LEDs and HIDs. Styling works against us too. The ability to control the geometry of
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by analog31 4mo ago
The uniqueness of this episode suggests that there are people out there who are fully occupied searching every square foot of the earth for places where they can wheedle their way into a land deal. If it's not for a data center, then i
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by analog31 4mo ago
Indeed, and the third party may be someone who thinks the entire SWE department is useless. Most people have an equivalent understanding of what SWEs and high level managers actually do all day. Meanwhile the people in those departments are
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by analog31 4mo ago
This may be an example of a counting problem reinforcing a moral panic. A shrinking fraction (now well under half) of college teaching is done by professors. Most of it is done by temporary adjuncts, who are counted as staff. Thus the profe
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by analog31 4mo ago
Football might be a weak example, because being able to hit harder is an overwhelming competitive advantage. A player who acted like they were not wearing a helmet would be effectively dysfunctional. In contrast, most careless driving hab
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by analog31 4mo ago
Indeed, and I think possession of the information should be what's actionable.
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by analog31 4mo ago
Your insurance will probably deny it, and you'll get a bill. ;-) My guess is possibly not much, but it could vary greatly from one antibody to another. If the antibody isn't specific to any human protein, then it'll probably
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by analog31 4mo ago
An antibody is a protein. The acid in your stomach will break down the molecules into their constituent amino acids, which would be absorbed into your bloodstream. The chance that the antibody would have any biological effect before being b
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by analog31 4mo ago
Short circuit is when two sources try to drive the same node in a circuit at different voltages or frequencies. In an idealized circuit (such as where the wires are assumed to have zero resistance), current flow from one source to the other
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by analog31 4mo ago
Philbrick op amp K2-W was an analog circuit with two dual-triode tubes on top of circuitry, with an octal plug at the bottom. I have one with data sheet but have never fired it up.
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by analog31 4mo ago
I remember when in grad school, there were two casual sports leagues for the grad students: Softball and soccer. The best softball teams were the MBA and law students, who were mostly American. But physics absolutely mopped up in soccer.
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by analog31 4mo ago
Indeed, I've been in airports where I had to go down a long and eerily empty hallway, and I assumed it was just a design work-around due to needing to get a tiny number of people from A to B without breaking the security and safety per
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by analog31 4mo ago
No, but boron compounds are notoriously reactive and unstable. My dad, brother, and spouse, all worked on boron chemistry during their careers. So I learned a little bit about it, though I'm not a chemist myself. You treat every new bo
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by analog31 4mo ago
I'm waiting for it to show up in Derek Lowe's delightful blog, "Things I will not work with."
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by analog31 4mo ago
Now in addition to preserving the economic order, people are responsible for preserving culture and history? That's too much to ask for. Cultures evolve. Our children might not choose to follow our culture. Even within any given wester
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by analog31 4mo ago
"Hedonism" seems like an interesting term for a straightforward personal choice. I don't have a specific reference, but both affluence and a decline of childbirth seem to be related to improving the education and economic age
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by analog31 4mo ago
Something happening in the US right now is that the "presumption of regularity" is being openly challenged by judges. To the best of my understanding , it's the presumption that the testimony of the police is truthful until p
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by analog31 4mo ago
Someone tell me why this is stupid, which it probably is: Put the desalination plant on a tanker ship and let it do its duty out in the middle of the ocean, then cruise back to port and dispense the water.
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by analog31 4mo ago
Lots of companies are controlled by shareholders.
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by analog31 5mo ago
An amusing aside: Look at the list of "applications." Netbooks? Multichannel video transcoders? Scalable platforms? I've seen this in other TI datasheets. One old general purpose 74HC series logic chip included "E Meters
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by analog31 5mo ago
My family has a harpsichord, so I've learned a fair amount about it, though I'm not the one who plays it. Harpsichords went out of tune easily and quickly, so they had to be tuned at least as often as every performance. The way I
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by analog31 5mo ago
Mainly the valves. The tuning slides help with a number of things, including the fact that the harmonics (notes above the first ocatave) are not precisely in tune with the fundamentals. A trumpet typically has a trigger lever or a loop for
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by analog31 5mo ago
This is an odd paradox that I've thought about: If AI can produce the technical blog post, then can it also just produce the technical knowledge for me on demand when I need it?
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by analog31 5mo ago
Amusing related quote: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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by analog31 5mo ago
Perhaps we can take some guidance from college teaching, which has effectively abolished unions. Well over half of college level teaching is done by adjuncts, who are not on the tenure track and have no training or licensing requirements.
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by analog31 5mo ago
When did Google pivot to advertising?
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by analog31 5mo ago
>>> So is the next phase of "Democracy" electing who controls technology? I hope so. Recent turns of events notwithstanding, I remain optimistic about democracy in the long run. I think it's going to get harder to sa
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by analog31 5mo ago
If you orient the pedal so it's at about 9 o'clock, and hop on, the downforce will produce sufficient forward motion for steerage. Of course you can also push off with your other foot, but it's not essential. But that's
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by analog31 5mo ago
A lot of the trades involve physical work, can be seasonal, and ride the construction cycle up and down. The employers tend to be small, and many are family owned, so they are "off the radar" of OSHA and EEOC. You may be at the me
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by analog31 5mo ago
Even aside from who manages the purse, accountability doesn't need to mean being able to defend every single funding decision. That would be a sign of bad management in any business, for instance. To me it means competently managing an

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