tom-thistime

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by tom-thistime 5y ago
Maybe he'll get Joy Division back together again.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
Let's get specific. Maybe your suggestion might be a cataclysmic -1000 calories per day, either by (a) skipping a large lunch completely and not changing exercise, or (b) by doing those two hours of hard exercise and not changing diet.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
Yes. And no. Bro science is more or less useless. But the article isn't super useful either. Calories burned are "adjusted for nonfat body mass." Adjusted how? Fat stores energy. Food adds energy. Exercise uses energy. Those
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
It could be that meaningful, but sometimes it's not.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
'Senior Engineer' is just a pay grade. I'm sorry, maybe the world should be a saner place, but that's how it is.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
Quick note: this is MIT's PR folks again, not a technical article.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
My personal opinion: it's not crazy to tip much more generously during COVID. This is not a normal time for businesses or employees. (NB I am not a tipped worker. I am a grumpy old engineer.)
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
I agree that current doesn't follow the Poynting vector. Power follows the Poynting vector. That's true for antennas and for transmission lines.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
You're always driving a waveguide that has inductance and capacitance per unit length. But when resistance is high enough you are just charging a big distributed capacitor. It's a different regime from the high-conductivity situat
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
Have you read the slides cited in the description on YouTube, and found the error? There's both a theoretical argument (which I haven't followed), and lab results using a 15m (?) transmission line. Both seem to confirm the claim i
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
Sounds like mostly gate delay? I'll share my ignorance. For metal traces on silicon the physical "speed of light in this material" propagation delay should only be around 9-10 ns/m. Call it 10 ps/mm, about 55ps in 5
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
I'm out of date, but compiled LISP doesn't have to be vastly slower than C++. Here they got 2x to 3x: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
It's too difficult to actually carry out in practice. You increase the mass, it quickly becomes impossible to distinguish the states.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
Insolvency would be a better metaphor than fractional reserve. But I'm guessing* Tether doesn't actually offer to settle up in any reserve currency. *I think it's a pretty good guess, based on the fact that Tether is still
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
The bar code scanner idea (already mentioned by several people) is even better than it sounds. Almost magically good. Much, much better than manual entry.
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
The piece says that Social Security owns "most of" the national debt (2.9T out of 28T). I wouldn't call 10% "most of."
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by tom-thistime 5y ago
Among other problems, the author seems to be confusing counterfactuals with negative statements.
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
Sure, iPad and Garageband.
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
It would be an important distinction, except that "hit by a bus" always primarily meant being hired away. (For me "always" means "since the mid 1990s".)
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
"Hit by a bus" means hired away. That's the meaning of the phrase.
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
For the love of all that's holy, show your scatter plots and let us actually see how well the data matches the claimed fit. My goodness.
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
New era! Somebody should use that!
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
Great list. It's too bad there wasn't room to squeeze an early John Varley story on there. Maybe Press Enter _.
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
There is no Web 2.0. There are endless versions of sort of "AOL Reloaded." Why we embrace that is getting less and less clear.
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
The juggling one worked perfectly for me.
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
Sure. They should claim "it doesn't matter," not "it's false." By the end of the article I felt the author said something like "substitute more design space and dev activity for blame analysis."
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
That might or might not be accurate, but I still care about utility. There are a lot of truths that don't have any utility for me. I celebrate not knowing most of those truths. I mean do you want to be on this call? ... A: "One p
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
Agreed. It's also a distraction from doing work. (Sometimes a shockingly expensive distraction.)
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
Did you link the chart you meant to link? Clicking on the link, I see one flat year since 2009.
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by tom-thistime 6y ago
I agree about the microscope comments. On metaphysics I'm sorry but I have to disagree. "Metaphysics" was not Aristotle's name for those books, and unfortunately it's not even clear what the word means https:&#x2F

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