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by xyzzy21 6y ago
The thing about circuits is they are all an approximation of Maxwell's equations. Maxwell's equations like all wave equations have analytic solutions (in the mathematical sense of the world 'analytic'), which extend to
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Strictly already illegal in NYC.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
I learned it OTJ at HP. There was a "UID" or User Interface Design group there we worked with. They were the group that invented green/purple keyboard/mouse mapping and similar mapping with colored traces mapping to co
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
"Slander Machine"?? You mean like the NYT?
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
The biggest problem is everything is JIT so all supply chains using JIT (like all of them) get disrupted with as little as 10% variance from the media flow rates. The only real answer is to relax the reasons why we have JIT: taxes on inven
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
The feminist left is convinced that humans are PURE Tabula Rasa and that NOTHING is biological - everything is either a choice or it's a social construct. Far too many straight people have bought into this nonsense - thinking that men
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
100% NET yield. So sparing and redundancy. It's utterly impossible to attain 100% yield at a transistor level!
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Basically it's physics without any specific details or actionable predictions.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
We do NOT understand our own consciousness so it's idiotic to project what we don't even understand to inanimate objects. This is superstition and anti-rationality. The right answer can always be "we don't know" bu
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
I've been on the internet since it was called Arpanet and the one conclusion I've made: social media and to some extent the internet itself is/are the biggest mistake humanity has made since the atomic bomb.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Teams is surprising OK compared to WebEx or Skype or Facetime these days. I ever run Teams on my Mac just fine. So I guess YMMV but it's been fine. Discord hasn't grabbed me (but I can't play any video games without getting
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Yeah, OK. But this is why I drive a 20yo car and am serious considering replacing my current iPhone with a burner Dumb phone. The value proposition just isn't being made nor delivering anymore!
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Probably akin to how if you are truly competent you don't need to oversell yourself. The smartest PhDs I've ever met in Silicon Valley NEVER TOLD ANYONE they had PhDs. The dumbest ones ALWAYS led with "I'm a PhD" o
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
You can hang out with bike riders in a club or riding group, and you'll see this the very first day! There's ALWAYS one guy talking about his new top-end Cannondale or about how he's using a carbon fiber frame because the tit
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
It's definitely bizarre to focus ONLY on "complete collections". WTF! It kind of speaks to making EVERYTHING about money and some bizarre and screwed up ideals as well. I have a pretty decent stamp collection that I inherit
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO use a real estate agent. Legally you are not prohibited from NOT using one in the USA. But it's riskier not to, but sure, for simple real estate sales, it's quite possibly moot and unnecessary. But the thresho
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
There's a 3rd axis missing - Customer Centered which can and should drive both Product-led and Sales-driven. Both Product-led and Sales-driven alone are putting the cart before the horse. The horse is the customer first. When you do i
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Except I had to still bought the charger because the newest phone can take more current and the older chargers can't provide it. So I'm dubious about this claim in practice. Not in the iPhone box but they are still selling the ch
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Sadly I would not trust those Chinese chips. This is where 99% of counterfeit chips come from and often they either are sub-par to original specs or they don't function at all. We have a similar situation - 13 month lead times. In one
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
I guess if you never leave certain large cities it might work. But it's definitely Epic Fail for the remaining 90% of roads in the USA. This reality is why I still have an iPod in my car.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Sigh. Strictly the low orbits of StarLink actually make it a sort of non-issue: there's PLENTY of atmospheric friction at the orbits used so re-entry is only a matter of time. The bigger issue is higher orbits where orbital decay has f
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Space Junk has been an issue for "rocket scientists" since the 1980s. The consensus even back than was that it's really not doable simply due to physics and the volume of "space" in orbit. The only viable strategy
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Not to be confused by "SICL" invented/trademarked by HP/Agilent/Keysight in the 1980s...
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
The other benefit is e-commerce IT infrastructure and hosting - that's not free if you DIY so it can be worth it to pay someone else (i.e. Apple). The apps my company have are on the App Store because of that. It's the same reaso
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
This is similar to the very similar HPIB/GPIB/IEEE488. In theory you can have 32 addresses but in reality because of electrical limitations (even defined in the IEEE488 spec) you can only have about 24 devices.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Absolutely horrible writing. F in grammar, spelling, style, etc. Hard to read not because of the subject material but because of the bad writing! Is this what "writers" consider good now?
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Nothing is deemed true until academia finally arrives at the party. For example marketing and sales don't exist yet per academia's opinion...
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
The paper found that O18 doesn't change the taste to sweet like deuterium does.
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
ThunderF00t is 2nd co-author on this paper. He has a video about it that very good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lANjwPzISQw
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by xyzzy21 6y ago
Even the Western world would be better off without Twitter. Expanding its cancer to Africa seems like Crime Against Humanity at this point.

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