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by zwieback 4y ago
... or whether HFCS is really that much worse than sugar water.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I've been hearing about sweeteners and gut flora for years and it still seems inconclusive. If there's a smoking gun it seems like it's hard to find and we've been eating artificial sweeteners for decades. What's cr
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by zwieback 4y ago
Reminder to read the ingredient list on everything. Something I do anyway but I realize I'm a nerd and many consumers don't want to do this.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Yeah, but only by adding a clutch or something to prevent the drag when the motor is coasting. I'm a little confused by this, I thought the motor would turn into a generator in that situation.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Without a doubt! Also my energy level is probably lower now so I'm sure it would be even harder.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Been there, now I get nostalgic when I hear crying kids.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Depending on the temperature of the object there will be a characteristic distribution of wavelengths. It's tricky because a hot object will only radiate specific wavelengths, based on how the heat is generated. That's why the con
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by zwieback 4y ago
Those DIN connectors were used in the "Ueberspielkabel" of my childhood. Germany decided to use 5 pin DIN as stereo cables, two in two out with one ground.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Yeah, I clicked on it expecting something about the PS/2, not the PS2. Showing my age, I remember when the PS/2 was new.
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by zwieback 4y ago
It's interesting to see the comments on his post. A good percentage is just "very impressive". What's the point of that? Just hoping he'll see your name and say "good employee"?
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by zwieback 4y ago
Oh, I visit regularly, should have clarified, but would not move back there. I very much enjoy the lack of bureaucracy and the amount of open space here in the NW of the US.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Ok, so it seems like the German preference for stability over risk-taking is still the same as when I left Germany in the 90s. I only worked at a few startups and have been at a stable company for 20 yrs now. What I'm noticing is that
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by zwieback 4y ago
If you add "... in field [x] or application space [y]" to the question it might lead to a useful discussion but as-is the question is too broad.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I remember Transputer enthusiasm when I was in college, we got some boards and even built our own, but it was really not practical and the toolchains were lacking. Even back then it seemed like something more like the GPUs we have today wit
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by zwieback 4y ago
Sorry, poor wording. What I should have said is that the overall educational system ends up letting a smaller percentage of the population into universities, partially because sorting happens as early as age 10.
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by zwieback 4y ago
As someone who went to University in Germany but left for the US right after I found this very interesting. My daughters are going to (state) universities in the US and there are profound differences between the systems, some of them appear
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by zwieback 4y ago
Except on re-run channels where they speed up the credits 100x to get them over with. Kind of like the drug interactions or terms and conditions at the end of ads.
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by zwieback 4y ago
For sure, but the trend for some teenager on TikTok skyrocketing to fame with a 100% homemade song is also a trend. A welcome one, in my opinion.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Engineering, at least the ME and EE kind, is kind of a middle ground. Some physics/math envy in the sense that we usually have to use fudge factors to make our designs work in real life. Of course we're too busy making stuff to sp
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by zwieback 4y ago
Be interesting to see when these features showed up. I learned C from the K&R book back in the day and it doesn't mention most of these. Designated initializer is something I'll try to remember, seems handy.
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by zwieback 4y ago
"You can’t win a car race if you all share the same car." Love that.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Probably go in on a hog with some 4H group. A lot of my coworkers in smalltown/semirural areas will raise pigs. Not sure if it would be a violation to see hog maw (had to google, now I want some) but probably nobody would care.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Just realized I don't even know who the CEO is rn. I remember when Google came out and seemed like this amazing thing invented by two nerds. Now it's just like a utility, useful and mildly annoying. Maybe time to break it up and h
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by zwieback 4y ago
He makes some good points (as always) but the next interesting question is: "what if you really want to go in-house but currently don't have the talent". We run into that a lot and fail to hire experts from the outside becaus
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by zwieback 4y ago
The problem isn't public vs. private or in-house vs. consultants, the problem is bad or missing metrics. In most situations where work gets distributed to other entities there's also a lack of understanding the problem space and a
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by zwieback 4y ago
Thanks for reminding me. There's a place in the Portland area that supposedly serves a good version, will check it out.
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by zwieback 4y ago
Can't believe blood and tongue sausage is on this list!! I eat mass quantities of this when I visit my German homeland. There's a lot of good craft meat here in the pacific northwest but blood sausage and actual Weisswurst is stil
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by zwieback 4y ago
And Apple. Although the last Apple I used myself was an Apple ][, if you don't count iPod.
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by zwieback 4y ago
I actually switch from Chrome to Edge whenever I can. Only drawback is I have to set Google search engine and maybe soon I won't do that! I can't really say why I like Edge better but it feels a little lighter weight in terms of m
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by zwieback 4y ago
Thanks, that would be an interesting read, post the source here if you can.

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