jIyajbe

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by jIyajbe 2y ago
I was an EMT in the Los Angeles area for four years, and then in the Seattle area for four years. I developed the mindset that even if the patient died, we (the firefighters/EMTs/paramedics) had at least given them a chance to liv
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by jIyajbe 2y ago
I read the paper; much of the electronics details got past me on the first read, but I think that the part most relevant to your question is their statement that it needs to be determined if the LED is a deterministic or a probabilistic sin
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by jIyajbe 2y ago
The reversed-biased method is actually the basis of single-photon detectors used in quantum optics experiments, especially experiments with entangled photons. Here's a paper that uses exactly this--reversed-biased red LEDs-- to introdu
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by jIyajbe 3y ago
"All right; but apart from the sanitation, education, medicine, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
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by jIyajbe 3y ago
Different poster here. My wife and I retired to Portugal (near Lisbon) about two years ago. I guess we're two of the "affluent gentrifiers". :-) In contrast, we met a 20-something U.S. couple in our language class, who moved
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
My rule of thumb is, stores would not offer loyalty programs if it lost them money.
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
Another good WYSIWYG front end is LyX: www.lyx.org . I've written a few hundred physics lecture notes with it, as well as a number of Beamer presentations. I find it much easier to use than TeXmacs (mainly because of keyboard shortcuts
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
If you have some diy desire and skill, you can get a lot of bang-for-your buck from the speaker kits from Parts Express ( https://www.parts-express.com/speaker-components/speaker-sub... ). The sound quality of their kits
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
Same. The only thing I miss about owning my own home is that I can't set up a home theater. The last house I owned had a bare-to-the-studs basement when we bought it. I built a home theater to die for there: ran every wire you could th
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
Well, for my wife and me, like the featured couple, we moved here to Cascais, where we have leased a 3 bedroom apartment. (We moved from Seattle, not L.A., but most of the dynamics are the same.) The concerns that you raise have not happene
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
If you have the math background (advanced calculus and vector algebra), then there is no better writer than David J. Griffiths. He is the only textbook author I have every encountered who remembers that a textbook is, first and foremost, a
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
lbrito, do you currently live in Portugal? And, how did you learn Portuguese? My wife and I are working on it (she is much farther along than I am), and man is it tough! So many times I thought I was speaking really clearly and correctly, b
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
To start with: We decided to apply for what's called a "D7" visa. Skipping over the details, it allows us to reside in Portugal long-term; it is somewhat analogous to the U.S. "green card". And, after 5 years, we ca
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
Wow. I had no idea how intricate and CLEVER the mechanism of a mechanical watch is. Being no engineer, I cannot imagine how someone could think of all these clever designs. (Yes, of course the mechanism evolved over time. Even so.) I have b
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
My wife and I did this immediately upon retiring: Pacific Northwestern U.S. to Lisbon, Portugal. Early days yet (less than one year), but so far has been fantastic. Much lower cost of living, the culture is similar enough to be comfortable,
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
A lot less than that nowadays. I set up a very similar experiment about 3 years ago at my school, based on a series of papers by Mark Beck, now at Reed College in Oregon, US. Here is one of the earlier ones, and it is this experiment I [mos
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
Emo Phillips once said, "I used to think that the brain was the most important organ in my body; until I realized who was telling me that."
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
The webmaster at lowtechmagazine.com says: "...Compressed through this dithering plugin, images featured in the articles add much less load to the content: compared to the old website, the images are roughly ten times less resource-int
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
Beat me to it! I have no memory of where I first heard it, but it was in my far-away long-lost youth. Despite that, I have never forgotten it, nor lost the ability to call it up instantly from my memory (unlike, for example, my wife's
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
I learned to play the guitar. Not well, but well enough...And, I learned the sort of songs you can play at parties, that people can sing along to. Once I started engaging with people that way, I discovered that most people are friendly and
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
My reading of the text is that "dimensions" he is talking about are the various ways of being good at physics, not the many ways an individual person can be talented. From the text: "...What this suggests to me is that there
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
I'm not persuaded that the stated facts lead inevitably to the conclusion they reached. From another article (linked from the Verge post): "* YouTuber Luke Miani decided to test whether or not the machine is actually upgradable th
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by jIyajbe 4y ago
Agree completely! I had no idea that "foreground" could be used as a verb! "...A pious fraud like Brossier foregrounds questions of truth and motive..."
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by jIyajbe 5y ago
jIyajbe@gmail.com will find me. (Hopefully posting this will not increase my spam count...) Thanks!!!
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by jIyajbe 5y ago
I would love to get this script! I am doing photon counting with an LED readout; this would help me enormously.