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Oops. Did I say "closet?" I meant "retirement." I retired in 2016 to pursue my hobbies of gunsmithing, machine shop fun, and welding, but since the current administration declared war on our own economy, I can no longer afford my hobbies! Bummer. I can't afford retirement, either.
A few weeks ago a local tribe called to ask me to apply for a job, in this case Manager of Generation. They have a large facility that is entirely off-grid and dependent upon three diesel generators. Thanks to a recent grant, they have been able to build a solar photovoltaic generating station coupled with a Tesla battery system. We are about to embark upon the adventure of integrating the new source into the existing microgrid. Since the first of May, I've been working on this project on a time and mileage basis, and so far, they have paid the bill in a timely manner. Today I got a call to negotiate a salary, and we settled on an acceptable figure, so I'm off and running a power company again! I've missed it... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger,
Your story has familiar ring.
Enjoy but don't get too deep to keep stress away.
Like the supper table, when you have had enough push the plate away.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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That cool girl from Brazil has checked out at 83. Her recording of The Girl from Ipanema with Stan Getz is just unforgettable.
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"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Agreed. Sad for us oldies to see familiar names leave us. Saw Stan Getz in concert about a hundred years ago.
>64
User: Technical term used by developers. See idiot.
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Hadn't thought much about it until I started getting more into graphic "transforms" and trying to keep the terminology "correct". I found this style guide useful.
Welcome - Microsoft Style Guide | Microsoft Learn
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I was talking about the corner of a rectangle. That's about as much as I will say about who or what's "right".
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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(Not about to watch that.)
Do they have the dirt on it? Or does it involve butterflies?
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Yes, butterflies are mentioned. Strangely enough not as the 'butterfly effect', even though it comes up in connection with chaos systems.
The video is worth watching.
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The Analog Thing is cool, wish I knew a lot more about analog circuitry.
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No, I am not. 
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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You're unnaturally interested in it, then?
Keep Calm and Carry On
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You can be interested in a way that goes with nature, or you can be interested in a way that goes against nature.
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Quantum computing is analog while in it's indeterminate state (IMO); tweaking it until you get the right "flips".
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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And how do you know when it's right?
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When I started my IT studies, they were still teaching analog computers in the EE department of the Norwegian Technical University. I believe analog computers were taught until around 1980.
In the 1970s, one of the professors, J.G. Balchen, won a certain international reputation from his simulation models of cod farming in Sognefjorden (Norway's longest fjord). This model was entirely analog: He could feed the cod, harvest it, or try the effect of temperature changes by turning various dials, and watch changes in the curves on the oscilloscope.
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I'm seriously considering buying that thing. I really enjoyed programming analog computers in college, and though I have little need for solving differential equations these days, who knows what may come up in the future? One of the machines we had in college came off a Navy ship; it was used for missile guidance. All of the op amps were vacuum tube types, and the failure rate was horrendous! Happily the ones we used in class were desktop models which used transistors.
Will Rogers never met me.
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