Recent content by Rive

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    Engineering Second degree for engineers for more job opportunities?

    Mostly they value people who will - by previous example or by displayed qualities - likely fit in. Education is just one point.
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    AIs Running a Business

    In a competitive environment 'Natural Intelligence' does the very same. Only imposed constrains (awareness and tolerance of society) makes the difference.
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    Engineering Second degree for engineers for more job opportunities?

    A completely impression-based opinion below: I do not recommend that at this point. Your experiences so far are great, but lacking focus: further widening your focus - well, I don't think it would help. First, I would seek some IRL counseling about job seeking. With all these references I...
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    Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature

    Honestly, I would consider this fraud.
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    Random Thoughts 7

    Not much, so far I've encountered something I've decided to call 'The Legend of Superman'. Recruiters these days are apparently looking for professionals who can do the whole thing: system design, circuits (analog and digital, high speed and RF, with simulation), FPGA design, layout...
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    Humans evolved faster after farming, wheels and metal working arose

    As far as I know, that one goes the other way. Regarding the referred database they are looking on present day population only and looking for correlations between genes/combinations and life data. Then they can look for the history of these markers. Of course these correlations won't tell why...
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    What Geiger Counter is best for this?

    You guys are thinking of an experiment in a controlled environment (usual background, single source). It may be just me, but I think that does not fit well with the description of the OP.
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    France to ditch Windows for Linux

    Not always: especially with the continuous tweaking of those formats/programs. Especially, if you had prior experience only with Windows. That's why it's so important to make the migration happen as a whole.
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    Appliances Ultrasonic cleaner trouble

    It may be just me, but I would consider anything audible as an error report for an 'ultrasonic' equipment... Did you try to measure the oscillation?
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    What Geiger Counter is best for this?

    As far as I know uranium glass has really minimal radiation => if the background is high or variable then hard to distinguish, even with good equipment. Maybe the best way to recognize it is by its signature green glow for UV illumination. So what you need first is likely not a GM counter, but...
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    Random Thoughts 7

    Never been so overwhelmed with work since I lost my job.
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    Molds in Front Loading Washing Machine

    We do exactly that, but the softener is still an issue. Thanks, I'll try that.
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    One pin AC connector (Coaxial)

    DC power is quite a rabbit hole. For any connection you need to consider arcing (welding kind/intensity) by default, since there are no 'zero crossings', but you have to be ready for plenty of inductive stuff.
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    Are these rabbit pellets???

    Those droppings are special kind (not the common everydayhour ones), and you won't find them (unless you keep rabbits on grated floor). You see - rabbits eats those and don't leave them around... ... suspicious. Too small and too many, and both the color and the shape is borderline... I would...