Jim

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I am a Systems Engineer with many years of experience in electronic systems, including communication systems, network systems, and radar systems, with a focus on signal processing and architecture. "Know your customer and his/her needs." My hobbies include photography, yachting, software development, writing, and foreign languages.

If you don't know what to do with your spare time, go walk your dog. If you don't have a dog, walk someone else's dog. It's a better way for you to spend your time than what you are doing right now. If you think you don't have any spare time, then you probably don't have a dog.

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Mar 30	comment	Someone who pays attention to details is a…? @yzT: see my edit
Mar 30	revised	Someone who pays attention to details is a…? added perspicacious
Mar 30	revised	Is there a word for when a problem's understood complexity grows exponentially as you work on it? punctuation
Mar 30	answered	Someone who pays attention to details is a…?
Mar 30	comment	permit vs cause causality I suggest you come up with a more complete and realistic example that doesn't detract from your "logical and linguistic" point. Otherwise this just looks like gobbledegook (or plain nonsense).
Mar 30	answered	Is there a word for when a problem's understood complexity grows exponentially as you work on it?
Mar 29	revised	Is there a word/expression that would correspond to something like “self-distance”? added 50 characters in body
Mar 29	answered	Is there a word/expression that would correspond to something like “self-distance”?
Mar 29	comment	What is a gender-neutral alternative to the expression “man-days”? @JoeZeng - In case you're serious, the holiday is capitalized. And, as a matter of fact. Labour Day is celebrated on many different dates in various countries. So there are actually many Labour Days.
Mar 28	answered	What is a gender-neutral alternative to the expression “man-days”?
Mar 27	comment	Is “grapple hooking” a correct phrase? Is your context real, or a simple example? "Sprinting, jumping, grappling (wrestling)" is a much more likely combination of activities than "sprinting, jumping, and grapple-hooking".
Mar 27	revised	Looking for a classier word to describe a “packet” or “envelope” added 99 characters in body
Mar 27	comment	Looking for a classier word to describe a “packet” or “envelope” "Swag" works as an I formal expression, but it brings to mind other (informal) words, like "booty", "treasure", and "goodie". Those words don't carry the formality implied by performing an honorific act.
Mar 27	answered	Looking for a classier word to describe a “packet” or “envelope”
Mar 25	revised	What is the opposite of being “everything to everyone”? added 101 characters in body
Mar 25	answered	What is the opposite of being “everything to everyone”?
Mar 25	comment	How to describe factually correct but irrelevant answers Non-sequitur (literally meaning "does not follow", something said that, because of its apparent lack of meaning relative to what preceded it, seems absurd to the point of being humorous or confusing). A couple others: evasion (evasive), specious (adj.). But none of these necessarily mean the statement is factually correct.
Mar 25	comment	Why do I never hear people say “I get to go now”? "I got to go" is the past tense of "I get to go", where get is "to succeed, become enabled, or be permitted." I have rarely if ever heard someone say "I got to go" when they mean "I must go" or "I have to go". But I have heard "I gotta go" (common colloquial) and "I gots to go" (street slang) to mean "I must go".
Mar 24	comment	A non-negative, non-prejudicial term for state of being without a significant other, single? Unattached. See english.stackexchange.com/questions/106460/…. Given the difficulty people had with that one, I'm surprised this is considered general reference.
Mar 24	comment	“lie on the basis of” versus “lie at the basis of” Take care that know whether "basis" is used as a term of art within some specific scientific field. If it is, then a simple linguistic analysis of its use isn't adequate. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_(linear_algebra) for example. Since you didn't give much context (what field of science? what is X and what is Y?) it's hard to say what is correct. The Google N-Gram viewer doesn't differentiate contexts.