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@MichaelS I don't think that comparison is very good. There's a lot of data confidentiality and security concerns (both ways) with a personal computer used for work purposes that just don't exist with non-networkable tools.

@WoJ the ethics rules absolutely still apply here. About the only difference is that it's trivially easy to get consent from the subject, when they're also the experimenter. Having that consent, proof of that consent, and ethics approval before conducting the experiment is really quite important.

@hft if the <organisation> wants to own the <device>, no problem, they can provided a one, potentially at a cost. If they want to own my <device> big problem.

@PeterGreen this works if and only if all members are of primitive types or under programmer control. The first object typed field makes immutability all but impossible in Java. The object in field foo may not be replaced, but it can be freely mutated unless itself immutable.

@GayotFow That's quite culture dependent. On StackExchange sites, it's explicitly expected to contradict someone without invitation if their answer is wrong. This is done in order to get a collection of the best possible answers.

@Mehrdad, that's what the 15' wide rangefinders are for. Having your eyes 15' apart greatly improves depth perception. Go high to get a more distant horizon, go wide to get better ranging and depth perception within the horizon. Do both to target ships accurately out to 30Km with WW1 tech.

@MasonWheeler further, there are times where having good acceleration instantly available is much safer than being in the optimum fuel efficient gear for my current speed. Lane splitting is the perfect example. While lane splitting, instant response is critical to my safety. There's simply not much time to react to lane changes ect. No matter the automatic box, it takes some measurable time to react to changes in demand. Preselecting the gear doesn't.

@MasonWheeler I ride a manual motorbike. I wouldn't even consider an automatic, because the automatic transmission can't see the future. On a manual, I can often shift a second or two early, based on the damn steep hill I see coming, or that I'm about to overtake a slow vehicle and will want the massive acceleration only possible in a lower gear than optimal for my current cruise.