To me, all-lowercase text comes across one of two ways: (a) I felt speed was far more important than readability (reasonable for rapid-fire short messages or constrained typing ability such as a flip phone, also a…
I don't know whether to feel proudly clever or frighteningly jaded at having spotted this one by "industry standards." Nice.
> then wouldn't that require a razor's edge of criticality? Yup. From the device description in its decommissioning plan: The CFX was a sub-critical assembly of uranium-2-35 surrounding a Cf-252 source. The function of…
And quality educational content like "Hokay, so, here's the Earth, chilling. 'Wow, that's a sweet Earth,' you might say. ROUND!"
The hard part isn't having a telescope, but analyzing the images for objects that have moved between successive observations. Digital astrophotography and analysis software have been getting steadily cheaper and better,…
> 100 days with zero emissions By my back of the envelope math, burning 600000 kcal should produce couple hundred kg of CO2. You could also make that crossing in less than a third of the time under sail, with about a…
> MCUs particularly from microchip had really good documentation Oh how the mighty have fallen. I've only worked on one major project with a Microchip MCU (PIC32MK), but their documentation and support were terrible. No…
How fitting that it ends with September, whether that's September 30th, 2025 or September 11718th, 1993.
No (Betteridge, 2009).
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I did get a lot of that in the lower level math courses, where it kinda felt like the math faculty were grudgingly letting in the unwashed masses to learn some primitive skills to apply [spit] to their various fields,…
> and I was annoyed that nobody had just told me that because I would have gotten it instantly. Right?! In my path through the physics curriculum, this whole area was presented in one of two ways. It went straight from…
It's quietly reversing the traditional "We approximate the cow to be a sphere" and showing how the spherical math can, in fact, be generalized to solutions on the cow.
The jump from spherical harmonics to eigenfunctions on a general mesh, and the specific example mesh chosen, might be the finest mathematical joke I've seen this decade.
The hard part is not realizing that one should stop caring. It's learning how to stop caring. For most of us, caring is an automatic, reflexive response, and changing it is not a trivial matter.
On my personal 2017-vintage i5-7200U, GIMP opens in under 5 seconds. On the computer I had for my last job, a 2023-ish i7, about 30 seconds. The problem was the shitheap of corporate security software that bogged down…
> To be fair, the quality of software has dramatically dropped, apps now take 10 seconds to load, memory usage is maxed, games crash and people needed to reinstall their OS so frequently that Microsoft literally added a…
Somebody just discovered E. E. Cummings and thought "I'm gonna be original just like that guy!"
Combustion cycles that run the turbopump exhaust into the main combustion chamber are called "staged combustion." The Soviets had staged combustion engines putting payloads in orbit in 1960, and the US flew its first in…
The rocket folks call them "turbopumps" rather than "turbochargers," and most of them are powered by a separate combustion apparatus (with non-obvious terminology: if, after going through the turbine, the gas will then…
There are 25 unique responses in that 1000-line file.
And aligned to a properly synchronized cardinal grammeter.
> Ye olde Rutherford experiment nicely illustrates the points of 'yes it is all empty space' No, it does not. It illustrates that the portion of an atom that strongly scatters alpha particles occupies a small fraction…
> To be fair, what he proposed isn't (immediately obviously) mutually exclusive with your points. If it were true it would be almost impossible to detect experimentally. The obviousness or lack thereof is subjective,…
I don't know if it's generational or a matter of background. For me, as the sort of person who knows exactly where to find the SCE power switch, it would be impossible to conceive of this font as ugly. So much ingenuity…
To me, all-lowercase text comes across one of two ways: (a) I felt speed was far more important than readability (reasonable for rapid-fire short messages or constrained typing ability such as a flip phone, also a…
I don't know whether to feel proudly clever or frighteningly jaded at having spotted this one by "industry standards." Nice.
> then wouldn't that require a razor's edge of criticality? Yup. From the device description in its decommissioning plan: The CFX was a sub-critical assembly of uranium-2-35 surrounding a Cf-252 source. The function of…
And quality educational content like "Hokay, so, here's the Earth, chilling. 'Wow, that's a sweet Earth,' you might say. ROUND!"
The hard part isn't having a telescope, but analyzing the images for objects that have moved between successive observations. Digital astrophotography and analysis software have been getting steadily cheaper and better,…
> 100 days with zero emissions By my back of the envelope math, burning 600000 kcal should produce couple hundred kg of CO2. You could also make that crossing in less than a third of the time under sail, with about a…
> MCUs particularly from microchip had really good documentation Oh how the mighty have fallen. I've only worked on one major project with a Microchip MCU (PIC32MK), but their documentation and support were terrible. No…
How fitting that it ends with September, whether that's September 30th, 2025 or September 11718th, 1993.
No (Betteridge, 2009).
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I did get a lot of that in the lower level math courses, where it kinda felt like the math faculty were grudgingly letting in the unwashed masses to learn some primitive skills to apply [spit] to their various fields,…
> and I was annoyed that nobody had just told me that because I would have gotten it instantly. Right?! In my path through the physics curriculum, this whole area was presented in one of two ways. It went straight from…
It's quietly reversing the traditional "We approximate the cow to be a sphere" and showing how the spherical math can, in fact, be generalized to solutions on the cow.
The jump from spherical harmonics to eigenfunctions on a general mesh, and the specific example mesh chosen, might be the finest mathematical joke I've seen this decade.
The hard part is not realizing that one should stop caring. It's learning how to stop caring. For most of us, caring is an automatic, reflexive response, and changing it is not a trivial matter.
On my personal 2017-vintage i5-7200U, GIMP opens in under 5 seconds. On the computer I had for my last job, a 2023-ish i7, about 30 seconds. The problem was the shitheap of corporate security software that bogged down…
> To be fair, the quality of software has dramatically dropped, apps now take 10 seconds to load, memory usage is maxed, games crash and people needed to reinstall their OS so frequently that Microsoft literally added a…
Somebody just discovered E. E. Cummings and thought "I'm gonna be original just like that guy!"
Combustion cycles that run the turbopump exhaust into the main combustion chamber are called "staged combustion." The Soviets had staged combustion engines putting payloads in orbit in 1960, and the US flew its first in…
The rocket folks call them "turbopumps" rather than "turbochargers," and most of them are powered by a separate combustion apparatus (with non-obvious terminology: if, after going through the turbine, the gas will then…
There are 25 unique responses in that 1000-line file.
And aligned to a properly synchronized cardinal grammeter.
> Ye olde Rutherford experiment nicely illustrates the points of 'yes it is all empty space' No, it does not. It illustrates that the portion of an atom that strongly scatters alpha particles occupies a small fraction…
> To be fair, what he proposed isn't (immediately obviously) mutually exclusive with your points. If it were true it would be almost impossible to detect experimentally. The obviousness or lack thereof is subjective,…
I don't know if it's generational or a matter of background. For me, as the sort of person who knows exactly where to find the SCE power switch, it would be impossible to conceive of this font as ugly. So much ingenuity…