FiatLuxDave

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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
Are you sure it was a Mac and not an Apple ][ ? I believe those had support for color at the time.
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
My family has been a fan of the ValueTales books by Spencer Johnson. They are great for that transition period going from reading to your kid to your kid reading for themself. I read them as a kid, my sisters read them, my nieces and neph
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
In radiation therapy, respiratory gating is a common method to deal with the problem of breathing movement: https://www.oncolink.org/cancer-treatment/radiation/support/... I was not aware of respiratory gatin
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
I enjoyed the last line of the article: "An unfinished book is the only thing I know of that never dies." A short story against mortality: https://nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
Here's a link for anyone who was interested in more detail on this, as I was: https://www.kolster.fi/en/blog/aiv-fodder-the-cream-of-the-c...
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
While that's not my intention, if you actually wanted to damage satellites and cause a Kessler Syndrome scenario, it's hard to find a system that would have a bigger bang-for-your-buck. I was rather envisioning a target satellite
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
Existing light gas guns can already hit 8 km/s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-gas_gun The biggest advantage of very high altitude reducing the friction problem isn't just that it stops your projectile f
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
This is really interesting. I wonder what other known cellular structures are left out of biology textbooks because their functions are unknown?
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
For any of the younger hackers here who didn't get the "Oxmire" reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Proxmire#Golden_Fleece...
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
Aye, I didn't feel like this review gave me anything useful. A good book which does explain why surrealism matters would be "The politics of surrealism" by Lewis. It would be nice if, in all the meandering musings on Waldbe
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
Another example, going back to WWII, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabee
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
Beautiful pictures, but I felt that the post was lacking in mention of Post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Post
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
If someone asks if you can move a big boulder, and the answer is that it is too heavy, it really matters if it is in a location where it can roll down, like on the side of a mountain. In that case, heavy may not be such a problem. It so ha
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Mansion_(film)
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
One big problem with the article's proposal to steal momentum from Jupiter to move Earth to a larger orbit is that it is an energy absorbing process. In other words, there has to be an external source of energy to move momentum from J
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
One thing I don't see mentioned as a hypothesis for a factor in a good sense of direction is inner-ear ability (directional proprioception). A few years ago I met Buzz Aldrin at a NASA conference, and he told me that he thought that p
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
Another one of the 3 other people here who like small phones. This exact same economic model of an oligopoly only offering larger and more expensive models has been done before. I'm pretty sure the big 3 automakers were also saying th
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
At least two of these saloon buildings still exist. I know because I've been in them, and recognized them from the photographs. Clancy's in Skagway is now the Jefferson 'Soapy' Smith Parlor Museum: https://ww
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
Evaporation engines like the drinking bird operate on the other half of the water cycle (surface water -> vapor -> cloud water). A 'cloud sponge elevator' would operate on essentially the same half of the water cycle that w
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
Yes, dunking bird style evaporation engines are among the lowest efficiency kinds of evaporation engine. One of the big reasons for this is that the process is using evaporation to create a temperature difference where the cold is generate
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
Since you mentioned the hole hawg, and this is HN, I thought I'd post this classic for anyone who hasn't seen it before: Unix, the Hole Hawg of operating systems: http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
Are you having a bad day or something? The tone of this is way too close to a personal attack for a response to the controversial statement of "you miss all the shots you don't take". You've been posting to HN for longe
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
I met my ex-wife during a visit to a customer site. I used to work for a medical device company. We worked closely with a chain of local clinics, early users of our products. One of the therapists there was having trouble with a dosimetry
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
I turn 50 in a few days myself, and I've been playing D&D (and other similar RPGs) since the Basic Set. I still DM two weekly groups, one high magic, one low magic. D&D has been such a big part of my life that it is hard for
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
I think cstross made an excellent point that sci-fi authors are just entertainers. I mean, here we have the author of The Atrocity Archives calling the Gernsback continuum "dystopian". If that's not entertaining I don't
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
In case anyone missed the ducks in the traditional CS curriculum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging https://themindcollection.com/atwoods-duck/
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
SPAM story time: Years ago I was involved with a very quirky woman. One day, apropos of nothing, she blurts out, "SPAM bounces!". I asked her, do you mean like the emails bouncing? And she said that no, she meant the canned mea
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_number Read down until 'similarity of flows'
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
It is not exactly a new idea. The first ammonia engine was built in in the early 1800s. There is a lot of history with this fuel, and a lot of history of it being replaced with something better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by FiatLuxDave 3y ago
Or a proper sequel to Spaceballs

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