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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
I am agreeing with you and providing more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore... Maximum channel capacity depends on signal bandwidth and SNR.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
The new logo can also be seen as the bird opening a gaping maw about to devour the envelope.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3y ago
Here's some info on how the absorbing cones in these chambers are constructed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation-absorbent_material "To be sufficiently lossy, RAM can be neither a good electrical conduc
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by OnACoffeeBreak 4y ago
I used to hang out there back in the day (under a different name). The frank discussion there got me through some really dark times. Once, I met one of the posters IRL. It went fine. We didn't talk about suicide. I wonder the same. The
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by OnACoffeeBreak 4y ago
http://ash.notearthday.org/FAQGuides.html
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Ask HN: Taking over the lead role for a troubled project
1 points by OnACoffeeBreak 4y ago|1 comments
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by OnACoffeeBreak 4y ago
I believe the technical term is yak shaving. As in, to get to resolving the original problem you wind up having to shave a yak in order to solve it.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 4y ago
Richard Feynman: "If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I be
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by OnACoffeeBreak 4y ago
There are 20 citations in the references section. Also, clicking on "Please see the full FREE paper in the BJSM here" gets to a PDF that has more meat and other references. It also has this: "Provenance and peer review: Not c
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by OnACoffeeBreak 4y ago
I don't know anything about academia or a typical relationship expected between a PhD candidate and their advisor, but when someone says stuff "You disappointed and hurt me" it's an immediate red flag for me. Supposedly
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by OnACoffeeBreak 4y ago
The way to answer this question is to look at the assembly code generated by the compiler with various optimization levels and see whether the compiler ever inlines the compare function. https://godbolt.org/ might be useful
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
Summer Day by Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is movi
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
An answer from a regular Joe based on this fine write-up describing how the Pfizer mRNA vaccine is put together: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source... My understanding is that the mRNA pa
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
I am guessing the 25 mg does here is of pure psilocybin, which is about 2.5 g of dried mushrooms.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
Same here. I have been daydreaming about starting from scratch and building up. Of course, everyone's definition of "from scratch" might be different, but for me the starting point would be an FPGA prototyping board. I'd
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
One more nuance... I use pen and paper to take meeting notes and then transcribe the salient points into the journal file.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
About four years. I'm averaging around 10k lines per year in the journal, but I tend to separate large logs out into a separate file in the logs directory and then link to it from the main file.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
One single text file per year named journal<year>.md in Markdown edited in an always-open window of a text editor (VSCode) throughout the day. Oldest entry is at the top, newest is at the bottom. To-do items are below the newest entry
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
Yes! I like the phrase (stolen from Sam Harris) "begin again". To me that means that your life is not in the past. All you have is the capacity to do something right now in this moment. Don't burden yourself with expectations
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
Sci-fi novel "Lexicon" by Max Barry explores the idea of words used for persuasion to the extent of actually hacking the brain via spoken word to take control of the subject's thoughts and actions.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
Selecting components according to data sheets, capturing the schematic, designing the PCB, designing mechanical components/enclosures, ordering components, ordering bare PCBs, assembling PCBs, bringing up the PCB takes time and is not
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
I found that mag l-threonate helps me fall asleep after an anxious afternoon/night but I'm groggy in the morning. Also, I've read anecdotal reports that after a couple of weeks of regular use, the effect flattens out (sorry,
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
Neat! Looks like the project uses the same LIDAR module (Garmin LIDAR-Lite v3) that's on the Ingenuity helicopter presently on Mars.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
NC State and University of Florida have nuclear reactors on campus as well. I bet others do as well.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
That's a fair question, and, while writing the original comment I thought about mentioning it. The honest answer is that I don't know what I've missed out on without social media. I try very hard to cultivate "meat space
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
I appreciate the point being made from the outside. I have no social media persona (a decade-old defunct Facebook account might be it, plus HN which doesn't feel social in the same sense), yet I don't feel that I'm homeless i
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
Every identity you create for yourself will eventually break down. Your body and mind will inevitably fail you and whatever identity you created will cease to exist. Maybe the Buddhists got it right.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
That is exactly the point. It's not about proving your point or bring proven right or wrong. It's about understanding the other point of view. That's what discussion is all about.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
Terminal velocity is defined as the velocity at which the force of gravity is equal and opposite the drag exerted by the atmosphere. So, yes, I think Starship is hitting terminal velocity at 10 km, but the velocity is smaller than the termi
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by OnACoffeeBreak 5y ago
> I only wish someone would have shown me this way earlier so I wouldn't have wasted so much time I'm in a similar place in my life where I have acknowledged the barrel and started to work on addressing the things in it. I too

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