Toutouxc

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901.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
A turbine, by definition, provides zero thrust, because it works the other way (it extracts energy from the flow). What you meant to say was that the air flowing through the engine core provides very little thrust, because most of its energ
902.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
What thermal issues? All I've seen so far are people who don't seem to understand how passive cooling works, despite the M1 Air being out for two years and working the same way.
903.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
I'm a full-stack Rails dev and I have two glacially slow learning projects going on: an early-facebook clone to learn Elixir + Phoenix and a macOS timesheet app to learn Swift + SwiftUI. Both stacks are totally great and enjoyable btw,
904.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
I'm just posting this for all of us who don't care one bit or are content with the defaults. :) I know an ugly font when I see one, but whatever JetBrains IDEs, macOS' Terminal and Xcode use is fine by me.
905.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
There are various references listed under the linked article, including "more than some mock experiment".
906.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
Would you mind sharing a little example of what you mean by non-OOP Ruby code with state machines?
907.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
I get how these state machine gems can sound like a great idea if what you need is taming some state changes that are just a little too much to handle by hand, but they can also delay the realization that you're doing something wrong.
908.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
> The first rocket made by Morton after the --partnership-- merger was the Challenger. Sorry, but that's just too inaccurate. Challenger was the name of an orbiter (one of several), the whole system was called the Space Shuttle, and
909.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
That's brutal, where are you from? The Czech store doesn't show any delivery dates beyond August, even on weird CTO MacBooks.
910.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
Yes, an M1 Air. I don't do containers, but everything else I use (mainly Ruby + Rails, Elixir + Phoenix) works nicely. No compatibility issues whatsoever.
911.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
IMAX is much bigger (brand + technologies) than what you probably think it is. As far as I know, IMAX and Dolby and maybe a few others are today's cutting edge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX
912.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
> I was surprised how much of the throwaway news filler in Europe is about random Florida-man stuff. I'd guess that that's mostly because the Joe from Florida is both far, far away (so they can publish unverifiable bullshit) bu
913.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
You can get a shiny new budget digital piano for ~$500 (I have a Roland FP-10) and get to a point where you can comfortably accompany your singing in a single year. I got my piano a year ago, as an adult with no prior knowledge or experienc
914.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
Pretty demotivated, working only lightly but still on the verge of burnout. Currently upgrading and older Rails 5 project to Rails 7. The Ruby part is okay, but guess what, dealing with JS sucks in a new, different way. Again. Really lookin
915.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
Isn't that the usual design? If you type "escalator" into Google Image search, all of them seem to have that horizontal portion.
916.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
Somehow that didn't occur to me. It's much cheaper than a train, but it's also a bit slower than a car and it costs roughly as much as the fuel (no wear and tear though). So a bit cheaper overall. Buuut... I was on a school t
917.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
Related: We're a Czech couple, currently planning our vacation in the Netherlands, and we too are on a very tight budget. I wanted so bad to get there by train and spend the week there riding Dutch trains all over the place, but man, t
918.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
What percentage of HN users do you imagine makes $200k/year?
919.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
There's also the fact that an escalator makes for some terrible stairs — the steps are much taller then what would be comfortable (and allowed, AFAIK) for stairs.
920.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
There are lots of overpowered e-bikes with chain + gears, where the power going through the pedals is maybe 5 % of total power, and the rest is electric. This doesn't change or bring anything new to the table.
921.
by Toutouxc 4y ago
> electric motors are better for that usage, since that is what they use Except those that actually use hydraulic couplings or torque converters, which is the cheaper and lighter solution compared to electric, albeit less efficient.
922.
by Toutouxc 5y ago
> which key do you think is the easiest to play on piano? Sorry, "easiest" may not be the best word. C major is THE key of the piano keyboard and playing in C major is so easy because all of the non-exotic chords (sorry, I don&
923.
by Toutouxc 5y ago
What I like about Dodeka is not their notation, but the Dodeka keyboard. I'm learning to play the piano now and the amount of stupid unnecessary complexity stemming from the fact that we've designed the keyboard to make playing in
924.
by Toutouxc 5y ago
I worked on a project that used the ActiveCampaign API. It had tens of thousands of users and an elaborate tagging system. There were operations that we'd have liked to be synchronous (in the browser), but the rate limit and no useful
925.
by Toutouxc 5y ago
Nope, OP wasn't even talking about "trail braking" but about poor-man's-LSD-braking. When cornering hard, because of weight transfer, the inner wheel loses almost all traction, which makes it impossible to send any torqu
926.
by Toutouxc 5y ago
I have a feeling you DO understand that going back to driver-operated throttles would mean going back to 90s emissions standards, but you just don't care, am I right?
927.
by Toutouxc 5y ago
A few years after its release Soma got an update that introduced "Safe Mode". It pretty much transforms the game into an adventure with spooky visuals.
928.
by Toutouxc 5y ago
That's why I was asking for an ELI5 explanation. I know that the equation holds and that compressibility turns everything upside down, I just haven't been able to figure out an intuitive explanation. I have this idea that in super
929.
by Toutouxc 5y ago
Can someone ELI5 to me the physics behind the divergent part of a de Laval nozzle? I know that in a straight pipe subsonic flow tends to accelerate towards M=1 and supersonic flow tends to slow down towards M=1, I know what choked flow is a
930.
by Toutouxc 5y ago
And satellite TV, satellite phones, satellite internet connection.

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