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by mabbo 4y ago
I wonder how navigation changes if your ship has a set of these. You've got one movement source - sails - whose power is based on the relative wind speed and direction and has near-zero variable cost. You have a second movement source
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by mabbo 4y ago
Yeah my first reading of that title caught me off guard. "I don't think anyone needs that much, but you do you and also why is this on the HN frontpage?"
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by mabbo 4y ago
They wouldn't though. The Lagrange points are stable positions relative to two bodies , like the earth and the moon or the earth and the sun. But those things are moving, orbiting. The points move with them. The line from the earth to
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by mabbo 4y ago
I used to drive rental cars a lot for work and loved Chevy and GM's integration with Android auto. They just did it really well. I'd specifically try to get one of their vehicles because of that. I guess I won't have to loo
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by mabbo 4y ago
I'm of two minds on this. On the one hand, you're right that for different applications having different metrics can be acceptable. Sure, a battery for your home that never moves can be heavy and large and that's okay. But th
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by mabbo 4y ago
Lithium ion batteries set the standard because they have an acceptable level of all the key metrics: energy storage by weight; energy storage by volume; discharge rate; charging rate; production costs. Every single one of these big breakthr
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by mabbo 4y ago
The math is easy, the delta-V is hard. There is a precise point the craft would need to stay at relative to the earth and the target. There aren't any stable orbits that keep a craft at precisely that position, which means you are firi
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think the real challenge here is that you'd need to stay in place while you observed anything. The line from the target object under observation, the lens, and the viewer must remain as close to perfect straight as possible. For eart
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by mabbo 4y ago
Also relevant: Beringia[0]. The huge area of land between Russia and Alaska that has since been covered in water. When people talk about a land bridge between the two, it's not like it was a small narrow bit above the waves that you qu
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by mabbo 4y ago
The point is not the linguistics. It's not about whether the "Guinness Book of World Records" has the correct choice, or even is a reliable authority on such matters. The point is that it's a beautiful concept and this l
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by mabbo 4y ago
There is a famous story about Customer Obsession and returns that I used to tell during training sessions for new Amazon employees- Customer Obsession 101, which I was a teacher for. Jeff is in a call center for a day shadowing a customer s
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by mabbo 4y ago
Even better
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I feel like HN could just have a traffic monitor that adds a little icon to the main page. Like "I dunno what's up, but there's a LOT of y'all here right now, so something probably is".
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by mabbo 4y ago
> I would think a military warning system would be implemented before a financial aid. In this world? Eeeh, I doubt it.
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by mabbo 4y ago
The trick now is to pose the same set of questions for every other bank. That can tell you who is next.
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by mabbo 4y ago
That's a pretty powerful axiom. I wonder how applicable it is to life in general. Relationship is failing (and you want to save it): what will their next partner do differently? Do it now! Worried you might be kicked off a sports team:
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by mabbo 4y ago
I wonder if one could create a really fun variant this way. One team guarding both nets, one team trying to score on both. Switch roles after a goal or some number of minutes. Then let's add some extra fun: one goal is worth two points
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by mabbo 4y ago
Okay did anyone else get tricked by that websites dark pattern? We've all been trained to not even look at the "do you accept cookies" thing anymore and just blindly press it. On this website, it's actually an ad link to
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by mabbo 4y ago
This is one of those ideas that sounds like it might work, on the surface of it, but the more I think about it the worse it gets. You're on a date that you don't really want to be on , and the person sitting across from you knows
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by mabbo 4y ago
> previously sold thousands of keys for a single car Most 1990s Dodge Shadows worked on a similar premise. My friends could unlock and start each other's cars.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Controlled release , but that's not leaking . When you release it, you burn it immediately so that a cloud of explosive gas doesn't build up. When it's leaking somewhere, that cloud is building up in an uncontrolled way in
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by mabbo 4y ago
They probably do have better means to detect it, but why give up such a powerful and useful one as "every human being that goes anywhere near it can instantly detect it"? Mercaptan is incredible at what it does. A minuscule amount
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by mabbo 4y ago
Oh my mistake! They had a similar outcome too- no successful orbit. Now comes a fun space race to see which of them can get it right first!
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by mabbo 4y ago
I believe this is the first big rocket to fly to space using methane, right? With all the companies getting into it as a fuel, that blue flame is going to get pretty distinctive. And yes, it's the exact same blue as from a natural gas
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by mabbo 4y ago
The barrier isn't the financial cost. It's the social stigma. You have to walk up to that machine, where others can see you, and purchase it. People talk, maybe your parents find out, etc. I grew up in a super conservative area- t
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by mabbo 4y ago
The original freakonomics chapter on the topic talks about this as well, I believe. They said (if I'm remembering this correctly) that there is some correlation to the decline of leaded gas, but the decline in crime occurred at differe
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by mabbo 4y ago
It definitely wasn't a complaint, haha.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I feel like Quanta just has Terry Tao on speed dial at this point, and that he loves to answer the call. They always ask him about this stuff for their math articles and he always gives great answers. > That Kelley and Meka managed to sp
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by mabbo 4y ago
Counter-intuitively, I feel as though GC results in better memory usage in this situation. Option 1: you rely on every single developer to be careful and make no memory-leaking mistakes. Option 2: you take this problem out of the hands of
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by mabbo 4y ago
Sounds like you're working hard to defend your ego rather than seeing the opportunity to learn and improve yourself. You must be a delight to work with.

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