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by mohn 6y ago
> What is the point That is not a deliberate choice, but an unfortunate artifact of setting the content div to have a maximum width of 652 pixels. If you reduce the width of your browser, the word "better" will be split instead
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by mohn 6y ago
I would like to recommend Ben Krasnow of Applied Science[0]. His videos are more physics/chemistry/electronics, but they're both great YouTubers. [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333
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by mohn 6y ago
I don't think there is any compartment with pressure above atmospheric, but the passage quoted from the article does make it seem that way, hence the confusion. I think the pneumatic grabber creates a sealed region of less-than-atmosph
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by mohn 6y ago
That's a good question! I think you're correct that if the increase in external pressure were uniform around the whole egg, it would not push fluid out of the pinhole. Looking at this 2020 video[0], it seems like the procedure mig
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by mohn 6y ago
And Mike Stay's firsthand account of this recovery, 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22774057
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by mohn 6y ago
I don't know if the USA is representative of the rest of the world in this regard but, with respect to drinking, American adults fall into deciles that surprised me[1]. Roughly 40% consumed almost no alcohol in the week before being su
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by mohn 6y ago
A text is written on a scientific topic and it is so poorly written that when people read it, they cry. Can we harvest the kinetic energy in those falling teardrops and turn it into electricity? Yes. (But it is not very much energy.)
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by mohn 6y ago
I assume that conclusion is drawn because of how much lower the right shoulder is. A physical therapist told me that the shoulder of the dominant hand tends to be a bit lower. It's probably not common knowledge, but patternmakers and t
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by mohn 7y ago
If you're interested in some other cause and effect surrounding Frankenstein, the phrasing of your comment made me think of this "History of Science Fiction" large art piece by Ward Shelley [0] (full sized 4400x2305 JPG here
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by mohn 7y ago
Exactly! Maybe my initial comment should have emphasized the relative significance of reasons for preferring X-ray CT over MRI in an emergency: 1) Speed. 2) Depiction of bone (less relevant if it's not a trauma case with suspected brok
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by mohn 7y ago
Maybe. MRI is not the preferred brain imaging modality in emergency situations, X-ray computed tomography is. Consider patients who are unconscious (or awake but unreliable) due to head trauma, stroke, etc. You can't do a proper MR saf
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by mohn 7y ago
The quantization of light is going to be a serious limit. The detector elements of a camera could be made pretty sensitive, but they can't detect fewer than one photon. In NLOS (and traditional photography) the scene to be imaged is il
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by mohn 7y ago
Nice! I like this idea and look forward to seeing it develop further. A bug to report: inspired by comments elsewhere in this thread, I searched for "radiation", and your interface is rendering the bulleted list about different ki
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by mohn 7y ago
Thanks for the insight! I wonder if ability to resist creep[0] has ever been much of a goal when formulating wire insulation. Or is this "plastic flow" a different phenomenon than creep? For installations that are intended to be l
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by mohn 7y ago
Very nice! This reminds me a bit of Michael Fogleman's 3D Line Art Engine [0]. His project was motivated by a desire to make vector art for a pen plotter, so not quite the same goals. I appreciate how you've woven together images,
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by mohn 7y ago
Have you seen https://animagraffs.com/mechanical-watch/ ?
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by mohn 7y ago
This is awesome, and reminds me of Animagraffs [0], which has also come up on HN from time to time. [0] https://animagraffs.com
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by mohn 7y ago
Farms tend to be lived on. When a farm is lost, it's not just the family business going, but the longtime family home and maybe recreation area. I'd think it's more emotionally negative than the closure of the family mine, st
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by mohn 8y ago
Pneumatic artificial muscles were inspired by human anatomy and apparently invented way back in the 1950s [1]. When I read about them in the late 1990s, they sounded interesting, but I don't think I've ever seen them in person. It
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by mohn 8y ago
I read something, maybe here on HN, about a company trying a new preventive medicine policy for their C-level execs, where every one of them would get an annual full body MRI. The rationale was that the execs were so valuable to the company
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by mohn 8y ago
Not only are the machines costly at the initial purchase, the helium cryogen for keeping the magnet in its superconducting temperature regime is also expensive, and has to be topped up periodically. I hope that "high-temperature"
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by mohn 8y ago
I agree that AI has potential on the scanner. My academic research uses HeartVista's RTHawk software, which is essentially a driver to enable real-time MR imaging on magnets where the original manufacturer's pulse sequence API doe
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by mohn 8y ago
Run DMC vs. Toni Basil - 'Hey Trickey' did not turn out as good as I'd hoped: https://rave.dj/KEmdgiqJTerSEg
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by mohn 8y ago
> There's only been one Tarrare. Sure, but there was also a Charles Domery (AKA Domerz)[1]. They even overlapped in time, and were both in/around France. I like to imagine an alternate history in which a military conflict was s
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by mohn 8y ago
If you're on Android, I recommend Screen Filter[1] which will draw a semi transparent overlay on top of nearly everything (depending on the phone and/or OS version, it might not dim the status bar, bottom navigation buttons, lock
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by mohn 8y ago
Thanks for sharing those. The popup on hover says "Elevation: [...]" so I think you're right that they're approximating grade by using a height database. It could be OSM-based if enough contributors are supplying lists o
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by mohn 8y ago
That komoot visualization is nice. I'm glad to see that others are doing it better than Google. I thought my comment might bring out replies like this and the Open Street Map equivalent mentioned elsewhere in the thread -- happy to lea
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by mohn 8y ago
I'm a big fan of this sort of everyday practical data visualization! To anyone who hasn't already seen this feature: when you select walking or biking directions on Google Maps, it renders a line in the sidebar to show you elevati
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by mohn 8y ago
> don't bother targeting this class of user since they aren't someone who needs a desktop OS If they only want to consume content, then yeah, they have little need for a desktop OS. They still stand to gain from a system with l
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by mohn 8y ago
I could have been more clear. That was directed at the first clause: > You can disable these “features” on enterprise Or are you saying that it's not good that they can be disabled (perhaps because people get lazy, run out-of-date v

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