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Ask HN: Describe your first internet experience you remember
1 points by mojomark 6y ago|1 comments
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by mojomark 6y ago
Why do software engineers feel the need to name abstract software after tangeable things, conflating search results? E.g., "Servo", "Containers", etc. Can we not find a simple naming convention that is less ambiguous and
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by mojomark 6y ago
This seems to have some overlap with the proposed "Constructal Law" of thermodynamics that is supposed to explain the natural evolution of 'design' in nature (1, 2). Granted, this concept is not without controvercy, and
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by mojomark 6y ago
Actually, spirals found in nature are indications of the presence of 2 perpendicular force vectors: one in the direction of the spiral path, and one pointing towards the center of the spiral. See centripedal force (1). 1. https:/&#x2F
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by mojomark 6y ago
Awesome - valuable input. I agree, there's probably a trade-off between slowing down the documentation of a collective stream of consciousness and the ability to read clear thoughts and make clean modifications. I think being clear wit
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by mojomark 6y ago
Cool, good advice thanks. Could you say roughly. What percentage of the day you'd spend in a collaborative environment vice independant work? I ask because if we were able to physically go into an office, we'd normally easily spen
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by mojomark 6y ago
Thanks, this looks pretty awesome, definitely will check it out. The MS Teams integration and infinite whiteboard is a major plus to me.
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Ask HN: Favorite remote work realtime collaboration tool(s)?
21 points by mojomark 6y ago|7 comments
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by mojomark 6y ago
Good question, but I'm 99.9999% sure no. They may us Circularly Polarized light (I actually don't know), but if they do it's made by filtration of unpolarized light rather than polarized electroluminescence. When I was resear
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by mojomark 6y ago
> How does the foul-smelling substance prevent easily finding the prize cans? I don't get it. The fluid was used to artificially weight the can so people couldn't easily detect. The foul smell was simply to prevent not-so-brigh
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by mojomark 6y ago
I became fascinated with spintronics for about a year. Somewhat unrelated, but perhaps interesting to some readers, is that you can create spin-LEDs. If you use a material to permit only electrons of a certain spin (spin-up or spin-down) to
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by mojomark 6y ago
>>If Caesar has lost, the world would have looked a lot different. If there are any budding film producers out there, I want to see a movie showing this modern alternative universe:)
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by mojomark 6y ago
I remember reading Mamoine's original Pinlight display concept [1]. It blew my mind. 1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266659406_Pinlight_...
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by mojomark 6y ago
"Kaffee : It was oregano, Dave. It was ten dollars' worth of oregano. Lieutenant Dave Spradling : Yeah, but your client thought it was marijuana. Kaffee : My client's a moron. That's not against the law. Lieutenant Dave
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by mojomark 6y ago
Yup, agree. The UI and 3D orbit are one of the things I love best about sketchup. Inventor orbit drives me crazy - total PITA without a 3D mouse.
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Nice!
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> Very interesting. A shame that funding is always a problem - how much could that have cost? 200.000$ year? Agree, the things we (at least in the USA) waste money on is astounding. We do it not only in government, DoD, but also the priv
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by mojomark 6y ago
As one who has used SketchUp for many years (because it was free for Makers), and even bought a pro licence at one point, I can say with confidence that this product is NOT worth more than $25/yr. It's riddled with bugs and the re
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Pay/PI walled.
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by mojomark 6y ago
It would be interesting to see if the Constructal Law (1) applies here. Admittedly, I spent an entire weekend trying to understand the quantitative justification of constructal law and failed miserably. However, I get the gist and it seems
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by mojomark 6y ago
I only read the intro, but isn't this basically just facilitating money laundering?
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by mojomark 6y ago
tl;dr - yes, you can make a surface ship submersible, but it's done at the expense of typically increased construction cost and reduced dynamic performance when operating in either domain (i.e. surface or submerged). I'm not sure
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by mojomark 6y ago
Automation will not eat everything in time, but from my work on unmanned shipping, I'm pretty sure that autonomy + automation will. Automation - handles deterministic situations. Autonomy - handles uncertain situations. In my industry
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by mojomark 6y ago
Buy stock.
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by mojomark 6y ago
Concur. A long time ago I spent a full day as a professional engineer trying to figure out why a microsoft Excel formula wasn't working. Turns out that the default MS Excel order of operations was not PEMDAS, it's PE(M or D)(A or
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by mojomark 7y ago
> What makes it so costly? I've seen this question a few times, so I'll try to address... Yes, you can take a bi-axial rastor scanning MEMS mirror (similar to what Microvision uses in their Pico projector, or those supplied by
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Ask HN: Example Application of Constructal Law of Thermodynamics?
1 points by mojomark 7y ago|0 comments
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by mojomark 7y ago
Yes. I suspect it boils down to body chemistry. When I have caffeine, my recall is quicker and I'm more creative and focussed. Unfortunately, I can't stay caffeinated all day or my eye starts to pulsate and it feels like my heart
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by mojomark 7y ago
Not a lawyer, but have navigated IP partitioning with big engineering firms for over two decades. General answer to you question is "no", but the truth of course is that it depends on when and how you've protected your IP, an
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> And who should we tell when the hull fails its most basic function (to keep water outside the ship)? Yes, all of the crew member families who will die in the sinking. Did an LPD-17 class ship sink that I'm not aware of? > Attem

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