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by qchris 7y ago
During undergrad, I worked with permanent magnets in a plasma physics laboratory, mostly using them to build instrumentation to accelerate gas plasma plumes for spectrographic analysis. This sounds neat in principle, but I'm skeptical
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On a personal note, I consider the university class where I learned about Lagrangians for the first time to be a pivotal moment in my life. It was the first time I experienced a fundamental sense of awe and beauty about a mathematical const
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UCSB has joined that list as well.
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I'd definitely have to look into the actual chemistry of the process, but I don't find that claim terribly outlandish on principle. Most combustion plants end up having decent efficiency (as you mentioned) because of their access
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The last couple paragraphs seem like a bit of non-sequitur compared to the rest of the article. The piece essentially is describing a company that has been operating with losses for years, with liabilities in the billions, that is being tar
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I think this observation is very much on point. Imho, there's a bit of what amounts to fetishism in the knife-making community about steels. Truthfully, the primary differences should be in fit, finish, and balance for a knife. It&#x27
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I worked as a lifeguard at a lake's swimming area as a teenager, and I think it's a little less difficult than it sounds. It's not like staring out and hoping your peripherals catch something. Guards typically have discrete a
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I appreciate you saying that. I haven't read Sapiens, but since we're on HN, I figure it's worth mentioning that I think Paul Graham's writing wanders into this territory a lot. Hackers and Painters has been sitting only
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I'm a little curious to see if this distinction might provide a competitive advantage to public benefit corporations. Objectively, I believe there's some literature to back up that a person's belief and interest in the work t
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The first point on your list is something that I come back fairly frequently when reading through blog posts like this, or (for example) listening to things like TED talks. I understand that there's a need to stand behind any given the
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This isn't strictly true. Aluminum and steel certainly do corrode very differently, especially due to the protective properties of aluminum oxide layers, but it's definitely much more complicated in terms of overall longevity. One
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I'm sorry (genuinely, especially in light of your self-aware end comment), but I don't believe that this is a well-informed comment. Yes, there are Rust crates that are written as bindings to C++ libraries, where there isn't
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I'm not sure this is fair. Elections are discrete events, typically dealing with (relatively) small amounts of data, at least compared to any of the above systems, which processing thousands of responses per second, and need close-to-r
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Agreed. It's a little frustrating to watch, like people trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. Especially when you know how pegs are built, and that most of them are filled with cracks that make them fragile under good circumstanc
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Just a quick heads-up, the page name for the article you linked looks like it got improperly formatted and is unintentionally just a string of HTML from the page source.
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For a lot of countries in the world, discussion of a hydrogen economy at any scale seems to be a bit of a hard sell. Barring sources like steam methane reformation from landfill-reclaimed methane, it's stuck between not being nearly as
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As one of the other replies to this comment mentioned, this is one of the pain points that the company System76 has spent some time working on. I think it's because it addresses a core part of their target market: professional develope
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The new guarantees for `Box<T>` across the FFI boundary is welcome. I've been trying to working on trying to pass large data structures (image arrays, for instance) between Rust and C, but have had issues because of doing so with
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I think that's very much true in terms of engineering CAD/CAM. As far as I know (and I check back fairly often), none of the major CAD packages in Solidworks, Autodesk Inventor, CATIA or Creo work on Linux. The only local Linux CA
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It's interesting to see an organization like RStudio decide to change their status to a public benefit corporation, plus go through the process of becoming a certified B Corp. The nature of a PBC, in having more latitude to consider ac
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I happened to read "Sea People" this past fall, and it's one that I'd recommend to anyone interested in more or less any of the areas it touches on. The author took an approach of not just explaining what information was