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by rawland 10y ago
Two very good questions! I'm thinking about these since a few years. > What's the estimated lost energy? From my point of view, that's almost impossible to calculate. But one can measure it. See: Stiffness and Dampin
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by rawland 10y ago
There are little papers, which have "done the math", as it is an interaction of many components and people tend to measure or, let's use a more "unscientific" word you used, "experience" the overall system
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by rawland 10y ago
Considering time trial or the last meters of a sprint, I completely agree. Riding in a bunch, race or the city. Not so much. In Crits (80 laps times 4 corners at least) or a city ride you don't move fast most of the time, but bike hand
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by rawland 10y ago
When you read the latter, you'll find: Yes, when accelerating, wheel mass is worse than frame weight, but only a tiny amount. and Wired's physics are correct in the case of accelerating a wheel to the steady state o
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by rawland 10y ago
Ex-Continental Tour Rider [1] & Computer Engineering Science PhD-student talking here. --- TL;DR Considering reasonable wheels: Wheel stiffness is more important than weight. A too light wheel, is not stable. --- Wired's physics ar
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by rawland 10y ago
Description: A lot like notepad with tabs for several documents, which are also opened in the screenshot. At the bottom, one can see a slider with the title "Document position" for easy navigation. Most importantly the Menu cons
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Should the “Best and Brightest” Go into Finance?(priceonomics.com)
6 points by rawland 11y ago|1 comments
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I Faked Yanis Varoufakis Middle-Finger – Black Mirror, but Real(theguardian.com)
3 points by rawland 12y ago|0 comments
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by rawland 12y ago
⇒ npm ~@cluster-linux-xeon zsh: command not found: npm Portability?
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by rawland 12y ago
Thank you for the great visualizations! Here some ideas: Personally, I would be interested in sensitivities instead of absolute values to capture trends. Say, * the rate of change of CO2 production per country * ...sensitivities o
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World's Top Arms Producers Visualized(insightfulinteraction.com)
4 points by rawland 12y ago|0 comments
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by rawland 12y ago
http://insightfulinteraction.com/armsproducers.html ...quite different!
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Ask HN: How to keep motivation despite growing bureaucracy?
1 points by rawland 12y ago|1 comments
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How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries(batteryuniversity.com)
26 points by rawland 12y ago|0 comments
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by rawland 12y ago
Actually there are several phenomena and theories which give the arrow of time a certain direction. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time
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by rawland 12y ago
What the fuck, tiling windows? ;-)
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by rawland 12y ago
Great stuff! Kudos to George Corney (haxiomic), the creator! Chromium 38.0.2071.0 (279972) works fine in whatever setting on a medium sized machine.
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by rawland 12y ago
Some people are mentiong services like Fastmail here. To me this sounds like replacing one "evil" with another. Can somebody please prove me wrong! Right now, I'm walking the Postfix+Dovecot+Roundcube path. Other options I&#x
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No Auto-Logout in Mitro Password Manager(github.com)
1 points by rawland 12y ago|0 comments
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by rawland 12y ago
Context.
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by rawland 12y ago
Which is 2 feet less, than Germany.
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Lego's Sales Surpass Barbie's(online.wsj.com)
2 points by rawland 12y ago|0 comments
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by rawland 12y ago
Good education is politically discouraged. That is my impression, too. It is very very disappointing, as I am at the beginning of the trajectory John C. Beck just ended. His decision and words do not surprise me a bit... I didn't find
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by rawland 12y ago
Get some professional help! Seriously. This reads like full halt in your life and different kinds of debt, which means "brakes" on your future life for a while. With hard consequences for your psyche. It's not a shame to get
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by rawland 12y ago
This. Is. Horrible. And system failure.
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by rawland 12y ago
Opera, please open source the discontinued Opera 12!
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by rawland 12y ago
Actually I downloaded https://github.com/hchbaw/auto-fu.zsh after seeing this README.md.
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by rawland 12y ago
"I can do that." That's the reaction we wanted people to have when we first started with Light Table. We're humbled that a few guys with wild ideas can inspire the team at Apple who worked on Swift, and we&
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by rawland 12y ago
My humble summary based on superficial reading of the paper: * Prolonged fasting = Eating NOTHING for 48-120 hr. * BENEFICIAL effect started on cycle 4 (day 39). * 1 Cycle = 2-4d fasting&chemo; 8-10d recovery. * Prolonged f
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by rawland 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_editor#Editors_with_fo... Voilà. Most likely you have an "outliner" already at your fingertips. ;-)

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