planck_tonne

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by planck_tonne 1y ago
As someone who writes both "thought out"-blog-post-type content and throwaway HN comments, I'd be interested in knowing why you think it's important to spend more time on the former.
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by planck_tonne 1y ago
I also like reading about old engineering solutions. The way I see it, though, that kind of thing still exists today: the "cheap modern memory card" probably contains many "exciting carefully engineered features". They g
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by planck_tonne 1y ago
Great article, thanks for sharing. Though what I liked about it has nothing to do with tattoos. Towards the end he talks about how people trusted blogs and online content more because mainstream media was fake and biased. The final paragrap
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by planck_tonne 1y ago
The relationship between industry and academia is borderline parasitic. Academia trains the talent, and nowadays industry tries to make them stay there as long as possible (wait until they finish their PhD), developing their skills and pote
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by planck_tonne 1y ago
Crazy how they managed to restrict the competing researchers from obtaining the drug. How did they do that? Why is the sale of a super expensive drug used exclusively to treat a super specific type of cancer even controlled in the first pla
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by planck_tonne 1y ago
Tell us more if you care to. Who are these people? Who curates their world and insulates them from risk? I think I might know what you're talking about. I've met some people who seem to have had their entire lives planned for them
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by planck_tonne 1y ago
Another funny story is Nokia. They started as a paper company or something like that. Wikipedia page has a photo of Nokia-brand toilet paper rolls. Overall, this kind of business shift is not rare. It's good to be reminded from time to
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by planck_tonne 1y ago
There must be a balance. Recently I met some people that were constantly filming and taking pictures of everything. It was ridiculous IMO, for the same reasons OP mentions. This is not new. For me, it began with the rise of the smartphone.
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by planck_tonne 1y ago
Hi, congratulations! You must be feeling proud. Nice choice of proof of concept (DOOM). Sorry to disappoint you but all I have are some noob questions. What would be the steps to run this on a laptop? I take it that after building it there
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by planck_tonne 1y ago
Just the other day I saw this idea/question on EE stackexchange: "We have frequency modulation, amplitude modulation, phase modulation... But EM waves also have polarization. Can we do polarization modulation as well to transmit m
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by planck_tonne 1y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I'm relieved to see I wasn't the only one. And they imitate the style pretty well. It's kinda funny. (I don't follow this topic closely (I clicked because I imagined something entirely diff