seanos

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by seanos 3y ago
For Python, there is the Pint library: https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
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by seanos 4y ago
I graduated with a PhD 10 years ago from the same university (Nottingham) as he did, in mechanical engineering, and have been working in academia ever since, working my way up to senior lecturer (UK equivalent to associate professor), and I
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by seanos 7y ago
It's not intrinsically better, it's just a convention, but it helps if everyone operates to the same standard for obvious reasons. Since neighbouring countries drove on the right, it was better to adopt the same standard. This was
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by seanos 10y ago
MagLev did pan out though, just not in Britain. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train
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by seanos 12y ago
"And if goalies are being irrational, why aren't kickers exploiting it?" Two reasons I can think of. First, if you shoot to the left or right (particularly top or bottom corner of goal) then the goalkeeper has further to tra
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by seanos 14y ago
The estimated worth of the gold in jewellery privately owned in India alone (mainly by housewives) is estimated to be worth $600 billion. To put that in perspective, total US gold reserves are valued at around $420 billion. http://blogs.ws
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by seanos 14y ago
It may be possible that they developed their internal compass due to their nomadic lifestyle and the use of absolute directions within language resulted from that (rather than vice versa). I have no idea if this is the case.
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by seanos 14y ago
Lojban is a constructed, syntactically unambiguous language based on predicate logic that was originally conceived to examine the influence of language on the speaker's thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
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by seanos 15y ago
Doesn't it have a handbrake?
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by seanos 15y ago
Except that for the Tesla it's days after reaching zero charge, not months. From the manual "Important! Caution: If the battery’s charge level falls to 0%, it must be plugged in immediately. Failure to do so can permanently damage the batte
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by seanos 15y ago
"Imagine the flip side, that electric cars were normal, and internal combustion engines were unusual. Then we could have stories about owners ruining their engines because they never changed their oil." No you wouldn't because an oil change
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by seanos 15y ago
In the UK, if you work for a company with 250 or more employees, you are also entitled to request time off work to train (including degree study): http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/Timeoffandh...
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by seanos 15y ago
Once they offer a full set of modules, for say a CS degree, this could be very disruptive indeed.
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by seanos 15y ago
Very good on Timothy's part too. In the same situation, I would probably sell the extra XBox to be honest.
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by seanos 15y ago
A phenomenon I noticed in certain Latin American countries: there are vendors walking around and on every street corner advertising "Minutos" who carry a set of mobile phones on strings which they will rent to you. The main reason is that c
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by seanos 15y ago
"At some point they are discussing whether they are ascending or descending, while the stall alarm is blaring throughout. I don't think anyone will consider making the stall alarm go "Stall! Losing attitude!"." Yep, but your missing the fac
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by seanos 15y ago
The dual input warning doesn't inform specifically that copilot 1 is pulling back on the stick. It's clear from the report that was the problem, copilot 1 was pulling back the whole time and nobody realised. I'm not suggesting adding "warni
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by seanos 15y ago
The crash report says that the second pilot and pilot (when he arrived) were both unaware that the other copilot was pulling back on his stick. E.g. at one point the other copilot had his stick forward (causing an averaging of the two input
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by seanos 15y ago
One obvious improvement would be to replace the warning "Stall!" with "Stall! Stall protection disengaged!" when flying in alternative mode. Even better might be "Stall! Push stick forward!" when a stall is detected and the pilot is simulta
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by seanos 15y ago
UK = £ Sterling
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by seanos 15y ago
Yes, in most cases the university will own any IP. Usually they will want a percentage of any spinout company resulting from PhD research. The best thing to do would be for them to speak to the university enterprise office (or equivalent).
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by seanos 15y ago
I agree that a PhD is not the only way to get domain knowledge. Working in industry and private research into a problem are other ways (amongst many). No matter how obtained, domain knowledge can be a great advantage for an entrepreneur. Sc
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by seanos 15y ago
A technical PhD will give you exceptional domain knowledge. With that you might be able to sidestep 99% of the start-up crowd who have programming skills alone and are stuck fighting over the 1% of business opportunities that require no dom
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by seanos 15y ago
So there is nothing Steve Blank could teach you that you don't already know? Besides, these classes involve getting into teams and trying out the concepts from class (and might have read about on HN) in the real world. I think you might lea
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by seanos 15y ago
Lulea is the correct English alphabet spelling.
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by seanos 15y ago
But it is "Open the doors and cool the servers" cold in winter at least, so savings from cooling are sure to be substantial. Coupled with the cheap electricity in summer, and well developed infrastructure, and you can see why it was chosen.
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by seanos 15y ago
It can be warm in Lulea, in fact it reached 30C when I was last there in June, but that was exceptional. Typically, it's sub-zero for half the year and the summer is very mild.
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by seanos 15y ago
Not a random guess but a prediction. They do provide a web interface.
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by seanos 15y ago
Assuming the learning algorithm is perfect and always gives the desired temperature, then a saving of 50% means that your desired temperature pattern is 50% cheaper than the temperature pattern you would program with a regular thermostat. T
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by seanos 15y ago
Seems like a solution in search of a problem.

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