ubertakter

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by ubertakter 7y ago
Hence my first sentence, "It seems like you are complaining about graphics in the article, but I'm not sure." First you said, "I can't count the number of times I've looked at a data visualization and wished I
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by ubertakter 7y ago
It seems like you are complaining about graphics in the article, but I'm not sure. If you read the article, it specifically talks about why those are not good visualizations and gives pointers on developing good ones. For the 3D on
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by ubertakter 7y ago
The end result reminds me of Julia. Enough to make me wonder if there's something like it underneath Julia somewhere, or if that's how it started (unfortunately I don't have time to really dig in to it right now).
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Yeah. Depending on the spectrum, the telescope might need to be really big. Not to mention at the moment a telescope in orbit would hard, if not impossible, to service. Perhaps a review of telescope design is in order: https://en
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by ubertakter 7y ago
I've been learning and using Julia the last few weeks (coming from an OOP background). I highly recommend it. I mainly write highly mathematical programs and utilities to process some data or another. So far I've knocked out some
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Whew, glad it's not just me. Agree 100%. Although I had some minor underlying issues that seemed to make it worse (better now though).
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by ubertakter 7y ago
This reminds me of a saying I picked up from some (very much) older engineer: Segal's Law: A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. I feel like information overload is like this sometimes. Which
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Take a cue from what my friends and I do: we generally agree to do whatever in general terms, say, visit a place Saturday after lunch. That's it. We might coordinate on a start time, but after that, it's whatever we feel like, no
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Normally I try not to contribute useless comments, but I found this to be a particularly hilarious, laughing-out-loud at my desk observation.
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Two replies mention licensing, with two different answers (It's easy, people just don't understand! It's hard, people just don't understand!). Personally, I've tried a couple of times to read the license information
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Slight typo there: "thousands of km per second", you probably meant "thousands of meters per second". Low orbit is on the order of 7-8 km/s. I did find the typo humorous.
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by ubertakter 7y ago
I don't think your statement is intended to be dismissive, but it is a bit... sparse. Related to CLU: It introduced a lot of concepts together in one language. "Key contributions include abstract data types,[6] call-by-sharing, it
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Pretty good article. Can't wait to read other, less sensational articles recommended here. One particular error in the article stood out to me: the Trinity test site is in White Sands, New Mexico, not Nevada. This was immediately notic
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by ubertakter 7y ago
No. Next question please.
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by ubertakter 7y ago
You could add inertia by including a flywheel (or multiple) connected to the wheels of the coaster. Not sure how easy that would be at small scales though.
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Interesting. I always think of it as the Universal Time Coordinate. Probably because I've done a lot of work in inertial coordinate systems (where the earth rotates in the coordinate system versus the coordinate systems rotating with t
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Just flipping through 1994 issue 11 was pretty amazing: There's a short article about how network interconnect policy changes might affect end users, an blurb on Tektronix getting a patent on rasterizing images, and a large article on
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by ubertakter 7y ago
I guess I'll chime in on being closer to strikes. In case you don't know how a strike occurs, as the charges build up and the field starts having enough potential to exceed the breakdown voltage of the air, little "feelers&qu
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by ubertakter 7y ago
I don't think everyone's getting one just because they are afraid. However, even very low probability events with very severe consequences may warrant having some kind of automatic emergency beacon... although in retrospect I gues
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by ubertakter 7y ago
The 50% claim probably comes from the fact that heat loss through your head has a greater affect on core body temperature than other exposed areas. In [1], they did some submersion tests with head in or out for both insulated and exposed bo
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by ubertakter 7y ago
I recommend the title be changed to the actual story title or something actually similar. The article is about how setting deadlines for action on climate change came from more of an advocacy perspective rather than scientific, which had
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by ubertakter 7y ago
From the linked article : "Following this, a series of orbit maneuvers will be performed on Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft to enable it to enter its final orbit passing over the lunar poles at a distance of about 100 km from the Moon’s surf
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Conceptually you seem correct but your numbers are a bit off. Down a steep hill on my road cycle I can easily get to 45-50mph. Rolling resistance doesn't change that much with speed[1]. Rolling resistance energy balance at 18mph is on
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Two bug stories of limited usefulness: Worked on a tool that used 3D trajectories in an analysis. Some of the output looked strange, but not exactly incorrect (there was no obviously correct answer). Looking at the trajectories used in the
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Forgive the tangent: ... I once had a pair of bugle boy pants and I wore them into a gas station and this story has nothing to do with waffles but the lady at the gas station said, "By any chance are those bugle boy pants y
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Sounds like a fun trip. I only knew what you were talking about because I've been from Tooele to Dugway in Utah. Based on what I can recall, it seems likely that the route through there didn't really change, it was just finished a
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by ubertakter 7y ago
If you look at the wind resource potential around 100m, there are places where it might be feasible to place turbines in areas you don't normally think of as windy, most likely a ridge on the predominately leeward end of a plain. I was
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by ubertakter 7y ago
Since a sibling mentioned Huntsville, AL, the US Space and Rocket Center now houses the Saturn V stack in the Davidson Center (built for that purpose) along with multiple other exhibits, including the Apollo 16 command module. The Space and
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by ubertakter 7y ago
And this is a good illustration of how the system is completely fucked up . No part of what you wrote is sane (I'm not implying anything about you, just the system). The corporations have gamed the system where it's now normal to
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by ubertakter 7y ago
With my daughter, if I have to say "no" or "not now" I always try to provide an explanation, which ranges from "we don't have time now because we have <some time/date/location> to get to" t

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