lowestprimate
Re:Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light
on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:44PM (#49664291)
Can Cherenkov radiation carry information? If it can does this mean information can travel faster than light? Question from a physics newbie
Re:Who's the Smartest Corvid?
on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:04PM (#48484529)
A large pebble the size of a small pebble
Re:The Napoleon Technique: Postponing Things to Increase Productivity
on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:00PM (#46548280)
Actually I had some good luck with hiring people that have the minimum marks and huge amount of outside adjacent skills. One example is someone who was running a manufacturing operation on second shift and completing an engineering degree at the same time.
Re:Alaska's Juneau orders evacuations as record glacier flood looms
on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @01:59PM (#44891685)
I thought it was to have one less child
Re:Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
on Saturday August 02, 2025 @05:24PM (#44771654)
Rucking will get you your cardio
Re:Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimental Reusab...
on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:59PM (#44303273)
How many bananas?
Re:In the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight
on Friday May 16, 2025 @12:33PM (#44007369)
Think of it as similar to hi compression automobile engine (race car) being more efficient vs a low compression engine (tractor engine). Not exactly correct but a way of starting to think about it
Re:Chemists Create World's Thinnest Spaghetti
on Monday November 25, 2024 @06:03PM (#42241010)
Thanks for afternoon laugh!
Re:Why Oriental hornets can't get drunk
on Monday October 28, 2024 @04:44PM (#41976086)
In Vino Veritas! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vino_veritas
Re:Epigenetic age oscillates during the day
on Friday April 19, 2024 @07:28PM (#40093011)
How are you taking your temperature? Infrared sensor on the forehead? Infrared only measures surface temperatures and can give false readings of temperature based on how the body "radiator" system is working.
Re:Retrieving 1TB of data from a bad Seagate Firecuda drive with woodw...
on Thursday August 17, 2023 @06:02PM (#37168786)
I worked on this drive. It's a 3.5 drive. A long time ago. Time for my daily nap and Centrum shot.
Re:Even the Densest Metal Doesn't Exceed USPS Shipping Weight Limit
on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:02PM (#35486954)
I once got to visit a jewelry manufacturing site where to get in and out you had to go through an MRI to ensure you didn't pick any gold or platinum dust on the tour. There were pallets of gold lying on the floor worth about 200 million. We got a chance to try to pick up a bar of gold about the size of a large loaf of bread and our tour guide said, "if you can pick that up and walk it to the front door, we'll let you have it". Turns out it weighed about 200 lbs and I could not get enough of grip to move it let alone pick it up. Fun visit.
Re:Gore-TEX, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded f...
on Friday November 25, 2022 @08:48PM (#33749029)
Re:Gore-TEX, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded f...
on Friday November 25, 2022 @07:49PM (#33748681)
Base material for GoreTex is PTFE is implantable so probably pretty safe.
Re:1.461 seconds from 0 to 100km/h: students break acceleration world ...
on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:41PM (#33184668)
The acceleration record is probably the manhole cover launched via nuclear explosion. Accelerated to 125,000 mph in a millisecond. https://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-object-robert-brownl...
Re:GE is laying off 20% of its workforce devoted to onshore wind power
on Thursday October 06, 2022 @09:59PM (#33116598)
Also known as playing double tennis against the people across the net along playing against the person besides you. Insane philosophy.
Re:Entropy: Why Life Always Seems to Get More Complicated
on Sunday June 26, 2022 @03:52PM (#31887339)
Time only exists because of the change in entropy. Interesting summary https://blog.12min.com/the-order-of-time-pdf-summary/
Re:NASA’s new shortcut to fusion power
on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:21PM (#30508468)
How does one extract power if it barely warms up? Does it generate electricity directly?
Re:Ask HN: Where does gas mileage go?
on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:00PM (#29796983)
My guess is the 460 has direct injection fuel system which allows for higher compression from charge cooling so more efficiency (~8%?).
Re:Will the climate crisis force America to reconsider nuclear power?
on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:22AM (#29176473)
Why not use nuclear for decarbonizing the atmosphere and for production of liquid hydrocarbons for industrial uses when the wind is blowing and sun is shining and when the renewable are not available use nuclear for base loads?
Re:Unmanned submarine earmarked for Irish Sea freight crossings
on Friday September 17, 2021 @06:56PM (#28571820)
One of the reasons to use quantum gyroscopes is that will be accurate to within 1m or so after a day long underwater traverse of 1000 km or more. Communication while fully under still sucks though.
Re:Ask HN: Desperately need “sales for nerds” advice
on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @07:30PM (#27202666)
Another interesting area of need is pole dancing chalk
Re:Ferrofluid display cell Bluetooth speaker
on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:45PM (#27160046)
Ferrofluid is was used in disk drive motors to seal bearing grease from wandering out so it has reasonable life span of greater than 5 years from my experience
Re:Denisovan DNA found in cave on Tibetan Plateau
on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:13PM (#24945772)
Some women voted 100 years ago. Not all women. As an example US born Japanese Americans got to vote in 1952
Re:Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for brain plastic...
on Saturday July 25, 2020 @02:23PM (#23951318)
Same here. I tell friends climbing is a bit like random yoga with a bunch of problem solving thrown it. Plus it literally self selects for people who you would put your life into their hands.
Re:Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?
on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:09PM (#23775247)
Learning the art of influence/story telling is a super power. It doesn't even have to be better as it could just be more confidence in that it is good enough.
Re:Formula 1 2020: The secret aerodynamicist – are capes the key?
on Monday July 06, 2020 @03:44PM (#23751917)
I knew a bunch of Indy car drivers and they could visualize a road course lap in their head down to 0.3 repeatably.
Re:Why smart hardworking people don't become successful (2018)
on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:44PM (#22407641)
Read Influence by Cialdini. Take an improv class. Find some mentors with skills orthogonal to you. Learn to be fine with being uncomfortable as you learn and get feedback.
Re:Why the CIA Doesn't Spy on the UAE
on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:29PM (#20801156)
I am just a cook. Just a lowly lowly cook.
Re:Air conditioner ‘in a patch’ provides portable cooling
on Thursday May 23, 2019 @06:44PM (#19996758)
We use to race here in CO (which gets hot but not as hot as Texas admittedly) by dipping our Nomex suits in ice water and racing with ice bags in the suit that leaked so two cooling mechanisms in action. Works for 45 mins. It was great to get out with a completely dry suit after a race. Nothing like cool balls during the race.