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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) on Sunday April 12, 2026 @05:14PM (#47744578)
This sounds very nice! A slightly adjacent question: have you discovered any providers that can recommend train journeys based on price? Sort of like the explore feature you find on sites like Google Flights, Ryanair and Flixbus. Sometimes when the wanderlust hits I've tried searching around for cheap train tickets, but it isn't simple using sites likes DB/OEBB/SBB/SNCF/etc
Re:Computational Physics (2nd Edition) on Sunday April 05, 2026 @01:11PM (#47651511)
Could somebody provide some opinion on the book and/or accompanying course?
Might this be available in some ebook format somewhere?
Re:MicroMac, a Macintosh for Under £5 on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @05:10PM (#40722221)
How would you go about setting this up? Do you mock out low level calls or are you running some sort of emulator?
Re:SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021) on Monday July 11, 2022 @03:12AM (#32053195)
I'm getting a blank value back as well, even with admin privileges.
Re:Is that ship still stuck? on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:54PM (#26587674)
Like that guy who wrote a blog post about not waiting around after taking a COVID vaccine because it's a much greater risk than checking for an allergic reaction?
Re:Tencent is acquiring a majority stake in Klei Entertainment on Saturday January 23, 2021 @02:00AM (#25880297)
Because the WTO has as much control over China as the UN has over the USA.
Re:Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:57AM (#25415217)
In case it gets deleted
Not an AE, but from my understanding of orbital mechanics, I think we usually use a LEO orbit to insert payloads into higher orbits or onto escape trajectories. Even Starship, which could be considered a next gen orbital vehicle, relies on LEO for reloading fuel before leaving Earth.