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Harmohit commented on China installing the wind / solar equivalent of 5 nuclear power stations a week   abc.net.au/news/science/2... · Posted by u/dotcoma
Harmohit · a year ago
This sounds really good! If the largest population and probably the largest manufacturer in the world goes green, that is going to be really good for climate change.

I hope India follows suit.

Harmohit commented on The Second Law of Thermodynamics (2011)   franklambert.net/secondla... · Posted by u/luu
Harmohit · a year ago
As another comment mentioned, this website does look like Time Cube at first sight.

However, the explanations of the second law of thermodynamics on the second page are quite decent and written in a humorous way. Of course it is not fully accurate because it does not use any math but I think it does a good enough job of explaining it to the lay person.

The explanations about human life at the third page are analogous at best. The situations that the author describes are similar to the workings of the second law but not a first principles outcome of it.

Harmohit commented on We need visual programming. No, not like that   blog.sbensu.com/posts/dem... · Posted by u/stopachka
Harmohit · a year ago
I am surprised I have not seen LabView mentioned in this thread. It is arguably one of the most popular visual programming languages after Excel and I absolutely hate it.

It has all the downsides of visual programming that the author mentions. The visual aspect of it makes it so hard to understand the flow of control. There is no clear left to right or top to bottom way of chronologically reading a program.

Harmohit commented on Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor   righto.com/2024/07/pentiu... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
kens · a year ago
Personally, I think everyone should try opening up a chip. It's easy (if the chip isn't in epoxy) and fun to look inside. You need a metallurgical microscope to examine the chip closely, but you can see interesting features even with the naked eye.
Harmohit · a year ago
I didn't know there is such a thing as a metallurgical microscope. What makes them different from biological microscopes? And what is there primary purpose? I am assuming they don't make microscopes just for dissecting chips.
Harmohit commented on A brief history of liquid computers (2019)   royalsocietypublishing.or... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd
Harmohit · a year ago
If we define a computer in very broad terms: a system used to emulate/simulate another system, could we call a wind tunnel a computer? It is a system that is used to infer what would happen high up in the atmosphere or on the race track. Taking it a step further, do animals used for drug testing count as computers? They are used to infer any potential adverse effects in a human body.

Although quite specialized, I think these things would still classify as a computer.

Harmohit commented on Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor   righto.com/2024/07/pentiu... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Harmohit · a year ago
This is so cool! "Dissecting" a processor like this could be a fun educational activity to do in schools similar to dissecting a frog, but without the animal rights issues.
Harmohit commented on General Electric HTRE-3 Nuclear Jet Engine   planehistoria.com/general... · Posted by u/bane
Harmohit · a year ago
They have also tried to use nuclear power for space propulsion. Here is a fun one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...

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