andrewjrhill (u/andrewjrhill)

andrewjrhill commented on A 189 Year Old Limitation on Inductor Size Has Been Broken (2018) medium.com/starts-with-a-... · Posted by u/AHappyCamper

tyingq · 5 years ago

It mentions 50 percent greater inductance than a a regular coil. Which is great, but would only reduce the size by a third.

I imagine this has some use cases that would merit the higher cost (graphene is expensive, right?). But probably not many.

andrewjrhill · 5 years ago

To be fair - a 33% reduction in size is massive for something that has remained largely unchanged for the better part of 2 centuries.

momento commented on Factorio 1.0 factorio.com/blog/post/ff... · Posted by u/Akronymus

ecmascript · 5 years ago

Recently, my gf found me still awake at 05:00 playing factorio. Had completely forgot the time and thought it was closer to 02:00. That's when I realized that I had to stop playing the game because it is so addictive. I simply can't play that game in moderation.

momento · 5 years ago

Oxygen Not Included has the same sort of effect for me and my experience with that game has kept me from picking up Factorio. Once you start getting into ONI's automation tools and design optimization; time just ceases to exist.

It remains the first and only game I have ever fully removed from my Steam library (not just uninstalled) after purchase.

andrewjrhill commented on Ask HN: Dear open source devs how do you sustain yourself · Posted by u/mraza007

xnyan · 6 years ago

15 years ago I was on a date with a wonderful young lady. We had a picnic and I brought my (at the time) very modern projector to watch a movie, projected on a bedsheet in the woods. Windows Media Player refused to play the DVD. No internet access at all. I thought I had failed...until I remembered that I had installed VLC. Opened the VTS.VOB on the DVD directly and boom, the video started and played back without a single hitch. I was a tech hero that day.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for VLC!

andrewjrhill · 6 years ago

How did you power the projector? Did you drag a generator into the forest too?

andrewjrhill commented on Google plans to move UK users' accounts outside EU jurisdiction reuters.com/article/idUSK... · Posted by u/nsdfg

dilutedh2o · 6 years ago

That sounds really interesting.

Would you mind sharing a resource to learn more about how the UK spies on US citizens?

andrewjrhill · 6 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement

andrewjrhill commented on Angular 9.0 blog.angular.io/version-9... · Posted by u/theodorejb

crubier · 6 years ago

Anecdotal evidence. This is just the result of bad practices. React is less opinionated than Angular I'll give you that, so I guess that subpar angular might be preferable to subpar react.

Well-managed react is incomparable in power. Try to make a library like react-three-fiber using Angular, in less than 500lines of code.

andrewjrhill · 6 years ago

> Well-managed react is incomparable in power.

Unfounded opinion.

> Try to make a library like react-three-fiber using Angular, in less than 500lines of code.

react-three-fiber is much bigger than 500 lines of code.

momento commented on Angular 9.0 blog.angular.io/version-9... · Posted by u/theodorejb

JoeNr76 · 6 years ago

I've been doing Angular for 5+ years now. I think you might be using it wrong because I never experienced anything like that.

momento · 6 years ago

Angular has a lot of unique concepts that people find difficult to wrap their heads around. The Observable pattern, decorators, typescript, etc. When you throw things like NGRX and effective management of state / side-effects in the mix; things get exponentially more complex and difficult to scale.

I have personally witnessed companies take guys who have been slapping together "apps" in jQuery / .NET for the past 10 years and tell them "it's time to make the stack modern" and "we're going with Angular because we're a Microsoft house".

Things go very bad very quickly.

If you don't take the time to understand the Architecture behind scalable modern web applications you're going to have a bad time.

Anyone can slap together a quick and dirty app with Angular or React - not everyone can scale one correctly with thought given to the architecture behind these applications.

andrewjrhill commented on DevDegree: Work at Shopify and get a free CS degree in parallel devdegree.ca/... · Posted by u/PandawanFr

OJFord · 6 years ago

In the UK it's both, 'degree apprenticeships' were introduced recently (couple of years ago):

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

('Higher' being 'degree equivalent', and 'degree' being with an actual degree conferred by an actual university.)

At Arm I had a colleague who was on that programme, and so was also studying at a university. I think it started off part-time, 2 and 3 days of a week or something, and then switched to term-here/term-there.

I agree, great scheme. (Icing on the cake: I believe the education is paid for (subsidised by government and paid for by company?) in addition to the work being paid.)

andrewjrhill · 6 years ago

This is so great. I would have preferred to do something like this when I was fresh out of High School instead of going the traditional route of studying full-time or immediately entering the workforce.

andrewjrhill commented on Rescuers race to save 14k sheep on capsized cargo ship bbc.com/news/world-europe... · Posted by u/phissk

xvx · 6 years ago

Modern day slave ships. I’m sure the sheep are insured and it’s more profitable to leave them to drown.

andrewjrhill · 6 years ago

Are you trolling or do you genuinely believe the trade and transport of livestock is the same as human slavery? The mind boggles.

andrewjrhill commented on Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time newscientist.com/article/... · Posted by u/hbcondo714

edwhitesell · 6 years ago

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21583257

andrewjrhill · 6 years ago

I'd hardly call that a discussion...

andrewjrhill commented on The Rise of 'Facadism' in London bbc.com/news/in-pictures-... · Posted by u/ZeljkoS

jalla · 6 years ago

In Norway, the government protects heritage building's facade but allows for the internals to be rebuilt to modern standards.

Sometimes this makes sense as the old buildings were extraordinarily energy inefficient and preservation rules make it near impossible to insulate using modern materials. Some buildings are uninhabitable or cannot meet modern standards for environmental control yet are protected from demolition for historic reasons.

Unfortunately, the loop holes are exploited to the maximum, making a mockery of culture heritage preservation intentions. The government is responsible for many of the re-development decisions, causing the arbitrariness of architectural styles in some parts of the cities.

We've seen several buildings, in choice locations, be destroyed by "accidental" fires because of cultural heritage preservation rules.

andrewjrhill · 6 years ago

I live in Oslo and I am genuinely shocked at the quality of construction here - so many corners are cut it is insane. They are not cheap either - we're talking 15k to 25k NOK per month.

My offices are in a beautiful modern well known office district / tourist hotspot and just yesterday one of the doorframes fell off the wall in the kitchen.

My own apartment is 90sqm, modern and in a well known central "expensive" part of town, was built only a few years ago, and the floor is so noticeably slanted that my bedroom cupboard door will slide open on its own from time to time.

The floorboards (whilst stunning) feel like they are built on-top of roots and boulders - the cement was clearly not levelled properly before the boards were placed.

I put a level on the kitchen counter and the bubble is obviously not centered.

On more than one occasion I have viewed apartments in Oslo where the master bedroom is so small that the property owners have to put a door on either side of the bed so you don't have to step over the bed to get out of the room. These apartments were also in the 20k NOK range.

1 in 10 apartments have ceiling lights. Apparently Norwegians really like standing lamps?