Why does New Zealand have so many beams? All of Australia has zero for comparison.
Not just New Zealand but....somewhere in central Otago...of all places?
Readit Newscconcepts commented on Low Earth Orbit Visualization platform.leolabs.space/vi... · Posted by u/aseidl
cconcepts commented on Slab City reaches its boiling point bluedotliving.com/slab-ci... · Posted by u/FeaturelessBug
The article has an overlay wanting me to put in my email address. Can't seem to close it with the X in the corner. S9 Android with Chrome browser. Renders the website useless unless I put in my email
cconcepts commented on Ask HN: What bits of fundamental knowledge are productivity multipliers? · Posted by u/stardustpie
I use these tips as a civil engineer (who knows how to program):
- fully specify the problem before jumping in. Write what you know, the context and the unknowns.
- Write the steps of the solution before jumping into a problem.
- If writing a report, create the outline/heading structure before doing any other writing.
- If you want to do something non-trivial, quickly search the web to see if someone has written a library or has a one-liner to save you time.
- 80% of your results will come from the first 20% of the total time you spend working on something. Anything after that is polish. This helped me to overcome perfectionism.
- If you don’t know something, ask a colleague or peer. They will be thankful for the opportunity to teach you something.
- If you’re ‘stuck’ on something, completely switch context for an hour or even a day. The subconscious mind does serious heavy lifting, it just needs time (and rest!).
- if you’re learning a new concept and struggling, don’t write detailed notes straight away. Your notes at this stage reflect a naïve understanding. Letting an idea ‘ferment’ before writing about it will result in primo notes.
- Don’t spend too much time buggering around with tools and tech. If you’re spending more than 30% of the total task time on ‘ceremony’ or ‘config’, it’s a hindrance.
There’s more but these are the main ones.
Using "primo" and "buggering" like that: I think I spotted a Kiwi?
cconcepts commented on Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic bbc.com/news/science-envi... · Posted by u/0xedb
Interesting to me that Shackelton and the Endurance keep popping up on HN. I happened to read "South" some years ago and it had a big impact on me as someone who loves the outdoors.
I just didn't expect it to keep popping up in a technology focussed community. Yet I can see the appeal. The sheer determination of Shackelton and crew should be inspiring to all people.
The ordeal he and his men went through is truly outlandish.
A memorable element was the mens’ reaction to WW1. Them asking “who won?” felt awfully like one would ask about a football game.
But I found Ernest endlessly describing every depth measurement and the stomach contents of every penguin they killed hard to get through.
There were a couple of points I keep thinking about:
SPOILER ALERT
1) Where they are navigating broken ice on a heaving ocean and Shackelton casually mentions that he hadn't slept for over 100 hours as he was trying to pick a safe route through the ice (I expect people would argue that is highly likely to kill/drive you insane).
2) Where a wave breaks on top of their small boat that is so high that they can't hear it yet and Shackelton initially thinks the white crest way above them is actually a break in the sky indicating clearing weather.
And I have a sore neck because my keyboard/monitor arrangement isn't optimized.
The Book "South" which is something like an edited version of Shackelton's diary, has this journey in reasonable detail. It had a profound impact on me; that people could be that tough and resilient against massive odds. I think about it often when I am feeling stressed - how would someone like Shackelton handle this so the fear didn't impair their judgement.
cconcepts commented on Windy.com: See the wind, temperature, rain and air quality around you windy.com... · Posted by u/LinuxBender
I feel like this app gives the illusion of higher-fidelity data than it can really provide. It gives a temperature reading for any pixel I select, but appears to be interpolating from a relatively limited number of real-world data points.
I live in the flatlands near some mountains. I can look at one of the websites that show data from personal weather stations to see that the temperature is 15 degrees cooler up on the mountains. But windy shows the temp there being the same as here. I figure it’s just averaging the various locations around (but not on) the mountains. Better data exists, but they don’t seem to have it.
I agree, was recently using it in a remote area for reasonably important decision making. The high level of detail fooled me into thinking it had a high level of accuracy.
Turns out being very specifically wrong is more convincing than just being generally wrong.
EDIT: I should add that windy may be the best forecasting app there is. I was more commenting on the fact that the specificity made me follow it blindly when I should have been treating it like any other forecast.
cconcepts commented on The Frenchman who pioneered the modern mercenary industry nationalinterest.org/blog... · Posted by u/1cvmask
Am surprised sites like the one linked don't get dis-incentivized from running so many ads by aggregators like HN with some formula that essentially makes it harder for links with more ads to get to the front page?
Maybe thats unfair and just "let the people decide" is the best method but 'wow!' am running adblock and that thing is still a sensory overload.