Good work. Reminds me of one of my old favorites, http://iscaliforniaonfire.com/
Or this one from when the LHC came online: http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com...
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gewoonkris commented on How much free time do you have? erikrood.com/Posts/free_t... · Posted by u/deegles
Is there a book or reference for that kind of parenting?
Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but there was a hackernews discussion related to this a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17905657
gewoonkris commented on How much free time do you have? erikrood.com/Posts/free_t... · Posted by u/deegles
Some feedback about the formula from a parent:
The formula needs to account for the reality that with young children your "parental duties" expands to occupy all free time when kids are awake. And also shifts other chores into any free time slots when kids are asleep.
Kids are asleep. Time to clean the kitchen, do the dishes, switch the laundry, cut some veggies for tomorrow's dinner, and then find somewhere softer than last night to pass out.
I try to make it a point to do all the chores when the kids are awake. When they are asleep is time to relax; not do mundane tasks
I don't feel it's my duty to entertain my kinds every waking hour, so if they have to settle with watching me fold the laundry or unload the dishwasher, so be it.
This probably won't win me the father-of-the-year award, and it is parenting-style me and my girlfriend don't always agree about, but I refuse to sacrifice all my free time for my children.
gewoonkris commented on Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Beginners blog.wesleyac.com/posts/e... · Posted by u/deafcalculus
The article gives a nice intuition about how encryption works using elliptic curves without going too deep into the math.
I'm curious for a similar explanation for how decryption would work though; a trapdoor function is nice and all, but it's only half of the story if there is no 'way out'.
gewoonkris commented on Ask HN: How hard is to switch from back end to front end programmer? · Posted by u/betimd
I noticed that more and more freelance development jobs (at least in the Netherlands for regular non-rockstar-developers) are asking for full-stack skills. So being only a back-end developer makes it a tad harder to find a gig.
So I suppose I am saying: good question, I wonder about the same thing.
Since the title isn't very informative about the content of the article: it's about the 2017 world expo which is held in Kazachstan and the steadying decline of visitors to these events.
I hadn't even heard of the fact there currently was a world expo in Kazachstan if it wasn't for this article. For previous expo's I at least remember them having quite some coverage in the news.
gewoonkris commented on Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit sciencebulletin.org/archi... · Posted by u/devinp
For those who are also wondering about the briefly mentioned hexagon-shaped jet stream:
One hypothesis, developed at Oxford University, is that the hexagon forms where there is a steep latitudinal gradient in the speed of the atmospheric winds in Saturn's atmosphere. Similar regular shapes were created in the laboratory when a circular tank of liquid was rotated at different speeds at its centre and periphery. The most common shape was six sided, but shapes from three to eight sided were also produced. The shapes form in an area of turbulent flow between the two different rotating fluid bodies with dissimilar speeds
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn's_hexagon
Paper (paywalled): http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103509...
gewoonkris commented on Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Discovered nasa.gov/mission_pages/ch... · Posted by u/okket
I always wondered about these measurements. Excuse me if this is rookie astronomical information. I have read that we gauge the distance through brightness. That is we know how bright such an object should be at the source, and estimate the distance based on actual brightness at the instrument. How do we know it's not just brighter than we believe, instead of being as far away as we believe?
I always understood the distance is measured by the amount of red shift: the further away a galaxy is, the faster it moves away from us due to the expansion of the universe. As a result, the wavelength of the light originating from this galaxy is streched moving it more to the red end of the spectrum. The amount of red shift can be used to calculate the distance of an object fairly accurately.
Only after calling her name three times and considerably raising my voice I got her attention again.
The show that was on was... the cooking channel! So the bar for television completely absorbing a child's attention seems quite low :-)