Are they still doing gain-of-function research on viruses?
Readit NewsThat's correct, the Romans had March as the first month of the year, so leap day was the last day of the year and September, October, November and December were the 7th (sept), 8th (oct), ninth (nov) and 10th (dec) months.
June and July used to be Quintilis and Sextilis.
ljsprague commented on A 1961 Relay Computer Running in the Browser minivac.greg.technology/... · Posted by u/vaibhavsagar
I imagine it would be easier for me to build the simulator than to make it do anything of interest.
ljsprague commented on Realtime BART Arrival Display filbot.com/real-time-bart... · Posted by u/Jadrago
How are you hiding the cable in the last photo or is it battery powered?
Why isn't the top-down footprint a square?
Designers of marble fountains who don't use computing to design the paths run into reliability issues: sometimes balls derailing out of their track. They have to observe the contraption, identify problems (balls getting jammed up or jumping out) and then guess at the root causes and make manual adjustments.
That's the thing here: he has it running for hours presumably without any ball jumping out.
Most of the tracks consist of two rails, so the ball has two contact points. I'm no physicist but it seems like the goal would be to have ideally nearly equal forces at the two contact points at all times during the ball's descent. In other words, the track has to be perfectly banked so that the gravity and centripetal acceleration vector are balanced by a normal vector perpendicular to the rails. During a derailment, the ball has to lift away from one of the two contact points, so the normal force must have dropped to zero.
My naïve guess would be that you can't change the route of the ball without asymmetrical track pressure.
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ljsprague commented on How to create an OS from scratch github.com/cfenollosa/os-... · Posted by u/pykello
I still don't understand what's "running" the boot sector.
I can do this and still start off by assuming the corporation is in the wrong. The tendency to optimize for profits at the expense of everything else, to ignore all negative externalities is inherent to all American corporations.