wuunderbar (u/wuunderbar)

wuunderbar commented on Honda Monkey Breaks World Record Covering 4,183 Km on Single Tank advpulse.com/adv-news/hon... · Posted by u/harambae

bitwidget · 3 years ago

I'm guessing they've probably implemented baffles within the tank, but even if there wasn't it shouldn't be too much of an issue. Once they are able to get going and are not stopping quickly for emergencies, they should be as stable, if not more stable, compared to a regular bike.

wuunderbar · 3 years ago

Guessed wrong, they definitely found it to be an issue: "After a grueling 304-lap test, Acerbis found they needed to use sponges to combat the sloshing inside the tank at the expense of losing some volume. The final tank weighed 15.2 kg (33.5 lbs) and could hold 108 liters."

wuunderbar commented on Ask HN: Good programming streamers / content creators? · Posted by u/hahnchen

wuunderbar · 4 years ago

The Cherno's C++ guides were absolutely crucial in helping me get up to speed with C++ quickly. And a good reference for things I came across which I did not understand well.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlrATfBNZ98dudnM48yfG...

wuunderbar commented on Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel unum.cloud/post/2021-12-2... · Posted by u/signa11

MobileVet · 4 years ago

Right? How is video decoding not an optimized chip level operation on modern systems? It’s network traffic and video decoding… it shouldn’t required an i9 going full bore.

wuunderbar · 4 years ago

There's two components to a Zoom call:

- Encoding: your own camera input.

- Decoding: decoding multiple streams of video.

Your CPU needs to do work on each on these, and depending on what codecs are used (and whether your CPU supports it) hardware acceleration may or may not be supported.

wuunderbar commented on Ask HN: Advice about aging parents · Posted by u/tren

geoduck14 · 4 years ago

Keep moving! Yes! Also, emotional health is important. Many elderly people die of loneliness. If one parent dies, be VERY vigilant about getting the other into a situation where he/she has friends.

wuunderbar · 4 years ago

> Many elderly people die of loneliness.

How does this work exactly? Medically speaking.

wuunderbar commented on Amazon recruiter invites CTO of Azure to apply for SDE II twitter.com/markrussinovi... · Posted by u/LopRabbit

silisili · 4 years ago

Recruiters have well, one job. A great recruiter actually takes time to research people and find good fits. They are incredibly rare, but worth their weight in gold IMO.

The vast majority of recruiters just do lazy keyword searches and spamming. He or she obviously didn't even bother to read the title or profile of who they were bothering. Spamming is more of a dick move than calling out spam, IMO.

wuunderbar · 4 years ago

What's to say this isn't an automated email?

wuunderbar commented on Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien quantamagazine.org/arik-k... · Posted by u/NotSwift

yawaworht1978 · 5 years ago

We humans have only our definition of life form. These are limited by physics and our logic. However, we can't even see the whole universe, with no scientific break through, we never will. We don't exactly know the full story of the big bang, we can't explain the very beginning. We don't know what happens in black holes, our logic rules literally breaks down there. I could well be that there are life forms which we couldn't even imagine, which are not limited by our known physics. We know a little bit about space time and gravity and the elements. Dark matter still unexplained, no universal formula for everything in sight, i have seen DNA mentioned, maybe some creatures do not need any DNA. Too many factors are unresolved, we don't know whether there have been, are or will be totally different species. Imagine, at one point in history, earth didn't even exist, before animals, there were only bacteria. Earth lifetime is nothing on the grand scale of things. Humans are a more intelligent version of very common mammals. With a couple more things gone wrong, like a flu or smarter predator animal in the past, humans might have never come to be. I greatly appreciate scientists and people discovering and accumulating the knowledge, and I understand the scientific methods have to be followed accurately, else we diverge into pure speculation. But limiting possible alien life to earth like planets might not be all there is.

wuunderbar · 5 years ago

> Earth lifetime is nothing on the grand scale of things.

Nit: Isn't the estimated age of the universe 14 billion and earth 4.5 billion? I wouldn't call that nothing.

wuunderbar commented on macOS Big Sur apple.com/newsroom/2020/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

jkelleyrtp · 5 years ago

Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things:

- Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF

- Privacy seems to be top-notch

- The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari)

- Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2

- Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons are trickling back into the ecosystem - I'm happy with my AdBlocker and Nightmode extensions

- Actually decent dev tools (used to be terrible)

- Native support for keychain + fingerprint

I've been using it for the past year after being on Chrome, and it's really impressive how much work they've put into not only catching up, but in many regards, jumping ahead.

wuunderbar · 5 years ago

Sounds great. Only thing really holding me back is no Safari for Windows. I use Windows for about 20% of my screentime, and I'd like for my browser to be synced across every single device I use.

wuunderbar commented on Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH businessinsider.com/dropb... · Posted by u/jeffbee

hn_throwaway_99 · 5 years ago

I guess it's not surprising but I am super disappointed by some of the comments here that show a total lack of empathy for people who aren't like you. I mean, you love working from home? Congrats, more power to you. But the number of comments stating that "only people who are good at office politics like going to the office", "only incompetent managers need to see you in person", "your co-workers aren't your friends", etc. are, as I would generously put it, tone deaf.

For many (most?) people this has been the worst working situation of their lives, and attempts to minimize that are insulting. I believe it will be especially bad for those early in their careers, trying to find their footing, get mentorship, and build their network.

wuunderbar · 5 years ago

> I am super disappointed by some of the comments here that show a total lack of empathy for people who aren't like you.

I've noticed as of late HN has been riddled with comments such as: here is my extremely strong thoughts on X with my personal anecdotal experience Y, and therefore this is how the world should work.

> I believe it will be especially bad for those early in their careers

Agreed. I think it can be equally has bad for someone midway into their career who is thinking about taking on more leadership opportunities.

wuunderbar commented on Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it npr.org/2020/09/15/913328... · Posted by u/belltaco

mensetmanusman · 6 years ago

If Congress cuts Google into pieces, they should be consistent and set some sort of maximum market value (as a percentage of US GDP).

That way, once companies reach a certain size, they can expect a split.

I actually think this would be good for society, because it would shuffle things up consistently to force new ideas. Also, smaller companies can grow more effectively, so the stock market should enjoy that as well.

wuunderbar · 6 years ago

And then how do US companies then compete with overseas companies that don’t have this setback?