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Hence my first sentence, "It seems like you are complaining about graphics in the article, but I'm not sure." First you said, "I can't count the number of times I've looked at a da…

It seems like you are complaining about graphics in the article, but I'm not sure. If you read the article, it specifically talks about why those are not good visualizations and gi…

The end result reminds me of Julia. Enough to make me wonder if there's something like it underneath Julia somewhere, or if that's how it started (unfortunately I don't have time t…

Yeah. Depending on the spectrum, the telescope might need to be really big. Not to mention at the moment a telescope in orbit would hard, if not impossible, to service. Perhaps a r…

I've been learning and using Julia the last few weeks (coming from an OOP background). I highly recommend it. I mainly write highly mathematical programs and utilities to process s…

Whew, glad it's not just me. Agree 100%. Although I had some minor underlying issues that seemed to make it worse (better now though).

This reminds me of a saying I picked up from some (very much) older engineer: Segal's Law: A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. I feel …

Take a cue from what my friends and I do: we generally agree to do whatever in general terms, say, visit a place Saturday after lunch. That's it. We might coordinate on a start tim…

Normally I try not to contribute useless comments, but I found this to be a particularly hilarious, laughing-out-loud at my desk observation.

Two replies mention licensing, with two different answers (It's easy, people just don't understand! It's hard, people just don't understand!). Personally, I've tried a couple of ti…

Slight typo there: "thousands of km per second", you probably meant "thousands of meters per second". Low orbit is on the order of 7-8 km/s. I did find the typo humorous.

I don't think your statement is intended to be dismissive, but it is a bit... sparse. Related to CLU: It introduced a lot of concepts together in one language. "Key contributions i…

Pretty good article. Can't wait to read other, less sensational articles recommended here. One particular error in the article stood out to me: the Trinity test site is in White Sa…

No. Next question please.

You could add inertia by including a flywheel (or multiple) connected to the wheels of the coaster. Not sure how easy that would be at small scales though.

Interesting. I always think of it as the Universal Time Coordinate. Probably because I've done a lot of work in inertial coordinate systems (where the earth rotates in the coordina…

Just flipping through 1994 issue 11 was pretty amazing: There's a short article about how network interconnect policy changes might affect end users, an blurb on Tektronix getting …

I guess I'll chime in on being closer to strikes. In case you don't know how a strike occurs, as the charges build up and the field starts having enough potential to exceed the bre…

I don't think everyone's getting one just because they are afraid. However, even very low probability events with very severe consequences may warrant having some kind of automatic…

The 50% claim probably comes from the fact that heat loss through your head has a greater affect on core body temperature than other exposed areas. In [1], they did some submersion…

I recommend the title be changed to the actual story title or something actually similar. The article is about how setting deadlines for action on climate change came from more of …

From the linked article : "Following this, a series of orbit maneuvers will be performed on Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft to enable it to enter its final orbit passing over the lunar po…

Conceptually you seem correct but your numbers are a bit off. Down a steep hill on my road cycle I can easily get to 45-50mph. Rolling resistance doesn't change that much with spee…

Two bug stories of limited usefulness: Worked on a tool that used 3D trajectories in an analysis. Some of the output looked strange, but not exactly incorrect (there was no obvious…

Forgive the tangent: ... I once had a pair of bugle boy pants and I wore them into a gas station and this story has nothing to do with waffles but the lady at the gas station said,…