I was wrong alot and it mad me angry to be wrong so much.
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#102I quite enjoyed that. Few (hopefully helpful) bits of feedback: 1) Would be nicer if it wasn't just an endless list of question cards. Maybe have new ones sliding in on the right, with answered ones going off to the left. 2) Visually separate the question, your answer, the correct/incorrect answer and the explanation. 3) Scores! How many right, how many in a right in a row, how did your guess compare with others etc…
> 4) Social Interaction. Let me share my "best run in 60 seconds" and then let others see if they can beat me. But please don't decide that you need to shove a popup in my face repeatedly to persuade me to do so. I don't have "socials" and have no intention of sharing anything. Being obnoxious about it is a "Dick Move" imo
I absolutely hate popups. Not going to be an issue. Good call.
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#103That was fun! The first one I got wrong was:
"80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 gorillas vs Saturn".
Good fun!
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#105At least one question has its figures wrong. It asks which is heavier, Space Shuttle or 747, and goes on to say that the Shuttle weighs 2 million kg. But that is not just the shuttle: “The stack, as the composite of orbiter, tank and boosters is called, has a gross liftoff weight of 2000 tonnes” (which I presume includes liftoff weight of fuel as well). Edit: perhaps it was just luck that it compared a 747 with the S…
Glad you like it! It's my first ever post to HN. I've been reading it daily since forever. Had to create an account to post.
I did the shuttle in a rush TBH. I have no idea if that's with the main tank and boosters or not!
No way, I had the Airfix kit of the shuttle+747 combo when I was a kid. poof mind blown.
I haven't really had time to recheck all the values. If there are any chemists here who can help with the weight of a caffeine molecule (in kg) then I'd appreciate it!!
Someone posted on HN a few days ago about always including your units in the variable names. Good advice.
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#106Hint: Almost everything that sounds like a trick question is.
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#107At least one question has its figures wrong. It asks which is heavier, Space Shuttle or 747, and goes on to say that the Shuttle weighs 2 million kg. But that is not just the shuttle: “The stack, as the composite of orbiter, tank and boosters is called, has a gross liftoff weight of 2000 tonnes” (which I presume includes liftoff weight of fuel as well). Edit: perhaps it was just luck that it compared a 747 with the S…
Glad you like it! It's my first ever post to HN. I've been reading it daily since forever. Had to create an account to post. I did the shuttle in a rush TBH. I have no idea if that's with the main tank and boosters or not! No way, I had the Airfix kit of the shuttle+747 combo when I was a kid. poof mind blown. I haven't really had time to recheck all the values. If there are any chemists here who can help with the we…
https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=molecular+weight+caffeine “Caffeine/Molar mass
194.19 g/mol”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_(unit) “The mole is defined as exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities”. 194.19 / 6.02214076e23 calculates one molecule is about 3.2246008e-22 g ~322 yoctogrammes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
“The Space Shuttle weighed 165,000 pounds empty. Its external tank weighed 78,100 pounds empty and its two solid rocket boosters weighed 185,000 pounds empty each. Each solid rocket booster held 1.1 million pounds of fuel. The external tank held 143,000 gallons of liquid oxygen (1,359,000 pounds) and 383,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen (226,000 pounds). The fuel weighed almost 20 times more than the Shuttle. At launch, the Shuttle, external tank, solid rocket boosters and all the fuel combined had a total weight of 4.4 million pounds. The Shuttle could also carry a 65,000 payload.”
Edit: that’s approximately 3e-25 kg per Caffiene molecule and I’m not a chemist, but I do enjoy captivating books about chemists/chemistry like Ignition[1], PiHKAL[2], Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks[3].
Edit 2: From above I noticed 1 litre of liquid Hydrogen is unexpectedly light at 0.15604 kg and one litre of liquid Oxygen is similarly heavier at 2.517 kg - I hope you find more things to add that challenge our intuitions.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29006010
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30827112
[3] https://www.chemistryworld.com/review/uncle-tungsten-memorie...
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#108I quite enjoyed that. Few (hopefully helpful) bits of feedback: 1) Would be nicer if it wasn't just an endless list of question cards. Maybe have new ones sliding in on the right, with answered ones going off to the left. 2) Visually separate the question, your answer, the correct/incorrect answer and the explanation. 3) Scores! How many right, how many in a right in a row, how did your guess compare with others etc…
OP, it's perfect don't change a thing
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#109That was fun! The first one I got wrong was: "80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 gorillas vs Saturn". Good fun!
It's gotta be the Gorillas right?
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#110I quite enjoyed that. Few (hopefully helpful) bits of feedback: 1) Would be nicer if it wasn't just an endless list of question cards. Maybe have new ones sliding in on the right, with answered ones going off to the left. 2) Visually separate the question, your answer, the correct/incorrect answer and the explanation. 3) Scores! How many right, how many in a right in a row, how did your guess compare with others etc…
The site is great now and I think those changes would ruin it in my opinion.
Except maybe to make the words Correct and Wrong have colour so you don't have to read it every time. :]