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New comment by dieselerator in "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]"

dieselerator — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:42:12 +0000

The number of responses here lends statistical support to the first basic law.

New comment by dieselerator in "How to make a Smith chart"

dieselerator — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 05:14:45 +0000

No. Sorry, that is not a helpful comparison.

Rubber That Resists Cracking

dieselerator — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:25:30 +0000

Article URL: https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/05/rubber-resists-cracking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44576506

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dieselerator in "Tapping into the World’s largest gold reserves"

dieselerator — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 20:53:18 +0000

>Ultra-high precision analyses of volcanic rocks show Earth’s core is leaking into rocks above

That summarizes the article. There is no mention of "tapping into" it.

New comment by dieselerator in "The race to find GPS alternatives"

dieselerator — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 20:46:24 +0000

> I don't think this is the right replacement for GPS. Perhaps someone here can correct me if I am wrong?

Though I do not agree with your reasons, I do think this Xona is not the right replacement for GPS.

New comment by dieselerator in "A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air"

dieselerator — Mon, 26 May 2025 19:05:11 +0000

Do you mean like an ultrasonic humidifier[1]?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ultrasonic-Humidifiers/s?k=Ultrasonic...

New comment by dieselerator in "Coffee for people who don't like coffee"

dieselerator — Tue, 13 May 2025 22:47:27 +0000

> The idea that coffee can have any taste other burnt rubber was interesting.

That summarizes the article.

This is not a recommendation, but you can buy caffeine pills.

New comment by dieselerator in "Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning [pdf] (2003)"

dieselerator — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 04:53:14 +0000

> Are there any public, open, comprehensive datasets on flights?

Airlines and commercial aviation operators schedule their own flights. That is a dynamic schedulle. So, perhaps there is no "comprehensive data set".

However, FlightAware makes publicly available scheduled and completed flight data over many routes in the USA. You can search by route and get a list of flights.

Flight information includes filed departure time, route of flight, and speed. For completed flights actual time, altitude, and route is shown. For example, a search on the route Dallas/Fort Worth to Austin lists 45 flights.

I hope that helps.

New comment by dieselerator in "BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of"

dieselerator — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 06:55:34 +0000

If planning/designing a timing system like this using existing antenna, why wouldn't you choose to use cellular base stations? The cellular network reaches most places with overlapping coverage and carries network time. The lowest cellular frequencies are adjacent the upper broadcast TV channels. Aren't modern cellular receivers what we call software defined radios? They can choose which channels to receive.

New comment by dieselerator in "Thinner Films Conduct Better Than Copper"

dieselerator — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:43:59 +0000

The research looks detailed and interesting. However, I don't follow this summary article.

Digital circuits dissipate most of the energy charging and discharging capacitance. It must necessarily dissipate that as heat (except for a minor amount of electro-magnetic radiation). The interconnect resistance hardly matters. Of course RC relay can be a factor for some circuits. We can hope this reasearch leads to improvement there.

Power supply bus resistance can lead to voltage drops, but this research apparently studies layers much too thin for that application.

Did I missing something?

New comment by dieselerator in "Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite"

dieselerator — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 05:00:50 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by dieselerator in "Tom Stevenson on the deciphering of Linear Elamite"

dieselerator — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 04:04:45 +0000

The article was interesting.

Can someone explain:

Why is it called "linear" Elamite?

Is there unicode for linear Elamite yet?

New comment by dieselerator in "Interlaken: The ideal high-speed chip-to-chip interface?"

dieselerator — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 03:25:26 +0000

We don't see this replacing the memory-processor bus. That gives some indication of how ideal it is. I should add in my opinion memory interfaces are not ideal. Everything is a trade off.

State of the art end-to-end encryption and no storage

dieselerator — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:18:02 +0000

Article URL: https://conversoapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35585161

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dieselerator in "A new treatment for arthritis: Vagus-nerve stimulation"

dieselerator — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 07:11:09 +0000

> I bought the equipment to try this myself

Cue the obligatory scene (42 seconds) from "Strange Brew" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/embed/EojzfxXGxtE?start=4064&end=410...

New comment by dieselerator in "Bob Dylan takes us on a wide-ranging tour of songs he admires"

dieselerator — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:35:22 +0000

While I prefer to make a positive comment, I think I should share this opinion for the possible benefit of other readers.

In my opinion that review is a complete waste of time.

My statement is not intended in any way as a judgement of Bob Dylan or his work.

New comment by dieselerator in "News Music Search Archive"

dieselerator — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 06:47:28 +0000

Maybe not exactly nostalgia, but there is a term that serves: déjà vu

"The meaning of DÉJÀ VU is the illusion of remembering scenes and events when experienced for the first time." [1]

[1]<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/d%C3%A9j%C3%A0%20...>

New comment by dieselerator in "Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis"

dieselerator — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 01:33:25 +0000

That is a fair question. This is what I find. [1]

Ultraviolet B UV‑B 280–315

Ultraviolet C UV‑C 100–280

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet

My read is "UVB" is the popular medicine way of saying UV is needed for the body to synthesize vitamin D. It was not considered necessary to point out part of the useful spectrum is in "UVC" territory.

New comment by dieselerator in "Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis"

dieselerator — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:06:20 +0000

I think this might be a good place to add this reminder:

"Vitamin D is made when UV (more precisely, UVB rays) react with a compound (7-dehydrocholesterol) in the skin. The best rays for UV synthesis have wavelengths between 270–300 nm." [1]

[1] https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1313-vitamin-d-and...

New comment by dieselerator in "Musico: AI Generated Music"

dieselerator — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:21:32 +0000

You have to start somewhere, and this probably has a place.

Still, having become accustomed to live acoustic music, I find this generated stuff not engaging. Maybe after a few more generations it will get there.