Hacker News: kanaba

New comment by kanaba in "How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?"

kanaba — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 22:38:01 +0000

The Coriolis effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force

New comment by kanaba in "Tesla Cybertruck"

kanaba — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:04:52 +0000

3 years? If they manage to launch in the 2022 window I would imagine a rover will be included.

New comment by kanaba in "The Everything Town in the Middle of Nowhere"

kanaba — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 03:08:52 +0000

Emergences: A Talk by Danny Hillis https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20879366

New comment by kanaba in "America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge"

kanaba — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 01:17:32 +0000

An excellent book and insight into a slice in time.

New comment by kanaba in "Marree Man"

kanaba — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:28:29 +0000

FTA

> The Marree Man geoglyph depicts a man holding either a woomera (a throwing stick once used to disperse small flocks of birds) or a boomerang (but see Plaque section below).

New comment by kanaba in "Fertility Fraud: Artificial insemination doctors who used their own sperm"

kanaba — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 22:05:51 +0000

Anonymous until a cursory investigation.

New comment by kanaba in "Fertility Fraud: Artificial insemination doctors who used their own sperm"

kanaba — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 21:55:07 +0000

As the formatting is unclear, it is worth noting that the parent comment is a short science fiction story, quoted in its entirety from the linked page.

New comment by kanaba in "How to return to the flow faster"

kanaba — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 22:58:15 +0000

>The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

>I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

-Ernest Hemingway

https://dianedrake.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Hemingway-...

New comment by kanaba in "Truth: A Love Story"

kanaba — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:29:49 +0000

Awareness of adultery seems to be the societally-destabilizing part of that concept.

New comment by kanaba in "Boeing seeking to reduce scope, duration of physical tests for new aircraft"

kanaba — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 14:30:30 +0000

> I'm a mechanical engineer. My point is that stress analysis is the oldest, simplest, and most well understood application of finite element analysis.

I am not a mechanical engineer.

My understanding is that some composite materials used in modern aircraft manufacturing can fail in ways unlike classic aircraft aluminum (i.e. suddenly, without prior visible signs of stress/wear).

Is that relevant here?

New comment by kanaba in "Show HN: Milkshake – Make Websites from a Phone"

kanaba — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:42:23 +0000

It keeps users in the app.