Hacker News: lucioperca

New comment by lucioperca in "NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade"

lucioperca — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:00:53 +0000

Nice, but maybe it would have been better to launch a rocket a day to keep the cost away.

New comment by lucioperca in "As IBM pushes for automation, its AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff"

lucioperca — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:28:55 +0000

AI=Actually Indians?

New comment by lucioperca in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

lucioperca — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:55:19 +0000

The company was just an letter box. Apollo HongKong produced these devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x50wwGjX2Ao

New comment by lucioperca in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

lucioperca — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:51:54 +0000

I guess with QR-Code Menus, Smartphones replacing their tech almost everywhere, Starlink etc. they where happy to take any revenue.

New comment by lucioperca in "alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv"

lucioperca — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:59:47 +0000

Probably it would be better to merge the project with Arxiv and tie it to the accounts there.

New comment by lucioperca in "Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch"

lucioperca — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:37:53 +0000

Tip: Instead of soldering I use splicing connectors with levers for testing stuff like this out. For example:

https://www.wago.com/de-en/c/installation-terminal-blocks-an...

New comment by lucioperca in "Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world"

lucioperca — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:11:11 +0000

Install this, instead of a light in the bathroom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod

New comment by lucioperca in "Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world"

lucioperca — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:10:07 +0000

You could improve the grounding instead of spending time making such a light.

New comment by lucioperca in "Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world"

lucioperca — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 08:05:54 +0000

Let me tell you about the flesh-eating bacteria living in your sponge. You better microwave it beforehand.

New comment by lucioperca in "AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level"

lucioperca — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:13:16 +0000

https://github.com/leela-zero/leela-zero

You can just use another implementation nowadays.

New comment by lucioperca in "AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level"

lucioperca — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:39:28 +0000

You can also verify software like compilers in Lean:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/lean-into-verified-s...

New comment by lucioperca in "Cities need more trees"

lucioperca — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 09:18:43 +0000

Privatisation gone wrong!

New comment by lucioperca in "The return of pneumatic tubes"

lucioperca — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:25:42 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33R6eoPoczs

New comment by lucioperca in "Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008)"

lucioperca — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 11:16:50 +0000

I guess this is similar:

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

New comment by lucioperca in "Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta"

lucioperca — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:16:08 +0000

Nitrogen can also be replenished by crop rotation. Legumes will naturally add nitrogen back.

New comment by lucioperca in "A company is building a giant compressed-air battery in the Australian outback"

lucioperca — Mon, 06 May 2024 09:43:07 +0000

isn't that used when decompressing the air, i.e. closed loop

New comment by lucioperca in "How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?"

lucioperca — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 13:18:18 +0000

Correct me if I am wrong, but this was in a cut limestone plate. So if it was a crime, I am sure the murderer is long deceased and probably not even a homo sapiens.

New comment by lucioperca in "A tiny ultrabright laser that can melt steel"

lucioperca — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:12:36 +0000

A dutch women told me once a story, where she but a used bike in Amsterdam and the heroin addict who sold it to her, threaten her to steal it again, if she does not use a heavy lock.

New comment by lucioperca in "Seattle shuts down gifted program for having too many white and Asian students"

lucioperca — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 07:37:50 +0000

If they would really like to help urban poor people, they would need to fix housing, affordable childcare, food deserts etc.

New comment by lucioperca in "HIV in cell culture can be completely eliminated using CRISPR-Cas gene editing [pdf]"

lucioperca — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:28:10 +0000

or mRNA