Hacker News: motajaxxer

New comment by motajaxxer in "Ultrafast laser pulses produce a previously unseen phase of matter"

motajaxxer — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:41:08 +0000

Lab experiments involve huge amount of support people who have to do really specific work for each experiment.

New comment by motajaxxer in "Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'"

motajaxxer — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:22:07 +0000

Scientists with grant proposals who are actually making substantial progress, just not enough to give us fusion in next 10 years. But that is also because the problem is really hard.

New comment by motajaxxer in "Why the C++ standard ships every three years"

motajaxxer — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 08:36:04 +0000

ISO generally allows only 5 year cycle. 3 years for C++ is a special case. Furthermore, the bureaucratic overhead will dominate the proceedings then (not unlike thread thrashing).