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New comment by sacredcows in "H.264 Is Magic (2016)"

sacredcows — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:29:21 +0000

This reminds me of that old nursery rhyme. Billy was a chemist's son, but Billy is no more, what he thought was H2O was H.264

New comment by sacredcows in "Efinix Titanium Ti375 FPGA offers quad-core hardened RISC-V, PCIe Gen 4, 10GbE"

sacredcows — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:46:21 +0000

Small correction, the synthesis tool isn't Synplify.

Uncle Magazine: First magazine for uncles, by uncles

sacredcows — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:11:48 +0000

Article URL: http://unclemag.com/#summer_issue

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36818146

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New comment by sacredcows in "Why project-based learning fails (2018)"

sacredcows — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:58:49 +0000

Completing a big project changed my life- it taught me so much about my field, showed employers evidence that I was capable, and gave me confidence. Granted, it took a lot of half-completed projects to get me there.

New comment by sacredcows in "Ask HN: What news sources do you use to maintain a broad perspective?"

sacredcows — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:12:46 +0000

The Intercept

New comment by sacredcows in "Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel"

sacredcows — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 20:16:39 +0000

Trains are more energy-efficient than buses, have lower operating costs (especially if electric), more comfortable. In terms of light rail vs bus however >easy rerouting to more busy lines ... you can just increase frequency >not blocked if one in front breaks down This is a risk, but generally the idea is to do enough preventative maintenance so that this doesn't happen and to have sufficient crossover switches to work around this >Resale to other bus lines It's best to just use your vehicles until EOL, Toronto used their last generation LRVs for decades- far longer than a bus would last. >Less upfront cost That's REALLY not a benefit. This is why American infrastructure is failing: a failure to consider maintenance cost or have any long-term thinking. The bus can not really get more comfortable. Drive on a smooth road and have a great suspension system: it'll still be less comfortable than a smooth ride on a train.

This whole "one mode to rule them all" attitude- common in American news media- is toxic. Cars, trains, buses, planes, and more all have their place.

New comment by sacredcows in "Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel"

sacredcows — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 20:06:16 +0000

Trains have improved dramatically, but Americans haven't been paying attention and haven't changed anything about them in 100 years (in fact, they reverted by removing formerly electrified lines). Trains are a proven technology- highly energy-efficient and more pleasant to ride than a car or a bus.

New comment by sacredcows in "Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel"

sacredcows — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 20:00:24 +0000

To top it all off, Toronto-NY is one of the busiest air routes in the world, by number of scheduled flights.

New comment by sacredcows in "Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?"

sacredcows — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:36:01 +0000

Play Catan online

New comment by sacredcows in "Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing"

sacredcows — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 15:03:36 +0000

... then also do push exercises?

New comment by sacredcows in "Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing"

sacredcows — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 04:43:30 +0000

How does it falsify that claim? 480 watts is 480 watts. That's an equivalent unit to calories per minute. In rowing, the recovery phase outputs no power but requires some power input.

New comment by sacredcows in "Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?"

sacredcows — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 04:15:28 +0000

My favourite: "guys isn't it crazy how now we use on ehow we use 'google ' as a word now? all the time back in my day we didn't do that that's new"

New comment by sacredcows in "Big Tech is America’s new railroad problem (2019)"

sacredcows — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 16:45:56 +0000

Rail in the U.S. is the best freight rail system in the world. Europe boasts a great passenger network but fares poorly when it comes to freight. For America to be great in both sectors, busy corridors should be dedicated to one use or the other (e.g. Northeast corridor, California, etc.). Success in having highly efficient freight systems and highly efficient passenger systems are pretty much orthogonal.

New comment by sacredcows in "Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'"

sacredcows — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:14:45 +0000

Your blog says starting Friday, 1st January, 2020. I assume you mean 2021?

New comment by sacredcows in "Farewell, Periscope"

sacredcows — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 21:34:31 +0000

I’ve never used periscope but a few years ago I was at a comedy festival. There was this guy in the audience who was being obnoxious, and when Jeff Ross confronted him, the audience member said he was streaming the show on Periscope. He eventually got booed out of the hall.

New comment by sacredcows in "gping: Ping, but with a graph"

sacredcows — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 23:49:06 +0000

We should do gls next

New comment by sacredcows in "Quantum circuit for the fast Fourier transform"

sacredcows — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:20:01 +0000

Ears

New comment by sacredcows in "South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes"

sacredcows — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:47:21 +0000

Awesome, maybe they'll add more climate change denialism into the mainstream /s

New comment by sacredcows in "Wikipedia is getting a new look"

sacredcows — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 04:50:10 +0000

I always use the left-hand side bar. Switching between different languages (and being able to see which languages each article is written in) is important for multilinguals. And the “random” button is great.

New comment by sacredcows in "Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation"

sacredcows — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 20:58:33 +0000

Please stop