patrickwalton

It would be interesting to see results around what styles and ages of photos people are worse at guess age for on average.

The lab I used to work at is deep in origami-inspired engineering: https://www.compliantmechanisms.byu.edu/

They have resources for anyone wanting to learn more.

Another new resource I've discovered is qubemoney.com. Great way to set a budget and stick to it. They issue a debit card that declines unless you "open" a budget first on the app. That way you always have to think about what you're spending before you spend it and you always know how much you have in your budgets.

One irony between investing and spending is that people often use "investment" to refer to a big expense whether it provides a return or not. It's a dangerous mindset.

Are you thinking I could use the data from the keylogger to script my own typing test? That would work, although a bit more effort than I was hoping for atm.

"background typing test" "in-browser browser typing test" "real-time typing test"

The SEO is pretty strong with "typing test" so that may be my problem.

It would be awesome to find the MIPI CSI (camera interface) standard on sci-hub or libgenesis, but it doesn't seem to be there.

In general, I strongly recommend finding a good therapist. It can take a few tries to find one that works for you, so don't give up if it takes awhile.

To your specific questions, I've had some similar experiences and find that it's helpful to think in smaller terms. Find small things that interest you and explore them without threat or promise or waiting. Also follow the RAIN framework with feelings of envy: recognize, accept, investigate, nurture.

Based on a misreading of the title, I thought this was going to be about organizing what you've learned about other people and how to remember the things that are important to them. That would be really cool.

I have referred back to the three negotiation lessons taught in this NPR Planet Money episode many times: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/12/21/167802325/epis...

Even if code reviewers only made sure the files changed made sense, the reviews would be worth it.

This is where I've found the most value. It's so much more effective to communicate about implementation after the developer has taken a first stab at the problem.

I can't seem to get it to my area. It's in Ireland and I can't find an option to make it go anywhere else.

Except, the article says tables aren't supported, right?

Not just storage, but transmission. From what I understand were far from a plant on the east coast being able to fill needs on the West. Interstate and international transmission lines would solve a lot of problems easier than more storage.

It would also be a lot more compelling to show number of deals. I get the impression it's deal quantity that slows. Size is held as more of a standard.

I've found it helpful to walk while I read difficult material. It makes it harder for me to turn to a distracting website. When I get tired I stop reading and enjoy the scenery for a couple minutes, which helps me feel a little refreshed.

Sometimes I plan to walk somewhere a few hours away. That way I have to keep going.

Good point. Similar situation with compliant mechanisms research. Compliant mechanisms have been around for many decades, but rigorous command of the design of compliant mechanisms has not.

Your link leads to music. Did you mean to link something else?

Beyond all the theoretical implementation complexities of space elevators, we don't even know of a single material with the required tensile strength. Graphene was thought to be strong enough, but recent research found practical graphene had defects that significantly reduces its strength below that required for a space elevator.

Space elevators aren't scrapped, just on the shelf until we even have a material that let's us think they might be feasible. That said, Lunar space elevators could be done with lower-strength materials, like Kevlar, and there are some people working on them.

For Earth orbit, I think the centrifuge concept (e.g. SpinLaunch) has some promise. Still some huge implementation hurdles, but could be a huge step forward to put all of the energy for the first stage on the ground.

This could have an application for licensing satellites in other jurisdictions. Every jurisdiction has different rules, so sometimes you can get an advantage or get done what you need to in a different jurisdiction

"No Rules Rules" by the CEO of Netflix talks about some good antidotes to this problem.

As an object of study Jupiter is definitely unique in our proximity and valuable.

Generally, it seems strange to think some aspect of nature has to be valuable.

The studies mentioned are for supplementation. I'd be interested to see studies on vitamin D benefits through sunlight exposure instead. It may be that these studies are proving not that increasing vitamin D levels can prevent disease, but that supplementation is ineffective.

Can you provide a source for dust on Mars being jagged? If I understand correctly, this is true on the moon where erosive processes weren't present historically. But on Mars, we have ample evidence that they were for millions of years. Also, Mars dust particles are extremely small, with the majority of airborne dust in the 1-10 micron range (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...) although it sounds like sand may be larger (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236899547_The_parti...), but I haven't seen any research on the shape.

There's definitely a lot of need for innovation in CAD, so nice work building and putting something out there.

I don't see any details in the readme. It's kind of hard to evaluate what you've built without them. Care to flush it out or describe more here?

Wouldn't the ocean shield the undersea cables from the storm? Water is supposed to be a good barrier against solar radiation and has been proposed for deep space applications shielding astronauts.

At the moment, we'd pay several X over price versus not being able to find needed ICs at all and having to redesign our satellite for ones that are available.

> It was the most devastating experience of my life and involved all the emotions here: grief, anger, depression, self-blame, guilt, etc. I came to realize that this experience was fairly common for failed founders and business owners but almost NOBODY talked about it, and few people who hadn't been through the experience could understand.

Lessons From a Failed Startup is doing a good job helping people talk about this more: https://open.spotify.com/show/7IE4r9wIpCYbwvwAOcltq4?si=Txqa...

The headline makes this sound really novel, but I see it as another example of governments being out of touch with industry accomplishments when they aren't published in journals (but are available elsewhere). SpaceX has been pushing software updates to the Starlink constellation several times a week for years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/gxypym/starlink_h...