brak2718's comments

brak2718 | 3 years ago | on: Random Google Street View

https://www.globegenie.com/ has been around for a super long time.

brak2718 | 3 years ago | on: 867-5309 in All US and Canadian Area Codes

thanks you jerk now I have this song stuck in my head for the next 20 hours

brak2718 | 4 years ago | on: Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer

Intelligence is many, many dimensional. Leetcode isn't capturing it.

brak2718 | 9 years ago | on: Ghost Robotics' Minitaur Quadruped Conquers Stairs, Doors, Fences

A similar concept -- variable compliance -- that's been around for a while is called series elastic actuators. With geared motors you think in terms of position and speed. With direct drive or series elastic you are instead controlling torque.

brak2718 | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you deal with getting older?

My body decays faster than the rate at which I change my unhealthy habits.

I have too much experience now to know that many ideas & projects will be expensive or impossible ... kids don't have that limitation.

brak2718 | 10 years ago | on: Physical Intuition, Not Mathematics (2011)

The technique served me very well doing physics and engineering in an earlier life. I struggle now with the chaos of software systems because I'm unable to "feel" what's going on.

brak2718 | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Random Street View

This site does the same thing and has been around atleast a few years: http://www.globegenie.com/