sacredcows | 2 years ago | on: Efinix Titanium Ti375 FPGA offers quad-core hardened RISC-V, PCIe Gen 4, 10GbE
Small correction, the synthesis tool isn't Synplify.
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sacredcows | 2 years ago | on: Why project-based learning fails (2018)
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.
sacredcows | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What news sources do you use to maintain a broad perspective?
The Intercept
sacredcows | 4 years ago | on: Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel
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.
sacredcows | 4 years ago | on: Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel
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.
sacredcows | 4 years ago | on: Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel
To top it all off, Toronto-NY is one of the busiest air routes in the world, by number of scheduled flights.
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
Play Catan online
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing
... then also do push exercises?
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: Launch HN: Aviron (YC W21) – High-Intensity Peloton for Rowing
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.
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
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"
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: Big Tech is America’s new railroad problem (2019)
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.
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'
Your blog says starting Friday, 1st January, 2020. I assume you mean 2021?
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: Farewell, Periscope
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.
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: gping: Ping, but with a graph
We should do gls next
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: Quantum circuit for the fast Fourier transform
Ears
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: South Park creators have new political satire series with AI-generated deepfakes
Awesome, maybe they'll add more climate change denialism into the mainstream /s
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: Wikipedia is getting a new look
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.
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation
Please stop
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: Silicon Valley’s Vast Data Collection Should Worry You More Than TikTok
Take care of the education of your poorest citizens, stop orchestrating coups, stop imprisoning black men en masse, give people single-payer healthcare. Then we can talk about moral high ground.
sacredcows | 5 years ago | on: Docker Releases Plugin for Simplified Deployments into AWS
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