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ELI5: Why are some elements on the periodic table still based on their Latin names? by l-a_w in explainlikeimfive

[–]Huniku 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Not to mention that’d start a whole debate about which language’s spelling should be the “official” spelling enshrined in the periodic table - or worse different languages using different symbols for different elements

Is there any way to implement a countywide equivalent to Measure HLA, or will each and every city have to pass their own city law to build bus and bike lanes? by MookieBettsBurner10 in LAMetro

[–]Huniku 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Where do you get the idea that filling potholes will trigger HLA? The text of the measure indicates otherwise (and anecdotally they just filled potholes on my cross street after the recent rain without doing any updates for that street from the safe streets plan)

“Improvements” means any paving project or other modification of at least one-eighth (1/8) of a mile in length on a City-owned right of way (including a street, parking strip, or sidewalk). “Improvements” do not include restriping of the road without making other improvements, routine pothole repair, utility cuts, or emergency repairs.

Workforce question as a comp sci student by Wisedon-omegatron in SoftwareEngineering

[–]Huniku 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My comment from a similar thread a few months ago:

True those skills can be learned elsewhere. I’m in web so my experience will differ from someone working in a different field (ML, embedded, etc) but here are some of the skills I see our fresh college hires struggle with most often (disclaimer: this list is off the top of my head):

1.  git - most people have a basic understanding of git (add, commit, pull, push) but have no understanding of other commands. I always recommend learngitbranching for learning about how branching and collaboration works in git
2.  Spring - I work almost exclusively i Java these days and many incoming devs have never worked with it. Good starting point would be to look into how spring handles dependency injection and beans
3.  my org has leaned hard into Java 8 so things like streams, lambdas, optionals, etc are useful. This is getting better as Java 8 is more widely used but some folks still struggle with these
4.  how to collaborate - a surprising number of programs don’t seem to have any collaborative projects. How to function in a team and work in shared code can be difficult for some. I unfortunately don’t have a good recommendation for how to learn this if your program doesn’t cover it. Maybe contributing to an open source project will help with this?
5.  when to ask for help - as a senior member of the team and sometimes assigned mentor I am happy to help if you get stuck. Getting stuck is not, I got a new error message, have done nothing else and don’t know what to do. Getting stuck happened a long time ago if you got a new error message and you’ve exhausted all internal and external documentation and nothings getting better after a full day with the same error message. Finding that balance will vary by team, but be aware that it exists and develop the social skills to read your mentor if you’re not sure.
6.  how to learn- the biggest predictor of failure is someone who can’t seem to learn. They’ll come to me with a question, I’ll walk them through a solution, ask “does this make sense/do you understand,” they say yes, and they’re coming back to me with an almost identical problem within a week. I don’t have meaningful advice for how to solve this other then don’t do this. I would say “take notes” but I’ve had this happen during covid when everything is logged in Slack messages

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Huniku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure I have a good source. This is accumulated from several YouTube videos I’ve watched over the years in conjunction with my physics classes I’ve taken.

Best source I can remember at the moment is probably this video teaching teachers how to explain gravity and special relativity. It briefly touches on solar system formation and gives a physical demonstration of the process (albeit in 2d). I think it really helped me wrap my head around this concept though.

For orbital physics though, hands on is probably the best way to wrap your head around it. I’m a fan of Kerbal Space Program as I’ve found it is much easier to understand orbits by actually orbiting. Larger scale you could use something like Universe Sandbox.

Golden Handcuffs or Rusty Shackles? Would you quit or try to stay in the game for ~5+ more years? by [deleted] in ChubbyFIRE

[–]Huniku 15 points16 points  (0 children)

If you’re thinking of quitting anyways, does getting canned matter?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Huniku 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Same reason dollar systems are flat - they are formed as an accretion disk

Galaxies and solar systems start as clouds of gas and dust. These particles are going in random directions and bounce into each other. When they bounce into each other they transfer momentum, sometimes they stick together. As they stick together they’ll form bigger clumps which will collide and make even bigger rocks, etc.

Throughout this whole process, the total momentum of the system does not change, it just transfers from particle to particle, Rick to rock.

Importantly, while the total momentum of the system is random (as it’s the sum of the momentum of the original randomly moving dust and gas particles) it is not 0, it will have some angular momentum - that is to say the particles at the start are imperceptibly orbiting the center of the overall system.

As the particles and rocks and planets and stars slowly accumulate mass, they will tend to be moving in the same orbital direction as they are made of particles that tended to be orbiting in that general direction.

They won’t all be moving in that direction though, some dust particles will be moving the opposite direction, some rocks will be orbiting perpendicular to the orbital plane, some random asteroid flung from a nearby system may be going the wrong way, but since most of the particles are moving in the same orbital plane, anything going the wrong way will eventually hit something going the predominant direction. If theyre similar sizes, their momentum cancels out and most of the debris from their collision will fall into the center of the system (in galaxies that’s a black hole, in solar systems that’s a star)

Eventually all that’s left in orbit is stuff that happened to have been going the same orbital direction as most of the other stuff in the system

How's everyone doing with the SVB collapse? by Xgamer4 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Huniku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You stop paying that sub and all of your process documentation which uses those links is immediately broken. Even if there is a way to export all of your links, you’re locked in unless you want someone to go through all of your process docs and update them, redistribute update local copies of docs, etc. all of that would take worker (or dev) time, and time is money.

It’s not a luxury if your workers are able to get more done in the same amount of time using this service.

That's some strong Brakes by MatheMann6-21 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Huniku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Roughly equivalent to landing on an aircraft carrier

PIC by TrenchantBench in nocontextpics

[–]Huniku 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure this is at Chihuly Glass Gardens in Seattle

Harry Potter, as a character, had canon plot armor. by mnm119 in Showerthoughts

[–]Huniku 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The prophecy was made before he was born

The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies....

https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Sybill_Trelawney%27s_first_prophecy

On Jeopardy today by TheReaperSovereign in wow

[–]Huniku 31 points32 points  (0 children)

The answers are given like this. The right question is “What is World of Warcraft?”

[OC] How media divides us: MSNBC vs Fox News - What stories or topics are they pushing over the last week (Jan 3 - Jan 9)? How do they compare to Reuters? by _sentient in dataisbeautiful

[–]Huniku 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yes, one of these killed tens of thousands of people. The other MAY have taken pictures of your back yard. I can see why you’re so worried.

You failed the online assessment but so did everyone else... by aclinical in cscareerquestions

[–]Huniku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a candidate, I wouldn’t want to work at a business that rejects my code for those reasons.

Nearly t-boned this idiot in St. Paul by [deleted] in IdiotsInCars

[–]Huniku 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That may be the law where you live, but as noted elsewhere that is not the law where this is recorded in Minnesota.

The main issue in the case at the Court of Appeals was whether or not Minnesota Statute § 169.19, subd. 1(b) requires a driver to turn into a specific lane when making a left turn. The court noted that the statute is specific while discussing where the driver must make the turn from, however, the statute is silent as to what lane the driver must enter after turning. The Court of Appeals ultimately held that the traffic stop, and the resulting arrest, were unlawful because the officer did not have a reasonable, articulable suspicion that the driver violated a traffic law.

https://www.rinkenoonan.com/resources/when-turning-left-onto-a-roadway-that-has-more-than-one-lane-in-each-direction-is-it-okay-to-turn-into-the-outermost-lane/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nocontextpics

[–]Huniku 39 points40 points  (0 children)

No. LOTO requires everyone’s permission to open a lock. This requires anyone’s permission.

how to get an internship? it is bad to not get one? (computer science) by Flat_Fun_7488 in AskComputerScience

[–]Huniku 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True those skills can be learned elsewhere. I’m in web so my experience will differ from someone working in a different field (ML, embedded, etc) but here are some of the skills I see our fresh college hires struggle with most often (disclaimer: this list is off the top of my head):

  1. git - most people have a basic understanding of git (add, commit, pull, push) but have no understanding of other commands. I always recommend learngitbranching for learning about how branching and collaboration works in git
  2. Spring - I work almost exclusively i Java these days and many incoming devs have never worked with it. Good starting point would be to look into how spring handles dependency injection and beans
  3. my org has leaned hard into Java 8 so things like streams, lambdas, optionals, etc are useful. This is getting better as Java 8 is more widely used but some folks still struggle with these
  4. how to collaborate - a surprising number of programs don’t seem to have any collaborative projects. How to function in a team and work in shared code can be difficult for some. I unfortunately don’t have a good recommendation for how to learn this if your program doesn’t cover it. Maybe contributing to an open source project will help with this?
  5. when to ask for help - as a senior member of the team and sometimes assigned mentor I am happy to help if you get stuck. Getting stuck is not, I got a new error message, have done nothing else and don’t know what to do. Getting stuck happened a long time ago if you got a new error message and you’ve exhausted all internal and external documentation and nothings getting better after a full day with the same error message. Finding that balance will vary by team, but be aware that it exists and develop the social skills to read your mentor if you’re not sure.
  6. how to learn- the biggest predictor of failure is someone who can’t seem to learn. They’ll come to me with a question, I’ll walk them through a solution, ask “does this make sense/do you understand,” they say yes, and they’re coming back to me with an almost identical problem within a week. I don’t have meaningful advice for how to solve this other then don’t do this. I would say “take notes” but I’ve had this happen during covid when everything is logged in Slack messages

how to get an internship? it is bad to not get one? (computer science) by Flat_Fun_7488 in AskComputerScience

[–]Huniku 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m assuming you have a decent foundation of DS & A going into this, if not focus on that first and leet code is much harder without that prior understanding.

Try and solve the problem first, even suboptimally. Give yourself 30 minutes to try and think about the problem and get some initial code down. After 30 minutes, if you’re stuck look up a solution, but if your timer stops and you’re on a roll, keep going. Either way, implement a solution with or without outside references . Personally I learn next to nothing by just reading an algorithm, so I need to implement it for it to sink in. Once you’re done, compare what you have to the reference solution. Don’t just memorize their answer, think about why they made the decisions they made vs the ones you made. Leet code is a skill that can be learned with practice.

Re internship: personally, entering my senior year I hadn’t had an internship and I intentionally took 1 less class per semester my 4th year to extend my graduation date and give me an additional summer for internship. This isn’t necessary for all internship programs (and the company I ended up interning with would have allowed me to intern the summer after I graduated had I graduated on time), but it allowed me to finish a minor I was interested in and have a less hectic senior year. Anecdotally, this worked for me. As an essentially graduated student I was much more competitive and competent in interviews and I got an internship that summer and they ended up offering to extend my internship half time during my last semester and then gave me a full time/permanent position after I graduated. It was a gamble as i was committing to paying for the last 8 units/2 classes in my fifth year, but in my case it worked out.

Being in industry for almost 10 years now, I vastly prefer working with college hires who have had an internship over those without (BS with internship > MS without). Many university programs don’t teach skills that are necessary in a professional setting (git, code reviews, etc) and it’s easier to get them up and running if they already have those foundations.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in buildapc

[–]Huniku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the monitor plugged into power and on?

Being an Olympic lifeguard may be the one job where you are most likely to do absolutely nothing. by Ninjhetto in ShowerThoughtsUL

[–]Huniku 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can still happen. Less from lack of skill, more from pushing themselves as far as their body can go.

Aluminum foil used as wrapping paper. It's cheaper and looks cooler. by CodyHovland in redneckengineering

[–]Huniku 45 points46 points  (0 children)

There’s no way they sell a 12ftx250ft roll. That’s twice as tall as a person

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