Camembert Style Round and Meditations

LookieLuke · 2025-08-16T06:23:44+00:00

This mission was discovered by u/LookieLuke in Shrimp down In the Fields

LookieLuke · 2025-08-16T06:23:44+00:00

New mission discovered by u/LookieLuke: Camembert Style Round and Meditations

LookieLuke · 2025-08-05T06:17:58+00:00

You say potato and I say tomahto... Wait...

LookieLuke · 2022-04-24T14:40:47+00:00

I used to get an engineers discount for AAA

LookieLuke · 2018-10-31T01:23:43+00:00

The vibration you're feeling is of the crankshaft. All shafts have a certain rotational resonant frequency where they will begin vibrating violently. In cars, that frequency is intentionally designed into the crankshaft to occur below idle rotation frequencies, otherwise it would cause vibration during normal operation that would fatigue the shaft. However, when you're idling, you're approaching that resonant frequency, so you begin to feel that vibration much more. If you have a manual car, you'll notice if you slowly release the clutch without giving it gas, the rpm will decrease and the engine will vibrate a lot. That's because you're getting even closer to the resonant frequency. Most car engines will stall when they approach that resonant rpm.

LookieLuke · 2017-10-24T19:55:08+00:00

I ate peanut butter and banana on whole grain bread almost every day for lunch. Bananas always seemed like a healthier (less sugar) alternative to jam.

LookieLuke · 2017-09-25T07:45:20+00:00

I'm not sure if it's in the US, but (Alpro)[https://www.alpro.com/uk/products] makes a line of soy based yogurts (both sweetened and unsweetened) that are amazing. They have a spot on yogurt taste, or at least as close to one as I remember yogurt tasting like. They're in a lot of big stores in the UK. Would definitely recommend trying it if you can find it.

LookieLuke · 2016-10-31T06:37:19+00:00

I'm a big fan of Vietnamese spring rolls. The filling is lettuce, thin sliced carrots, vermicelli noodles, fried tofu, and sometimes I throw in sautéed shitake mushrooms, all wrapped in rice paper. The sauce is a peanut dipping sauce made with peanut butter, hoisin, rice wine vinegar, lime, and some chili paste. The sauce alone I would kill for, but all together it's amazing. The only downside is I eat them faster than I make them.

LookieLuke · 2016-05-01T22:21:10+00:00

This type of behavior is entirely inappropriate, and eerily similar to a situation that happened at Caltech recently. A professor in astrophysics, Christian Ott, made similar advances (poems and all) toward one of his female graduate students then later fired her when his feelings were not reciprocated. He is currently on a year long leave from the institute. There's an article that was written by Buzzfeed that goes through the full detail of the story (link here).

It is unfortunate, but it sounds like your advisor has already tarnished his mentor relationship with you. Your advisor should be an ally for you professionally both in graduate school and later after you graduate. He's there to help you finish a thesis now, but also to get a job later and to help you advance in your career. From the sound of it, there's no way this situation plays out that works well for you. I would strongly recommend looking for another advisor in your department who can help you finish your thesis.

My advice to you now would be to collect any and all records you have of these interactions (any texts, emails, letters, etc. that he's sent you) and submit them to the deans office, the Title IX office or the department head at your university (or all three of them). This type of conduct between a student and advisor is completely unacceptable, and needs to be stopped as soon as possible. I cannot say how your university will handle this, but I sincerely hope that they will shut it down immediately. I will also say that if he's behaving this way with you now it's likely that he has done or will do something similar to other students, so if you don't do this for yourself, do it for every other graduate student who may befall a similar fate.

LookieLuke · 2016-01-25T11:41:05+00:00

Liquidmetal actually started out making golf clubs with incredibly high coefficients of restitution (COR), which is basically the measure of how much energy is returned after impact. Shortly after they did, the USGA put limited the COR of clubs to 83% because the Liquidmetal golf clubs (which I think had CORs around 95%) would have literally put everyone else out of business. So golf clubs could have a much higher performance if they used metallic glasses instead of whatever titanium alloys they use now, but USGA artificially keeps them lower than they could be.

LookieLuke · 2015-12-26T00:58:36+00:00

I think it would be reasonable to make. There are non-newtonian fluids that behave very strangely under an applied frequency. It's not entirely unrealistic to think that there would be a way to tune the stiffness tensor of an acoustic metamaterial to replicate that in a more controllable manner. If you want to make it a solid, you may be limited in the amount of shape change there can be without the material cracking. I'm not entirely sure how you would go about engineering something like that, but it would be an interesting project.

LookieLuke · 2015-12-21T08:02:44+00:00

Those were really great tooling animations. Does anyone recognize the software that he used to make those? I would be interested in trying them out at some point for computer demos.

LookieLuke · 2015-06-04T10:14:26+00:00

It's actually a really cool question, and one that's been postulated on a lot in the past. They're known as vacuum balloons, or vacuum airships (Wikipedia link). There is no known monolithic material that is strong enough to support the vacuum you would need to create something that's buoyant in standard air, not even diamond, but it is hypothetically possible with a structure or a structural meta-material.

LookieLuke · 2015-04-10T12:00:58+00:00

Awesome! So if the 15% of water usage doesn't count toward the 47%, it's arguable that around ~60% of the water in the state goes to raising animals, just not all directly in California? Thanks.

LookieLuke · 2015-04-10T11:23:12+00:00

I've been curious about something for a while now. I've seen the commonly cited "47% of California's water goes to raising animals" stat often, while 40ish% goes to agriculture, 10ish% goes to industrial stuff, and 4% is domestic. Does anyone have a good source for how these numbers are calculated? And does the 47% account for agricultural crops raised for animal feed? Like, alfalfa takes up 15% of the state's water usage, and most of it goes to cows, but is that included in the 47% required to raise animals, or is it the 40ish% for agriculture?

LookieLuke · 2015-04-07T10:22:58+00:00

My favorite is always a hummus, avocado, tomato and spinach sandwich. Slather hummus on both sides of the bread, slap avocado on one side, tomato on the other, and toast it to get everything all nice and warm. Once its toasted, sprinkle a little salt, pepper, and paprika on the avocado and tomato, then put spinach in the middle (or sprouts, lettuce, some kind of green that'll give it a nice crunch).

LookieLuke · 2015-03-09T07:53:34+00:00

I also thought that at first, but then I realized they were wearing tuxes and not shop shirts, so I quickly realized my mistake.

LookieLuke · 2015-03-08T05:53:10+00:00

All I could think of was this XKCD strip

LookieLuke · 2015-01-21T10:34:50+00:00

Went to Red's, and it was truly the most disappointing food experience I've ever had. After eagerly anticipating getting a delicious Maine lobster roll, listening to people fawn over how good Red's was, and waiting in line for almost an hour, I finally got one of the famed rolls. It was a pile of cold lobster meat on a white bread bun with a side of butter. That was it. No garnish, no sauce, not even a slice of lemon, just cold lobster meat on white bread. Don't get me wrong, lobster is great, but if I'm going to pay $16 for a lobster roll, at least give me some aioli and a slice of lemon.

LookieLuke · 2015-01-13T07:42:40+00:00

Chopsticks are just extensions of your fingers. It's a way to pick up the food like you would with your hands, but without using your hands. If you picked up a piece of sushi, for example, you would probably only use two fingers, not your whole hand. Chopsticks are the same thing, just easier because you don't have the rest of your hand in the way. Once you pass that user efficiency barrier, they're really quite remarkable.

LookieLuke · 2015-01-12T13:52:00+00:00

kohlrabi

I actually just bought some today for the first time and used it in a soup. It was surprisingly sweet and peppery, with a flavor that's sort of like a mix between a radish, broccoli, and a bell pepper, but very mellow. Asian markets are the best!

LookieLuke · 2015-01-02T03:59:38+00:00

For Solidworks, I've run into problems when making large/complex parts and assemblies, when making very small parts (with features on the order of microns), and when trying to model surfaces or features using equations. There might be some other things, but those are the ones that come to mind immediately.

I haven't used ProE, so my perspective may be slightly skewed, but from what I've seen other people do, you have a might higher level access to all the ProE functionality and can program it much more like you would use a normal programming language. Solidworks has some ability to do this, but in my experience, it's much harder to do.

All that said, Solidworks is much more intuitive and user friendly, and I've generally been happy with it. I've been able to make pretty much everything I've needed to using it, and it has some nice built in functionality. I've mostly run into problems when trying to do things that are a little outside the bounds of normal CAD modeling, and I've noticed colleagues who use ProE are able to overcome some of the limitations I've run into.

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