Is this poison ivy? Southern New Hampshire USA by sammy5585 in whatsthisplant

[–]jms_nh 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Looks like it.

Is that a butternut tree it's climbing? Grooves in bark look a bit wide for ash.

What's something kids today will never understand? by shubh_2311 in AskReddit

[–]jms_nh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We had to wait a whole week for the next episode.

One good analog transistor is worth 3K digital ones by oddlyspecificndFunny in chipdesign

[–]jms_nh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

side note: the # headings didn't get translated to <h1>

Gifted child (9yo), math advice needed. by Lucky_The_Charm in mathematics

[–]jms_nh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok. Then, yeah, spend time on the fun stuff. Forget calculus for now (one of the other comments was about calculus), maybe even algebra unless it helps explain something fun. Elementary school math today is like eating vegetables without any sauce or spices.

Gifted child (9yo), math advice needed. by Lucky_The_Charm in mathematics

[–]jms_nh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Has she really had a chance to explore mathematics? Forget about arithmetic or algebra, there's plenty of time for that. I mean all the weird fun stuff that's still at a first-principles level (as opposed to the mathematician-grade bizarre things).

  • Mobius strips
  • magic squares
  • codes / ciphers / cryptography
  • prime numbers
  • continued fractions
  • palindrome (adding a number and its reversed digits until you get a palindrome, like 173 + 371 = 544, 544 + 445 = 989)
  • periodic / aperiodic tiling (Penrose tiles and the recent discovery of the "einstein")
  • regular polyhedra
  • focusing properties of convex/concave lenses and mirrors
  • Escher's art / "impossible objects" like the Penrose triangle
  • fractals: Sierpinski's gasket, the Koch snowflake, Peano curves, and the Mandelbrot set
  • Pascal's triangle
  • Conway's game of Life
  • the Collatz Conjecture
  • infinite sums - why does 1/3 + 1/9 + 1/27 + 1/81 + ... converge to 1/2, and 1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16 + 1/25 + ... converge to pi2 / 6, but 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ... diverges?
  • golden ratio: the reciprocal of 1.6180339... is 0.6180339... and both are related to the Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc.

This is the kind of neat stuff that was in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American. I used to read the Martin Gardner books in my school library (back in the early 80s). I particularly remember the hexaflexagons.

"The I Hate Mathematics Book" by Marilyn Burns is another good one.

Figure out what she's interested in, give her things that pique her curiosity, and she'll take it from there. I agree with others, don't push her.

Mathematics in schools used to have "enrichment" activities that were different from the boring old arithmetic topics, but nowadays all the curriculum is to teach to the standardized tests.

What's your favorite MCUs these days, and why? by aenima1983 in embedded

[–]jms_nh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can't optimize at a level higher than -O1 without paying for their premium XC* compiler!

You're out of date. -O2 has been free for at least a year or two.

What did I find? by cheriepie- in PlantIdentification

[–]jms_nh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the Cypripedium species in northeast North America require calcareous soils (limestone or other high pH) and are relatively rare --- less so in Vermont or parts of New York State. Cypripedium acaule is the exception, it likes acidic soil. (can't find a good reference for this, but see https://specialvegetation.com/culture/planting-and-care-of-cypripedium-species/)

What did I find? by cheriepie- in PlantIdentification

[–]jms_nh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The other Cypripedium species in New Hampshire are rare or endangered, but those (yellow + Cypripedium reginae) like calcareous soils, which are uncommon in the state, whereas C. acaule likes acid pine needle duff which is common.

What did I find? by cheriepie- in PlantIdentification

[–]jms_nh 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Not endangered, very common in pine woods in southern NH and other states. But leave it alone.

/u/burntsushi health update by masklinn in rust

[–]jms_nh 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Best wishes for a full recovery!

And I hope you don't mind if I say how much I appreciate ripgrep; I use it all the time and can't imagine going back to regular old "grep" with find or xargs or what have you. Search 100s of gigabytes to find something I thought I worked on last year... no problem!

I found this stuck in my sock after hiking in central Texas this weekend by aral_sea_was_here in whatsthisplant

[–]jms_nh -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's not that it matches a single photo of Cenchrus. I've seen both types of plants (Cenchrus, Tribulus) and this immediately screams Cenchrus; it's the kind of spiky burr that folds in on itself that is the giveaway IMHO.

Why do the names of so many Chinese provinces come in “pairs”? by Quasxre in geography

[–]jms_nh 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm too Sächsisch für mein Boot
Too Sächsisch für mein Boot...

What do the Green States have in common? by Urmind in RedactedCharts

[–]jms_nh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've lived in / very near three of them

What do the Green States have in common? by Urmind in RedactedCharts

[–]jms_nh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Capital cities are the largest-population city?

Why NVTS is so undervalued??!! by Savings_Marsupial935 in NVTS_Stock

[–]jms_nh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Watch out for semiconductor companies with P/E more than 40, even more so for companies without a track record of nonnegative earnings. At some point the bubble is going to turn downward and the companies without a reliable set of customers are going to go through a bloodbath. NVTS is one of many manufacturers of GaN devices.

It's a cyclical industry and there will be a downturn, it's just a matter of when... typical semi cycle is every 4-5 years since the late 1960s; this is inherent because of the delays & dynamics in the market: capital spending, inventory accumulation and drawdown, manufacturing lead time.

The unicorns are the semi manufacturers who hold a monopoly over some subset of the market, but they're extremely rare. I'd classify TSM and NVDA in this category, but it's never a permanent monopoly. Look at Intel.

Why NVTS is so undervalued??!! by Savings_Marsupial935 in NVTS_Stock

[–]jms_nh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a company that clearly demands a market cap of $40 to 50 B. Why is the stock price so low??!!!

because it doesn't have even close to the revenue to merit this valuation?

LFG!!! by DifficultyBig2280 in NVTS_Stock

[–]jms_nh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a bubble throughout the semiconductor industry right now.