List of companies by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Parabolic partial differential equation by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Cross polytope by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Examples: square, octahedron.
Take and flip one of 0's to . Therefore has vertices.
Each edge E is linked to every other edge, except it's opposite -E.
Ciro Santilli's father by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Kitchen tap by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Polytechnique USB flash drives by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
~8GB, lsblk reports 7796176 * 1KB = 7983284224 bytes.
We got a handful of those from École Polytechnique at the end of studies I think.
They are shaped like bicornes, which is super cool, but also super impractical!
Markings: "AX ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE PROMOTION X2009"
20.04 gnome-disks program reports it as: "SMI USB DISK".
From Ubuntu 20.04 on an ext4 formatted one:
/dev/sdb:
 Timing cached reads:   28656 MB in  1.99 seconds = 14421.31 MB/sec
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 Timing buffered disk reads:  42 MB in  3.03 seconds =  13.88 MB/sec
With Linux Unified Key Setup + ext4 the results are similar, maybe hdparam bypasses it?
/dev/sdb:
 Timing cached reads:   28326 MB in  1.99 seconds = 14251.55 MB/sec
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 Timing buffered disk reads:  38 MB in  3.11 seconds =  12.23 MB/sec
gnome-disks LUKS + ext4 benchmark with default params also gives about 14 MB/s.
Good film by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Try to fix your own bike before taking it to the shop by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Sometimes you get annoyed to death with your bike not breaking or changing gears perfectly as you would like, and the people at the bike shop never do the job well enough.
The problem with bike shops is that the employees are already swamped with work, and they don't get paid any extra for doing more work.
As a result, paradoxically, they are often happier, and respect you more if you are trying to get them to help you to fix your own bike!
Also, for the same reason, they don't have the time to go for a quick test ride after a fix to ensure that the bug was actually fixed.
So they ignore things that would obviously be huge ridability benefits (although they might not be obvious to newbie customers), for which customers would gladly pay more money for.
But you start to learn how to do stuff yourself and it feel amazing when you finally get there (after infinite trial and error).
Ciro dreams of a bike shop that actually calls you for the appointment and then teaches you how to fix the thing.
So the best strategy is to have a backup bicycle, and when your main one breaks, you just try to to the fix yourself. That means:
  • identifying the broken piece
  • watching YouTube videos of how to do the job
  • buying a replacement and any missing tools on Amazon
  • giving it a shot
Then, if you fail to do the fix, that is OK, just take it to the bike shop, with the piece you've bought, and ask them to do it for you. At least this way you did not waste a golden opportunity to learn!
Solder by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Chinese punctuation by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ionic compound by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
ASCII by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Cell cycle by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Single cell analysis by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jIZ3bH-rAE "Illuminating biology at the nanoscale and systems scale using single-molecule and super-resolution imaging" by Xiaowei Zhuang (2017)
Countable set by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Anti-cancer mechanism by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
FASTA format by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Cosmic microwave background by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
If you point a light detector to any empty area of the sky, you will still get some light.
The existence of this is quite mind blowing, since "there is nothing there emitting that light".
To make sense of how it is possible to see this light, you can think of the universe as the expanding raisin bread model, but it expands faster than light (thus the existence of the cosmological event horizon), so we are still receiving light form the middle, not the borders.
CMB is basically perfectly black-body radiation at 2.725 48 K, but it has small variations with variations of the order of 200 microKelvin: cosmic microwave background anisotropy.
Heterotroph by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Big Dipper by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created

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