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<p>170 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32021269">29 comments</a></p>Hailstones2022-07-06T18:43:26.041000Zxkcd (whatif@xkcd.com)https://what-if.xkcd.com/159/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p id="question">My 4 year old son and I were wondering about soccer ball sized hail today. How much damage would a hail storm with size 5 soccer ball sized hail do?</p>
<p id="attribute">Michael Grill</p>
<p>When you think about it, it's honestly kind of weird that hailstones haven't killed all of us already. I mean, they're chunks of ice that plunge from the sky!</p>
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<p>Hailstones fall from really high up. There's a popular myth that a penny dropped from the Empire State Building can kill you. The myth isn't true,<span>[1]</span> but for anyone who believes it, hailstones should be terrifying—after all, they often fall from the height of <em>ten</em> Empire State Buildings.</p>
<img class="illustration" src="https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/159/tenempire.png" title="I know modern skyscrapers are extremely safe, but I would be pretty nervous going up that one." />
<p>Luckily, the same thing that saves us from falling pennies also generally protects us from hailstones: Air resistance. As they fall, both pennies and hailstones quickly reach terminal velocity, the speed at which drag balances out gravity and prevents them from speeding up any more. For a small hailstone the size of a pea or a marble, terminal velocity might be only 10 or 20 miles per hour, the speed of an object tossed across a room. Getting hit by them isn't comfortable, but it's not likely to cause serious injury.<span>[2]</span></p>
<img class="illustration" src="https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/159/bonk.png" title="ISO standard impact speed calibration method, developed by an ISO employee who everyone else at the office hates" />
<p>Large hailstones travel much faster than small ones and can be a lot more dangerous. The terminal velocity of a golf-ball-sized hailstone is about 60 miles per hour,<span>[3]</span> which could easily cause serious injury. Large hailstorms often cause <a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=hail+car+windows">extreme damage to cars</a>, and the largest hailstones can be deadly. A <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WEATHER/07/22/weather.china.hail/">storm in China in 2002</a> dropped egg-sized and baseball-sized hailstones that killed several dozen people and hospitalized many others.</p>
<p>Luckily, deaths from hail aren't very common, for two main reasons: First, because hailstones big enough to be deadly are rare, and second, because when there's a thunderstorm severe enough to produce such large hail, people generally try to take shelter.</p>
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<p>A hailstone the size and shape of a regulation soccer ball would be more than twice the weight of the heaviest hailstones on record. It would have a terminal velocity of roughly 140 miles per hour, which is really fast. If one of them hit your car, it wouldn't just dent the body or crack the windshield, it could punch right through the roof. Sheltering indoors might not be enough to protect you, unless you had a particularly sturdy roof or possibly several floors above you.</p>
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<p>When a hailstorm is nearby, it's good to take shelter even if you're not right below the storm. As a hailstone forms in a thunderstorm updraft, it bounces around like popcorn in a popcorn machine. Usually, it falls out of the bottom of the storm, but sometimes it's ejected out of the top or sides, then carried by wind to fall some distance from the storm. Aircraft flying near thunderstorms have been hit by hail when they have nothing but blue sky above them.</p>
<img class="illustration" src="https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/159/popcorn.png" title="pop pop pop pop" />
<p>Real hailstones, especially large ones, aren't round like a soccer ball. As they tumble around in a thunderstorm, they grow via water freezing onto their sides. If they have a lump on one side, the protrusion can collect more water and grow faster than the areas around it, forming a blobby appendage. Liquid water can also run out to the edges of a rotating hailstone and freeze, forming icicle-like features.</p>
<img class="illustration" src="https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/159/lobes.png" title="Hailstones are bouba" />
<p>The weird shapes of large hailstones are good news for us ground-dwellers with breakable bones, because these protrusions tend to increase their drag and lower their terminal velocity.</p>
<p>But the weird shapes of hailstones also raises an interesting possibility. If a hailstone had just the right combination of lobes, it's possible—if unlikely—that it might happen to form a lifting body. This strange category of aircraft—which includes the Space Shuttle, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_M2-F1">M2-F1</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Chaser">Dream Chaser</a>—can be unexpectedly aerodynamic despite their compact shapes, capable of gliding or even swoops.</p>
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<p>It's unlikely that any gliding hail has ever been observed, but in the 4 billion years that Earth has had water and thunderstorms, there have probably been some pretty strange hailstones. Not only has there likely been one the <em>size</em> of a soccer ball ...</p>
<img class="illustration" src="https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/159/soccer.png" title="Goooooooooal" />
<p>... there might even have been one able to score a goal.</p><p>[1] Mythbusters tried it in Season 1 Episode 7 and found that the penny would really sting and make you go "ow!!"</p><p>[2] While dropping a penny on someone from the height of the Empire State Building wouldn't kill them, dropping the Empire State Building on a them from the height of a penny <em>would</em>, as demonstrated by the tragic demise of Jebediah Mythbuster in the pilot episode of the show eventually named in his memory.</p><p>[3] A little slower than an actual golf ball, thanks to the golf ball's greater weight and those weird drag-reducing dimples.</p>72 – Windows' Undocumented “Emergency Restart”2022-07-06T07:23:52.879000Zjonathantf2https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/vqcf67/windows_undocumented_emergency_restart/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>72 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31989552">32 comments</a></p>53 – Fields Medals 20222022-07-06T06:41:56.137000Zmudilhttps://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2022<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>53 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31994289">4 comments</a></p>265 – Absurd Trolley Problems2022-07-06T06:39:27.511000Zsebghttps://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>265 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31996235">221 comments</a></p>105 – Why Can't Database Tables Index Themselves?2022-07-06T06:30:48.201000ZSPBShttps://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-database-tables-index-themselves/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>105 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31990836">83 comments</a></p>51 – Bureaucratic processes typically involve a person new to the process2022-07-03T09:11:18.152000Zphysicsgraphhttps://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2022/07/bureaucratic-processes-typically.html<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>51 point, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31961216">21 comments</a></p>135 – Norwegian Meteorological Institute has an excellent free weather API2022-07-03T09:08:47.493000Znotpushkinhttps://developer.yr.no/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>135 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31965812">28 comments</a></p>76 – How to build a chess engine2022-07-03T08:27:25.992000Zfredrickdhttps://www.chessengines.org/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>76 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31964685">19 comments</a></p>94 – Blood Pressure E-Tattoo Promises Continuous, Mobile Monitoring2022-06-27T16:49:49.083000ZTomtehttps://news.utexas.edu/2022/06/20/blood-pressure-e-tattoo-promises-continuous-mobile-monitoring/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>94 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31892738">51 comments</a></p>92 – Windows 95 in Electron2022-06-27T15:30:40.543000Zmodinfohttps://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>92 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31893771">52 comments</a></p>289 – Enclave: An Unpickable Lock2022-06-26T19:41:15.860000Zlisperhttps://ominoushum.com/lock/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>289 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31880108">133 comments</a></p>234 – Oh Shit, Git2022-06-25T18:58:54.812000Zlayer8https://ohshitgit.com/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>234 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31874308">130 comments</a></p>55 – The Composition over Inheritance Principle2022-06-25T08:30:27.262000Zradushttps://python-patterns.guide/gang-of-four/composition-over-inheritance/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>55 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31870955">19 comments</a></p>On why I call it a bookhoard2022-06-22T07:23:40.700000ZJennifer Lawlerhttps://jenniferlawler.com/452578-2/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>One of the things I love about Old English* is how it gives you a little bit of insight into how early medieval people thought. Like, there are a lot of names for swords: Beaduscearp (“keen in battle”) and Beadulēoma (“light of battle”), among others. They named their swords the way some people name their… <a class="more-link" href="https://jenniferlawler.com/452578-2/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">On why I call it a bookhoard</span></a></p>
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Niby DNA ma nieskończoną ilość kombinacji, a jednak nie dość, że rodzą się niemal identyczni ludzie, to jeszcze trafiają do tej samej branży.…<br><br><img src="https://joemonster.org/i/thumbs/artpic_test64473_2238114306.jpg" />167 – Always Own Your Platform (2019)2022-06-10T15:23:21.666000Zddtaylorhttp://www.alwaysownyourplatform.com/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>167 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31686615">107 comments</a></p>63 – From Python to NumPy (2017)2022-06-10T12:20:28.808000Zrahimnathwanihttps://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/from-python-to-numpy/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>63 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31688667">34 comments</a></p>479 – Dear Spotify, can we just get table of songs?2022-06-04T16:05:49.796000Zneilpanchalhttps://neil.computer/notes/dear-spotify-can-we-just-get-table-of-songs/<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>479 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618092">248 comments</a></p>56 – In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia2022-05-27T08:24:55.033000Zothttp://colinmorris.github.io/blog/unpopular-wiki-articles<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>56 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31524943">20 comments</a></p>7 popularnych polskich słów, które pochodzą z języka jidysz2022-05-27T07:54:27.045000Zhttps://joemonster.org/art/64173/7_popularnych_polskich_slow_ktore_pochodza_z_jezyka_jidysz?utm_source=Czytnik_rss&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=rss<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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Jeśli jesteś Grzegorzem Braunem, to lepiej tu nie zaglądaj, bo
może okazać się, że język swój plugawisz wyrazami bardziej
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<a href="http://bs-blog.clouds-forge.eu/blog/content/feeds/res/vangelis.jpg"><img alt="Vangelis (Decca,2016)" src="http://bs-blog.clouds-forge.eu/blog/content/feeds/res/vangelis.jpg" width="580px" /></a><br /><br />"Gdyby ludzie potrafili zdobyć się na uczciwe podejście do sprawy, ryliby na nagrobkach soczyste przekleństwa pod adresem Natury, która tak to urządziła, zamiast ukrywać dowody jej zbrodni pod wiązanką kwiatów" (S.Lem) <br /><br />1. Kiedy patrzę w swoje <a href="http://bs-blog.clouds-forge.eu/index.php?post=2020_12_11_00_Mapa_pamieci_2">"mapy pamięci"</a> muzycznej, zaskakuje mnie nieco jak bardzo "mapa to nie terytorium". Bo można by uznać, że wpadłem na Vangelisa w '80 przez chwilę, ale potem mi "przeszedł". Aha, akurat. Ale faktycznie, nie było łatwo na początku.<br /><br />2. Na początku był elektro-szołmen Jarre i wielośladowi-syntezatorowi ludzie z Kraftwerk i Tangerine Dream. Nagle "na tym tle" późnego PRLu pokazał się Vangelis z "Rydwanami ognia". Eee tam, takie se plumkanie, za mało synthu w tych syntezatorach, a film w ogóle meh. A inne jego rzeczy, z czasów "Dzieci Afrodyty", na które można było wtedy wpaść? jeżu kolczasty, to nie elektro, to jakieś eksperymenty; z Demisem Roussos'em? to śpiewak dla starych ludzi (znaczy, rodziców). Nope.<br /><br />3. Ale zaraz potem "przybył i wybił" Blade Runner. I tu już było "COOL!". Oraz wpadły w ucho jakiś jego rzeczy pomiędzy "666" a "Rydwanami", jak "Albedo 0.39" czy "Spiral" (pewnie z Trójki wpadły w ucho, bo skąd). To już było supercool; właśnie lecą mi w tle i nadal wyrywają z kapci. W końcu nawet te "Rydwany" jakoś zacząłem znosić i kolaboracje z Jonem Andersonem też. Muza z "1492 Podbój raju" też mocno weszła.<br /><br /><iframe height="400" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_mCyRhtyq1Q" width="500"></iframe><br /><br />4. W mojej prywatnej Czarnej Dziurze Muzycznej lat '90 trafiały się jednak pewne przebłyski. Jak pierwsze CDki, zamiast g... kaset (bo kolekcja na szpulach już przepadła); i na przykład był między nimi premierowy "Voices" Vangelisa, kupiony razem z premierowym "Memory of Trees" Enyi (oba około 1995). Nie kupowałem wtedy Jarre'a czy Tangerine Dream itp., a Vangelisa, owszem. I kiedy nocą ciemną, w nowym, częściowo wykończonym domu, gdzie za ścianą spały żona i córki, mogłem posłuchać se cichutko powyższych "Voices", dawało to trochę radości i nadziei. (BTW dziś jest dzień, w którym zorientowałem się, że "Come to me" śpiewa Caroline Lavelle, efektowna wiolonczelistka np. u <a href="http://bs-blog.clouds-forge.eu/blog/content/feeds/index.php?post=2014_05_17_01_Muza_41">Loreeny McKennitt</a>, okazyjnie śpiewaczka - mam refleks żółwia-szachisty...) <br /><br />5. Kiedy wyszedłem z dziury muzycznej '90, po przeprowadzce pod Wawę, przy zwijaniu starych miejsc i rozwijaniu nowych, nie miałem za bardzo głowy do "starej muzy"; odkrywałem indie, trance, zaległości z '90. Ale premierę "Mythodea" zauważyłem jak cholera; o ile pamiętam, nawet dzieci usiłowałem zainteresować, albo dziecko się samo zainteresowało, co ojcu nagle odwaliło, że puszcza se chóry symfoniczne skrzyżowane z NASA i elektroniką. Po dziś dzień, kiedy próbuję <a href="http://bs-blog.clouds-forge.eu/blog/content/feeds/index.php?post=2017_03_21_00_Despoina_1">pisać o starożytnościach</a>, albo se czytam o czy studiuję, bardzo często gra mi głowie motyw przewodni z "Mythodea".<br /><br /><iframe height="400" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/G_U4k_lc3pE" width="500"></iframe><br /><br />6. Więc - jest inaczej niż to wygląda na "mapie pamięci", Vangelis pogrywa u mnie w tle ciągle, przez cały czas, znacznie bardziej niż inne gwiazdy elektro z '70-'80. Nawet z "Dziećmi Afrodyty" się w końcu "pogodziłem"; właśnie sprawdziłem, że "666" dorzuciłem na dysk rok temu. No może nie z całością się pogodziłem, ale dojrzałem w końcu do większości <u>progresywnych</u> pomysłów Vangelisa, może <u>nieco</u> go zrozumiałem, i tego z lat rewolucji '68, i tego później. Nie tylko przez muzę, ale wpadając na wywiady z nim, poczytując komentarze do i jego całą historię. Zrozumiałem, że wyszedł z muzyki i kultury, w syntezatory i elektro na granicy pop, a tak naprawdę próbował dojść znacznie dalej.<br /><br />7. Wydaje się, że mało kto pozostał tak skromny (a nawet skryty) i szczery w sensie artystycznym i sam ze sobą, odnosząc tak wszechświatowy sukces, jak Vangelis. Który wyszedł z Grecji, "przerósł ją", potem przerósł Francję, potem przerósł megabiznesowo - muzyczną Anglię, i jest wrażenie, że potem przerósł tę całą zmurszałą planetkę. Inie idzie tylko o motywy kosmiczne w jego późnej twórczości, ale o całokształt. Jedyne podobne wrażenie o skromności i szczerości, i utrzymaniu niezależności, wszystko "pomimo" kolosalnego sukcesu, mam przy "Dead Can Dance". I nawet podobne wrażenie ogniskowania kultur przeszłych w przyszłe, w aktywnej Teraźniejszości.<br /><br /><iframe height="400" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QVExlaxaweo" width="500"></iframe><br /><br />8. Odszedł Roussos, odszedł Vangelis, odchodzi niezapomniana Irena Papas, pokolenie "Dzieci Afrodyty" wymiera. Ale ludzie ich pokroju, czy jak duet "Dead Can Dance", zawsze wydają mi się diamentowymi łącznikami klepsydry Rzeczywistości, przez które piasek przeszłych kultur i muzyk przesypuje się w roszerzający się Wszechświat przyszłości. Są niezwykli, niezniszczalni, bezcenni.71 – Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content2022-05-17T14:42:33.130000Zpirate-Loo6uoDuhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31409664<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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<p>117 points, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31402797">61 comments</a></p>69 – Sandboxie: Sandbox-based isolation software for Windows NT-based OS's2022-05-17T12:21:20.305000Ztirrexhttps://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie<table style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #F0F0F0" valign="top" align="left" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
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