Modern Competitive Sailing is an excellent aesthetic inspiration for cyberpunk since it combines modern high tech materials normally mostly seen in military settings but with bright colors optimizing for visibility
@cremieuxrecueil Last time I flew out of SFO I arrived 10 minutes after boarding for my flight started and I was confident I would not be late at all, can't say the same for any other airport in the US
@bryancsk Moving from Hawaii -> Vancouver -> Bay Area each time people ask why I would ever move away. There is nowhere else to go that isnt a downgrade
@HuxianGuozhi I mostly learned about Chinese history on my own. My school did focus more than most on the Chinese civil war since Sum Yat Sen went to my high school as a child and our school was quite proud of that fact, but we didn’t study much Chinese history from earlier
@riley_the_deer In fact im sure that in Singapore and China there are many companies that provide the exact same service. None of us have heard of any of them but you've probably eaten food which has passed through their supply chain
@riley_the_deer Sysco is just a general wholesale distributor. Basically just something like amazon or costco but for restaurants instead of individuals. A large centralized distributor like that will have a deep catalogue, and can supply both premade frozen meals and fresh ingredients
Use case: because of production volume for small co2 cutters flat mirrors and Plano convex lenses are an order of magnitude cheaper than any other optical components for 10.6 um. If you wanted to build a co2 laser yourself the best way to do it would be with only those
If anyone is teaching an upper level optics class I have an incidentally come across a really great exam question with an extemelt niche but real world use
Design (and optimze) a resonantor for a laser with a fixed sized gain medium with 2 Plano convex lenses and flat mirrors. Only lenses and mirrors of a few fixed sizes and focal lengths are available but the distance between lenses and mirrors and be varied