design
There Is No Material Design Spinner for Android | by Robert Mirabelle
Short rant: Google has a dream. A terrible, monomaniacal dream. Material Design portends the worldwide unification of both the aesthetic and language of design . Never-mind that the design itself is rooted in the absolute human travesty that is flat design. What about the hubris of imposing a single design upon the entire world? Witness …
Vector search in Elasticsearch: The rationale behind the design
Some background about Lucene first: Lucene organizes data into immutable segments that are merged periodically. Adding more documents requires adding more segments. Modifying existing documents requires atomically adding more segments and marking previous versions of these documents as deleted. Every document within a segment is identified by a doc ID, which is the index of …
database design – Why shouldn’t we allow NULLs?
Wow, the correct answer “Don’t allow NULLs when you don’t have to because they degrade performance” is somehow the last rated answer. I will upvote it and elaborate. When a RDBMS allows NULLs for a non-sparse column, that column is added to a bitmap that tracks whether the value is NULL for each individual row. …
Designing a Battery Pack? – Battery Design
A good place to start is with the Battery Basics as this talks you through the chemistry, single cell and up to multiple cells in series and parallel. Whether you are designing a Pack or a newcomer wanting to learn about batteries. Batterydesign.net is one place to learn about Electric Vehicle Batteries or Battery Pack. …
High Speed Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design Guidelines – PCB HERO
As the name suggests, a high speed printed circuit board design provides the transmission of signals at high speeds. In other words, a device with a high speed design PCB can transfer data at a very high rate. This capability opens up a lot of opportunities for engineers and manufacturers, helping them create the most …
Systems design 2: What we hope we know
Systems design 2: What we hope we know Someone asked if I could write about the rise of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) and what I think that means for the future of people, technology, society, and so on. Although that’s a fun topic, it left me with two problems: I know approximately nothing …
Tishman Environment and Design Center’s Work Reveals Most Incinerators Pollute Low-Income and Communities of Color and Worsen Climate Change
Nearly 4.5 million people in the United States are exposed to pollution from waste incinerators, and 85 percent of waste incinerators are located in environmental justice communities May 20, 2022 Tishman Environment and Design Center’s Work Reveals Most Incinerators Pollute Low-Income and Communities of Color and Worsen Climate Change Cities across the United States have …
How to Design Your Environment and Habits for 10x Success
Photo by Anna Pelzer on Unsplash Your environment either makes you or breaks you. Unfortunately, most of the time, you do not even realise the environmental forces that shape your behaviour. If you are in a positive environment, you will be compelled to move forward, take action, and achieve momentum. If you are in a …
The Northerner | How NKU’s SOTA design and technology program is preparing students for lifelong careers in the arts
For many SOTA students, faculty and staff, room FA 203 is a place considered to be a home. Inside this room is SOTA’s costume shop, full of sewing machines, fabrics and other technology used to create costumes seen in the many shows NKU’s theater and dance department produces each year. Some students spend 20 hours …
Column: Want to improve students’ mental health? Design better spaces.
Just think of this: You’re on hour two of a panic attack. You can’t afford to miss class. You live off campus, so you can’t stop by your dorm for a quick refresh. You have homework in each of your classes. And you have three exams left in the day. You haven’t eaten yet and …