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Why does your microwave compare numbers?
by bonzini 6y ago
Why does your microwave compare numbers?
- mckirk 6y agoHow else would you prove it's turing complete and can run Doom?
- pdpi 6y agoNot the OP, but I have the same problem. For some reason that escapes me, pressing the “10 sec” button 7 times produces 00 70 instead of 01 10. If you then press the “1 min” button you get 01 70
- nerdponx 6y agoMost microwaves (in the USA) do this, at least in my experience. They treat the ":" like a sum of two sexagesimal numbers, rather than a sexagesimal digit separator.
- sokoloff 6y agoIt doesn’t compare them, it just counts down. If I enter 1-3-0-start, I get 90 seconds of cooking. If I enter 9-9-start, I get 99 seconds of cooking, so in that sense, 99 > 130. If I want about 90 seconds, I’ll use 88 as it’s faster to enter (fewer finger movements).
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoI've done the same thing for decades! Soul mates?
- sokoloff 6y agoYou might like this one as well. Load soap into the dishwasher after emptying rather than after loading. If the soap dispenser is closed, the dishes are dirty.
- LilBytes 6y agoBlasphemy! I do the inverse. You're wrong. /s insert code flame war here
- sneak 6y agoMy rule is that loading the dishwasher means that one loads all the available dishes, and runs it, even if it's only x% full. We use the (large) sink as an input buffer. If the dishwasher has dishes in it and it's not running, they're clean.
- rootusrootus 6y agoThis is exactly our algorithm as all. I can't really imagine flipping it the other way, since leaving dirty dishes in a dishwasher will just let them completely dry out, making it more likely they won't get fully clean when the cycle is eventually run.
- teddyh 6y agoThat’s not a zero-copy algorithm. The algorithm with using the soap dispenser being closed as a flag is zero-copy.
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- pdkl95 6y agoVi Hart - "How to Microwave Gracefully" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9E0zSpULFY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9E0zSpULFY