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by arnon 5y ago
It allows for variable power levels. That's great for defrosting, melting chocolate, etc.
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by arnon 5y ago
My Panasonic has an inverter which is really a gamechanger. This wasn't around in the 90s.
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Pimp My Microwave(github.com)
113 points by arnon 5y ago|31 comments
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by arnon 5y ago
For all of the hate Adobe gets, they really did make a huge huge impact on the world of graphic design, film editing, illustrations, computer animation, and desktop publishing.
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Exploring the New Features of CUDA 11.3(nvda.ws)
2 points by arnon 5y ago|0 comments
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by arnon 6y ago
Fair...
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by arnon 6y ago
Hence why it's harmful.
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by arnon 6y ago
Floating point considered harmful Edit: this is not a blanket statement. It was meant in the context.
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by arnon 6y ago
Yep. The vote on this was cancelled https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26748191
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by arnon 6y ago
The vote has been cancelled. New discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26748191
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by arnon 6y ago
Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713082
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Apache Mesos move to attic vote cancelled(lists.apache.org)
5 points by arnon 6y ago|2 comments
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by arnon 6y ago
I've had a bike stolen by a Russian gang. Danish police cracked down on them and returned my bike with the help of the VIN system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_bicycle_VIN-system
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by arnon 6y ago
All too familiar. Luckily, I have built "date time" functions for a relational DBMS before! I had specifically worked on functions like EXTRACT to pull out different parts like ISO Week numbers, as well as DATEADD and DATEDIFF fun
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by arnon 6y ago
Not all systems have sane defaults or queues built-in. I'm just saying this needs consideration when you reach a certain scale.
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by arnon 6y ago
My go-to for everything is WWPD - "What would Postgres do?"
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by arnon 6y ago
> If I ever get to redesign the billing system at work, I'm going to go with fixed day of the month billing. This may have unintended consequences. Some examples we faced around this: 1. Stress on our APIs when 15,000 invoices are c
228.
by arnon 6y ago
Accurate
229.
by arnon 6y ago
Thanks for that! I haven't seen this... I'm glad to see he also has the same thought about floating points. Also: > Happily, Moonpig did not have to deal with multiple currencies. That would have added tremendous complexity to
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It's Like a Spaceship for Sharks(youtube.com)
3 points by arnon 6y ago|0 comments
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Things I learned while developing a billing system(arnon.dk)
273 points by arnon 6y ago|118 comments
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by arnon 6y ago
> I do not excuse Richard Stallman’s remarks, nor do I challenge the actions of both the MIT Media Lab and the FSF for terminating his positions with them. Well, you kind of are...
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How Dell is redesigning its products for circularity(fastcompany.com)
3 points by arnon 6y ago|0 comments
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by arnon 6y ago
5G is such an incredible and complex set of protocols, I don't think companies will let it go open source without a fight.
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by arnon 6y ago
The core is the same. The different model numbers typically represent other configurations of the stages or pump throughput, type of FADEC, and all of these things.
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by arnon 6y ago
Airbus A300-600/A310 Airbus A330 Boeing 747-400 Boeing 767/KC-46 Boeing 777 McDonnell Douglas MD-11
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by arnon 6y ago
The P&W-powered 777 is just one variant. British Airways for example went with GE90s, and some airlines like El Al went with Rolls Royce Trent 800s.
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by arnon 6y ago
Can someone who understands this summarise it for those less in-the-know?
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The more GPUs you buy, the more money you save(youtube.com)
1 points by arnon 6y ago|0 comments
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by arnon 6y ago
He is discussing exactly that. That he failed to fix those problems from within.

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