chewxy

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1. 721.▲
   by chewxy 13y ago

   Nope. In UK and even in Australia where I am, electric kettles are the norm. My grandmother did use a stovetop kettle though.
2. 722.▲
   by chewxy 13y ago

   An example of this that I recently had was a 北斗一号. The first brew is extremely fragrant - smells of bubble milk tea, but has very weak flavour. The second brew brings out the flavour of the tea. You're supposed to let the first brew fi
3. 723.▲
   by chewxy 13y ago

   You have a point. Costing the components of a PID might actually be better. That said, a PID controller for my espresso machine cost about $200, but that was everything packaged in nicely.
4. 724.▲
   by chewxy 13y ago

   QC is tabulated under "various manufacturing costs". And yes, you are correct, it doesn't have shipping and dead goods costs. But I still think it's entirely serviceable as a back-of-envelope calculations
5. 725.▲
   by chewxy 13y ago

   I've been given different prices on that. Some people say it's just $0.50, some claim it's more than $10 to buy PIDs in bulk.
6. 726.▲
   by chewxy 13y ago

   I thought that markup was implicitly accepted in blog. I of course do not think that the price should be just the cost of the parts. In fact, I did mention that the fact that both $10 kettles and $39 kettles exist implies that there is some
7. 727.▲
   by chewxy 13y ago

   If so, such an elegant solution. So elegant.
8. 728.▲
   by chewxy 13y ago

   I grew up with one. Having instantly accessible hot water was amazing. Then I moved out and had to use a kettle
9. 729.▲
   by chewxy 13y ago

   Which is my point. A basic kettle should not cost much. The $100 kettles are those with temperature controls.
10. 730.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    Yeah, I figured so myself.
11. 731.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    I'm not optimistic :S
12. 732.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    I noticed this on the lock screen. Often you'd have to tap multiple times on caps lock before it even turns on. I assume it's to prevent accidental caps locking, but it can be rather irritating
13. 733.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    Are you using something like fail2ban? I'm seeing slightly higher activities on all my servers, but I doubt it's actually statistically significant (i.e. not different from random)
14. 734.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    Holy crap. ARM's encoding makes so much sense... compared to what I have waded through at sandpile.org.
15. 735.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    I finally splurged on an Ergohuman. My back has stopped aching since and I've stopped slouching as much.
16. 736.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    Not to forget, it is pretty easy to copy the AK47 design. The Register once called it The Open Source gun that took the world by storm[0] - it's actually a much better article than the Economist's [0] http://www.theregis
17. 737.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    Yeah. I already had the vector of the lady from when I was working on Fork the Cookbook. The rest is all GIMP default
18. 738.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    5000+ words a day isn't too difficult, really. Plus JS Oddities isn't going to be a very big book - about 20+ examples of rather crazy JS code and explanations
19. 739.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    I ended up being productive - Started a new book ( https://leanpub.com/jsoddities ) and wrote some 20% of it while HN was down. Far more effective than my noprocrast
20. 740.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    Oh thank you. Didn't know it was in another different standard.
21. 741.▲
    Ask HN: Why no URIs for email?

    6 points by chewxy 13y ago|2 comments
22. 742.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    Assuming a RESTful vocabulary, is this only GET? What if I want to POST something to you? Or DELETE that kimchi burrito thing from your favourite foods? Wouldn't it be cooler to support more verbs?
23. 743.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    Try Heavea: http://hevea.inria.fr/ . For my current book project, I've decided to go with LyX as my editor instead, and it comes with Elyxir, which converts LaTeX to HTML
24. 744.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    RescueTime indicates 6-9 am, 9pm-3am. My sleeping schedule is so fucked up
25. 745.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    Hey! Thanks for posting this to HN. I'm not quite sure of the code improvements myself. If anyone could repeat the benchmarks, it'd be great
26. 746.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    The best part IMO is that backspace functions like backspace.
27. 747.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    Unicode Consortium is such an odd organization. Why is a snowman in the symbol table when the universal On/Off symbol isn't? What about the USB symbol?
28. 748.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    A quine perhaps? (Perhaps Endoh's crazy quine? https://github.com/mame/quine-relay )
29. 749.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    Or really, Satoshi's laptop died and he couldn't be bothered anymore about Bitcoin
30. 750.▲
    by chewxy 13y ago

    Salty Vagrant is good, apart from the silly name - I use it: https://github.com/saltstack/salty-vagrant