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by doh 3y ago
Thanks for putting me on this topic. Will do much more research.
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by doh 3y ago
I keep thinking about this topic for a couple of years now (hence my question). I wonder if combination of new technology could be made into much more useful microwave, even if the cost was not suitable for personal use (at least initially)
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by doh 3y ago
The issue is time. They absolutely work better than microwaves, but microwaves are popular precisely because they are just much faster.
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by doh 3y ago
I am not expert, but my understanding of cyclonic inverters is that they are able to lower power output and thus achieving more even cooking. That also implies slower time. I am more interested in precision while retaining the speed. But it
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by doh 3y ago
Thanks for the context. That seems to invalidate the idea.
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by doh 3y ago
Rather than heating food more or less, I care about equally. Couldn’t combination of thermal camera and ultrasonic transducer achieve the goal? If they indeed need a contact with the object, then obviously that wouldn’t work. But I am not s
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by doh 3y ago
I know this is maybe completely out there, but could focused ultrasound be used to heat up food? The current issue with microwaves is that they heat up food very unevenly. I am sure the current cost is quite prohibitive and all. I'm mo
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by doh 3y ago
I think that’s the crux of the point. Americans are trained to be demanding customers. Whatever is then packaged as a product/service for purchase, will be treated equally. As you pointed out, students pay a lot of money for their educ
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by doh 3y ago
As a European living in the US it took me many years to adjust to the return system in here. In "Europe" (I'm super generalizing here), to return a product, it has to be in pristine condition, you have to the original receipt
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by doh 3y ago
That is really sad news. Ian was an inspiration. Sorry for your loss and the loss of the whole community. He will be greatly missed.
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by doh 3y ago
Surprisingly good read. Not because I thought John is going to wash dirty laundry, but you know, they went through some emotional things. His story is truly inspiring though. Very engrossing.
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by doh 3y ago
> According to Jerry Yang, chair of the Stanford Board of Trustees, Tessier-Lavigne will step down “in light of the report and its impact on his ability to lead Stanford.” Jerry Yang, as the same Jerry Yang that co-founded Yahoo. Didn’t
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by doh 3y ago
Imagine if Goodreads (or similar) only allowed ratings for unreleased books if the publisher submitted the ebook into the system. The system then embeds it into GPT4 and if one wants to submit a review they have to answer a question (or mul
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by doh 3y ago
I am involved with a non-profit that provides ISA (income share agreements) to convicts to get licensed truckers [0]. The founder started it due to similar experiences as you described and changed the lives of many people already. Wish this
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by doh 3y ago
Isn't it their job that they get compensated for? If I am not completely off, if this is a paid job (most likely with overtime and extra for weekend), then they have absolutely no reason to do that early.
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by doh 3y ago
Yes. HN is an absolutely fantastic community. That's why we are here. As every community it has its own idiosyncrasies. Recognizing them and poking fun into ourselves strengthens rather than weakens then community.
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by doh 3y ago
> three of them said there were already similar projects out there Quintessential Hacker News
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by doh 3y ago
The main difference is eventual vs strong consistency. Scylla scales great, but then the developer has to guard the consistencies. And that is quite challenging job, that usually trips even the most experienced developers. There is a middle
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by doh 3y ago
This was the logic Brex started with when they first introduced their corporate cards. The rolling window started wrecking havoc very quickly. For instance, we gave all employees $300/month budget for parking garage. However, on some m
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by doh 3y ago
FoundationDB is not a SQL database either though.
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by doh 4y ago
“In 2015, SVB President Greg Becker submitted a statement [0] to a Senate panel pushing legislators to exempt more banks – including his own – from new regulations passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.” [0] https://www
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by doh 4y ago
It’s a coincidence. This had to be in works for months (or something substantial had to go down). Also, they get subpoenaed all the time across various committees.
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by doh 4y ago
It’s said that life is a marathon rather than a sprint. But I think it’s mix of both. More challenge one takes on, more they have to sprint. To me this favors willpower (shorter bursts) than discipline (long periods). Obviously one needs to
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by doh 4y ago
Which Article 13? If you mean of the European Copyright Directive, it was renamed to Article 17 and passed 4 years ago.
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by doh 4y ago
Common cause makes strange bedfellows.
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by doh 4y ago
Maybe they license it? Maybe they cross license things to each other?
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by doh 4y ago
Wait, the same Gil Amelio that ran Apple? Need to read more on him. What an amazing tidbit.
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by doh 4y ago
It reminds me of this [0] video of Steve Jobs responding to a heckler. This is also very common on Twitter. Someone states a generic observation and people nail them with exceptions. [0] https://youtu.be/oeqPrUmVz-o
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by doh 4y ago
Well, electricity moves similarly to a fluid (not really but the simplified version allows one to reason about both the same way). It hit me in school that these are very similar and once you understand one you can apply many of the learnin
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by doh 4y ago
We were one of the first Brex customers. Moved millions through them before deciding to move to another provider. They were always full of surprises, but not the good kind. While they since fixed many of the quirks and improved the overall

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