hanche

18 ms·

151.
by hanche 4y ago
Your original guess is right. I checked the original Norwegian text. It says 150 grader (degrees), and that surely means Celsius when used unqualified in Norwegian. So we’re talking high pressure superheated water here, for industrial purpo
152.
by hanche 4y ago
Not an expert, but the much higher heat capacity (and heat conductivity) of water compared to air is likely one reason. But also, when it’s really cold outside, an air to air heat pump is much less efficient. If you have access to liquid w
153.
by hanche 4y ago
Old story – stuck printer unstuck by closing a curtain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159811
154.
by hanche 4y ago
I just tested that, and it works. Using a Samsung T7 SSD. Clever. Now I wonder if a similar trick works for power capabilities?
155.
by hanche 4y ago
See: Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh_Association_of_D...
156.
by hanche 4y ago
It’s the rock climbing. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32616371
157.
by hanche 4y ago
My wife does a lot of garden work. When she set up TouchID in the winter, it worked fine – until the gardening season started. Then it gradually became more unreliable, until it stopped working altogether. Then early last fall, when she wen
158.
by hanche 4y ago
> more careful Indeed. I did cut through one extension cord with my hedge trimmer already,
159.
by hanche 4y ago
I think that is why usb-a (male) to usb-c (female) adapters are not supposed to exist. They might let you connect two usb-a chargers together using a usb-c cable, and they are not designed to tolerate that.
160.
by hanche 4y ago
I have a food thermometer with a builtin rechargeable battery. It charges via usb-c, but so far I have not managed to charge it from a usb-c charger. It will only charge with the supplied usb-a to usb-c cable. I would love to understand why
161.
by hanche 4y ago
Sorry, could you (or someone else) tell me what OER and SER mean?
162.
by hanche 4y ago
I have read that for this reason, the Euler spiral (a.k.a. Cornu spiral) is commonly used in the design of modern roads. Its defining characteristic is that the curvature changes at a constant rate with respect to arc length. So a curve in
163.
by hanche 4y ago
Is the tool to convert to azw3 part of the toolkit available to contributors, or do you perform that conversion in-house after the volunteer has made the epub?
164.
by hanche 4y ago
The octonions aren’t even associative, making them less “natural” and harder to work with. But quaternions are quite useful for working with rotations in three dimensions. To be very technical, the unit imaginary quaternions form a double (
165.
by hanche 4y ago
-knuckle is much closer, isn’t it?
166.
by hanche 4y ago
I didn’t say it makes much sense. But it fits with how we talk about time in Norwegian and Danish both: When English speakers say half past five, we say half six. Which is a half hour before six. In the same way, I suppose half three twenti
167.
by hanche 4y ago
The choice of venue and the choice of Fields medal recipients are unrelated decisions, taken by different groups of people. Of course the former is much more strongly influenced by world events. And indeed, it took only a few days after the
168.
by hanche 4y ago
There is the Abel prize, which so far has been awarded only to pretty old people. But it has only been around since 2003, so it does not quite have the weight of history behind it.
169.
by hanche 4y ago
Indeed, a possibly apocryphal tale holds that matrix algebra, while a beautiful mathematical construct, was considered by its inventor to be utterly useless. We know better today.
170.
by hanche 4y ago
Danish is worse, or at least as bad. Sixty is three twenties, so fifty is half three twenties. Eighty is four twenties, so seventy is half four twenties. Ninety is half five twenties, but a hundred is just a hundred. Sanity, at last! (The t
171.
by hanche 4y ago
I tend to pronounce it “squeal” myself.
172.
by hanche 4y ago
There is already an iOS/iPadOS version. Elsewhere, I have read that the developers would like to make a Linux version, but that they currently don’t have the manpower to do so.
173.
by hanche 4y ago
That is very culture dependent, I think. I don’t know a single woman who usually carries a purse! (I live in Norway. And maybe my acquaintances are unusual. But still.)
174.
by hanche 4y ago
Indeed, the meaning of “flops” is ambiguous, but that seems hard to avoid. Fortunately, the ambiguity is easily resolved from context in most cases, as it is here.
175.
by hanche 4y ago
Relative entropy? KL? Ah, found it – Kullback–Leibler divergence, it’s called. Thanks, I’ll put that on my list of stuff to learn about.
176.
by hanche 4y ago
In Shannon’s 1948 paper, part V deals with continuous sources. The key is to realise that you cannot measure a continuous signal exactly, and so you can define a rate of information relative to the fidelity of your measurement. (I only skim
177.
by hanche 4y ago
No, only the yield and stop signs, and the right of way sign (diamond shaped) have unique shapes. Oh wait, the one way sign too, being a long rectangle. Other signs are shaped according to group: Warning signs are triangular, tip up, signs
178.
by hanche 5y ago
And in case someone wonders, Xyzzy was his cat. Or rather the other way round; he was her human.
179.
by hanche 5y ago
Yes, but 12 midnight on Tuesday, what end of Tuesday is it at? There is a reason insurance policies in the US tend to start at 12:01 am.
180.
by hanche 5y ago
Oh, it took us very little time to figure out to start in the middle. It took us more time to figure out what was the most effective response to that. It is hard to remember now, as I haven’t played the game in decades. But most likely, bot

More ›