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Re:Chest Fridge (2009) on Sunday March 22, 2026 @05:37PM (#47482435)
Depends a lot on humidity. Condensing a fridge full of humid air releases a fair bit of heat.

Also a fuller fridge will have much more thermal mass and care less.

But yes, exchanging the entire air volume of a fridge every time you open it is very energy-wasteful.

Re:Some C habits I employ for the modern day on Friday January 23, 2026 @10:09PM (#46740693)
https://web.archive.org/web/20260116161616/https://www.digit... for anyone here while we're swamping Walter's site
> LTO (link time optimisation) is the hot topic for Apple’s new generation of linkers, enabling them to optimise across functions, etc.

I was using LTO in 2013 on apple machines... what exactly is new about it now?

Re:Leidenfrost Effect on Saturday April 27, 2024 @09:52AM (#40179960)
Some more things to consider: Sugary things like marinades and rubs will stick more as they caramelize compared to just salt & spices. This is great if you're making a pan sauce, as there's more to deglaze. But I've had my pan act so non-stick in some cases that I couldn't build a fond.

Also if the surface of the food is wet, it can cool the pan a LOT on contact, as well as cause other reactions that promote sticking. This is especially true with too little oil.

Developers developers developers developers
This is beside the point. The code specifies what the product _is_, not what it "should" be. If you ask for a word processor and I deliver a perfectly bug-free and feature-complete calculator would you really believe it lived up to spec?
Re:Fixing Annoying Blue Standby Lights on Monday January 01, 2024 @10:15AM (#38832305)
I remember thinking the blue led on the PS2 was so cool when it first came out.
Right? How long was it until they figured out that one triceratops was a juvenile rather than a separate species?

Though if they still have dna from that specimen it should be pretty easy to tell

Re:Which Movies Are the Most Polarizing? A Statistical Analysis on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:55AM (#38557033)
Considering the list was generated from data, not just the author's opinion, I wonder what criteria you're using for "should".

My guess is a lot more of the general population feels the same (negative) way about it, but your sample of people you've seen reacting to it is giving you selection bias, thinking more people enjoy it

Rancid isn't the same as rotten. Oil going rancid is about oxidation and other chemical degradation. This has nothing to do with "health" of the oil...
And then risk drawing you down the rabbit hole/money sink of getting a pilot's license
Appeals to tradition and authority are not arguments. Look in the mirror for arrogance.
The beam is surely wider than the planet so there's a large range of "straight toward"
The bluest ones in the JWST images are the higest frequency (shortest wavelength) it can see. These are the longest frequencies hubble can see, so they look reddish.

Anything in JWST that is lower frequency (yellow to red) will not be visible to Hubble

Re:Ask HN: Generalist contractors, what is your hourly rate? on Saturday September 03, 2022 @10:20AM (#32702093)
Have an annual salary in mind for a similar role, chop off the last three zeros, and that's my hourly rate.

It works out to approximately double which is just enough to account for things you would normally get from an employer:

- payroll taxes (SS/Medicare) - PTO/sick days - equipment & supplies - training/conferences - health insurance - retirement savings

Etc

Re:ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @07:41PM (#26406417)
you have just the right name :)
Re:ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @01:13PM (#26401655)
no, you just need to multiply 440 by (12th root of 2)^k, where k is the number of half-tones above (pos) or below (neg) A440
Re:ISO-8601 date format reference not publicly available on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @12:20PM (#26401023)
The same is true for the standard that sets A to 440 Hz.

Though they spoil the plot in the abstract.

https://www.iso.org/standard/3601.html

Re:Build an 8-Bit Computer from Scratch on Thursday June 01, 2017 @05:11PM (#14464786)
Thanks :) I love that I'm not the first/only one to do one of these in Brainfuck (especially in direct response to Ben's series).

I have a feeling the approach I take will follow from whatever I decide for RAM zeroing. The purist in me is still a bit put off by the idea of preprocessing. It feels more like a compiler+CPU rather than just a CPU. If I go the "highest address counter" approach where I synthesize zeros the first time a RAM location is passed, I probably won't do the loop pre-processing.

I could do a hybrid approach where both jump points are indexed the first time the loop is scanned. This would achieve amortized constant time. I think I could live with that...

Re:Build an 8-Bit Computer from Scratch on Thursday June 01, 2017 @10:44AM (#14460658)
I've been doing the same thing for the past couple weeks. http://blog.cogwheel.info/2017/05/ttl-brainfuck-computer-par...
Re:H.264 is Magic on Friday November 04, 2016 @02:21PM (#12874722)
MB is 1024 * 1024 * bytes not 1000 * 1000 * bytes. Unless you're a HDD/SSD manufacturer.
Re:Simple, precise, future-proof accounting for techies on Thursday February 04, 2016 @10:56AM (#11034761)
Site layout is broken on mobile (at least Android Chrome)
Re:Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @06:12PM (#11023474)
Oh I see. The title of this post didn't say "for OSX" originally.
Re:Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @06:07PM (#11023440)
So you're defending monocultures as virtuous? OK then. Don't feel like arguing that point...

But you're also ignoring the massive amounts of money and legal effort made by, e.g. Apple, in order to guarantee that such a monoculture develops. You have to willfully ignore things (like their choice to make non-Apple text messages green instead of blue) in order to claim that it came about organically. There is a concerted effort to create an us vs. them mentality, which always sucks for "them."

Obv. the same isn't true for GitHub., but I don't want to argue the (de)merits of monocultures in general. I take for granted in this thread that they're a bad thing.

Re:Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @02:16PM (#11021712)
Huh? No, it's not about that. Not sure where you got this idea, given my other responses.
Re:Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @02:14PM (#11021685)
You seem to have missed my point. It's what those names don't communicate that makes them better. They don't make it seem like they're more broadly applicable than they are.

That said, the "sharp" in "resharper" actually does hint at its Microsoft nature, as it's the same sharp in "csharp"

Re:Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @02:11PM (#11021656)
Try reading my responses first. You completely missed my point.
Re:Quiver: Programmer's Notebook for OS X on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @02:09PM (#11021648)
Then you didn't read any of my follow-ups.

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