At long last, the humble stove enters the 21st century

jamesshuang

The glass itself might be problematic, but that can be solved with thinner / stronger glass, or reinfocement with low specific heat materials. However, your basic analogy makes no sense. Your small chunks of chocolate will still melt faster.

Since we're talking about hysteresis (momentum), how about a more apt analogy -- If forced, would you rather be shot with a shotgun slug, or birdshot?

jamesshuang

This stove might actually fix that... Smaller coils don't have as much heat hysteresis as a large coil, and if your entire surface is just small coils, assuming you can supply the proper amount of electricity, it will heat up / cool off fairly quickly.

jamesshuang

I use an Athlon X4 635 at work. It's a powerful little system, if you can program it correctly. Since most games probably can't take advantage of many cores, you should probably still err on the side of faster single cores. If you're using it for number crunching with numpy or matlab, four cores make a very big difference...

jamesshuang

Funny enough, Chinese people have heavy-duty prejudices against Chinese from other regions. Each region has their stereotype. Shanghai women are thought to be brash and hard to control, people from the northwest (where I'm from) are thought to be dirty peasants / muslim, etc etc. I don't know any of them, but every once in a while my mom would tell me one of these, much to my bemusement...

jamesshuang

Nah, UK had smarts far longer than we've had. Mostly, they were driving it around Chicago, one of their hardest bends. It cuts left, then immediately does a hard cut right all the way around. They mentioned afterwards that the short wheelbase and tall profile of the smart meant that there was very little turning force, which is why when they drove it with a bit of gusto, the thing just didn't do anything.

jamesshuang

Beautiful plumage

jamesshuang

I remember top gear testing the smart on their track. I believe that it was BY FAR the worst understeer ever experienced, and it nearly ran over a cameraman. Stig just turned the wheel, and the car didn't budge at all... went directly straight, lol

jamesshuang

She sounds like a fainting goat

jamesshuang

This sounds just like cable stretch (which is actually housing compression). I'd suggest you keep adjusting it back with the barrel adjusters for a few weeks. It will eventually set into place and stop changing.

jamesshuang

You're also probably not going to notice the +2 ns delay due to a slightly slower ram......

jamesshuang

Relevant

jamesshuang

Wait, are you saying safeway is overpriced? x_x

jamesshuang

http://dheera.net/projects/blur.php

jamesshuang

My friend and his brother desperately wanted an SNES when it first came out. That Christmas, their parents sat them down, worked through all the regular small presents. When that was all done, they told them, "One last big present for you guys!"..... Obviously they were off their rockers with excitement as their parents whipped out... a LOG

Yeah, he still resents his mom for that one...

jamesshuang

Perhaps as much as building a floating church?

jamesshuang

The explanation I've heard was that in large banquets back in medieval times, the tables were very small and did not allow enough room for elbows.

Even now, cramped tables make elbows uncomfortable, so it's still somewhat logical, although not at a large open table

jamesshuang

My perfect pitch friend has trouble hearing chords / intervals. She can handily identify one note, but play two together and she's lost. On the other hand, most people are great with telling the type of chord, most intervals. Kind of a sad tradeoff...

jamesshuang

It just wouldn't be the same without the massive currents from the degausser, the physical WHUMP you get out of the monitor from the electricity hitting the coils...

I guess the vibration motor on a phone would suffice

jamesshuang

You should get him to do an AMA...

jamesshuang

N1 owner -- 2.2 does include tethering. It's awesome! Saved my hide a few times already...

jamesshuang

I'm bilingual english/chinese. There's an odd mental "switch" I have to flip in order to change languages. The switch changes the language I think in as well, and if I can't make the switch, it's really hard to speak the target language. Granted, english is by far my primary language, so switching into english is trivial, and out of it is challenging. Also, any words I don't know in chinese pops out as english in my head.

This of course discounts when I start programming, and I "think" in the target language there... Especially on easier bits of code and nice languages like python, I can basically type out code as if it were english.

jamesshuang

Dude just go to vallejo... its not that far

jamesshuang

Omaha Nebraska, where most people in the area are probably employed in agriculture, and there is no turnover in people. As hard as SF tries, I don't think they can give everyone a job farming pot...

jamesshuang

This man did it all by himself...

jamesshuang

Removing electroencephalographic artifacts by blind source separation? Is that a common vein of research in Russia?!

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