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sol_hsa, to random
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I've seen this kind of stovetop design in some (primarily american?) media, and I wonder..

Why are the controls that control the hot things on top of the hot things?

Sounds like a really unsafe design to me.

@TechConnectify might be able to comment?

TechConnectify,
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@sol_hsa I suspect the main reason for this is technical - generally, electric stoves have them in the back panel which would make wiring easier, and gas stoves have them at the front which makes piping easier.

Personally, I don't find them at the back to be dangerous at all. First, as others have identified, they are harder to accidentally bump. And much harder for small children to get to. Second, the outer knobs almost always control the front burners. You reach around for them, not over.

TechConnectify,
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@sol_hsa but most importantly, with an electric stove, if you've found yourself with an emergency like a grease fire, shutting off the burner isn't going to help you. You have more pressing needs, and the dangers of not shutting the gas valve off immediately (i.e. open flames below or gas leaks if they go out) just aren't there.

sol_hsa, to random
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400 followers, does that make me an e-class celebrity yet?

Doomed_Daniel,
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sol_hsa, to random
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In today's news:

Unity exec quits
OpenAI co-founder quits
AWS CEO quits

Nobody wants to work anymore

sol_hsa, to random
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There's way more shoes in stores these days where you don't need to tie the laces.

My first reaction to this was negative, but then I figured, why?

The first generation of people who never had to have shoes that have laces are now old enough to make decisions about shoe designs.

And they don't like tying laces.

And that is perfectly fine.

guntha,
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@sol_hsa Not a shoe expert, but I don't see many other ways we can still innovate regarding shoes.

sol_hsa, to random
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Do people have specific laundry days?

I just do laundry whenever we have accumulated enough dirty clothes (and/or are running out of clean ones)

Doomed_Daniel,
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@sol_hsa
not really, but it tends to be on weekends

slembcke,
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@Doomed_Daniel @sol_hsa Same. Weekends or whenever I’m almost out of things to wear. Procrastination day basically.

sol_hsa, to random
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I wonder if the target demographic for the rentable electric scooters is assholes. At least if I consider where people leave the things. Such as sideways parked in the middle of a bicycle lane on a steep hill. Right after a curve.

code_disaster,
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@sol_hsa suicidal assholes if you factor in their behavior I've been observing in traffic.

sol_hsa, to random
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Stumbled upon an "experienced game programmer's" resume. Three pages of super detailed listings of work tasks, 9 years of experience. Zero mention of any released games.

sol_hsa,
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@pervognsen @msinilo @Doomed_Daniel
Did your contract block you from saying "worked n years doing lighting on unannounced MMO for xyz" ?

pervognsen,
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@sol_hsa @msinilo @Doomed_Daniel No, that isn't really the issue. I just mean that working on a game that doesn't ship doesn't really mean anything to a prospective employer in most cases.

sol_hsa, to random
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"digitally remastered"

Like, okay. Fine. But what else could it be? Analogically? Manually? Optically? With crayons?

Doomed_Daniel,
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@slembcke @sol_hsa
digital in the late 70s or even in the 80s?
wouldn't that have been a lot of data for the those days standards, if you have (at least) one track per instrument etc?

slembcke,
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@Doomed_Daniel @sol_hsa Sure, but it wasn't done on computers with floppy disks. It was all tapes. Even with 70s tech you could put a song's worth of data onto a reel of digital tape, while processing it over and over without losing quality. You couldn't do that with analog, so it made mastering much more expensive.

sol_hsa, to random
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Headlines then:
Fact happened, read all of it here

Headlines now:
You'll never guess what happened, we'll reveal it in the fourth paragraph if you're lucky

Doomed_Daniel,
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@sol_hsa
Or "Why $fact" or "How $thing does $something" - and then not actually answering those questions in the article

sol_hsa, to random
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Had an interesting discussion while walking with my son yesterday.

How do you define indoors vs outdoors?

If you're in a tunnel, is it indoors?

Is it about the amount of ventilation?

If it's about the ventilation, are you indoors on a plane?

Is it the amount of recycled air?

If you're in a big hall, you're clearly indoors, right?

If you're in an airtight artificial biome, is it indoors?

Tijn,
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@sol_hsa surely it involves going through a door!

sol_hsa, to random
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm missing some significant part of the human existence by not drinking alcohol.

guntha,
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@sol_hsa I don't think the good experiences outweigh the drawbacks, I'm drinking less and less.

sol_hsa, to random
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I've been tracking the prices people are willing to pay for on ebay.

The auction prices hover around 600€, and some people with more money than sense have gone with 1200€ buy it nows.

floooh,
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@sol_hsa getting strong 80's East Germany flashbacks where a C64 on the grey market would fetch the price of a "low-end" car (Trabant) and an Amiga 500 the price of a "high end" car (Lada 1600) :D

sol_hsa, to random
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When vulkan was introduced, Khronos stated that OpenGL wasn't going away.

Latest ARB extension to OpenGL is dated 2019. No extension (vendor specific or otherwise) mention ray tracing in any way.

neilhenning,
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@sol_hsa @dougbinks even in my time at Khronos, Vulkan was heavily attended whereas OpenGL was on life support.

aeva,
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@oblomov @sol_hsa oh no worries. If your reply was "yeah, there's a whole new GL spec in the works right now that adds all the new stuff finally" I'd have had to check and see if I had somehow fast traveled to the first day of the month of April.

sol_hsa, to random
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<joke>
As a person with literally two hours of experience in the language, I feel I'm expert enough to state this opinion:

The language could use a reform.

They don't use v. W is their v. There's no reason for this.

Some sounds can be written in two ways, either with accented characters or two letters. There's probably some logic behind this.

In some two letter combinations the first letter is omitted when speaking.

While at it, the accented l could be changed to the (now unused) w.

floooh,
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@sol_hsa doesn't English have the same problem (of V and W being identical)? In German there's the same problem with V being redundant with F. We could fix all those problems by dropping U and use V instead like in the olden days ;)

sol_hsa, to random
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So I'm inserting 50 million (precalculated) primes to <unordered_set>.

Takes 21.6 seconds.

I replaced the hash function with a trivial one, drops time to 7.8s.

Replaced allocator with a stack allocator, down to 3.6 seconds.

That's still a pretty long time. Ideas?

BartWronski,
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@demofox @castano @slembcke @sol_hsa if you don't know, just fit a higher order polynomial! 😅

castano,
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@demofox @BartWronski @slembcke @sol_hsa Actually, if you know the distribution is nlogn you could sample at the nlogn location and search linearly above or below. You should find the nearest prime very quickly.

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