>45 minutes means an hour and a half of your life every day that you don't get paid for and have to just throw away.
Wasted??? Listening to motivational podcasts while sitting in a traffic jam for 45 minutes is not wasted time! /s
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Wasted??? Listening to motivational podcasts while sitting in a traffic jam for 45 minutes is not wasted time! /s
That’s around ¾ the amount of music I carry on my iPhone :-)
And most induction tops draw so much current that you need at least 2 phases, but optimally 3 phases installed.
My story: I physically broke an indoor bike trainer by writing a mobile app.
I was fed up with the rent-seeking subscription-based app that the vendor provided for the machine, and wanted to write a simple app to be able to change the training parameters over Bluetooth. It worked via a standard BLE fitness machine protocol, so I’ve spent a few hours creating a prototype iOS app for interacting with it via the CoreBluetooth framework, based on the free docs from Bluetooth.org.
Everything worked wonderfully, up until the point of adding a slider to the UI for changing the “hardness” parameter of the current session. You see, changing the hardness parameter adjusted an electromagnetic braking mechanism inside the machine, and the slider I’ve put on the UI was set to its “continuous” mode, which meant that it was generating a steady stream of change events while dragging, basically at the framerate of the phone (60 fps). The designers of the machine probably didn’t anticipate that someone would be flooding it with 60 “set hardness” commands per second, and the actuator doing the adjustment simply broke from the overload after a few seconds of me dragging the slider…
I’m not sure exactly which part broke, but there was a loud crack from inside, and the braking power could no longer be adjusted at all. I could have disassembled the machine, but it wasn’t even mine (it was lent to me by my brother-in-law to try it out), and was still under warranty, so I gave it back and told that it spontaneously broke :^)
That’s a dangerous misconception. The Rust ownership model only guarantees that the program is free of data races. That’s a necessary but not sufficient condition of program correctness.
I thought most people would be listening to their own curated collection of mostly Bandcamp stuff, plus a bunch of exclusive vinyl and cassette releases. I didn’t realize that older folks (i.e. over 35) are still using services like Spotify and Apple Music!
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:^)
Edit: meh, stupid CSP…
(Yep it worked)
On evolutionary timescales, anything that doesn’t help procreation will die out. Simple as that.
Indeed!
Funny, because others replying to my comment seemed to be similarly inexperienced outside their well-educated Silicon Valley / Ivy League bubble… :^)
“ One of the most famous blunders made by former U.S. President George W. Bush was, “Africa is a nation that suffers from terrible disease.” President Bush, like many others, misconstrued the fact that Africa is not a country, but a continent.”
https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/2018/11/23/africa-not-a-co...
But surely, it must be a coincidence! :)
Time is a flat circle.