Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — c3833174

c3833174

HN member
Joined
Fri, Jun 10, 2016, 1:19 PM UTC
HN karma
148
Public activity
128 items

About c3833174

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #17423355

    >It's like complaining that your company has to many customers. Well, management accepting more orders without enough people/space to do the work can be a pain.

  2. comment
    Comment #17423237

    Well, there's hundreds of abandoned-looking industrial buildings in my area that are actually filled with CNC machines and only have 3,4 employees

  3. comment
    Comment #17292489

    That too, and it also happens on firefox

  4. comment
    Comment #17292404

    Well, youtube does manage to play the video instantly but having to wait 5+ seconds for recommended videos and comments to load is pretty awful and distracting once they load

  5. comment
    Comment #17227873

    You can burn yourself with a soldering iron or splashed solder too, better avoid electronics all together.

  6. comment
    Comment #17227547

    Meanwhile the rent-seeking on FAT patents continues

  7. comment
    Comment #17227486

    Issues and old repots would be lost but people would move on to another service.

  8. comment
    Comment #17226948

    Waay too boring following the safety police rules. Playing with HV can be fun, just build fly swatter-level inverters instead of using a transformer/capacitors big enough to kill y…

  9. comment
    Comment #17187290

    That's not always a good thing, everytime I've tried a post-plasma KDE version I've always ended up spending too much time regularly tweaking the whole setup.

  10. comment
    Comment #16743287

    AGM batteries are packed with fiberglass, so when oxide starts building up on the plates because of improper charging or electrolyte drying up they start pushing on the case.

  11. comment
    Comment #16715163

    As someone who rebuilt a couple dozens PCs for a charity from dumpster parts, boards in plastic bags while wearing mostly synthetic clothes, I'd say you underestimate the ruggednes…

  12. comment
    Comment #16617657

    A stainless boiler is just 2 stainless steel cups held togheter by a clamp, it shouldn't affect the price much, my 120€ delonghi has one.

  13. comment
    Comment #16575530

    It's just a mozilla devoloper making a dataset of modal popups to experiment, nothing more atm.

  14. comment
    Comment #16537154

    >how the oscillator behaves in deep sleep mode. horribly

  15. comment
    Comment #16537023

    IIRC modern operatings systems use counters in the CPU for timekeeping instead of directly accessing the RTC

  16. comment
    Comment #16536979

    Before being relegated to cheapest chinese stuff, elecromechanical timers were the norm. There's probably thousands of electrical panels with old DIN rail timers that don't get rep…

  17. comment
    Comment #16536878

    Most clocks are thin, so it's easier to guess the placement of the antenna.

  18. comment
    Comment #16536704

    Or just reporpose an old phone.

  19. comment
    Comment #16536673

    It was mostly used in the common radio alarm clocks, the ones with a 4digit red 7 segment display that were all based on an IC from the 70s that handles everything (minus the radio…

  20. comment
    Comment #16536577

    Yes, it needs to be perpendicular to the direction of frankfurt for best results You can find more details in the second page of this datasheet https://www.gemischtwaren-haendler.d…

  21. comment
    Comment #16491962

    Compile time doesn't mean the compiler won't add more instructions where you might not expect them.

  22. comment
    Comment #16476296

    No, that only applies to cars with the more fancy antiparticulate filter that also requires urea fluid.

  23. comment
    Comment #16476140

    >LCD TVs instead of monitors I don't think it really matters that much (maybe apart from the builtin shutdown timer): Mid-90s 32" Trinitron CRT 120W Mid-00s 32" Bravia LCD 130W

  24. comment
    Comment #16332795

    It's real

  25. comment
    Comment #16324969

    Windows 7 adds some nice things like search and the explorer shift+Rclick menu, but it also hides some settings panels that haven't changed since 2k behind more clicks.