Also, I love how you think inductively charging your wireless toothbrush is "sensible" but making it easier to keep a life-saving device like a cell phone fully charged is, apparently, not.
Screwing around with micro-usb is a lot more practical when you don't have to worry about a wet environment. Of course, there are also waterproof and otherwise more rugged phones, so inductive charging makes more sense for them.
Also, in such a comparison, you need to consider how many lives are actually saved by _easier_ charging -- somehow most people manage to keep their phones charged with old-fashioned connectors, and only a tiny fraction of all phone usage is related to saving lives. Of course you'll get a non-zero number; now compare that to infections, heart disease etc. caused by not keeping your teeth healthy.
On a more general note, I think charging should be as simple as possible, not just for the user, but on a technical level to keep things more reliable (hence saving more lives). A lot of phones manage to screw up this idea even with wired connections: for example, you cannot run a phone off a charger alone, without a battery.
I imagine wireless charging hardware is not just a dumb induction loop, and some device identification/negotiation needs to take place first. For example, leaving metallic objects on the charging pad might be hilarious without such considerations. This IMHO is needlessly complicated for something that should be simple and reliable. At least, the extra comms takes up some power, making the efficiency even worse.
Synthesis of many different types of organic small molecules using one automated process
Junqi Li,
Steven G. Ballmer,
Eric P. Gillis,
Seiko Fujii,
Michael J. Schmidt,
Andrea M. E. Palazzolo,
Jonathan W. Lehmann,
Greg F. Morehouse,
and Martin D. Burke
Real Nerds know that you need AC for wireless charging, DC just won't cut it.
Seriously though, my opinion as a physicist/engineer is that wireless charging is a little dumb. It wastes a lot of power in an age where energy conservation is paramount, for what exactly? It's not like you can charge your phone from a distance. Inductive charging is a sensible tradeoff in things like dil^Welectric toothbrushes -- just because it can be done, doesn't mean it's great for everything.
Prime is prime, doesn't matter what base. Base is just how a number is represented.
This. In fact, there are some nice examples how primality shows up in different bases. For instance, Mersenne primes are all ones when written in binary, where the number of ones itself is a prime.
This. I think the current idea of time zones is somewhat OK to keep things convenient, but the reference should always be solar time, where 12 at noon means the sun at its highest point. If someone has a better way of defining time, I'm all ears, but arbitrarily moving/renaming things around is no way to standardize them. In fact, we might as well rename current hours as foo, bar, quux, etc. to indicate their complete detachment from nature, logic and math. Physical units strive for independent, natural definitions, and I don't think clock time deserves anything less.
Of course, there's the obligatory argument with early birds: if you want to wake up one hour earlier, then please do, by all means. I think you can do that without messing with my and nature's time.
That depends on where do you live. If you live in a northern country where everybody has blue eyes, you may find them "unremarkable".
I wonder if there are such countries. Here in Finland, most people seem to have greyish eyes with green or blue overtones, but a lot of natives also have very dark eyes, not to mention immigrants. So we do regard blue eyes as somewhat special and attractive -- though we also have "blue-eyed" as a synonym for "gullible".
At school we were taught that the gene for blue eyes is recessive when compared with brown eyes, which might explain the global trend, but it didn't matter either way to our class of 25 shades of grey.
The first one is closer to the original Finnish pronunciation (Finnish spelling is basically IPA), but we don't mind if you use the second one. There's no confusion with other words, especially if you otherwise speak English.
it's quite the contrary, we (finns) throw water to stove, which boils immediately forming steam (löyly) which fills the 'sauna room' (löylyhuoneen).
Humidity is well over 80% there in well warmed up sauna all the time and when that water is thrown (half a pint of more) it will quite rapidly go above 90% humidity.
If you have been in a place where someone calls it sauna and it's unlike that, it's not a proper finnish sauna, not even close.
I'm not sure how exactly the (relative) humidity percentages translate to human perception, but from the experience as a Finn, the effect of humidity varies a lot. When you toss water on the stove, there's your familiar (for/. audiences) heat pipe effect: evaporation at the stove, condensation on your skin, meaning a rapid burst-mode transfer of heat into you. But this only lasts a couple of seconds, and you'll generally spend minutes relaxing in the moderate heat in between tosses.
The ideal temperature and humidity also depends heavily on the size and build of the sauna. Smaller ones are generally fine with lower air temperatures, presumably because the heat pipe effect will be better focused.
Of course, ideal humidities and temperatures really come down to preferences, and the watering frequency also provides a lot of control, there's really no need for extreme heat if that's not your thing. IMHO, the sauna is first and foremost about relaxation, even a kind of meditation, and presumably that's an important factor on health.
the first atom core were 64bit WTF did intel remove that support for some chips ?
Not quite. It was WTF from the beginning, as these were released like 5 years after the introduction of x86-64. I got an Atom board in 2010 and I remember the mess of making extra sure it's 64-bit, as new 32-bit models were still being made.
This. I'd say the problem is made worse by the closed appliance culture that artificially distances users from developers, even if we have the open source movement to keep things alive. To consider things literally, a "digital native" should be someone who speaks ones and zeros fluently, i.e. having some level of programming ability, and not just in a school/test environment, but applying it in the real world.
You however will be stuck with your idea of cool in 2015 for the rest of your life, and everyone else will look down their noses at your poor decision making skills for the rest of your life.
Well, I'm afraid my idea of "cool" was thousands of years old when I first got into it, so I guess I'm a lost cause anyway;)
(I got my math symbols after my first year of working as a full-time teacher, way after my first degree, so it's not exactly some drunken teenage idea. That was over 10 years ago. I never used the word "cool" because I think it refers to something trendy and ephemeral. However, I also don't believe that growing up means losing everything that's fun and playful.)
Not everybody is drawing on their skin to impress someone.
This. My signs are rarely visible, even most t-shirts cover them, and I don't exactly go around flaunting them. It's a personal thing that tells something about me, for those who like to know. It's also a kind of joke about the perceived disjoint between those who have tattoos and those who work in education or research. That said, I've seen a surprising amount of ink in the teachers' lounges, and one of my most inked friends is an elementary school teacher; the university people seem more conservative than teachers in this sense, in my experience.
Some people might prefer an expensive suit or a fancy car to maintain a certain kind of image, and they don't seem to get the same kind of hate -- though that kind of image is usually associated with a status that attracts haters for other reasons.
It's pretty hard to go about your life not giving any kind of impression. If you avoid giving one at all, then chances are that others will come up with all kinds of false impressions.
I'm a math/science guy, and I have math symbols on my arms. If I ever regret my affection towards math and science, I might as well have some skin torn off.
Besides, the capital Sigma works great whenever somebody asks me "Are you series?".
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Code on a plane; it's wonderful.
Just don't use Python.
Also, I love how you think inductively charging your wireless toothbrush is "sensible" but making it easier to keep a life-saving device like a cell phone fully charged is, apparently, not.
Screwing around with micro-usb is a lot more practical when you don't have to worry about a wet environment. Of course, there are also waterproof and otherwise more rugged phones, so inductive charging makes more sense for them.
Also, in such a comparison, you need to consider how many lives are actually saved by _easier_ charging -- somehow most people manage to keep their phones charged with old-fashioned connectors, and only a tiny fraction of all phone usage is related to saving lives. Of course you'll get a non-zero number; now compare that to infections, heart disease etc. caused by not keeping your teeth healthy.
On a more general note, I think charging should be as simple as possible, not just for the user, but on a technical level to keep things more reliable (hence saving more lives). A lot of phones manage to screw up this idea even with wired connections: for example, you cannot run a phone off a charger alone, without a battery.
I imagine wireless charging hardware is not just a dumb induction loop, and some device identification/negotiation needs to take place first. For example, leaving metallic objects on the charging pad might be hilarious without such considerations. This IMHO is needlessly complicated for something that should be simple and reliable. At least, the extra comms takes up some power, making the efficiency even worse.
Synthesis of many different types of organic small molecules using one automated process Junqi Li, Steven G. Ballmer, Eric P. Gillis, Seiko Fujii, Michael J. Schmidt, Andrea M. E. Palazzolo, Jonathan W. Lehmann, Greg F. Morehouse, and Martin D. Burke
Moleculers! Moleculers! Moleculers! Moleculers!
If you look at the Nokia phones, the ones with wireless charging are thicker than those without.
Then don't look at the phones. Close your eyes and feel the lack of thickness.
I understand. I haven't logged in to work for a couple of years, and it's been awesome.
Real Nerds know that you need AC for wireless charging, DC just won't cut it.
Seriously though, my opinion as a physicist/engineer is that wireless charging is a little dumb. It wastes a lot of power in an age where energy conservation is paramount, for what exactly? It's not like you can charge your phone from a distance. Inductive charging is a sensible tradeoff in things like dil^Welectric toothbrushes -- just because it can be done, doesn't mean it's great for everything.
Is it the Elon Musk of 3D-printed Things from Apple?
Nice :)
Prime is prime, doesn't matter what base. Base is just how a number is represented.
This. In fact, there are some nice examples how primality shows up in different bases. For instance, Mersenne primes are all ones when written in binary, where the number of ones itself is a prime.
So why did you just announce yours?
I think DST is a crime against nature
This. I think the current idea of time zones is somewhat OK to keep things convenient, but the reference should always be solar time, where 12 at noon means the sun at its highest point. If someone has a better way of defining time, I'm all ears, but arbitrarily moving/renaming things around is no way to standardize them. In fact, we might as well rename current hours as foo, bar, quux, etc. to indicate their complete detachment from nature, logic and math. Physical units strive for independent, natural definitions, and I don't think clock time deserves anything less.
Of course, there's the obligatory argument with early birds: if you want to wake up one hour earlier, then please do, by all means. I think you can do that without messing with my and nature's time.
That depends on where do you live. If you live in a northern country where everybody has blue eyes, you may find them "unremarkable".
I wonder if there are such countries. Here in Finland, most people seem to have greyish eyes with green or blue overtones, but a lot of natives also have very dark eyes, not to mention immigrants. So we do regard blue eyes as somewhat special and attractive -- though we also have "blue-eyed" as a synonym for "gullible".
At school we were taught that the gene for blue eyes is recessive when compared with brown eyes, which might explain the global trend, but it didn't matter either way to our class of 25 shades of grey.
My window of patience is 188.49555921538757 seconds, the time it takes to bake a pie.
S-OW-na? S-AW-na?
The first one is closer to the original Finnish pronunciation (Finnish spelling is basically IPA), but we don't mind if you use the second one. There's no confusion with other words, especially if you otherwise speak English.
it's quite the contrary, we (finns) throw water to stove, which boils immediately forming steam (löyly) which fills the 'sauna room' (löylyhuoneen). Humidity is well over 80% there in well warmed up sauna all the time and when that water is thrown (half a pint of more) it will quite rapidly go above 90% humidity.
If you have been in a place where someone calls it sauna and it's unlike that, it's not a proper finnish sauna, not even close.
I'm not sure how exactly the (relative) humidity percentages translate to human perception, but from the experience as a Finn, the effect of humidity varies a lot. When you toss water on the stove, there's your familiar (for /. audiences) heat pipe effect: evaporation at the stove, condensation on your skin, meaning a rapid burst-mode transfer of heat into you. But this only lasts a couple of seconds, and you'll generally spend minutes relaxing in the moderate heat in between tosses.
The ideal temperature and humidity also depends heavily on the size and build of the sauna. Smaller ones are generally fine with lower air temperatures, presumably because the heat pipe effect will be better focused.
Of course, ideal humidities and temperatures really come down to preferences, and the watering frequency also provides a lot of control, there's really no need for extreme heat if that's not your thing. IMHO, the sauna is first and foremost about relaxation, even a kind of meditation, and presumably that's an important factor on health.
the first atom core were 64bit WTF did intel remove that support for some chips ?
Not quite. It was WTF from the beginning, as these were released like 5 years after the introduction of x86-64. I got an Atom board in 2010 and I remember the mess of making extra sure it's 64-bit, as new 32-bit models were still being made.
This. I'd say the problem is made worse by the closed appliance culture that artificially distances users from developers, even if we have the open source movement to keep things alive. To consider things literally, a "digital native" should be someone who speaks ones and zeros fluently, i.e. having some level of programming ability, and not just in a school/test environment, but applying it in the real world.
Breast? That's just a silly cone.
A summary that uses "bandwidth" in its correct, technical meaning? Heresy!
Well, four is, like, twice a prime, so nyah nyah nyah!
Came here to see a reference to real, non-USB Memory Sticks. Was disappoint.
You however will be stuck with your idea of cool in 2015 for the rest of your life, and everyone else will look down their noses at your poor decision making skills for the rest of your life.
Well, I'm afraid my idea of "cool" was thousands of years old when I first got into it, so I guess I'm a lost cause anyway ;)
(I got my math symbols after my first year of working as a full-time teacher, way after my first degree, so it's not exactly some drunken teenage idea. That was over 10 years ago. I never used the word "cool" because I think it refers to something trendy and ephemeral. However, I also don't believe that growing up means losing everything that's fun and playful.)
Not everybody is drawing on their skin to impress someone.
This. My signs are rarely visible, even most t-shirts cover them, and I don't exactly go around flaunting them. It's a personal thing that tells something about me, for those who like to know. It's also a kind of joke about the perceived disjoint between those who have tattoos and those who work in education or research. That said, I've seen a surprising amount of ink in the teachers' lounges, and one of my most inked friends is an elementary school teacher; the university people seem more conservative than teachers in this sense, in my experience.
Some people might prefer an expensive suit or a fancy car to maintain a certain kind of image, and they don't seem to get the same kind of hate -- though that kind of image is usually associated with a status that attracts haters for other reasons.
It's pretty hard to go about your life not giving any kind of impression. If you avoid giving one at all, then chances are that others will come up with all kinds of false impressions.
I'm a math/science guy, and I have math symbols on my arms. If I ever regret my affection towards math and science, I might as well have some skin torn off.
Besides, the capital Sigma works great whenever somebody asks me "Are you series?".
I think I really misunderstood the job posting that said "works with models" then.
I used to do modelling on a supercomputer. That's like supermodelling, right?