griffinheart
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
I had a question about the veritasium video, at some point they say that the electrons barely move, that confused me since that doesn't match my understanding of amperage, flow of electrons being for example 6.24x10^18 per second.
Anyone care to help me out? Maybe that just isn't much?
Comment · 5 years ago
I don't disagree with a lot of your above reply, but this part in particular picked my interest, mostly because I don't understand how its not racist.
> They aren't saying "this man is unable to perform this role due to his race" in a racist-against-this-person way, they're putting additional structural checks in place as a preventative measure.
Its not about the intention of the emitter, its about the receiving end of it.
It seems that if we flip this so that the receiving end is part of a minority we would all think this is utterly racist independent of the intention, how is it not?
edit: typo
Comment · 5 years ago
When is tether org involved in this?
From your example the only thing that happened is that now you hold x euros and Kraken holds x amount of USDT.
Unless Kraken goes to Tether org and asks "hey I got these USDTs, please give me the USD" no redemption has occurred.
That some people can in effect transact USDT for fiat via other mechanisms (like your example above) says nothing about Tether org backing or reserves.
Until you go to Tether org with your USDT's and ask them for USD you won't know if they have the reserves.
Comment · 6 years ago
I really don't like chord like shortcuts, while ctrl and [ are positioned in a way you don't have to contort your hand it kind of requires you to move away from the hjkl row or stretch your pinkies. Consider mapping esc to jk (as a sequence) it works surprisingly well.
inoremap jk <esc> inoremap <esc> <nop>not having chord like shortcuts was one of the main reasons that led me to try vim over emacs in the beginning, so I kind of think they're "anti" vim.
Comment · 7 years ago
I remember reading an article on hn that the rise of SUV's and their design is related to the increase of fatalities.
Like, compare a pedestrian collision where the car has a lower and more aerodynamic front vs the wall that is a SUV's front.
Comment · 7 years ago
TenTen | Tokyo, Japan | VISA for exceptional | ONSITE
https://www.mytenten.com with offices in Omotesando/Harajuku
We built our own hardware to control and interface with vending machines, doing what the Web 2.0 did for Web. We’re truly full-stack so you can expect to see Hardware/Firmware/IoT/Mobile/Web/Backend/Cellular/Bluetooth and others.
Firmware and embedded engineer
- Experience in Linux based embedded systems in production
- Experience in C/C++ based development
- Experience with Linux kernel driver development (highly desired)
- Experience with high-level programming language development such as Python (desired)
- Experience with Linux BSP creation (desired)
- Experience with buildroot and/or yocto build systems (desired)
What we have is a Linux based embedded system that also has a hard real-time processing component. The suitable candidate feels comfortable working with Linux platform with core components written in C, but the application architecture also utilizes high-level language components to provide the overall service and speed up the development. Has confidence in participating in low level debugging (logic analyzer etc), core dump analyzing of application failures and also general configuration matters of Linux.
We’re looking for go-getters that enjoy taking ownership over problems and seeing them driven to a solution, atm we prefer more experienced candidates to pave the way.
You can reach me hugo at mytenten dot com, this position doesn't require Japanese.
Comment · 7 years ago
TenTen | Tokyo, Japan | VISA for exceptional | ONSITE
https://www.mytenten.com with offices in Omotesando/Harajuku
We built our own hardware to control and interface with vending machines, doing what the Web 2.0 did for Web. We’re truly full-stack so you can expect to see Hardware/Firmware/IoT/Mobile/Web/Backend/Cellular/Bluetooth and others.
- Mobile developer(s): iOS and Android development native+non-native
- Server engineer: Backend focus on building API's mostly ruby based
- QA engineer: Find all the bugs the other positions are creating
- Senior QA engineer: Develop our QA team and improve feedback cycles
- FW developer: Work on our beacon powered by linux, (Linux development)
- Frontend developer: Take care of our frontends, mostly react based
- Devops engineer: For someone not afraid of a varied infrastructure
- PDM: Talk with our customers and help our teams deliver value (Japanese required)
- Don't see a position but still interested? Reach out anyway
We’re looking for go getters that enjoy taking ownership over problems and seeing them driven to a solution, atm we prefer more experienced candidates to pave the way.
You can reach me hugo at mytenten dot com, we require Japanese only where mentioned.
Comment · 7 years ago
> Nor do Japanese cities have many official celebrations of immigrant culture or contributions.
Tokyo certainly has. Almost every weekend right next to Yoyogi park[0] there is one, Cuban fest, Thai fest, Rainbow fest, Cambodia fest.
And they are pretty big, with at least 10's of thousands of people visiting.
Comment · 7 years ago
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi. [0]
I agree with you that if you don't use a specialist tool 24/7 you'll be slow, but that is expected vi optimizes for expert users not for novice users.
In the same way that if I don't use Photoshop and then just want to do something simple in it, it's going to take me a lot of time and am probably going to forget how to do it because I don't use it enough.
0 - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos...
Comment · 8 years ago
This seems great, so why does the article state:
> It remains in use today for certain special cases but is considered controversial and some surgeons refuse to perform it.
I imagine there's a reason, but I hope its not "doesn't look good"
Comment · 8 years ago
I would read that as the "red book in algorithms" this is probably because of the famous OpenGL red book, so now we refer to the "fundamental" book in an area as the red book.
In a sense yes its "wrapped up in a particular culture" I guess the culture that exposed me to this "red book" was a CS bachelors that included graphical programming as a course.
Edit: If someone from google said to read the red book as a helper for interviewing I would probably return with "wait you mean the OpenGL book?"
Comment · 8 years ago
Also in Japan we just had record temperatures in the last 2 weeks.
While summer is humid and hot in Japan I can't recall ever being this hot.
Comment · 8 years ago
Was at the Kaigi and on the opening keynote Matz talked a bit about it. He doesn't really support adding it since he feels like in 20/30+ years, advances in technology will make writing types "obsolete".
Comment · 8 years ago
There's a lot of care about not disturbing other people in Japanese culture.
A few additional reasons, for wearing a mask, not in the article:
- Forgot or didn't have time to put makeup on
- Kafunsho (hay fever) protection
- Odor protection, there's also scented masks
- Hiding braces
Just to validate then, these barely moving electrons will create a field that induces a current on the electrons on the other side of the wire that is 1m away, which would turn on the bulb, that if the lightbulb was an ideal current detector that ignores all other sources of electric fields?