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This is the en of the thread of the first comment. Now i can find below the second comment


"I boiled some water, put in the pasta, and starting at 9min I removed a piece every 15s until I got to 14:30:"

When you remove pasta, you Cool down the water. So its not the same reault as actual 15 minutes cooking


How does removing pasta cool down the water?

I was putting in a slotted spoon, and removing one piece at a time. The water remained at a full boil throughout.


No, they're right. You took out at least a nanojoule of thermal energy.

Did you factor that in to your next tasting?


Do you know how many times i wanted to select the clickable link in google search result?


Back in the day I requested chrome feature "copy text" in addition to "copy link" on <a> context menu. Now I tried it it's no longer there.


It's not? Just checked a Chrome instance I had handy, it has all three options in the context menu - "Copy", "Copy link address" and "Copy link to highlight". First one copies text in between <a> ... </a>, second one copies the href attribute, and third one copies the link to page you're on with that weird URL framgment-based arbitrary text anchor/highlight scheme.

All three work on Google search results for me.


Maybe weird behavior on my end? Or perhaps you need to select part of <a>'s content to trigger it?


Headline no bit. Then attack if.

There would be no branching if there were no "if". It's basic assembly. Not jumps. No loops.


Yes, I think it really only works in a side-effect free language. Otherwise after the first "failure", while every resulting value also turns to None, allocation, file access, database calls still happen, so you are now in a weird limbo state where everything was done, but no handle retained and in a weird position in control flow, kind-of between the lines, which isn't expressed by any of your code.


The operations could be short-circuiting.


You are a unique person. You have detailedknowlage of graphics assembly and windows api. And you have the creativity to write games. Which need the side ability of drawing.

This insane amount of knowlage is rare. And the ability to write about it is also not common.

You are very talented and hard working person.

I am in awe.


Not only that, he also does sysadmin for the game's infrastructure and administrates the drama-prone community. And whatever else happens behind the scenes. Honestly one of the greatest developers I've seen.


FYI: pjb goes by she/her.


Thanks, I'd forgotten that. Can't edit the comment anymore.


I disagree. Writing code was a bottle neck in software engineering. Code review is for code that doesnt hold the standards. Debuging is for code not written well. Integration is needed when you dont take to acoount the properties of the different parts

Specifications are the only missing part. And that is done through the question to the llm.


The advantage of am over fm is the simplicity of the electronic circuit. In am its very easy to create a receiver to listen to broadcast. While an fm radio is too complicated for amature electronic.

So i dont belive am will ever be dropped for emergency radio


You can actually receive FM very simply. Here was an amusing post on Reddit [1] a few years ago from someone who was trying to make a simple audio amplifier and found that it was receiving his local NPR station which was broadcasting FM on 88.3 MHz. After some experimenting he got it down to just a cheap op amp, 2 capacitors, 1 potentiometer, a 9 V battery, a speaker, and some wire for an antenna.

It is working through slope detection. Basically if you've got FM at frequency X carrying voice and you measure the energy at a frequency a little bit away from X, as the FM signal frequency varies due to the voice modulation the energy you measure near X will vary in a similar way, so your voice modulation of the frequency X becomes amplitude modulation of your energy measurement.

You can play with this on an SDR, such as a cheap RTL-SDR dongle. Find an FM station and tune to its center frequency with your SDR software set for FM demodulation, and verify that you are indeed on an FM station broadcasting voice and/or music. Then switch the SDR software to AM demodulation and start slowly tuning away from the FM center frequency. You should find a point where you can clearly hear the voice and/or music. It won't sound great compared to FM demodulation of the same station, or compared to an AM station, but it should be serviceable for receiving emergency information.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/HamRadio/comments/oz5rri/i_accident...


FM radios aren't complicated at all. And FM transmitters, in particular, are extremely simple. When I was a student we had a tiny one we made in an afternoon (this was decades ago), we connected it to our 8-hour reel tape deck and had our own music station in the car radio when we drove around in the area. The advantage of AM is, as was mentioned already, the lower frequency used by AM which means much better coverage. FM 87MHz-108MHz is almost just line of sight.


No much to a coil, antenna and a germanium diode.


The geranium diode is doing most of the heavy lifting. Good luck building that from scratch.



Galena cat whiskers were quite common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_detector


And how is that relevant to the alleged complexity of building an AM radio vs an FM one? The point was that the latter is easy, not complicated. The FM transmitter is so easy to make that you can make one by accident - if there's a non-linear element in the rf part.


Its about the simplicity of the circuit. The components are available for any electronic Technician.

Use an amplifier is not a basic circuit. Resistor diode capacitor cable and power source are the basic of electronics


ha! i 'member this. hmmmmm

Stringly Typed. yes. yes.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

now that you put a duck in news. i call to remove it. thankyou.


The "Budget" is 702 billion. The expense is 698 billion. Now the department expenditures is 702 billion. So they spend 4 more billions then they got. At that point I laugh.

so you see the Hm treasure.


No, look closer. The deficit is £55 billion. What I think you're confused about is that there's a £698bn allocation that seemingly magically feeds into a £702bn budget for department expenditures. However the £4bn difference comes from HM Treasury (it's quite a thin line at the bottom)


This is whataboutism. Choosing one method is not saying 100% of enforcing with only one method. 100 million calls means statisticaly one of 3 usa readers got a call frim him. Thats alot.


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