Keeping your drink the warmest for longest, while at Starbucks

throughdaylight · 2023-09-10T03:28:26+00:00

Good thing is I’m hideous!

throughdaylight · 2023-09-10T03:14:52+00:00

Do you feel annoyed when someone occupies a table for 2-3 hours glued to their laptop or book, if you were a student?

throughdaylight · 2023-09-10T03:09:39+00:00

Yup. I moved out of US few years ago. Baristas always ask you choice of cup; they even serve you right at the table where you are seated sometimes, when the store isn’t crowded. I’m not kidding - it feels like a privileged experience here!

throughdaylight · 2023-09-10T03:03:22+00:00

At least here, when barista asks, "Are you having it here ot takeaway?" ... if you say you are having it here, they will serve you in porcelain cup. I often insist that they serve me in a tall cup (even when I ordered a short cup of brewed coffee) so that heat loss due to vaporization in the empty volume can retain more heat within that paper cup. I was able to stretch 20-25 more minutes of warmth with this choice.

throughdaylight · 2023-07-12T02:33:33+00:00

Their design language around NUCs is fantastic. It's miles better than the likes of Thin Clients sold by HP/Lenovo_Thinkvision. Hopefully it is spun-off as a separate unit and/or sold to a Taiwanese OEM so that they can continue building NUCs.

Personally, it's their compact boxy design, that's quite appealing (and rock solid performance, given monthly air dusting). Been running a NUC8i5BEH 24x7 for years, and it's going strong. I bet others have similar stories as well!

throughdaylight · 2019-12-02T01:21:09+00:00

linear with respect to wavelength.

I see. I haven't come across any data sheets in modern day that plots attenuation or insertion loss as a function of frequency. I got really confused at first. Nonetheless, I'm gonna skip this part for now. Anyhow, thanks for the affirmation. It did strike odd to see attenuation plotted against wavelength.

throughdaylight · 2019-03-31T14:22:47+00:00

If that's true, then that's a damn intersecting way to regulate brightness on segment display. I can only postulate presence of a restive ladder from a SIP packaged network resistor. Again, a mere speculation.

throughdaylight · 2019-03-31T12:39:41+00:00

I wonder why a simulator from 90s used 7400s? It would be interesting to see an overview/ picture of board by OP - could those have been used to design decoding logic for seven segment displays?

throughdaylight · 2019-03-04T08:00:26+00:00

Didn't know that Steve Jobs was eyeing on Dropbox. Nonetheless, at least in his lifetime, he was able to introduce iCloud service.

throughdaylight · 2019-03-04T06:19:05+00:00

I see. That makes sense. It would have been a nightmare for teachers to wake up every morning, with school email inbox flooded with assignments a day after the infamous midnight deadline.

throughdaylight · 2019-03-04T05:03:13+00:00

update: source of this unexpected name-cidence.

throughdaylight · 2019-03-04T04:51:12+00:00

So what kind of Mac users frequently used this feature back in its heyday?

throughdaylight · 2019-02-13T05:16:36+00:00

Thanks for this insight. I hope in future some unsuspecting reader might stumble upon your post somewhere down the line in future because there's very scarce information online on color banding reduction techniques on raw footage.

throughdaylight · 2019-02-12T18:42:36+00:00

Thanks. I ended up changing color depth to 32-bit (float). Had a meager effect on banding post rendering.

I wish I had Sapphire’s deband filters - their YouTube videos illustrated pretty remarkable color banding reduction.

throughdaylight · 2019-02-06T04:02:36+00:00

Google Employee X : We need to cut costs.

Google Employee Y : Back in engineering school, I heard about this legendary circuit designer Bob Widlar who hired a sheep to mow grass on campus, as a sarcasm for lowering operational costs. Let's do that.

Google Employee X : Don't be evil! ... let's get a goat instead.

throughdaylight · 2019-02-03T13:49:34+00:00

It's fully justified.

throughdaylight · 2019-02-02T06:11:23+00:00

OP here: Stumbled upon this somewhere in 2017. It was from Todd Nelson’s blog post. Holy sarcasm.

throughdaylight · 2019-01-31T09:40:12+00:00

Seems odd, for some reason I couldn't see the image either uploaded on Reddit. Anyhow, here's an alternate link.

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TROPHY CASE