Handling a pet peeve of mine. 3 seconds into the video, he talks about induction stovetops and shows a picture of a glass top radiant stove.

Radiant stoves are just slightly better than electric resistive stoves. They are not induction though they can look similar. People try them and hate them and assume induction is terrible when it isn’t.

The only thing I can think about is if you billed to a university address. A couple electronics outlets I shopped at would give discounts for students and universities.

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Leeches are such cool creatures. I had a run-in with them while canoeing in Manitoba. Just one or two latched on. It’s really incredible how they can move their bodies around in the water yet maintain the exact texture and fluidity of the water itself. You’d never be able to feel one if it brushed up against you.

Also crazy how well whatever numbing chemical they produce works.

If you want to safely observe one up close, you can get them to latch on to your finger nail where they can’t do any damage.

I scrolled down and saw the video.

Best explanation I’ve seen is that humans judge distance and size assuming a relatively flat surface (a dozen miles or so in any direction is fairly flat even though the Earth is round).

Things far along the horizon tend to be small because they’re far away. This isn’t the case for the Moon. So our brains assume it’s far away, but it’s the same apparent size, ergo, it must be massive.

Like we know Mt Rainier is massive and far away, so given this photo, we might assume the moon is massive.

Higher in the sky, there’s no real point of reference. Also, you might visually process the sky as a flat layer above the ground, so the same parallax trick applies. I.e. the sky above you is closer than the sky/ground at the horizon. Therefore Moon is “closer” and appears smaller.

need a vehicle that sits high

Why does anybody need a vehicle that “sits high”?

Name’s taken https://www.amazon.com/Starfrit-93209-Rotato-Express-Electric/dp/B000X9EPT0/ref=asc_df_B000X9EPT0?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80676783691791&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584276308954936&psc=1

Not an Elon fan, but this kind of story hurts the public perception of EVs which bothers me.

This is not unique to Teslas or even EVs.

You can get stuck in a stock Corvette since 2005

That was after 3 seconds of googling. There are plenty of cars that are difficult to escape or enter with a dead battery. Some consider electronic door controls as a luxury feature. They will fail to function with no power. Hate them if you like.

For Teslas in particular, there is a mechanical latch for the doors on the inside. Learn where they are. On the outside, there are terminals near the tow hook that when given 9V will pop the frunk. Then you can access the 12V battery to jump it.

Zero grams sugar? That is not Sunny D

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I think getting people to turn down free pizza is a lot more difficult than getting them to join a union.

Oh right, duh. Thanks.

They should have aimed at the non-stainless steel portion. Pretty sure you could wipe this up easy with some acetone or gasoline as a solvent.

Something something book by its title.

Real book https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2877780-the-jewish-japanese-sex-cook-book-and-how-to-raise-wolves

I believe the optimization came because the denominator was a power of two. In my memory, the function counted up all of the bytes being sent and checked to see that the sum was a power of 16 (I think 16 bytes made a single USB endpoint or something; I still don’t fully understand USB).

For starters, you can split up a larger modulo into smaller ones:

X = (A + B); X % n = (A % n + B % n) % n

So our 16 bit number X can be split into an upper and lower byte:

X = (X & 0xFF) + (X >> 8)

so

X % 16 = ((X & 0xFF) % 16 + (X >>8) % 16) % 16

This is probably what the compiler was doing in the background anyway, but the real magic came from this neat trick:

x % 2^n = x & (2^n - 1).

so

x % 16 = x & 15

So a 16 bit modulo just became three bitwise ANDs.

Edit: and before anybody thinks I’m good a math, I’m pretty sure I found a forum post where someone was solving exactly my problem, and I just copy/pasted it in.

Edit2: I’m pretty sure I left it here, but I think you can further optimize by just ignoring the upper byte entirely. Again, only because 16 is a power of 2 and works nicely with bitwise arithmatic.

Lol, no, but in the summers we were allowed to wear t-shirts on Friday.

Thanks!

And it was. They told me to take the rest of the day off which at the age of 22 was unheard of.

Thank you! But this was 12 years ago lol. Think they’ve moved on.