quickthrowman

> Sure, but the pizzeria charges less than $4 for delivery and don't want a tip.

The rest of the delivery charge is ‘baked’ into the price of the food.

> Also, why would those who pay to be there have to wait in line, but people who get paid by a third-party service to be there don’t? That doesn’t make sense.

The dine-in customers have not paid for or ordered their food, to do so they must wait in line.

The delivery driver is being handed a bag of food that is ready to go and paid for.

Many restaurants are already set up to accommodate online to-go orders. Chik-Fil-A has a separate drive-thru line for online orders, Chipotle lets people come up and get to-go orders that have been paid, same with Potbelly, it’s very common. It’s mildly annoying when you’re the one waiting in line but I don’t expect a delivery driver to wait in line to be handed a bag.

A restaurant with a physical presence with dine in service has a reputation to maintain, a ‘cloud kitchen’ food seller does not have the same reputation to worry about.

> Why are so many people commenting things like "I don't get why people use these services"?

Paying an extra $10-12 in tips and fees to have some courier a meal directly to your door is ridiculously cheap, a courier service would charge 4x as much for a similar courier trip.

Indeed, variable frequency drives for three-phase AC induction motors are available for single horsepower motors. A VFD rectifies the incoming AC to DC which then flows through a capacitor and into an inverter which converts the DC to quasi-sine (stepped) three-phase AC for use by the induction motor.

You can get natural gas powered chillers that compress the working fluid by burning gas instead of using electricity.

> My understanding is that he was raised evangelical.

Was that before or after he spent part of his childhood in a Namibian settlement called Swakopmund that venerated Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party?

> Before settling in Foster City, California, in 1977, the Thiel family lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern-day Namibia) in the time of apartheid. Peter changed elementary schools seven times. He attended a German-language school in Swakopmund for two years that required students to wear uniforms and employed corporal punishment, such as striking students' hands with a ruler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

> Swakopmund was known for its continued glorification of Nazism after World War II, including the celebration of Hitler's birthday and "Heil Hitler" Nazi salutes given by residents.[12][13] In 1976, The New York Times quoted a German working in a Swakopmund hotel who described the city as "more German than Germany".[13] As of the 1980s, Nazi paraphernalia was available to buy in shops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swakopmund

A heat pump dryer is 4x as efficient as a resistive electric dryer which would reduce your operating costs by 75%.

My family’s lake cabin has the original 55 year old Honeywell bimetallic strip thermostats in every room and they all work.

I refuse to let my medical providers use AI to do anything, they can pay a medical scribe if they want someone else to take notes during the visit.

I’m not letting them experiment with AI when it comes to my medical care.

> And yea, we should be attacking even nuclear armed states if they are invading others.

I don’t think rolling the dice to see if a total nuclear exchange occurs is ever worth it and neither does any leader of a nuclear armed state (so far).

I understand that, I responded to a comment talking about the ‘environmental damage’ and was putting it in perspective. Again, it’s five hundredths of one percent of the land logged each year in Finland. It’s less than a rounding error.

What are the odds the permit that Google or their contractor failed to pull would’ve been granted? I’d put the odds at 99% given that Google purchased the land. It was inevitable.

300 hectares is about 0.05% of the area logged in Finland (500,000 to 700,000 hectares) every year. 89% of Finland is covered by trees. The land that was logged by Google was a plantation forest planted by humans. Google also owns the land and it’s likely known they plan on building a data center.

I agree, it seems like it would be astronomically expensive. Setting up a heat exchanger/generator plant on a floating platform (with a step-up transformer for distribution), running the loop piping down to the seafloor, and HV cables hundreds of miles long seems like it’d be an order of magnitude more expensive to construct and operate vs a geothermal power generation station built on land.

I am curious how operations and maintenance will be handled, one of my customers is a CH&P plant that has two annual plant shutdowns for maintenance.

I’m fine with a locked down iPhone. All of my financial account credentials are on there, personal photographs, etc. Since I’ve owned an iPhone, I’ve never had a non-working phone. Security and reliability are the two most important items to me when it comes to a phone.

If I want to run arbitrary software, I have a computer. I am unsure why you care if I want a locked down reliable phone.

This does not work on iOS Safari, I get stuck in a loop. I haven’t installed the latest iOS update FWIW

There are two IMO gold medalists from the US I used to chat with on freenode in ##crawl, the channel dedicated to Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. One is a mathematics professor, the other guy worked at RenTech for a while (Reid Barton, he’s been mentioned on HN semi-frequently). Both of them have Wikipedia articles and they were both child chess and math prodigies and both won the Morgan Prize.

Fires almost never start in ‘common areas’ like corridors and lobbies. Tenant spaces and apartments inside multi-tenant buildings have their own four hour fire barrier so if a fire starts inside of a tenant space or apartment, it’ll be four hours before it blocks the stairs at a minimum.

A guy showed me a video where they used a chainsaw to cut a giant circle in the ice and then used one of the drive wheels on an ATV to make an ice merry-go-round, it looked pretty fun! The long winters make people here in Minnesota a bit funny in the head lol

Agreed, I don’t step onto a frozen lake unless there’s 10 cm of clear ice.

I stopped buying Subaru and started buying Toyota specifically for the reasons you listed and because Toyota (and Honda) make more reliable cars that hold their value longer. Used car depreciation curves tell the only story I need to read before purchasing a car.

There are no mountains in Ontario or Saskatchewan and that is where the glaciers came from, there’s only the exposed bedrock of the Canadian Shield.

A single fridge can be managed with a manual maximum recording thermometer. It records the highest temp reached. Check it daily, if the high temp is over 40F, throw everything away.

This isn’t grocery software, it’s a microcontroller for controlling a refrigeration system. The same controller is used in non-grocery refrigeration installations.

In an area that was covered by a glacier in the last 20k years, yes.

Chicago was covered by ice during the most recent glaciation, which means that boulder is probably a glacial erratic covered by till leftover from the movement of the glacier.

One person acting alone is not a conspiracy. It takes two to both tango, as well as conspire.

She had (two!) children solely to try and avoiding having to go to prison. She has no principles other than self-interest and self-preservation. It would be shocking if she didn’t attempt to curry favor with Trump for a pardon since he’s been handing them out to the wealthy like Halloween candy.

Not guilty != innocent.

What is the point of parking lights? If you’re parked at night in a safe place you can simply turn your lights off. If you’re not parked in a safe place, leaving your regular lights on and putting on the flashers is the safest thing to do. If there’s bad visibility during the day, turn your lights on. You don’t need parking lights on a sunny day.

Can anyone tell me what they’re supposed to be used for? Headlights are better in every scenario, the existence of parking lights only seems to force me to flash my brights at idiots that drive with parking lights at night. Removing the option would eliminate that.

It’s not safe to drive a car on 6 inches of ice. It’s enough for a snowmobile or single-person ATV. I wouldn’t drive a car onto a frozen lake without 12 inches of ice, 16 inches if it’s a typical half-ton pickup.

I live in MN and have slept overnight on the ice (inside of a heated trailer) before.

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/safety/ice/thickness.html