Hacker News: MikeDelta

New comment by MikeDelta in "How I Program in 2024"

MikeDelta — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 05:43:27 +0000

Qui testet ipsos tests?

New comment by MikeDelta in "Show HN: Nitrogen Blue Launching from the Forest"

MikeDelta — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 11:13:14 +0000

What an amazing story to where you are today. Good luck!

BTW: IBKR stands for Interactive Brokers, I haven't seen them use International in their name.

Prosopometamorphopsia

MikeDelta — Wed, 15 May 2024 07:03:06 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopometamorphopsia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40363924

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by MikeDelta in "Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)"

MikeDelta — Sat, 11 May 2024 07:49:01 +0000

The issue is not refrigeration, but how you got to there: how is the hot rice cooled before putting it in the fridge.

I imagine not everyone has a blast chiller at home. Does one leave it to cool off naturally, and in what kind of container? Perhaps overnight?

During this process, the rice can take hours to go from 90°C to room temp, and it is during this process that the toxins are created. It might be too late when you put it in the fridge.

Cooling off needs ro be done as quickly as possible by spreading the rice, for instance.

It is not necessarily the lack of basic understanding of biology that causes people to get sick and therefore many to throw away good rice, but the incomplete understanding of the cooking process.

When you get a box of cold rice, there is no way of smelling how it has been cooled and if it is toxic or not.

New comment by MikeDelta in "Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)"

MikeDelta — Sat, 11 May 2024 06:50:21 +0000

The problem is with cooked rice that hasn't been cooled off properly (or not kept hot enough). The heat-resistant spores of the Bacillus Cereus will then develop and the bacteria will proliferate and produce a heat-resistant toxin, which can hurt you even after reheating the leftover rice.

You need to keep your rice cold (<7 °C) or hot (>63 °C) enough for the spores not to develop. Letting your rice cool off naturally in a pot is also leaving it at the wrong temperatures for a longer time than if you rapidly cool it off.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7913059/

New comment by MikeDelta in "Krazam OS"

MikeDelta — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:28:21 +0000

I find "Programmers are also human" quite funny as well. Interviews with stereotypes.

https://www.youtube.com/@programmersarealsohuman5909

New comment by MikeDelta in "Financial market applications of LLMs"

MikeDelta — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:37:24 +0000

Buy low, sell high.

New comment by MikeDelta in "Song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive over the last five decades"

MikeDelta — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:34:19 +0000

Rick Beato also made a video about this, using some examples.

https://youtu.be/mQoWUtsVFV0?si=Ndr7sjqSQjkdcD2o

New comment by MikeDelta in "Why are most sofas so bad?"

MikeDelta — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:02:19 +0000

You could even hang some servers underneath your LACK, aka the LackRack [0]

[0] https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

New comment by MikeDelta in "'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit"

MikeDelta — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:27:55 +0000

Maybe 1974?

New comment by MikeDelta in "Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site"

MikeDelta — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:34:51 +0000

I guess on eiderdown pillows.

New comment by MikeDelta in "You almost never see a clock at the mall"

MikeDelta — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 15:46:25 +0000

Bring and monitor your mobile temporal logging apparatus.

New comment by MikeDelta in "How a software glitch at the UK Post Office ruined lives"

MikeDelta — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:41:00 +0000

The glitch caused it, but it was the way the UK Post Office handled it that ruined lives.

New comment by MikeDelta in "Code is run more than read"

MikeDelta — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 08:25:22 +0000

Maybe you will find the proof that the infinite series 0.9999... exactly equals 1 interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...

New comment by MikeDelta in "Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt"

MikeDelta — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 18:40:24 +0000

I read that exchanges inflate these numbers in different ways, so it can be very misleading.

Apparently sometimes this goes very wrong [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36610006

The Future of Gaming: StarEngine

MikeDelta — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:33:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWm_OhIKms8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38391347

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by MikeDelta in "Oculi Mundi collection of rare and ancient maps"

MikeDelta — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:17:17 +0000

They should add one more map: of their website.

New comment by MikeDelta in "It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian"

MikeDelta — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:58:47 +0000

And legal conequences for the board members.

New comment by MikeDelta in "Two hackers one keyboard two ways"

MikeDelta — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:13:42 +0000

I remember the game Double Dragon on DOS where you could play co-op using one keyboard. Less impressive with just a few buttons used, but a lot of fun.

New comment by MikeDelta in "Italy approves 40% windfall tax on banks for 2023 as profits soar"

MikeDelta — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 17:28:11 +0000

Banks have been trying to reduce their balance sheets and their risk-weighted assets, because of all the extra charges and reserves they need to keep. They cannot just get rid of a large of their customers like that and collapsing shareprice.

In some businesses there is also a benefit in scale (like in trading), and there you see the US banks leading because they've had it.

If you want the US banks to fully take over IB and corporate banking, definitely do tax the EU banks painfully more.

Or tax every financial counterpart painfully more, so then eventually the customers pay much more for their loans because the financial system has become so expensive.