I hate when these articles include quotes from family/friends.
It’s completely pointless. Of course he is a great guy as far as his family and friends are concerned. You even see these testimonials in cases where the person was demonstrably a nuisance to society (I am not saying this is one of those cases).
Readit News3m commented on Green card holder, walking dog: deported newsweek.com/green-card-h... · Posted by u/KnuthIsGod
Having mended a few toasters in my time I salute this effort. Cheap toasters are very difficult to take apart and mend. The toasting mechanism on this one looks great.
Cheap toasters only last a few years before dying. Usually because someone jams it up then clumsily unjams it while damaging the element.
After going through a few toasters in quick succession I finally bought an expensive Dualit one. It's still going 25 years later. I changed the timer mechanism once which was a joy, and you can easily buy spare parts.
The Dualit cost over 10 times more than the cheap toasters though. I don't regret that purchase though and it has actually saved me money over the years and made much less landfill.
Funnily enough the toaster in this article looks quite like the Dualit. I don't suppose that is a coincidence!
I was given a Dualit Classic Newgen 4 slice toaster as a wedding gift.
It was without a doubt the WORST toaster I have ever used.
I've never been so annoyed by a product before. In fact, it annoyed me so much that I ended up returning it and replacing it with a cheap toaster that is 10% of the price and functions better.
I'll list the fatal flaws with it in descending order of importance:
1) Unlike basically every single other toaster on the market, it does not have a cage or other mechanism that closes on to the bread slices and keeps them an equal distance from the heating element. This results in at least one part of every single slice of bread getting burned to a crisp, and at least one part of every single slice not being toasted at all. After using this toaster for a week, I couldn't believe how any engineer at Dualit could release this. Do they even use their product? It is a catastrophic oversight.
2) The timer is an analogue mechanism, much like an egg timer. I found that there was an extremely thin margin in which the toast is toasted. Anything under that and it's not, anything over that and it's burned beyond recognition. I cannot even count the number of times the smoke alarm in my house went off because my toaster burned my bread to a crisp. Another catastrophic oversight.
3) Because the timer is analogue, when you turn it it makes a clicking noise as an egg timer does. This means it's very easy to mistake the toaster for being on, when in fact it's not. The number of times I went to make toast, only to realise a few minutes later that the toaster was unplugged for some reason and my bread was still bread is unreal. I'd then end up ruining my scrambled eggs by waiting another few mins for toast.
4) The toaster allows you to spin a dial to choose how many heating elements to use. This is a pain in the ass. It's so easy to forget about, until you go to pick up your toast and find out that only 1 and a half slices have been toasted of the 4 you put in there.
The sad thing is, the toaster looked awesome. We also have a Dualit kettle (which is great) and it matched. Unfortunately they prioritised aesthetics over function, and it shows. If you want a toaster that requires you to go through a checklist of switches to check before operating, then requires constant supervision to avoid burning your toast, and will still give you burnt sections of toast anyway despite all of that, I could not recommend a better candidate.
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The guy seemed really impatient, talked over the operator while she was trying to give instructions, and then refused to follow instructions given by the phone operator.
Judging by how short the video is, I’m assuming that when he just did the 2-click thing the operator told him to do on his phone, the Waymo probably stopped and let him out.
I get vibes he did it on purpose for social media. For example, you’re supposed to be at the airport an hour before your flight, and here he is winging about a Waymo going in circles for a couple mins and threatening to send the bill for his flight to the operator? Eh?
My first thought was that the guy sounded like an asshole too.
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What on earth are you talking about?
Malaysia has only itself to blame.
You might need to explain that one.
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I've literally never needed to do that. What's a real world use case?
Doing multiple async tasks concurrently as opposed to in sequence. If you have never used this you have either worked on extremely simple systems or have been leaving a ton of perf gains on the table.
Orbit is not about height, it is about speed. You have to get to almost 30km/s otherwise you aren't in orbit and you fall back into the atmosphere.
I think you are confusing the speed at which the earth orbits the sun (~29.8km/s) with the speed at which an object needs to travel to maintain earth orbit (~7.8km/s).
Your C.V. isn't well laid out. In <10 secs I can't really figure out what you've done and what your primary skillset is.
Refactor it to more clearly lay out your specific skillset, roles, and what you achieved in them (improving business metrics).