I wonder if resistive heating devices like ovens which have a tuned temperature component would become systematically less accurate if the frequency changed significantly.
Nah, the thermal time constant is a low-pass filter on the order of .01Hz, all of the line frequencies in this thread are waaaay higher than the control loop bandwidth. The loop would never notice the substitution.
You might be able to trip up a fancy soldering iron where loop bandwidth is intentionally maximized, but I still suspect the first thing to go would be the magnetics on anything with a transformer.
Yes, but not for the reason you'd think: 50 Hz magnetics have to be physically larger to work (peak flux density for a given current is higher), and magnetics are so big and heavy that they're not designed with much margin. So 60 Hz transformers will often not work at all at 50 Hz, and 50 Hz transformers will sometimes perform pretty badly at 60 Hz (though also sometimes going this direction works fine).
I assume this sag is something that would only become relevant over a fairly long period of time? Otherwise how were the devices constructed originally, I doubt they were spinning instantly.
It's an auto-formatting thing that HN does to submitted titles. If you catch it soon enough you can edit the title and it will be allowed as you specify, at least that was true the last time I tried.
Yes, that continues to work: (1) submit your post, (2) it's modified by HN based on rules such as multiple uppercases on a word, (3) edit the post title.
Did you actually click it and get the classic result or are you just speculating? I tried to test it as soon as I posted it and did not see the objectionable but went directly to the post.
The OP/EFF says it's a Senate committee that's about to vote on "The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), S. 2140."
I don't know tons about the government, but you linked a House bill that looks like it's still in a House committee, and I don't think a Senate committee would be talking about something like that.
I initially posted a link directly to JWZ's blog with the expectation that an objectionable replacement would appear when clicking the link. I clicked the link myself and had it open in a private window and I was taken directly to the expected blog entry with no stop for troubling visuals.
However, not entirely unexpectedly, it appears that JWZ is in a list and discussion was disabled, so not expecting it to be a working submission I just deleted it and submitted this Mastodon entry instead.
