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Fuck you snaggle toothed pasty-assed Brits.

Read THIS if you really want to know how the UK not only treats the fucking darkies, but for that matter the 'lesser' classes of their own race.

Your day is coming. First Brexit, next, marginalization, and lastly, being overrun by third-worlders.

Fitting.

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Soon Amazon will sell me a robot that buys things for itself off of Amazon...

Soon? They already do. It's called Echo and it already orders stuff when little kids make wishes in its presence. You have to go out of your way to add a confirmation code if you don't want it to just order stuff at the drop of a hat. It's just a "plugin" away from ordering whatever it determines you need.

Because UX/UI designers now days obviously never read a book regarding the subject of user interface design.

Also a lack of usability testing. My UI designs were subjected to usability testing a few times, with customers video recorded while attempting to accomplish a task. Watching those videos was a very humbling experience. I kept trying to scream "NO! Not THAT button!", but since it was a recording, they didn't hear me. Afterwards, my designs got much simpler.

One book that helped me is Microinteractions.

Very funny :-D I also have moments like that with my clients, usually I keep thinking "what the hell is he trying to do ???"

Because UX/UI designers now days obviously never read a book regarding the subject of user interface design.

Also a lack of usability testing. My UI designs were subjected to usability testing a few times, with customers video recorded while attempting to accomplish a task. Watching those videos was a very humbling experience. I kept trying to scream "NO! Not THAT button!", but since it was a recording, they didn't hear me. Afterwards, my designs got much simpler.

One book that helped me is Microinteractions.

I wouldn't buy one just because of the shitty screen it has. 1920x1080? Really? Even my old ass G3 puts that to shame.

You can buy an unlocked G5, which is superior to the Xiaomi Mi A1 in almost every way, on Amazon for $235.

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Similar here -- had an only child in my late thirties and I can see how much more energy I would have had for kids when I was younger. Getting less sleep is also a much bigger deal when you are older.

That said, trying to keep up also made me more health conscious (e.g. eating more fruits and vegetables, getting enough vitamin D3, iodine, and B vitamins, etc. see for example Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Dr. Andrew Weil, "The Pleasure Trap" book, etc. ).

My dad had me when he was in his late forties -- so it's a little more obvious to me now why we did not do outdoor sports together... But I did learn a lot from seeing him do things and he helped me with building robots as a kid.

There are jokes above about people developing Rust instead of having kids -- and that is sadly too true in my case where my wife and I worked on free software together (our garden simulator and other software) instead of perhaps having kids sooner. Hard to say in retrospect it was worth it compared to having a kid sooner (especially so my own elderly father could have been a grandparent to my kid).

A better way to put that might be that having a kid generally takes so much resources you are generally less free to do other things (like invest in your "mind children" and/or various social causes). So if you (and especially if both spouses) try to have a career outside of the mainstream (especially in somewhere without a social safety net or good support for the arts and sciences), putting off kids is something you can slide into (and maybe regret). It's even more of a resource demand if you want to homeschool.

See also:
"The Murdering of My Years: Artists and Activists Making Ends Meet"
https://www.amazon.com/Murderi...
"Mickey Z. considers work a 50-year fugue from which some people awaken to wonder what has become of their lives. In The Murdering of My Years, cabbies, waitresses, clerks, telemarketers, and an array of others tell how they balance activism and artistic production with the daily struggle to make ends meet. Contributors' essays are at once absurd and poignant; captivating and strange. Collectively, their reflections challenge the myth of the American work ethic and exhort readers to advocate for themselves in the workplace."

Probably the biggest benefit for those who manage to be creative within the system (e.g. the lucky few academics who get tenure or who through luck or family connections or other reasons get a rare well-paying creative-type job outside of academia) is that they feel financially stable enough to have kids. For most others, especially women, see:
http://philip.greenspun.com/ca...
"What about personal experience? The women that I know who have the IQ, education, and drive to make it as professors at top schools are, by and large, working as professionals and making 2.5-5X what a university professor makes and they do not subject themselves to the risk of being fired. With their extra income, they invest in child care resources and help around the house so that they are able to have kids while continuing to ascend in their careers. The women I know who are university professors, by and large, are unmarried and childless. By the time they get tenure, they are on the verge of infertility."

None of this is black and white since sometimes if you have a kid your own parents or even others in the community might be more amenable to helping you out in various ways. And kids help us grow in many ways -- and also help reconnect us with many important child-like basics in life. This is also such a complex topic no one post like this can do justice to it. It is hard to look back on anything I have written or implemented though and think such things may have as much connection with the future or personal significance or even social significance as having a child. That is something I may know now in my early fift

"AI (a not so smart type that can't evolve) based on smart contracts is needed to regulate our world."

An AI much like that is depicted in the EarthCent Ambassador sci-fi series by E. M. Foner starting with:
"Date Night on Union Station (EarthCent Ambassador Book 1)"
https://www.amazon.com/Night-U...

A family-member bought eclipse glasses for the extended family on Amazon. She bought it from this 100% legit listing: https://www.amazon.com/Soluna-.... When we started seeing the news stories about fake eclipse glasses, we went back to the site and checked the listing, which said they were CE and ISO certified for eclipse viewing. The glasses had the ISO certification printed on them as well.

So we went and viewed the eclipse. I probably only looked at the sun through the glasses 30-60 seconds total, but my kids may have spend longer looking. The next day, I noticed that my vision was blurrier. Since there are several things that historically can impact my vision, I decided to see if it improved in a few days. When it didn't, I double-checked the glasses. That's when I saw the reviews and Q&A on the listing talking about the fakes, and sure enough, the ones we received were fakes from China. We did not receive any email from Amazon

Comparing them to a real certified pair, the fakes let through more light, though not enough to cause me to squint. The fakes don't have that metallic sheen the real ones do, and I wonder if that's the infrared/UV shielding. I went to the eye doctor and they found no signs of solar retinopathy, though admitting that the signs can take a few weeks to show up. I think my kids are too little to accurately report slight vision changes, but the other 2 people who used the fakes didn't seem to have any issues.

What is interesting here in terms of the lawsuit is that on Amazon, even if you are reading details about a legitimate product and looking at a picture of the real product, there's no telling if what you're going to get in the mail is actually that product. In fact, unless you're looking for it, you rarely even know what seller is being automatically chosen when you add something to your cart.

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But there are 3rd party devices that just require you to plug in a XBO or PS4 controller into them so they can authenticate. They when let you use a keyboard and mouse along with setting up macros.

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I do it roughly every weekend (minus charity.) AYCE Sushi for 2 (myself and my husband) - $40. Movies for 2 (we hate popcorn and rarely drink soda) - $15. Mini golf for 2 - $15 ($20 if I play in the arcades.) That leaves me $20-25 for charity and a tiny violin.

https://www.amazon.com/Instrum... - there's the violin for $10. That leaves me with $10-15 for charity.

Well, dinner + movie you'd be looking somewhere like the Alamo Drafthouse (if they weren't sexist shits). Picking Austin on the grounds it's somewhere I know better than most places in the US, you're looking at $11 for the movie, $15 for a decent burger, lets round up to $35 per person to include a drink. Follow that with a round at the Peter Pan Mini Golf that's nearby, another $7 per person.

So you've spent $85 for a night out for two people, throw three dollars at a homeless person, buy https://www.amazon.com/Violin-... and you still have a cent left from your $100.

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Probably not. There are literally hundreds of different models out there.

Wanna know how I know it works? I use them. Specifically this model for any console FPS gaming and combine it with my X-Arcade for fighting games.

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they used illegally-gathered data.

Nope. For data collection on U.S. citizens and legal residents, the NSA asks Britain's GCHQ for the data THEY collect. Since the data itself was collected by a foreign agency, the NSA can analyze and store copies of it without technically violating the prohibition on them spying on Americans on American soil.

It's a core function of the Five Eyes alliance.

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My preferred solution actually shoves even more features out to peripheral devices than the OP would prefer... but frankly, you're not going to hit all of those bullet points with most available solutions, anyway. That said: I went with an Optoma HD26 projector for ~$650 in my home theater room, and I (and my family) have been very happy with the results. I get a 1080p image at 110" -- which is a reasonably achievable size for projectors, but outrageously expensive for conventional TVs, smart or otherwise. I'm projecting directly on a light-gray wall, which works quite well with a digital projector, so no screen is really necessary. Additionally, the money you save by going with a middle-tier projector can be put into other devices, such as a mid-to-high end audio head unit with HDMI pass-through to output to the projector. (That gives you the array of inputs that the OP is looking for.)

Obviously, projectors don't work in all scenarios; you do have to have a windowless room (or an easily darkened room) to get the best experience, and the most optimal install option is usually ceiling mounted -- especially if you have kids. But if those hurdles don't seem too high for you, I'd say take the leap. It's well worth it, in my opinion.

Aren't you more or less looking for what would have previously been called a monitor (vs a TV)?

https://www.amazon.com/Vizio-S...

I don't know if that is one, it's frightfully short of details, but essentially you want a screen that displays a video signal, period. At least in the pre-flatscreen days, that was the distinction between a MONITOR (what you're looking for) and a TV.

Curiously (or not, depending on your cynicism) just skimming around for this post, I see stuff like 55" 4k TVs for crazy low prices like $400. Monitors (which should ostensibly be cheaper as no tuning circuitry or other bells/whistles)...not so much.

As others have stated, either get a monitor, or get a Smart TV and just don't use the smart parts. In other words, don't connect it to your network.

Personally, the TCL 55P607 ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y... ) will likely be my next TV:

- it is 4K
- it has HDR (both HDR10 and Dolby Vision
- it has local dimming for better contrast
- it has built-in Roku (which you can just not use)

All for $650. It has pretty favorable reviews as well:

http://www.rtings.com/tv/revie...
https://www.cnet.com/products/...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

While I'd love to get an OLED from LG, they are just too expensive at the moment. Save for OLED, this TV checks off all of the boxes on my wishlist, and has a nice price to boot.

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