On a more broad level, I've noticed that myself and all of my friends have dramatically better cooking skills than those of our parents, or especially our grandparents. I grew up with disgusting casseroles and tough dry steak, which is what my mom learned from her mother (my grandmother) who lived mostly in isolation in the country.
My friends and I on the other hand, grew up watching pirated episodes of Good Eats which not only is taught by a trained professional chef, but gives you the physics and chemistry behind how food feels, tastes, and is held together. Not only do we eat/cook a wider variety of meals, it tastes a LOT better as we learned from the get-go many of the best practices that our parents did not have access to, to pass on to us.
I ended up putting a vinyl "skin" on the back of my pixel a) to make it less slippery and b) hopefully minimize glass cracking and finally c) everyone at my office has one, they're impossible to tell apart.
I think digital camo near the edges and dazzle paint in the middle of the flat panels would be able to defeat this, until they switch to lidar and/or silhouette masking against a flat background.
Given how much bike share is used in Dallas, Seattle etc, which are outside the initial deployment zones, I would guess that this picks up critical momentum in the next 12-18 months. The thing is, the bikes are so cheap to build and maintain, you can create a bike share startup for less than $10 million and you're very nearly break even from day one so your run rate is very, very long. $10 million to aquire a lock on last-mile transit for the life of the city (forever) is super super cheap which is why everyone is pouring money in to this.
Compare to uber, to compete you need to come up with at least a billion dollars just to get started.
To add to that, bikes and scooters are dead-simple to repair, you can train someone to fix most simple things in half a day, and near-master level mechanic within a week.
Automobiles on the other hand, need a lot of expensive equipment to mount tires, lift them up, have hazardous chemicals and liquids, need to be individually registered with the state and insured, and then sold at their end of life. Auto mechanics cost $125/hr minimum, and have 4-6 months training, master mechanics go to school for up to a year.
If you can lock down a city's last mile transit problem for under $20 million, you have a license to print money. Look at how hard Taxicabs are fighting to keep their lock on this problem.
50% of people on welfare are single mothers over 18 working minimum wage jobs to support themselves and their children. It's a fact. Look it up.
Just because you don't see it from inside your bubble, does not mean these people do not exist, just means that you're not interacting with them on a daily basis.
15,000 of the 80,000 new home construction sites each year already include solar as part of the build.
So almost 20% of new home construction already includes this. Not a drastic change from the status quo, but it will be interesting to see how fast other states follow California's lead, as they do with vehicle emissions, etc.
This pushes the cost of the electrical needs of the house in to the mortgage, but at the same time reduces air pollution and reduces daytime load on the grid. Should be interesting to see how this impacts the "duck curve" that solar is causing on the California power grid.
Article says it is "cyclosporine A" which is designed to prevent your body from attacking transplanted organs. That is a pretty serious drug, suppressing your immune system to the point that it mostly ignores giant blobs of foreign meat in your body. I'm sure the wikipedia article will get more fleshed out but the list of side effects sound about as severe as you could imagine.
I'm guessing that this is effective in extremely low doses? All it needs to do is attack a specific protein, I believe.
I think there is some unsend magiks and "cannot print/forward this email" data privacy feature, probably primarily for enterprise/business/premium users
8K hits the value curve around the 65" display size @ 12 ft. Most people view their TV 10-12 ft away, and 65" TV are becoming increasingly more common. You can get quality name brand 4K 65" shipped to your house for $999 online these days.
8K (or maybe settle for 6K?) will certainly be worth it, but 16K is actually ludicrous mode. 8K is probably the upper limit, whereas 4K is merely "really good".
The general math seems to hold up, most people sit about 12' away from their tv (average width of an apartment living room), at that distance 8K becomes economically reasonable when buying a 65" TV.
At that size Right now you can buy a 65" 4K brand name flatscreen on amazon for $999 shipped. 65" 4K is about the upper limit before you begin to lose visible "sharpness". Some might say that 65" is "too big" but we're not especially big consumers of TV (10 hours a week) and definitely saw the value in a large TV. In a moderate size house I think we would upsize to 70 or 75" at which point we would see the value in upgrading to 8K if it were available for a reasonable price. Given how cheap 4K displays are already, I don't see any reason why 8K will not hit the magic $999 mark in the next five years.
16K TVs under 100" though may be the upper limit for casual display technology though. At that point you have a device that is too large to fit comfortably on an average size wall and the physical cost of manufacturing/delivering the device will push the price above the economic ideal. At 65" we have approx 24" from the top of the TV to the ceiling, and 24" from the bottom of the TV to a small table below it. 75" diagonal would occupy most of the remaining vertical space above the table.
Anyways, point is, very large screens are here, and larger screens are coming, 8K is relevant in the 60-90" screen market, which at $999 is affordable for many households these days.
I can see 8K 70" HDTV costing $999 shipped in 2-5 years, and I can see Netflix begin shooting their premium content in 8K in the next year, and transition everything from 4K to 8K within the next 3-5. It will happen. They can always downscale the content to fit your device.
All of Netflix's original content (which is a substantial chunk now) has been shot in 4K since about 2013. As computing, storage, editing resources improve it's not unreasonable to see things shot in 8K. Most everything we watch these days (Amazon Prime, HBO, Netflix) is all shot in 4K and displays on our TV as 4K (in some compressed form or another). When Netflix made 4K available to everyone, only about 1% of users could display it, that number is significantly higher now. 65" 4K Samsung HDTV are $999 all day long on Amazon, we have had ours now for a almost 18 months now and couldn't be happier with it. Due to a christmas special we got it for closer to $900 or 10% off.
I can see 8K being the norm for TVs 70" and larger; uncompressed 4K on our TV looks really sharp from 13' away at 65" but anything larger and you would lose sharpness. Most HDTV resolution charts agree with our numbers.
Besides the fact that they use GNU tools from ~2005 due to BSD reasons what do you feel is neglected, I use it for work and it mostly boots up and gets out of the way, I'm curious what must-have features you want that it doesn't provide?
I agree, Material Design doesn't solve any problems for me. Gmail is an app that displays a lot of information, and as near as I can tell, designers HATE having more than one piece of information on the screen at a time. I worked for an enterprise software development company and our designer kept trying to push our app from being an information rich, wonderful app for IT staff, to this Uber-inspired single-use, single datapoint dashboard. It's been a continuous disaster and the company largely failed due to the design team's insistence on transforming the application in to the single-use java app that designers apparently train for in school.
I get that many users can't concentrate on a lot of data, but gmail is well laid out and doesn't need a change. Microsoft effectively nailed the email client workflow back in Outlook Express 3 and everyone has been using that template since Windows 3.1. I see no reason to change it at this point. A lot of design gets made/created, it seems, simply because designers need to validate their job(s) at the company. There are a lot of badly designed apps out there, but gmail is not one of them.
Google News website is another good example of the design team running roughshod over an amazing data spigot with all sorts of levers and buttons hidden just under the surface, and ripping all that out turning it in to a dumb cell phone app that you are allowed to access from your PC.
Google's design team needs to work on supporting emerging apps, not redesigning the successful ones. Google's webapps such as gmail are successful almost entirely due to their existing design.
The VR edition of the PS4 should hold off things until the VR market begins to mature and software development workflows standardize, at which point, yeah the PS5 should be ready and be VR compatible out of the box; VR display technology will have matured, graphics hardware technology will drop in price etc... 2020 sounds about right.
The iPad had a couple of years of very fast revisions and major upgrades, and at this point the technology is stable and as good as anyone would ever reasonably need. VR has been moving at a similar pace, although perhaps twice as slow. We're just a few years away from retina quality displays and the hardware to drive them. Modern VR has only been a thing for two years to the week and Sony is going to need six months to eighteen months to put together a final spec, ramp up manufacturing and get developers trained for the new system.
San Francisco Bay by many accounts is only 10,000 years old; previously it was meadows and fields before it sunk and became flooded as a tidal estuary when sea levels rose.
I presume a mini box in this day and age is going to use USB-PD i.e. power over USB-C
In reality, it's likely using some 12v barrel adapter.
USB-C PD offers a 12v option...
I love these little boxes, but what happens is that they go in the closet and then a year or two later they come out and they use some semi-proprietary DIN plug pin-out and you've lost the power adapter. At least the Raspberry Pi uses a standard USB-Micro cell phone cable port. All the new Chromebooks are using USB-C PD, most of the high end cell phones are using USB-C PD.... USB-C PD supports up to 100w of power, let's get with the times and stop using weird barrel adapters and DIN plugs and go with a modern standard, perhaps?
In my experience, most people overestimate their driving ability by a factor of at least two. Very few humans drive when well rested, well fed and zero distractions and have perfect attention span.
I don't think the idea that violent games = gun violence has ever been part of the "far left" ideology. There's always exceptions, but I think by 2010 or so we'd pretty much proven out that crime and violent crime in particular has continued to drop despite the meteoric rise in violent video games. An entire generation of kids that grew up with Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II, Smash Brothers, Doom, Quake, Call of Duty all made it to adulthood and we're busy having babies while still playing those same franchises. The only way that liberal america could make that kind of connection is if they're in the 45+ age group and missed out on modern videogames somehow, and are still living under a rock.
1) Drones are virtually silent at 20 ft, they often live at 30-40' above ground level 2) Drones have a pretty high surface area to volume ratio, with three engines have some manueverability/crash avoidance on descent 3) This is a solved problem with modern technology, up to and including human size payloads.
Both the US and China have ground (or in our case Fighter Jet) launched systems capable of destroying a satellite. If it's re-entering in two weeks then it's destruction won't contribute to Kessler syndrome. I'm sure either county is just dying to exercise this system as it's been mostly dormant for the last year.
I was really dissapointed in the latest season of Black Mirror. Especially âZDavid Slade's S04E05 which was so bad, I later found out, they turned it to black and white to distract viewers from how bad it was, and to date is also the shortest black mirror episode as well, as they cut out a 20 minute subplot of some greasy nerd controlling the dog on the other end as a sort of game.
TL;DR I've written off Black Mirror forever. Everyone should watch seasons 1 and 2 of black mirror though, pure art.
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On a more broad level, I've noticed that myself and all of my friends have dramatically better cooking skills than those of our parents, or especially our grandparents. I grew up with disgusting casseroles and tough dry steak, which is what my mom learned from her mother (my grandmother) who lived mostly in isolation in the country.
My friends and I on the other hand, grew up watching pirated episodes of Good Eats which not only is taught by a trained professional chef, but gives you the physics and chemistry behind how food feels, tastes, and is held together. Not only do we eat/cook a wider variety of meals, it tastes a LOT better as we learned from the get-go many of the best practices that our parents did not have access to, to pass on to us.
I ended up putting a vinyl "skin" on the back of my pixel a) to make it less slippery and b) hopefully minimize glass cracking and finally c) everyone at my office has one, they're impossible to tell apart.
Looking forward to the glass back fad going away.
I think digital camo near the edges and dazzle paint in the middle of the flat panels would be able to defeat this, until they switch to lidar and/or silhouette masking against a flat background.
Given how much bike share is used in Dallas, Seattle etc, which are outside the initial deployment zones, I would guess that this picks up critical momentum in the next 12-18 months. The thing is, the bikes are so cheap to build and maintain, you can create a bike share startup for less than $10 million and you're very nearly break even from day one so your run rate is very, very long. $10 million to aquire a lock on last-mile transit for the life of the city (forever) is super super cheap which is why everyone is pouring money in to this.
Compare to uber, to compete you need to come up with at least a billion dollars just to get started.
To add to that, bikes and scooters are dead-simple to repair, you can train someone to fix most simple things in half a day, and near-master level mechanic within a week.
Automobiles on the other hand, need a lot of expensive equipment to mount tires, lift them up, have hazardous chemicals and liquids, need to be individually registered with the state and insured, and then sold at their end of life. Auto mechanics cost $125/hr minimum, and have 4-6 months training, master mechanics go to school for up to a year.
If you can lock down a city's last mile transit problem for under $20 million, you have a license to print money. Look at how hard Taxicabs are fighting to keep their lock on this problem.
50% of people on welfare are single mothers over 18 working minimum wage jobs to support themselves and their children. It's a fact. Look it up.
Just because you don't see it from inside your bubble, does not mean these people do not exist, just means that you're not interacting with them on a daily basis.
Wiring it 80% the cost of install, you might as well just pay the extra $1500 for the panels and get the full benefit.
It adds about $10,000 to the cost of a new home, which is about 1-2% of the cost of new home construction in the bay area. It's tiny.
And cost will come down. As will the cost of installation.
15,000 of the 80,000 new home construction sites each year already include solar as part of the build.
So almost 20% of new home construction already includes this. Not a drastic change from the status quo, but it will be interesting to see how fast other states follow California's lead, as they do with vehicle emissions, etc.
This pushes the cost of the electrical needs of the house in to the mortgage, but at the same time reduces air pollution and reduces daytime load on the grid. Should be interesting to see how this impacts the "duck curve" that solar is causing on the California power grid.
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Article says it is "cyclosporine A" which is designed to prevent your body from attacking transplanted organs. That is a pretty serious drug, suppressing your immune system to the point that it mostly ignores giant blobs of foreign meat in your body. I'm sure the wikipedia article will get more fleshed out but the list of side effects sound about as severe as you could imagine.
I'm guessing that this is effective in extremely low doses? All it needs to do is attack a specific protein, I believe.
You can just message them directly for a date if you're already friends, you don't need another app.
I think there is some unsend magiks and "cannot print/forward this email" data privacy feature, probably primarily for enterprise/business/premium users
8K hits the value curve around the 65" display size @ 12 ft. Most people view their TV 10-12 ft away, and 65" TV are becoming increasingly more common. You can get quality name brand 4K 65" shipped to your house for $999 online these days.
8K (or maybe settle for 6K?) will certainly be worth it, but 16K is actually ludicrous mode. 8K is probably the upper limit, whereas 4K is merely "really good".
Google for hdtv resolution chart .
The general math seems to hold up, most people sit about 12' away from their tv (average width of an apartment living room), at that distance 8K becomes economically reasonable when buying a 65" TV.
At that size Right now you can buy a 65" 4K brand name flatscreen on amazon for $999 shipped. 65" 4K is about the upper limit before you begin to lose visible "sharpness". Some might say that 65" is "too big" but we're not especially big consumers of TV (10 hours a week) and definitely saw the value in a large TV. In a moderate size house I think we would upsize to 70 or 75" at which point we would see the value in upgrading to 8K if it were available for a reasonable price. Given how cheap 4K displays are already, I don't see any reason why 8K will not hit the magic $999 mark in the next five years.
16K TVs under 100" though may be the upper limit for casual display technology though. At that point you have a device that is too large to fit comfortably on an average size wall and the physical cost of manufacturing/delivering the device will push the price above the economic ideal. At 65" we have approx 24" from the top of the TV to the ceiling, and 24" from the bottom of the TV to a small table below it. 75" diagonal would occupy most of the remaining vertical space above the table.
Anyways, point is, very large screens are here, and larger screens are coming, 8K is relevant in the 60-90" screen market, which at $999 is affordable for many households these days.
I can see 8K 70" HDTV costing $999 shipped in 2-5 years, and I can see Netflix begin shooting their premium content in 8K in the next year, and transition everything from 4K to 8K within the next 3-5. It will happen. They can always downscale the content to fit your device.
All of Netflix's original content (which is a substantial chunk now) has been shot in 4K since about 2013. As computing, storage, editing resources improve it's not unreasonable to see things shot in 8K. Most everything we watch these days (Amazon Prime, HBO, Netflix) is all shot in 4K and displays on our TV as 4K (in some compressed form or another). When Netflix made 4K available to everyone, only about 1% of users could display it, that number is significantly higher now. 65" 4K Samsung HDTV are $999 all day long on Amazon, we have had ours now for a almost 18 months now and couldn't be happier with it. Due to a christmas special we got it for closer to $900 or 10% off.
I can see 8K being the norm for TVs 70" and larger; uncompressed 4K on our TV looks really sharp from 13' away at 65" but anything larger and you would lose sharpness. Most HDTV resolution charts agree with our numbers.
Someone will come looking for how to fix GNU core utils, it is
Which also fixes some goofy find/replace behavior with sed
Besides the fact that they use GNU tools from ~2005 due to BSD reasons what do you feel is neglected, I use it for work and it mostly boots up and gets out of the way, I'm curious what must-have features you want that it doesn't provide?
I agree, Material Design doesn't solve any problems for me. Gmail is an app that displays a lot of information, and as near as I can tell, designers HATE having more than one piece of information on the screen at a time. I worked for an enterprise software development company and our designer kept trying to push our app from being an information rich, wonderful app for IT staff, to this Uber-inspired single-use, single datapoint dashboard. It's been a continuous disaster and the company largely failed due to the design team's insistence on transforming the application in to the single-use java app that designers apparently train for in school.
I get that many users can't concentrate on a lot of data, but gmail is well laid out and doesn't need a change. Microsoft effectively nailed the email client workflow back in Outlook Express 3 and everyone has been using that template since Windows 3.1. I see no reason to change it at this point. A lot of design gets made/created, it seems, simply because designers need to validate their job(s) at the company. There are a lot of badly designed apps out there, but gmail is not one of them.
Google News website is another good example of the design team running roughshod over an amazing data spigot with all sorts of levers and buttons hidden just under the surface, and ripping all that out turning it in to a dumb cell phone app that you are allowed to access from your PC.
Google's design team needs to work on supporting emerging apps, not redesigning the successful ones. Google's webapps such as gmail are successful almost entirely due to their existing design.
The VR edition of the PS4 should hold off things until the VR market begins to mature and software development workflows standardize, at which point, yeah the PS5 should be ready and be VR compatible out of the box; VR display technology will have matured, graphics hardware technology will drop in price etc... 2020 sounds about right.
The iPad had a couple of years of very fast revisions and major upgrades, and at this point the technology is stable and as good as anyone would ever reasonably need. VR has been moving at a similar pace, although perhaps twice as slow. We're just a few years away from retina quality displays and the hardware to drive them. Modern VR has only been a thing for two years to the week and Sony is going to need six months to eighteen months to put together a final spec, ramp up manufacturing and get developers trained for the new system.
San Francisco Bay by many accounts is only 10,000 years old; previously it was meadows and fields before it sunk and became flooded as a tidal estuary when sea levels rose.
I presume a mini box in this day and age is going to use USB-PD i.e. power over USB-C
In reality, it's likely using some 12v barrel adapter.
USB-C PD offers a 12v option...
I love these little boxes, but what happens is that they go in the closet and then a year or two later they come out and they use some semi-proprietary DIN plug pin-out and you've lost the power adapter. At least the Raspberry Pi uses a standard USB-Micro cell phone cable port. All the new Chromebooks are using USB-C PD, most of the high end cell phones are using USB-C PD.... USB-C PD supports up to 100w of power, let's get with the times and stop using weird barrel adapters and DIN plugs and go with a modern standard, perhaps?
In my experience, most people overestimate their driving ability by a factor of at least two. Very few humans drive when well rested, well fed and zero distractions and have perfect attention span.
I don't think the idea that violent games = gun violence has ever been part of the "far left" ideology. There's always exceptions, but I think by 2010 or so we'd pretty much proven out that crime and violent crime in particular has continued to drop despite the meteoric rise in violent video games. An entire generation of kids that grew up with Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II, Smash Brothers, Doom, Quake, Call of Duty all made it to adulthood and we're busy having babies while still playing those same franchises. The only way that liberal america could make that kind of connection is if they're in the 45+ age group and missed out on modern videogames somehow, and are still living under a rock.
1) Drones are virtually silent at 20 ft, they often live at 30-40' above ground level
2) Drones have a pretty high surface area to volume ratio, with three engines have some manueverability/crash avoidance on descent
3) This is a solved problem with modern technology, up to and including human size payloads.
Both the US and China have ground (or in our case Fighter Jet) launched systems capable of destroying a satellite. If it's re-entering in two weeks then it's destruction won't contribute to Kessler syndrome. I'm sure either county is just dying to exercise this system as it's been mostly dormant for the last year.
I was really dissapointed in the latest season of Black Mirror. Especially âZDavid Slade's S04E05 which was so bad, I later found out, they turned it to black and white to distract viewers from how bad it was, and to date is also the shortest black mirror episode as well, as they cut out a 20 minute subplot of some greasy nerd controlling the dog on the other end as a sort of game.
TL;DR I've written off Black Mirror forever. Everyone should watch seasons 1 and 2 of black mirror though, pure art.