I tried black pudding for the first time, just yesterday. I expected it to taste bad, or have a weird texture, or something odd to dislike about about it. I found it to be quite good, and will surely eat it again next time my roommate makes himself a traditional Full Breakfast.
I think it most likely that at least initially, the primary use of insects for human food will be as stated in some other posts, powdered and mixed in with more traditional foods, like ground beef. Anywhere things like 'soy meal' vegetable protein, modified food starch, etc are already used.
As long as the foods that use them _taste_ good and have the right texture, _some_ people will try them, and tell others. Gradually more people will adopt them. Certainly not everyone, but I think that a substantial portion of people just _won't care._
Especially if bug-based foods are substantially cheaper than 'normal' food.
Machining has historically been a career with less skilled practitoners than the demand for them. That is part of the reason that machinists are one of the last careers where a large portion of the workforce is unionized. (The unions haven't been broken yet)
My employer is very aware of how difficult it would be to replace me and my skillset, and bends over backward to retain me. i regularly get job offers from other shops who are desperate for a skilled machinist. There just aren't enough of us to go around.
I am a young man, 37, and have been a machinist for all of my adult life. It is a well paid career, as high as any other "skilled trades" job.
Many aspects of the field have been automated, but a skilled manual machinist will always be valuable for one-off parts, prototypes, and the like. Plus, CNC programming still requires a good understanding of cutting forces, material strength, tooling, workholding, etc., in order to write programs that are actually functional.
That said, it is quite easy to pick up enough skill from books, videos, a couple of college courses, to produce a serviceable gun. A smoothbore, single shot pistol, or a shotgun, would be dead simple. A bolt-action rifle, not a lot harder. I'd imagine anyone with a 2 year AAS degree could make a perfectly good revolver.
Some skill and experimentation would be needed for a semi- or full-auto weapon, but none of this is out of reach for anyone with the skill to set up a 3d printer properly and write programs for it.
The desktop version is just fine for mobile. Ensure that text reflows correctly on zoom. Use color for the comment tree. Make all links usable size. Fix chooser popup.
Long version: I like the desktop site a lot, and it works pretty well on my mobile phone.
I think that with just a couple tweaks, it would be excellent on small phone screens as well as larger tablet ones and desktops.
The only changes to the desktop site necessary to make it perfect for mobile, IMO, would be these:
One: Make sure the text always reflows properly when zooming. It is a huge pain to scroll left and right to read a line of text!
2: The lines at the left showing the comment tree, are unfollowable on a small screen, and thus waste space. Making them alternating colors would help a lot with deeply nested comments. Just follow the blue one up to find the parent, the grey one to the GP, etc. This would help on the desktop as well. Its hard to follow when you're 12 layers deep and there are a dozen identical vertical lines to try to visually differentiate. If we _must_ have only green, grey, and black on/. then instead use dashed, dotted, and solid lines.
C: When you get down deep, to something like a great-great grandchild comment, the lines of text have shrunk so much as to make clicking on a particular 'Re:' pretty hit or miss. Chrome mobile browser fixes this by popping up a magnified view of the click area when links are small and close together. A very convenient feature. Maybe/. could implement something similar. Or perhaps stagger the 'Re:' left and right a bit to separate them from each other. (Maybe not, messing with the indentation might send the code monkeys and Aspies among us into fits of homicidal rage)
IV: As many others have noted, the chooser popup is annoying and broken. You devs have seen and are fixing that, so, hooray and thank you.
Other than that, the desktop site is just dandy on mobile. I actually quite like it, and definitely prefer it to the big-text-children's-book-mobile-optimized-hot-messes that many sites offer.
Tweak the desktop version, and keep it unified.
One last problem I have been seeing for quite a while, with many different browsers, on my phone and on my laptop, is that part of a comment's text will be repeated and smashed onto the end of the comment. Like the following, but without the brackets.[mment's text will be repeated and smashed onto the end of the comment. Like the following, but without the brackets.]
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I tried black pudding for the first time, just yesterday. I expected it to taste bad, or have a weird texture, or something odd to dislike about about it.
I found it to be quite good, and will surely eat it again next time my roommate makes himself a traditional Full Breakfast.
I think it most likely that at least initially, the primary use of insects for human food will be as stated in some other posts, powdered and mixed in with more traditional foods, like ground beef. Anywhere things like 'soy meal' vegetable protein, modified food starch, etc are already used.
As long as the foods that use them _taste_ good and have the right texture, _some_ people will try them, and tell others. Gradually more people will adopt them. Certainly not everyone, but I think that a substantial portion of people just _won't care._
Especially if bug-based foods are substantially cheaper than 'normal' food.
Machining has historically been a career with less skilled practitoners than the demand for them. That is part of the reason that machinists are one of the last careers where a large portion of the workforce is unionized. (The unions haven't been broken yet)
My employer is very aware of how difficult it would be to replace me and my skillset, and bends over backward to retain me. i regularly get job offers from other shops who are desperate for a skilled machinist. There just aren't enough of us to go around.
I am a young man, 37, and have been a machinist for all of my adult life. It is a well paid career, as high as any other "skilled trades" job.
Many aspects of the field have been automated, but a skilled manual machinist will always be valuable for one-off parts, prototypes, and the like. Plus, CNC programming still requires a good understanding of cutting forces, material strength, tooling, workholding, etc., in order to write programs that are actually functional.
That said, it is quite easy to pick up enough skill from books, videos, a couple of college courses, to produce a serviceable gun. A smoothbore, single shot pistol, or a shotgun, would be dead simple. A bolt-action rifle, not a lot harder. I'd imagine anyone with a 2 year AAS degree could make a perfectly good revolver.
Some skill and experimentation would be needed for a semi- or full-auto weapon, but none of this is out of reach for anyone with the skill to set up a 3d printer properly and write programs for it.
The desktop version is just fine for mobile. Ensure that text reflows correctly on zoom. Use color for the comment tree. Make all links usable size. Fix chooser popup.
Long version: I like the desktop site a lot, and it works pretty well on my mobile phone. I think that with just a couple tweaks, it would be excellent on small phone screens as well as larger tablet ones and desktops.
The only changes to the desktop site necessary to make it perfect for mobile, IMO, would be these:
One: Make sure the text always reflows properly when zooming. It is a huge pain to scroll left and right to read a line of text!
2: The lines at the left showing the comment tree, are unfollowable on a small screen, and thus waste space. Making them alternating colors would help a lot with deeply nested comments. Just follow the blue one up to find the parent, the grey one to the GP, etc. This would help on the desktop as well. Its hard to follow when you're 12 layers deep and there are a dozen identical vertical lines to try to visually differentiate. If we _must_ have only green, grey, and black on /. then instead use dashed, dotted, and solid lines.
C: When you get down deep, to something like a great-great grandchild comment, the lines of text have shrunk so much as to make clicking on a particular 'Re:' pretty hit or miss. Chrome mobile browser fixes this by popping up a magnified view of the click area when links are small and close together. A very convenient feature. Maybe /. could implement something similar. Or perhaps stagger the 'Re:' left and right a bit to separate them from each other. (Maybe not, messing with the indentation might send the code monkeys and Aspies among us into fits of homicidal rage)
IV: As many others have noted, the chooser popup is annoying and broken. You devs have seen and are fixing that, so, hooray and thank you.
Other than that, the desktop site is just dandy on mobile. I actually quite like it, and definitely prefer it to the big-text-children's-book-mobile-optimized-hot-messes that many sites offer. Tweak the desktop version, and keep it unified.
One last problem I have been seeing for quite a while, with many different browsers, on my phone and on my laptop, is that part of a comment's text will be repeated and smashed onto the end of the comment. Like the following, but without the brackets.[mment's text will be repeated and smashed onto the end of the comment. Like the following, but without the brackets.]