JMill

I wrote this for senior business leaders outside of the space industry so they can be aware of, evaluate, and anticipate what new capabilities and price-points may be feasible in the coming years that will affect their enterprises.

Perhaps, but the reverse engineering efforts you mention may have already led to incredible breakthroughs over the past few decades. Lasers, integrated circuits, Kevlar, fiber optics, and more technologies were said to have been seeded among the research community based on recovered UAP components. This is based on Army Colonel Philip Corso’s account in his memoir, “The Day After Roswell”. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Roswell

Communities like Sketchfab [1] serve some of these needs. Although not 100% FOSS, ‘content hubs’ like this can be a fun place for creators/artists to share their work — and to potentially get paid — and for others to hunt for high quality assets. Sketchfab was acquired by Epic Games in 2021. [2] Maintaining stylistic consistency from one asset to another is a challenge, however, but maybe upcoming advancements in AI-powered tools like Point-E [3] will enable assets of one style to be re-envisioned en masse into another style. E.g., a text prompt could be “I want all assets from artist X and artist Y to be stylized like the game GTA: Vice City.”

[1] https://sketchfab.com/

[2] https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/sketchfab-is-now-p...

[3] https://huggingface.co/spaces/openai/point-e

I think the parent commenter may have been referring to how Ford was floundering with no apparent clue. In 2019, there was little public indication of the legacy automobile manufacturers being serious about EVs. Meanwhile, Tesla had been investing in battery manufacturing technology for years.

It takes a long time to thoughtfully design a new chassis, electrified or not. It also takes a long time to build up manufacturing capacity, especially when they key ingredients such as battery cells were not integral to the chassis of the past.

The F-150 Lightning has clearly evoked interest. It could have come a lot sooner. But perhaps Ford can be an effective fast follower, especially if it figures out how to address sticky points like 1) managing dealer relationships and 2) writing software. These issues are business/cultural challenges, so may require more care to address than engineering problems, which Ford has a history (a century!) solving effectively.

whitepaper: https://github.com/google/fully-homomorphic-encryption/blob/...

While my inner webdev agrees with you, my interpretation of the mmm.page philosophy is that planning "breakpoints" etc takes too much thought, and hence runs against the "mindless" aspect.

"Mindlessly responsive" -> When the content is outside the demarcated safe zone, it's not visible on little screens. Simple ruleset, no brain required. If I just want to get some fun content on a webpage, I either paint in the lines or intentionally paint beyond them.

Video about the work: https://youtu.be/p4nfSW27ktc

Try pressing 'G' to turn on gravity.

Weighting for US and Canada is available in the document posted by bengali3.[1]

See pp. 23-25, "Local Variances".

[1] http://s3.amazonaws.com/DBM/M3/2011/Downloads/RHT_2015_salar...

Bridj [1] is a Boston startup exploring this opportunity. Here's a recent article. [2]

[1] http://www.bridj.com/ [2] https://www.bostonherald.com/business/business_markets/2015/...

(I have no association with the company.)

Code.org seeks to 'change the wind', so to say, of programming education, to help motivate individuals to learn more about coding. Codecademy.com is one form of online education to help satisfy the needs of those who became interested in programming, such as via Code.org and the many educators and decision makers who inspire non-coders to, well, code.

Interesting analysis. Correction: The paragraph under "Fastest server OS": it says Linux has twice the average tick, but the graph shows it having half the average tick.

What sorts of decisions can we glean from this technical analysis?

related: "Star Wars Traceroute - How I did it" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5193725

Video of Star Wars Traceroute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPJELwSV1P0

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPJELwSV1P0

A follow-up has been written, titled "Onboarding a Django app within a 'Two Scoops'-style project" [1]. It explains the steps I took to migrate the Polls app from the 4-part Django tutorial [2] into our 'icratings' project. Please let me know if you have suggestions for next directions, or revisions.

[1] http://www.jmillville.com/onboarding/

[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial01/

This was written as a 'memory crutch' while learning Django and synthesizing the content in Greenfeld's and Roy's new book, "Two Scoops of Django" [1]. I hope it helps other novices for learning how to get started based on best practices. This is a living document, so I will make effort to incorporate feedback.

[1] https://django.2scoops.org/

Your point about degrading gracefully is very important. Even with leading electronic record systems, paper will continue to be heavily used for producing backups, permanent copies, changelogs, etc. For example, a large regional hospital network with a state-of-the-art electronic patient record system generates a lengthy paper backup for each change made to the e-record. The system produces ~100,000 pages a month for just patient record changes. And this is considered an "all digital" system. Hmm.

What appears to be happening is a fusion of both paper and digital as a best practice. Important information is recorded digitally because it is fast and convenient, and also recorded in analogue, on paper, to leave a legal trail and backup for when the electronic systems go down (and they do go down).

(disclosure: I'm a cofounder of GetDimples.com, maker of ink-saving software and fonts.)

Oh, I thought 'sezon' was a new slang term for 'season'. Haha.

I like it.

Suggestions: As a user commented on another post, it's a bit tough to type fast without seeing more words on the screen. I settled on 3 words at a time which was okay('ish).

I'd be interested in trying it with the timer bar going from left to right instead of growing from the center. Would give things more of a 'race' feeling.

The sound effects are nice.

Nice resume site, btw. You're very accomplished!

It's great to see content delivered in an alternative format to engage a different segment of watchers/listeners/readers. Has C-SPAN always provided live transcripts? In layman's terms, how is the data pulled from C-SPAN?

Edit: I misread your post. The Opened Captions servers pull CC data in via serial port. Thanks for providing a bridge to this live data.

Try switching to "Map" view (vs. "Satellite" view) -- the whole region around that huge facility was a big lake. Did they suck it dry?

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.42761,90.793762&...

The time lapse catches the strikes by chance. There are ~100 lightning flashes per second globally (80% are in-cloud flashes and 20% are cloud-to-ground flashes) and ~2000 thunderstorms occurring simultaneously on Earth. [1]

That's a huge opportunity to catch lightning flashes over a high quality time lapse from August to October 2011 (the time span of the video).

The astronauts' real-time views from the ISS' windows must be amazing. If I were up there in the ISS, I'd never get any work done because I'd be staring out the window the whole time!

[1] http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/wea00/wea00239.htm

Due to the way the flashes scatter among the clouds, I'd say that they are lightning contained within thunderheads/conflicting air masses.

I like it too.

Suggestions: - decrease the page width some. Both hainbit1.png and hainbit2.png are partly cut-off at normal browser widths. - add captions to each URL. (As jk86 suggested, delicious integration would be neat.) - ability to drag and rearrange the link boxes.

See also this blog post by SBA Administrator Karen Mills: http://www.fastcompany.com/karen-gordon-mills-sba-job-creati...

Are PEO's generally startup-friendly or do PEOs tend to only take on established medium-sized businesses that are less volatile?

(For anyone else who was unfamiliar with PEO, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_employer_organizat...)

This sounds like a good opportunity for private enterprise.

How might regulation help spur growth in this area?

Do you think bandwidth caps are a startup barrier as well?