This is potentially a huge step up -- Amazon's purchase of Kiva was a big strategic acquisition, and they made some incremental improvements to that system but as the article stated it was "pennies" vs the "dollars" of savings from the acquisition itself.
Somewhat similar, but I owned a Toshiba Libretto back in the late 90s and the keyboard was quite compact. I could still touch type even though my fingers were all right next to each other, so it's not a deal-breaker.
I was in a DSP over the weekend that is ~20 miles from the closest town of 1,000 or more, and after about 15 minutes I was able to see the Milky Way pretty clearly. I could also see the faint glow of 2 cities maybe 40 and 60 miles away on the horizon, so I knew that they were there.
While this book is getting a little long in the tooth (the title needs to be inflation-adjusted now, I suppose), it's still a fascinating read. The authors considered "self-made" to mean that the subject did not receive monetary support from their ancestors as an adult in the form of trusts, inheritance, or other forms of "economic outpatient care" (their term).
As a former merchant, this was not my experience -- I recall seeing a notable difference between fees on similar transactions, and the tracing those differences back to rewards cards.
I live in an area with great fiber internet service (gigabit synchronous unmetered) thanks to a rural electric co-op. It worked here because co-ops still have a fair bit of political power (in my state anyway).
Happily I haven't had to buy a car since 2020, but I had good luck using cargurus to spot cars that had sat on smaller dealer lots for awhile. I understand that some dealers take out loans of their own to cover the vehicle while it's on the lot (a "floor loan") so as the vehicle sits, their incentive to unload it increases.
Obviously that's not relevant in the current low-supply environment, but it worked once and it will hopefully work again once supply returns.
One very important component to this: having the car inspected by an independent third party. In all (non-local) cases I was able to locate an independent repair place that would look at the car and send me a report. Levels of detail varied, some shops were set up for this and sent me a novel, others were lighter on fine details. I usually paid $50-200 for the service and I wouldn't buy a car without such an inspection.
My mother had a heart-shaped "triangle" (about a foot across, so much larger than an orchestral triangle) that she used to call us in when dinner was ready. As a kid who did not enjoy hauling wood, my hearing was exquisitely tuned to hear that bell.
I bought one of these from the second kickstarter wave. After waiting about a year to receive it... It didn't work with my carrier. I waited a few more months with no updates or ETA on support, and then I returned it.
I have a capisco that I bought last year off craigslist for twenty whole dollars. It needed a patch on one of the arms, but since then I have spent an embarrassing amount of time in it and it has held up like a champ.
Growing up in a rural area, I have mostly good memories of roosters crowing across the road. I have no idea where the trope of crowing at sunrise came from, as they seemed to do it 24/7.
Also, "smells of the countryside" gave me a good chuckle.
This seems to be in the same vein as "you can't be allowed to record your call audio," I suppose because you might theoretically use that capability to break the law.
I also fell down the rabbit hole earlier this year, and eventually I learned that keyboard layouts are like the pirate code: they're more like guidelines than rules, really. I don't know why I felt weird about modifying my personal layouts, but once I got past that I had a much better experience. I don't think it has negatively affected my ability to type on "normal" keyboard in any material way.
Tangentially, I did not fully appreciate the usefulness of pinch/zoom resizable web pages until I was recovering from eye surgery. Sites that did not allow the page to be resized (on my phone) might as well have been blank.
Since we're currently in a solar minimum (which reduces the propagation of radio signals here on Earth, and generally makes it more difficult to make long-range contacts), you would expect innovation to be happening in... making contacts in high-noise conditions! That's exactly what is happening with FT-8, WSPR, etc. The thing that excites me most about FT8 is that its implementation (https://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html) is open source, which means you can decide to modify or improve it without asking permission. That's exactly what the author of JS8CALL did -- he took FT8, which was designed for short "call sign and signal" contacts, and turned it into a conversational protocol (http://js8call.com/). The ability of FT8 and its descendants to transmit information waaaaay down in the noise is pretty awesome, and I hope it spawns at thousand imitators.
In the late 90s I had a co-worker who managed to wrangle one of these at our office. I think he tried it for a few weeks and then returned it. I solved most of my RSI problems at the time by switching to dvorak.
Also, since there is a waiting period between bankruptcy filings, the potential creditor knows that they have a specific window during which the debtor can't legally dodge the debt.
I was fascinated to hear a recent news story about how this works. The US has a long history of subsidizing its dairy industry (not unlike other countries) and part of that has been a "price floor" on milk. This floor applies to retailers purchasing milk from producers / distributors, but if the retailer also owns the producer... there's no retail price floor. Hence, the fairly extreme price difference between a regional dairy's milk and Great Value.
I own one of these, and someday when it finally works with my wireless carrier I might find out if it's as nice as they say. Standby time appears to be ~3 days with no use, but I have not measured it rigorously. It does have wifi and bluetooth sonic suppose they could add hotspot capability.
Could you elaborate on this? I do not have extensive experience with or cultural knowledge of India, so I would be very interested to know about the cultural background for your statement. Maybe it can save me from inadvertently being rude to someone in the future.
I still consider this model the apex of trackball design, and I have regretted selling mine for over a decade. The way it allows the use of both thumb and index fingers for pointer control is something I haven't seen replicated elsewhere.
I won my state's bee in 1987, and when I got to the national bee I wondered where these people got all these weird extra study books. Turns out there was already a cottage industry around bee prep (which would have been great to know beforehand).
As for the long term effects, I do notice misspellings whether i want to or not. Sometimes it happens with syntax errors in code, too.
From personal experience I can say that there was such a thing in the early 1990s. I was accepted to and attended an "elite" university, but left after one semester. I was not offered financial aid, and student loans were such that I could not have borrowed enough under Stafford or any other normal loan program to pay my tuition. I wound up transferring to a less expensive in-state public university and experiencing the best of serendipity so it ended well.
I do a lot of code reviewing, and I still have to use the backspace key sometimes when I find myself oversuggesting. I have found code reviews (when done well) to be a fantastic teaching tool. I also think that we get some great value out of code review by less experienced folks too. Those developers without decades of knowledge sediment are more willing to say, "I'm sure this block is awesome but I have read it 10 times and I still don't understand what it does." That turns into one of two things: an opportunity to educate the reviewer, or a sign to the author that the code is too complex (i.e. less peer-maintainable).
The headline says 1954, but that is a misreading of the cover page. The report appears to have been authorized by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 but its publication date is listed on the cover page is 1967.