daniel_reetz

Hmm. The experiences that changed and benefited me most were least predictable. As a result, I try to manage experiences less, and choose the unknown more.

But in the spirit of what you've said, I try to avoid doing dumb, damaging, or boring things twice.

The redbook audio on the CDROM introduced me to so much great music! Type O Negative!

Echoes of DeCSS ;)

Look up Trevor Paglen's book "I could tell you but then you would have to be destroyed by me". It's a collection of mission patches along with some interpretation as to the meaning and placement of symbols. Fascinating stuff.

I was furious when I found out that the default keyboard was infested with Grammarly, sending all my keystrokes without consent. Embarrassing for a $1200 flagship device.

Something I've seen personally is that family calls a cleaner/buyer in to sweep the home of a deceased relative and all is lost. In short, there is no rummage sale.

The specific polymers are pretty interesting.

PVC - from plumbing? It's hard to imagine other environmental sources. We're not drinking from PVC cups or eating from PVC plates. I personally would have expected to see particulates from food prep surfaces (teflon pans disintegrating during cooking) since ingestion is a likely path into the body.

Polyethylene - perhaps it's polyethylene terephthalate. Basically any soda or water bottle.

I think this is missing something fundamental. If it's too hot or cold, folks are distracted - from driving. Perhaps you are less distracted than most.

Yes, they can reassign buttons. But the core problem is distraction, which causes users to go to the touchscreen, which creates even further distraction by capturing their visual attention.

Can you elaborate a little on what's new? Someone close to me had a melanoma scare on almost the same time frame, and had a lot of difficulty finding doctors who would take her seriously.

resistor color codes, but for mass

But an equally likely future is tiktok/insta generate all the videos. After all, they can afford the hardware and they understand how to be addictive.

I hear echoes of astrology, personally, and not good ones.

That is interesting. I wonder if it's simply the cadmium and lead found in coffee concentrate in heavy users.

This will come to a head when dynamic pricing becomes the norm. You'll pay more for formula and baby vitamins when you need it the most.

I'm not in a position to discuss, unfortunately. For now, I'll just say he's the real deal, and I'm proud of him and Disney Research.

I worked in that very lab, side by side with Lanny Smoot for four years straight.

The man is 100% passion and 110% invention.

Also, people may simply not remember him.

We are all the center of our own worlds.

Great example of how the invisible hand of big tech enacts large scale behavioral change.

Yeah, I was referring to machines/software.

Pretty sure that was calcite - famous for double refraction.

https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/...

Roughly speaking, they're not people and not thinking.

Lots of work behind the scenes. Welcome back.

"alive" is a strong word but I am keeping it online as long as possible.

miss ya old friend

You might know or love this passage. "No one sees the barn".

https://www.andylacroce.com/2017/03/20/excerpt-delillos-whit...

This is absolutely true. Said another way industry is nearly exclusively focused on designing the visual - to the detriment of everything else.

Design goes far beyond the visual.

I am one such owner. 1994 toyota pickup.

Even clear "sunglasses" made of polycarbonate can provide excellent UV protection, but no telling if it's enough to protect against a blacklit room or stage laser that's been set up by incompetents.

For curious hacker types interested in aerospace, infrastructure, and the history of computing, I HIGHLY recommend Omega Tau Podcast . For computing nerds, check out, for example, Episode 248. For flight nerds, Episode 91, for infrastructure nerds, Episode 146.

http://omegataupodcast.net/

Commercially, this is true. But governments have a long history of developing technologies (think nuclear/surveillance/etc) that fall under significant regulation.

I used to work at Disney Research. This is a great example of the kinds of problems that get explored there. The constraints are totally different than the normal consumer-focused engineering you find elsewhere, because the creative conceits are simultaneously a challenge and a get-out-of-jail-free card.

The impossible parts of problems could be solved by visual sleight of hand or some artistic trick, leaving you open to explore and solve some really interesting application specific problems with technology. The much, much harder part is making any of this research work robust and compelling enough to actually show in the parks.