daniel_reetz

Screws usually end up different lengths and sizes for ordinary mechanical reasons (meaning, for example, if the screw was 0.5mm longer, it would interfere with something else).

The harder you are working to make the smallest thing possible, the more this happens.

Additionally, since no one has half a million 2.32mm long M1.2 screws just lying around, they're always a custom order. Might as well get the exact length you want.

In the iPhone, for example, each screw gets its own part number and each screw is custom.

My wife and I both lived this for a while, and we both made some pretty crazy sacrifices and trips to keep each other moving. We were equals and highly committed.

Respectfully, AI is a core issue in the strikes in Hollywood right now, and a whole industry has been out of work for months now.

I saw a similar business, which was run by someone with a severe physical handicap. Orders with them could basically get around most purchasing card or procurement issues, and they added a percentage. Seemed like a really nice business.

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this is cool, how did it heat the water, if at all? Just add boiling water?

"We know this" is one side of the coin, and "citation needed" is the other.

The many claims about these systems and their emergent behavior need some rigorous investigation. This is one example.

Really a great example of this strategy, which also shows up in metrology.

"Action produces information". If you "do something, so we can change it" be sure to do it strongly in one direction or the other, so that you set the direction of exploration, too.

Also, this is OSHW - Open Source Hardware - a _copyright_ based license, U.S. copyright does not protect hardware. Patents are a whole other subject. This article is about Open Hardware being abused, not patents.

I stopped working on OSHW because it can't protect hardware. It has no legal teeth. Better to just give it away (public domain or whatever).

It also strongly selects for people who excel at jumping hoops/working within institutions.

We make it all about smarts, but smarts aren't everything in the corporate grind.

I also came in through the side door, and also saw this happening.

Third problem, all devices produce heat. Lasers, LEDs, and cameras. There's a hard limit to how much heat you want to conduct into the cornea.

At this point the watermark can be meaningful content like "every time there's a bird there is also a cirrus cloud", or "blades of grass lean slightly further to the left than a natural distribution".

Because our main interest is this meaningful content, it will be harder to scrub from the image.

Many non-technical users assume blame for slowness and clunkiness. So many times I've heard self-blame when helping out family. "I shouldn't have so many pictures on my desktop" (there are 8 pictures). "I just can't figure out these phones" phone is dark patterning or has hidden functionality six menu items deep and behind a swipe/long press. "I never should have let it update, it's never been the same" - a forced update.

I had a similar experience with the Samsung keyboard. It's seemingly sending data to Facebook/Instagram, and also it had Grammarly embedded in it. I never knowingly consented to having my conversations sent to Grammarly and I was furious about it.

Thanks for pointing this out. I've spent years in R&D and awareness always lags technology.

I work in the space. Occlusion only matters if it matters. "Ghostly" information display is suitable for a shockingly wide range of tasks.

They're either usually formed in a mold by pressing. The resulting "green" tile is sometimes stamped or patterned, and glaze is applied. Then they are fired in a kiln.

Interesting. It's still difficult to purchase in CA. Used to be sold at Home Depot, now it's "Acetone replacement". I have to go to specialty suppliers.

I'm pretty sure the glasses in the article are nReal.

It's not allowed. These are old plumes and they stay around for a long time and are very expensive to clean up.

The notion of organizing private information (VS the public internet) helped me shift my perspective a bit, thank you. It also dramatically amplified my feelings about other Google products, like Drive, which do an absolutely terrible job organizing and making private information accessible. It's almost maliciously bad.

I would be very interested in hearing/reading more about the Indian definition of a friend VS North American. I've seen what you describe, but for me, I personally relish the opportunity to be the person someone calls when they need help, and also to show someone what I enjoy about a city. I'm much less good at just hanging out or reaching out.

For what it's worth, I lived for a while in Russia and friendship is different there, too.

Watch Google Talks on youtube - it's really striking. Every single one contains at least one Googler commenting on how smart Googlers are. Stuff like "Everyone at Google is so smart".

"You can't get to the moon by climbing successively taller trees"

It genuinely sounds like you may have absorbed and accepted the quirks of their interface.

I started using Spotify after Google killed Google Music. I find it totally egregious. My playlists feel hidden from me. Search is infuriating. The path to a full album is many clicks away. Even finding albums vs singles vs EPs is tough. In fact the app seems to discourage full-album listening. The recommendations for me have so far been totally completely underwhelming. And I'm constantly having Joe Rogan shoved in my face, not to mention a whole host of other stuff I have zero interest in.

We all get used to different paradigms, but Spotify feels like a particularly bad (and constantly shifting) case. If it was all I knew, I might think differently.

Also, without crowds inside, there was no reason to go develop your identity. I'm only on Instagram to make useful connections for my business.

Not quite a law, but "false dilemma" starts to express what you're looking for. If someone says you can only choose between A and B, it's false. You can often choose neither or both.

A very interesting question in philosophy is "Why do people like scary movies?" - being scared is uncomfortable! A related question might be "Why do people eat spicy food" - I mean, it's painful!

When you explore the answers to these questions, you may develop an appreciation for the magic of the dark, the anxious, and the frightening.