I'd imagine this is very similar to why you have to tell someone something 3 times, 3 different ways for them to understand it.
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The site has been better more recently, but the stigma is still there, at least for me.
What if you also had a few 2d photos of the concert - could a program be written to put it all together - how realistic can you get it? You could have the rest "made up" to fill in the blanks.
"And if you were alive around the year 1900, you’d probably equate modern tech with electricity, much the way we today equate modern tech with computers, smart phones and the internet. Edison and Tesla were their Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The idea of powering transportation with a fiery engine dated back to the earliest locomotives almost 100 years earlier, which would seem about as modern to a person in 1900 as black-and-white silent films seem to us today. By 1900, you weren’t supposed to have to deal with how the energy sausage is really made anymore—the burning fire happened in some remote generator now, allowing consumers to only have to interact with the silent, clean, convenient magical butler—electricity."
https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-li...
The author (and I'm assuming a lot of people on HN, myself included) came up when the Internet and Personal Computing was growing. The next technology that people are excited about probably isn't the latest in Personal Computing/Internet, it's something else altogether. I'm in the same bubble you guys are, so I'm not sure what that is. Maybe it's Energy (lots of Solid Hydrogen articles and/or Clean Energy). Maybe it's something else altogether...
As a product, I would think that you would survive by finding a niche and expanding it. But these changes seem to try to compete for engagement rather than serve the niche.
Yes, you expand your business and make more money - but I would also think that the competition would be more fierce as a trade off.
Kind of wish it could be a setting "sarcasm on".
It's also very similar to how by a bands second or third album (after they hit it big) - they end up changing their sound (often sounding like every other band in the process) - because they go on tour and then they tailor their music to what makes the crown react more.
Also, after reading many comments with suggestions and hacks to work around this (which I also do, btw), I think we may be missing the point, our time is valuable, and if we've all just spent half a day figuring out how to get the proper applications from a single app on our phone, we've already paid the price - and it's not right.
My favorites are minutephysics and CGP Grey - but they have been very lacking in content lately.
In the .NET CMS Solution, when I make a code change (view changes are easier), if the change restarts the application pool, it can take up to 2 minutes to see my change - worse in some solutions. (I work to support some existing solutions that weren't written by us but only have a certain amount of hours to accomplish, so doing the "best" thing isn't always an option). So click reload and then I'm off to another project and/or distraction and may not be back to check the change in quite a while.
The vuejs project on the other hand. I make a change to the backend, reload the app - in under 2 seconds and then re-run the API method. Or even better, if I make a change to the frontend, I hit save on the file and the screen is updated by the time my eyes have a chance to move to the other monitor! It's so refreshing.
How much could it cost to pay someone else to do this? Surely less than a doctor makes doing it... It can become its own profession. It's a separate skill - separate from what a doctor should be focusing on.
On a side note, it seems that a lot of professions would benefit from having an assistant - a thing that seems to have disappeared - if what I've seen in old movies in shows is to be believed. Another side-case of this is the fact that technical people tend to be promoted into management roles and have to deal with attendance and time-sheets - why not have someone else do it? The work only suffers.
1. A few doctors left practices after they got taken over by a bigger entity and the hoops they had to jump trough weren't worth it, so they retired.
2. The insurance companies - they control EVERYTHING. One thing that happens a lot is that they don't allow her to order an MRI unless she orders an X-Ray first - even if what they're testing for wouldn't show up on an X-Ray. And this slows down the process of diagnosis by days. There are more examples of things like this - things that should be up to the provider, but end up being up to the insurance company (what drug to prescribe or what treatment to pursue first) - it makes no sense (at least from what I hear from her).
Not sure what article I had read though, it was quite a few years back.
most recently: https://dyson-sphere-program.fandom.com/wiki/Microcrystallin...
An electron is bound to the nucleus by the electromagnetic force, but is not a round ball, but a wave distribution of probabilities.
I don't know if it's the actual case, but I've been thinking of all "particles" like "waves" in a pool. Small disturbances in the fields (e.g. electromagnetic), like jumping in a pool. The electron IS the disturbance, because to us that is what we can measure (and we can only measure one place at a time). So the electron doesn't rotate around the nucleus - instead its a wave in the same area where the nucleus is. The electron's "probability wave" disturbs the space around the nucleus - including inside it, and 1000 miles away from it. It's just has way more disturbance in certain places - AKA "the shell" its in. Just like any wave, it "fades" with distance but who's to say where the wave ends.
In fact, that wave isn't exactly the same for every electron. Each "shell" is waving at a different amplitude (is amplitude the right analogy?) - and you can only have so many "waves" add up in a shell simply because there's no more room because of the length of each wave (like a spiral-o-graph). You can only put another wave in the gaps of the previous wave (if you did put two in the same place, it would double and be part of the next shell, right?). And when an electron's amplitude changes, e.g. is lowered, the total energy can't be destroyed, so the difference is emitted as another wave of the difference - that wave is a photon. And the same applies when a photon is added to that wave. Like rowing in the water - the exiting wave and the rowed wave is added together. I think of Photons are partial Electrons. They are like the "wake" of an electrons wave change.
This is the same thing as map reading or what we do in programming. The thing that's disappearing in this comic: https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt...
I also realized early on that I could count way faster if I fought the urge to say the numbers in my head because the idea of the number would still be there. I started by saying (eh eh eh eh eh) in my head instead of (one two three four five). Eventually you can do things like run your finger across a comb and instantly know how many bristles you passed - that gives you a tactile response for each number rather than the words themselves. If you count by 2s 3s or 5s you can go even faster (which is what the circle is doing in the article). Shortening the "time" axis of the counting.
"I love what I do and I love the people I work with - but I didn't come here for love."
Firstly, the Cable news stations (CNN, Fox News) aren't news programs - despite the name - they are talk shows. It's Maury for politics.
The broadcast news, that's news. But it's not without its problems. Whenever I would over hear my mom watching it - it's so shocking how it's done. some of my gripes, based on what little I've seen over the past few years:
- The tone of the newscaster has changed - they don't sound like they're just reporting it - there's emotion or gravitas in their voice that make what they're saying authoritative.
- When they cover politics - especially elections - it's always a fluff piece about the big two candidates. When the democratic primaries for the 2016 election were happening - they'd barely mention anyone but Hillary. You'd have 10 minutes of Hillary, 1 minute of Bernie and 0 minutes of everyone else. Same in 2020, but add Biden. It's no wonder my mom had no idea the other candidates even existed. (and don't get me started on how the candidates make up issues just to debate them - so tricky - pick a hot button topic that is important, but may not be important right now - I think we know the big ones)
- Fear mongering - this goes with the first one I listed. Instead of simply reporting that tragedy happened and giving the facts, they'd just keep the emotional level up. It's a bait and switch. You get drawn in by it and then vote for whoever is going to "fix" everything. The morality of it is, in my opinion, similar to what psychic does - play on the emotion of someones tragedy for money.
And I say all this as someone who doesn't follow the news or politics very closely.