The principle of orthogonal design is something I learned in CS, but hardly anyone mentions any more. The idea boils down to building software parts in a consistent way such that can be combined and re-used to form new things. The way you can accomplish this is by having very few rules. The more "syntaxy" a language is, the less orthogonal it is.
Which year Lexus RX are you referring to? The Lexus RX SUV has been around a long time, and was originally based on a car platform which I believe was the Toyota Camry / Lexus ES platform.
We have telescope technology to thank. The quality and the number of telescopes is constantly increasing. We don't just look in the sky any more, we watch the same spot over time and look for changes. We are seeing more spots, more time, and more changes. An investment in telescopes is an investment in physics.
Most people I know were, and still are, pretty excited about Spirit and Opportunity. Those were exciting robots at the time. Especially the fact that they worked for so long! 14 YEARS. The design is validated, let's have an assembly line cranking them out and tweaking them.
I love that fact that there are "usual procedures" when it comes to humans going back and forth to our 20-year-old SPACE STATION!
Maybe we don't have the space program of our dreams. But we've certainly accomplished the goal of having "routine" operations in space over a long period of time. How much have humans learned in that time!
I had a Datasette. It was expensive at the time, and it was amazing that it worked at all. You could put one of the C64 tapes into your boom box and play them, and hear a series of unpleasant screeches and whoops.
Wrong. Even without self-driving technology, people would buy these cars. Several friends specifically deleted the self driving hardware on their Model 3's.
There has to be a way to have a standard container of dirt, and have it move around various "stations" on a set of tracks or rails, where it is tended to at each station by robots.
It's not about dollars. It's about your behaviors. Behaviors of the middle class. Middle class people typically do things like own one home, work two jobs, save for their kids' college, keep their cars for a while, etc.
Those making $200k-$500k are the new middle class. Are you making that much but only own one house? Are your cars more than 5 years old... Ding... you're in the middle class.
I was driving past In-N-Out burger yesterday and they offer $16 an hour to start and then goes up to $18 an hour. No wonder the employees there are usually happy.
It's because you don't take it for granted, so you probably work harder at it.
There was a couple once that would get together every Thursday or something and see if they wanted to continue another week. I think they did this for like 45 years.
A very VERY long time ago was echo.com. It's hard to find any information about it now. But it was a streaming music site that let you rate the artist, album, and song individually with stars, and it would use those ratings to make recommendations to you. Also as you accumulated listening hours you earned Amazon gift certificates. I wish someone out there remembered them besides me.
Coming soon, Pixel will be able to recognize over 1 million individual voices in your area! Using our enormous database of phone calls to your area code and individualized location tracking, you will be able to find out everything about a person simply by holding your phone near their voice!
Could someone conceivably build a reference implementation FOSS client and server so that anybody could start their own Uber / Lyft. It would eliminate the friction to get going.