Can you include more prices? It would give me an idea of the cost even if it is in USD. What i found most annoying about my latest search is that it is hard to find something not named raspberry or Arduino for a reasonable price. I was looking for a simple gigabit board with usb 3 to attach a removable drive to. The only one i found was raspberry pi orange 3B . Nobody else seemed to have gigabit nic with usb 3.
I love and struggle with the second point. It's taken me half my career to realize that people would very much prefer the complete and right answer slowly or later than the '90% sure' answer right now. Being quick doesn't make you look smart
You have to be able to get new keys made without having an original to read. A database of vin, key would be too big of a target and would have to be shared with dealers anyway so they could program new ones. I'm not a security expert but it seems like it would really shorten battery life on the fob if you wanted to protect against replay attacks by adding a time sensitive value.
I would rather this than a hard paywall. I think this is the future of the internet. The masses get their data harvested and the rich and smart can opt out.
I read Embassytown and Daemon and Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez close together. I find they have an interesting theme throughout regarding the role of truth and manipulation. I would not recommend the sequels to 3 body problem. If you like big picture space opera, Existence by David Brin and Exultant by Stephen Baxter are better.
I enjoyed 3 body problem. I found the sequels more of a collection of sci fi tropes than a good coherent story. You will get better original thoughts from David Brin, Stephen Baxter and Vernor Vinge
In the same vein as Vernor Vinge, I would recommend Stephen Baxter. Stephen's writing always gives me the same feeling as when I look at the stars at night and am reminded that where I am is just a small part of everything. The manifold trilogy as well as the long earth series he did with Terry Pratchett are very good. The first is not anthropocentric, which I found was a refreshing change.
I was already there before the antidepressants kicked in. I would look at something and evaluate how much it would hurt, if it would work and what state I would be left in if it only kind of worked. I was also objectively in a good spot. I had a full time job with good people, a loving partner, a stable place to live, no kids and very few other stressors. I realized that there was very little I could do that I could summon the motivation for so I sought help. I was referred to a psychiatrist who put me on Prozac. There is a phrase that stuck with me that he said. He said it would give me a 'thicker skin'. I think this was key since every comment that was directed my way was over analyzed to look for signs of insult. It was as if everything in the world had a negative pressure on it. I think of it as events that happen like objects floating in water. The surface of the water is the neutral point, neither good nor bad. A comment would be like a ping pong ball, almost completely positive. Through my distorted view, it would be like a 10g weight was attached to it. It would become 90% negative and I would wonder what had prompted it. The antidepressants removed a lot of that weight so I can evaluate things without that bias. I feel like this is what people mean when they say they're drowning in sorrow. There is a weight attached to everything that makes the events more negative, less uplifting. The things that normally are buoyant don't support them anymore. I think it's the same for depression except that in sorrow, the cause is usually obvious. In depression, the swimmer is on their last few kicks. At worst, they've turned to temporary relief in the form of hard drugs that makes them bob.
The fact that I am not a smear at the bottom of a tall building is a direct contradiction to your statement and shows that they do for some people. No, I was going to 'get better' without help. Yes, I fed trolls.
I am not a physicist or cosmologist so i won't pretend to understand all of your answers but this has given me a great starting point to learn more and i greatly appreciate you taking the time to write it. I had a pretty theory that we were seeing galaxies accelerate away from each other due to the rate of expansion being greater outside of gravity wells. I will reread your answer a couple of times until i get off there is any support for it but my initial reading suggests it's up there with light needing a medium to travel.
I've wondered: Do we know that the balloon has always been inflating at the same rate? Do we know if the dimples on the balloon expand as fast as the rest of it? Do the areas around the dimples expand faster?
Interesting. That area would be roughly one million Sunjammers[1]. One Sunjammer is 1200 m^2 and wights 32 kg. To lift all this would be 32 million kg or 32000 tons. One Starship launch is designed for 250 metric tons when expendable so it would take 128 launches. Add in some fudge factor for orbital burns and I figure 150 launches would do it. Doesn't seem insurmountable.
Edit: Seems I misread the Starship capacity. This is probably only to LEO. Its hard to estimate but going by the geostationary payload, it would be one third of that, so triple the amount of flights. At a cadence of 2 launches per week it would take 4.5 years to launch all of it. ( 450 launches / 2 launches per week / 50 weeks a year)
I would have had to ask if it was load balanced. If it is, i would have said half the time for the requesting service minus 10 percent. Gives the query time to retry with some margin. This would be my opinion, not something I've read up on.
I wonder if it's because of the decline in neuroplasticity as we age. We take a week to learn a new video game and expect that peace to continue when we get older. It can be a hit to the ego that it may take a little longer, that we aren't quite as 'smart' as we thought.
I feel the same having worked for a couple contracting companies. I think if I job hop in the near future, which is unlikely given the recent layoffs, I'll go for a company that is building a product. I'd rather the golden handcuffs than the freedom of mobility.