Unpopular opinion, but here goes ... The pictures are absolutely charming. This is because they distill the essential qualities of the object (from the child's POV), which is lost when you have perfect representation art. But turning them into real objects results in things that are often terrifying and grotesque, not charming. I don't believe the kids wanted their object to look like that in real life. They may be proud that their creation is realized, but I doubt their drawing is an expression of desire. They just have imperfect skills in representation. In contrast, there is imaginative art that kids excel at (e.g. a puppy with wings and a goatee). That's something that is really cool to see as a real object.
Greybeard is but a stage. Coding wisdom is accrued, powers tested. I have transformed to the next stage -- whitebeard! Now I wield power openly and code with ease ignoring the stares and doubts of younger coders :)
Working with the real thing, I remember the horrible feeling when the rubber band holding the card deck together snaps! The FORTRAN cards all had line numbers, but what a pain for a several hundred line program.
You're right, and you're an optimist! But people lose things not just from a loss of will to maintain them, but rather also from events outside their control. The means to read digital media survive, but could events lead to the loss/corruption of the digital media itself. And the effort to maintain digital archives is sometimes large, especially when tech changes rapidly. Convenience trumps almost everything else! And I'm not talking about my kids. At some point, I'll be too old to deal with the digital archives on my own, but a box of pictures will be within reach.
My grandparents and parents either experienced or personally knew people who lost everything at some point, through war, social strife, or economics, and personal tragedies. Same on my spouse's side. Physical photos and letters were among the few things that often survived, possibly because they are only of value to the original 'owner'. I think that close brush with the impermanence of belongings fueled the habits of preparing for loss by archiving and preserving physical mementos. People trust that digital artifacts will survive through redundancy, but we're so early in the process of testing that belief. And society has been rather stable in comparison to my grandparents' generation ...
Somewhat the opposite, but are there tips/tricks to get a song stuck in head -- sort of in a controllable manner? I enjoy having songs stuck in my head, but usually it's not the song I want!
Isn't there something besides water that could be used that would be more effective at putting out battery fires? I doubt this is Tesla-specific and the number of EVBs is growing.
At that price, sampling becomes very reasonable. Sometimes knock offs can be perfectly usable, though I've had my share of disappointments when I didn't expect a fake.
>The “code:0xBADDD15C” looks like it could be an arbitrary hexadecimal value, but it’s an example of an error code designed to both uniquely identify and suggest a mnemonic clue to the underlying issue. Apple documents many of these codes, which include 0xc00010ff (cool off), 0xdead10cc (deadlock), and 0xbaadca11 (bad call).
Are there different "best practices" for games? This breaks almost every guideline for effective UI elements that I've been exposed to. Really don't like it.
I think sentience/consciousness can currently only be "known" by the entity in question. I only know that I am conscious. I infer consciousness in other entities based on their similarity to me.
If successful software companies are dependent on retaining great programmers, they're probably doomed unless they can keep creating new software. Great programmers want to create. They won't be satisfied with just maintaining a successful product. Few companies have the capacity to keep creating really new products and they certainly aren't going to be willing to abandon the old product.
Counterpoint to your counterpoint :) I think local entropy has to decrease first to create the concentration gradients that are harvested by diffusion. So life must also rely on decreasing the local entropy. All depends on how you define the system.
I highly recommend SUM. Interesting and imaginative short stories on (sometimes wild) possibilities for the afterlife. Entertaining and thought provoking, but a very easy read.
Great work and many thanks! I was just ranting recently about abandoned hardware and what a waste it is (gTar, Glass, Aibo, iPods, and more). I still have a couple of TPs (new!) in the basement that will benefit from this archive. I really liked WebOS - it seemed ahead of its time.
Amazon just informed me that my CloudCam will cease functioning in December because they've migrated to their Blink cameras. My CloudCam will cease to work because it won't be able to contact the appropriate Amazon servers.
I happen to take good care of my hardware, but I have so many great items (at least to me) that just won't run properly because they lack required supported software or contact with some defunct server. The gTar was latest thing I found in my basement that I can't use because the iOS app is no longer available. If it's no longer profitable, it would be so nice if the software source code was available so someone could update it to run on modern current operating systems.
Svelte fits in nicely in this respect. I like being able to see all of the elements composing a component or view in one file (or as much as is reasonable).