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Another great advantage they have is the data map on the right-hand margin. It's a good way of seeing how complex a notebook is getting as well as being a really efficient way of navigating through the data flow.
I hope at some point they can offer some sort of offline support. The focus on ease of sharing is great, and the volume and breadth of content has really helped me to get more proficient with d3. The inability to open and edit notebooks offline/locally is a real inconvenience, however.
I have a small personal site on Netlify (with Next.js) and going forward I'm looking at hosting the sort of stuff I have on Observable there, simply as it's easier to work to when offline. The quality of the community and resources is a really valuable thing, but the need to be online is a real drawback at times.
I'm not saying the two services you referenced do or do not do well with the Chinese market, but it's a different proposition to actually capture a massive distinct market vs expansive options for the existing customer base.
The basic R0 is believed to be around 5.7, so even with precautions such as social distancing, masks, and hand washing (which won't be followed flawlessly), it's still trying to mitigate something outstandingly infectious. You need to bring the R0 to 1.0 for the number of cases to only increase at a constant rate, as for anything above 1 every 10 cases will lead to more than 10 new cases, which compounds as it spreads.
Infrastructure is as much a factor as proximity I'd say.
One thing I do have to commend Quibi for, however, is how well they reversioned their video content. I think they will be seen as a little ahead of the competition there (possibly before their time). Against other content houses that will have significantly more footage to get through (and/or less resources for this task).
I think the different versions (e.g. portrait/landscape for Quibi) will be a little way off being that common. I expect computer vision tooling will enable it more broadly when it can at least expedite the process considerably (which probably isn't a huge distance off although then the blocker is organisational processes around publishing video).
I've found that most of these chatbots will use sound alerts to draw attention, and Cape's environmental toolkit definitely references these. While a lot of the content in this toolkit is for physical environments, a lot of it will transfer to digital product UX in terms of stimuli etc.
I think one of the most regularly overlooked areas in which people may need help is through accessibility features. I'm not neurodiverse myself, but things that pop-up and animate can be problematic for those that are.
Having the option there may be useful, but the intrusive pop-ups that the previous comment referred to do not seem useful to me, and could even greater confound the experience for groups of people. I'd expect the intrusive features are mostly driven by conversion rates rather than usability.
Now that Discord has a far more diverse population beyond your more hardcore gamers, I think softening the jargon would be positive. They've already started to move the tone of some of the more playful messages[2] to improve UX for a broader audience, so it may well move away from the current terminology before too long.
[1]: https://blog.discord.com/discord-is-for-your-communities-3d1...
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/inuc6u/they_rem...
I expect you're right about the equilibrium extending beyond the first owner in many instances. Volvos are renowned for their longevity (100,000mi is not uncommon) so will be interesting to see how Polestars fair with battery degradation. It would be interesting if Polestar go the way of Apple and try to recapture cars at end-of-life to recycle them and reduce subsequent generation car production emissions.
Global power mix: 112,000 km (69,594 miles) European power mix: 78,000 km (48,467 miles) Wind power: 50,000 km (31,068 miles)
The electrical emissions data comes from GaBi, but I can't see reference to the specific mixes they mention in the GaBi professional database, so I don't know what the exact breakdown of the mixes are.
I went along with a family member to a Model 3 test drive recently and it was surprising just how many little defects were there, considering the price of the car. While paint finish or panel fit isn't going to ruin a car overall, the fact the big easy-to-spot things are so clearly flawed does make one pause to consider how rigorous the QA is for the parts under the surface.
Cars still visibly improve each season, as demonstrated by the fact track records continue to fall each year.
Drivers are still international celebrities, and it's still a very dangerous sport (the fact there are far fewer deaths is a triumph, but it still occurs - Jules Bianchi died from a crash in 2014 and last year in F2 Anthoine Hubert succumb to a hideous incident). If your issue is that too few drivers are dying, then I really don't know what to say because mitigating that risk is a hugely positive thing.
Fans still fill the track grandstands (with the exception of some of the newest venues which may not sell out as easily). Just look at Monza 2019, with the sea of Tifosi under the podium. That passion is still there for a big number of fans, and as the sport is evolving (and more interesting young drivers come through) the fanbase is changing and growing more diverse.
In terms of convolution of implementing it, there may be a little more effort in terms of figuring some offsets (e.g., path widths may extend bounds), but it shouldn't be anything excessive I don't think.
Having OpenCV as a dependency means that if a project isn't already using OpenCV, this fairly minor (in terms of scale of functionality) utility library has a lot of baggage.
With that said, the dependency on OpenCV seems entirely overkill. Surely Pillow would be a much more sensible dependency (with ImageDraw), as all you're doing with this package is drawing rectangles and labels, rather than handling any CV tasks?
If you think of all the devices that output via HDMI, Windows PCs are the outlier (afaik, not sure how Linux handles it) in allowing separate volume controls beyond those on the output device.
Satellite set top boxes, media streaming devices (e.g. Apple TV - I realise NVidia Shield and some Chromecast apps do have some software volume control), games consoles, and Blu-Ray players will all output a fixed audio signal, expecting the TV/AV amplifier to handle volume.
When I got to my first job, I was hugely fortunate to have colleagues that wouldn't judge anyone for their views/opinions, whether right or wrong (technically, obviously they were expected to be respectful). As such I found myself learning and growing so to such a greater extent, and quicker, in those first couple of years of employment.
It's something that goes both ways, if you're respectful and positive of colleagues who may be wrong, you'll help them to learn and develop, which in turn will contribute to a better team overall, more collaborative and more competent. I think it's especially important to try and include the quiet ones, again they may be wrong, but as long as you impress that it's fine to be wrong and work with them to improve their knowledge and understanding, that bit of extra effort will go so far.
It looks great on a desk, sure, but it's not that ergonomic, and having to flip it on its back to charge it (thus disabling it), is absolutely useless.
I use a Logitech MX Master 3 nowadays, and while not quite as ground breaking as the Magic Mouse, I'd say it's overall better. The shape of it is great for my (larger-than-average) hands, and the amount of buttons (and additional gestures via modifier button) makes up for the lack of touch surface. The absolute flagship feature though is the magshift mouse wheel, which allows for ratcheted scrolling on Windows, while also removing the ratchet mechanism when you're trying to rapidly flick through a file.