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Note this initiates an alarm and emergency call, with a three second window in which to cancel. Quite a surprise!!

Yes, that’s a more precise description. For a given resolution and ISO, a larger sensor has larger pixels, which generally produce less noise than smaller ones.

Lower noise levels at high ISO are an advantage of FF. Very useful for shooting action in low light (e.g. sports and dance), where you need high shutter speeds to freeze motion.

Why not name the country?

Hansel and Gretel, for instance.

Seems heavy handed and ineffectual as a means of hunting down fake users, with a high risk of cannibalizing the social media presence of legitimate (especially tourist catering) businesses.

What must have been a side project for him, the book "How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built", was hugely influential to me as an architecture student. His observations of built works continually adapting to the evolving needs of users have obvious parallels in the world of software, and helped form the basis of how I approach UX and product design.

Hard to look at the history of aircraft and think aesthetics have nothing to do with the shapes designers choose. Aesthetics may not be the driver, but it's definitely an input in the process, to varying degrees.

I grew up next to meadows that were rarely if ever cut, in the 1980's (Northeastern US). As a young child I'd often find Monarch caterpillars, and was sometimes allowed to keep them in a small, strange box molded from glass and known as a terrarium. I'd feed them milkweed until they reached the pupal stage, then watch with wonder as the chrysalis changed from a jade-like, gold-rimmed ornament into a transparent capsule of folded orange-black wings. Finally, when the new insect emerged, we watched and waited (with still more patience) for the wings to dry, leading up to release day, when the butterfly was suddenly gone in a dash toward the sky.

Guided by my grandmother, an amateur naturalist, these were my first experiences leading to a knowledge of change, lifecycle, and above all the beauty to be found in the natural world. This simple gestation process of a curious looking caterpillar is impressed on me like no other early childhood memory. A process taking weeks, it was my first consciousness of time.

Today, those meadows are acres and acres of trimmed lawn. The smooth aesthetic of green grass pocked with dandelion has won over the wildness of a milkweed dotted field. But me, I've forsworn all lawn mowing, and should I ever own a meadow, will let it go to seed.

In addition, what happens to the local building trades, whether established or nascent? Are they integrated into the scheme or made redundant?

After watching the video, it's evident this method of construction has another disadvantage over the lifecycle of the structure: The walls cannot be easily modified. (And this is a characteristic and complaint of nearly all poured-in-place concrete construction, often cited by institutional caretakers of brutalist buildings.)

An economical house should be able to change and grow according to the needs and means of its owners. That's much more difficult when adding a door or window requires a diamond-blade, water-cooled saw to cut through a thick structural concrete web while avoiding embedded service conduits. In comparison, walls of concrete block, brick, and wooden studs are more readily modified, though each has other favorable and unfavorable characteristics.

Yes, if it is recurring, possibly cyclothymia.

I’d give it a shot. The RM jeans have virtually the same look and feel as regular denim; you barely know they’re stretchy fabric until you feel it give way as you bend. Otherwise, they’re exactly like regular jeans.

Before going down the path of fashion pioneer, I would suggest taking a look at "Rapid Movement Denim" ;)

It will change how you regard jeans (and what you can do in them).

I wonder if it has to do with too much sitting in chairs? Prof. Galen Cranz discusses some of the effects on posture of western sitting styles in her book, "The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design". Though not scientific, she compares the common slump shouldered, curved spine posture of many westerners to the (better) posture of those who grew up without frequent chair sitting. It may be there is also a connection to lifting posture.

Check out Banana Republic "Rapid Movement Denim" and also Calvin Klein. There are undoubtably others in a range of styles and price points.

Finding a good fit is easier said than done for probably most of us. Fortunately there are also new stretchy fabrics (including wool and denim) that give wonderful range of motion even when tightly fitted, or (in an unlucky situation) ill fitted. For example, you can find men’s slim fit jeans that look normal yet are flexible enough for even yoga or rock climbing.

Now that I found a brand that fits my build and uses this type of fabric, regular, non-stretch denim feels so constricting I avoid it entirely (and without, ahem, having to resort to men’s yoga pants).

Probably drowned in trying to support so many SKUs. Trying to segment their product beyond the ability of startup capital in a new and small market. Supply chain complexities, inventory burden, and too many subtly different models for a new (mainstream) customer to easily understand.

See here for a summary of all the models and options they were supporting: http://gadgetsandwearables.com/2017/10/23/best-pebble-watch/

Consumer hardware seems to be the Everest of startup endeavors. Congrats to the founder for moving forward in his career!

Worth a click through to see just how egregious it is, however! ;)

You can find a local bookstore at which to buy it here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393608717

In a very similar vein, I've found the recently published book Sense & Respond to be worthwhile: https://books.google.com/books/about/Sense_and_Respond.html?...

Agreed. The gesture of glancing at one's watch or wrist during a conversation carries a very particular connotation, probably going back generations.

>I've been on the lookout for good places to run entirely barefoot as well, but I'm not as daring as some.

If you're fortunate to live near a good beach, I've found the hard packed sand along the water's edge to be the practical ideal surface for barefoot running. It's best if the beach isn't too sloped, and of course you have to mind the shells and other debris. Moonlit beach runs have become a highlight for me on coastal vacations. :)

Thanks!

Thank you; it's very interesting to hear the details on this. One question:

>she wants to build up the software revenue, but the culture around her (south-eastern city) is so strongly opposed to it, that the execution has been impossible

Do you mean the existing company culture, e.g. employees only having service-oriented skills, or the southeastern city culture, somehow being inhospitable for developing software?

I'm curious because I currently live in a southeastern city (Nashville), am about to move to another (Atlanta), and am in the beginning stages of building a B2B SAAS startup.

I recall some experiments being done on the engineering side of my university using carbon rod for rebar. I don't recall how well the thermal expansion coefficients of the two materials matched up, but the professor claimed a concrete + carbon bridge would last 200 years, due to lack of rust.

This was in the late 90's, so we still have a few more years to go before the test is complete. ;)

No fun, and likely life threatening. With a max speed of about 2 1/2 knots with a clean hull, the little boat isn't fast enough to sail out of the way of heavy weather.

Once in a big storm, I can't even imagine the beating one would take inside that tiny craft, sliding down the face of a monster wave, crashing into the trough at the bottom, getting rolled. But perhaps his hull and rig design isn't subject to the same broaching and capsizing forces as a larger monohull...

I'm curious to read more about the design of the boat, his equipment, procedures and planning. Though it's best not to judge from a mere photo, there were several things visible in the images of the craft and video of his attempted departure that seemed counter to good seamanship.

A case where the complication will likely outlast the mythology it measures.