Two years ago, I tried video editing for the first time. It was a small project, a 15 second video with multiple video and audio tracks, some basic white balance and color correction, and minor animations. I tried the 3 major FOSS video editors at the time, OpenShot, ShotCut, and KdenLive, in order to figure out which one was more appropriate for me. I also watched some tutorial videos on each of the video editors. My conclusion was that OpenShot was too basic for even such a small project, KdenLive was usable but lacked some tools which made editing somewhat burdensome, and ShotCut was the winner with its toolset and UI, although it crashed the most out of the three.
However, even with such a simple project, none of the three FOSS tools were easy to use, and all were barriers to my efficiency and creativity. I then searched for commercial offerings, and have been using Davinci Resolve, where even the free basic version was light years beyond the FOSS choices in terms of speed, ease of use, and features. As someone who uses FOSS tools (GIMP, Inkscape) for ideological reasons, I was a bit disappointed by how large of a gap there was between FOSS and commercial video editors. I haven't looked at the FOSS versions since then, perhaps they have improved.
Along your line of thought, I think with the threat of earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornados, car crashes, plane crashes, hackers, identity theft, terrorism, etc, anyone who wishes to live with a perpetual feeling of danger and paranoia can freely do so, there's no need to pick firearms in particular.
I think it depends on just how senior this position is. Senior developer, sure. VP of engineering, no. Team lead, maybe. If you list side projects, it needs to scale with your position. A VP's side project would scale up to a viable business of its own, which then is no longer a side project but a work experience entry in the CV.
This just sounds like a more informal form of the private academy system in East Asian countries, where parents pick and choose different classes, activities, and tutors from the different private academy offerings. There are basically academies for most subjects, from art to science to sports to performance arts to languages, so a child's education and specialization can be individually tailored.
> Corona especially has shown us that the quality of education received at a school is much higher than at home.
This definitely depends on whether those are the only two choices. If homeschooling includes the parents having the choice to send their kids to private academies of their choosing instead, then it's possible that homeschooling can be superior.
I don't know what it's like in the Netherlands, but in South Korea, with the very strong private academy culture, the public school system is actual comparatively subpar. Public schools are more useful for subjects like civics and history than more academic subjects like math and science.
Hmm, I went through the American educational system from elementary through grad school, and I never felt any social expectation to learn football, either the rules or how to actual play. Maybe it's a costal city versus middle America thing? (I grew up in NY and went to California for post secondary education)
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I don't care that much about new content, I care about good content. For quite a while I thought Netflix had a very small catalog, until I started deliberately going to specific categories that the recommendation engine never show me, then I realized that there is actually a fairy extensive back catalog of shows that are interesting, especially various shows in non-English languages.
Depends on your viewing distance. If viewed from a few feet / a meter, that resolution is probably enough. The contrast ratio might be the bigger problem. From a low-effort search, photo paper has a contrast ratio of 100:1, while e-paper has a contrast ratio of only 12:1. Photos displayed on e-paper are going to look washed out.
I always thought my visualization abilities are pretty good. I can recall people's faces pretty well, along with their posture and gestures. I can imagine 3D shapes and rotate them and fit them together. I can visualize different shades of colors.
But this blinky screen plus white noise gave me nothing after 5 minutes except some slightly brighter and darker areas, and I aborted. <Hercules> Disappointed! </Hercules>
Did the people in the Soviet Union think that the smuggled media was propaganda? I remember the story about Boris Yelchin visiting a US supermarket, being amazed at the all the products available, and thinking that it was a fake store set up to impress him at first.
I recall when I signed up for 24 Hour Fitness many many years ago. They wanted my social security number, which I refused to give, so the employee just put some random number down. Turns out they needed it because my membership was a "loan" for the whole cost over X number of years, which I pay back every month with the membership fees. I have no idea how that fake number managed to get through their system.
Ok FINE. They were easy enough to ignore in Usenet the 2 dozen or so groups I frequented. There were no noticeable brigades in the groups I used, and upvotes are not a thing in Usenet.
Having not read the book, the first question that comes to mind is whether John Gray is referring to a house cat or a stray cat in his writings. The house cat is an animal in a highly artificial environment where most of the daily struggles have been removed. Any comparisons to the human condition would be suspect. A stray cat would likely live a life of territorial battles, disease, injury, and hunger, and would be a much different creature than a house cat.
As someone who was on Usenet regularly until the mid 2000's, I don't think it was the trolls that killed Usenet. They were easy enough to ignore. The younger generations simply never found it, as the WWW forums were much easier to find and grew more popular. For the two dozen or so groups I visited regularly, over time they became the playground of only the old guards, and conversation slowly died out.
It means that Linus used to be fairly brusk when he was younger (basis: e.g. flipping people off and telling people to "fuck off"), and recently he has apologized for his behavior (basis: the link you shared). To me this is him mellowing out in his old age. His younger self might not have agreed with this mellowing out, seeing it as unnecessary (basis: his responses previous to the apology to other people who called him out on his behavior). The fact that he apologized means that even he realized that he did not care too much before, but now he does, and therefore he wanted to make up for what he has done.
Their younger versions might not have agreed with it, but some people do mellow out in their old age. In this case, to me it's clear that he is doing a large turnaround, which validates Wyager's statement that he did not care too much before.
When I canceled my Comcast internet service, I got much less resistance from them, but this was in the days where they still had physical offices that you can go to. I took my modem and dropped it off, telling them to cancel my subscription. When they tried to give me the retention speech, I told them I had already switched providers. End of conversation.
Are you comparing that against the MILLIONS who get a correct diagnosis? I expect that the quality-adjusted life year total over all tested is higher with the test than without. Wouldn't that be worth it?
I think this leans more towards the "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" and less towards "tyranny of the majority".
I meticulously tracked every calorie I ate for several months. Now I know how much of different types of food is how many calories, how many calories I eat per day, and most importantly what my different hunger levels mean in terms of the number of calories ingested. Combined with my weight tracking, which tells me my set weight / weight variance over a day or several days / food intake to gain or lose a certain amount of weight, I can easily control portions to hit my weight goals without thinking about it.
I would imagine more health data would allow me to optimize in this fashion as well. If I can correlate health markers to my lifestyle often and directly, I can make better and more informed choices. Advocating against easy access to health data because some people can misuse it is the same kind of nanny state thinking that says encryption shouldn't be available to the masses because criminal enterprises can use it to hide their activities.
Not universally true. Depending on points such as competing stores in the mall and the parking situation, number of customers can decrease for the store outside the mall. For example, you are a cellphone store with no parking and the mall will have 3 cellphone stores and a giant parking structure, the mall will hurt your business.
First is the large capital outlay as compared with a small web project, which means many more eggs are in that one basket.
Second is the slow turnover, which means that you may be waiting for years for a good property (since if it's a good property, there are only a few situations where the owner would sell), and if you choose poorly, you will be stuck with the poor property for many years (as no one would want to buy it).
Third is you will still have to watch out for your property becoming irrelevant, for example for a retail store, either due a downturn in the trendiness of the neighborhood driving out business, or perhaps undesirable construction in the area (e.g. a mall across the street that takes all your foot traffic).
Really the safest way to invest in real estate is through REITs, where the risk is spread across many properties.
From another angle, I've been to a restaurant in a central part of Seoul where the owner kept his cash in a wooden box with no lock by the entrance. Pretty sure anyone could have grabbed that box and ran out the door, especially when the owner is in the back preparing the food.
I don't think it's as bad as that statement implies. It's not all smartphones or laptops or TVs or cars. A large number of those devices would be things like smartcards, LED light bulbs, USB cables, ID tags for shipping containers: tiny, low-to-no-power devices, if what you are concerned about is large amounts of electronic waste.