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100% - even annoying "promotional" email blasts. I've worked for companies where, when we did surveys, customers overwhelmingly said that we sent them too many emails or that the emails were not relevant. Yet time and time again we would do a bulk email send and watch in-store sales climb up proportionally. So naturally then we had to make email address a required field when making an account online. One more step for users, and specifically something that most users don't want to give...but the money says otherwise.

Actually I was referring to the Ford rollover thing: https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/ford-hid-suv-...

And to the GM ignition thing: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2014/10/3/18073458/gm-car-r...

My understanding of the automotive industry is that they cut corners everywhere they can because they know it’ll save more money than a lawsuit or recall will cost. Do they do these things and when someone dies or raises a stink only then do they do the recall.

is the last layer turtles?

So...I'm sure I'm not alone when my first thought was "big deal" but then I thought about it and I'm thinking there's two main issues here:

1. we don't want it there and they didn't ask permission or give a way to remove it

2. a tiny orange dot on a monitor will turn into a basketball sized orange ball on a big professional display

am I getting the right idea?

I mean…isn’t that exactly what the government _would_ say if these devices actually were working? /s, obviously

Also iCab which at least let’s you use the new engine. I don’t think the other browsers even allow that.

Thanks for the recommendation consider it done :)

Wow, and here I am dropping cash on weed and shrooms like a chump. I’ll be honest, this strikes me as similar to the whole binaural sounds thing…I tried that way back in high school and got nothing from it but my friend swore it was elevating. I won’t knock it, I’m sure some people really do get something out of it and who and I to say otherwise. I might even try it some time. But shrooms haven’t ever let me down. So at least I’ve got a backup

Depending on how clear of a display you want, a projector may be a good option.

We have a small shelf in our bedroom with an Apple TV, a HomePod mini, and a $90 projector from Best Buy. It projects to the large wall across the room from our bed and is perfect for night time or late evening viewing. I’m sure you could put together a similar system using either SD cards or streaming from your Plex or whatever media server you use.

The very first website I ever saw was at my cousin’s house during a visit for Christmas. They had just recently “gotten the online” and he was showing me his favorite site which was an Oprah talk show discussion forum. At first I was like “wow this is stupid” but then he told me that there’s discussions for “almost everything” and that you’re talking to people all over the world…now I was from a town of about 10,000 people or so and had probably met a thousand people total in my lifetime if that (I think I was 8 or so at the time) so it was mind boggling to me to have the ability to just talk to someone on the other side of the world just by clicking a few icons on a computer screen…I was hooked immediately.

Flash forward years and years and so far I just have not sensed the same magic and awe with things like blockchain “stuff” but it may be that I’m not allowing myself to be mentally agile and open (I’m willing to admit it’s a possibility, at least).

You could however nest horizontal and vertical marquee to make a diagonal marquee :)

For my very first interview I was told “write something in php” so I put together a few scripts to parse templated txt files into html and made a little baby version of a cms. Wasn’t exactly scalable or ground breaking but I thought it was cool. But the engineer that interviewed me was like so this imports text files and it took you all afternoon to build it? …didn’t get that job.

So the next one was pretty similar “hey use this language called Sikuli to build something.” Now, I’d never heard of Sikuli but it was basically python so I built a little app that, based on the screen, could offer up context sensitive hotkey chains…kind of like a baby version of Alfred that literally only worked with Microsoft office. But the guy thought it was cool and hired me anyway :)

Went from working in a gas station over night to working in my kitchen or the coffee shop. I thought it was sooooo cool

Yeah that’s what I’m understanding now. Really would have been amazing if it were possible. If you’ll indulge me, is there some theoretical technology that could enable such a breakthrough or is it so far from possible that it’s not even feasible for some reason?

When I first heard about the Theranos meltdown I was so sure that Holmes was a victim of big pharma trashing her name and her company. But man..as the story unfolds in front of us that is obviously not the case. I’m pretty bummed about it because I was really excited a few years ago when the company was so hot. Hopefully some of their tech or ideas are solid and someone really can build on them to make good healthcare products for people.

Yep my wife and I moved to Connecticut from North Carolina. The summers here are very mild compared to what we are used to and as such leave the windows open to stay cool. But as you mentioned the screens do allow in rain if it’s raining and windy. Funny I never thought about seeing if there’s an alternative material for it.

“ There are specific tasks that see a significant difference. If you’re editing ProRes video or working with Apple’s Metal graphics API, there is a clear benefit to the more powerful chip. But that isn’t the case for many creative tasks…”

I mean…yeah..that’s sort of how these things are supposed to work, right?

I get that a lot of consumers aren’t experts and rely on the marketing. So when they buy the most expensive laptop that Apple will sell then they expect it to be considerably “better” than the next rung down the ladder. I guess I just don’t blame Apple for that like I should?

Maybe the marketing materials could be more clear and lay out the exact cases where it would be better. But I just don’t think most people would read it.

That makes a lot of sense, and thanks for the detailed answers. The age old "this isn't for you" is applicable here...I don't see the value personally, but I understand the motivation behind it..sort of like how I don't mind streaming music vs "owning" a digital copy of it as .mp3 or whatever.

I absolutely think that digital art is as valuable and worthy of recognition as physical art. My wife is an artist (oils and water colors, not digital) and we've discussed it at length that the skill and talent required to create digital art imparts equal value. I'm not arguing against that (I'm not saying that's what you're saying either, but just to be clear for folks who read the comments).

But...I do not see the value in being able to "prove" that you own said artwork...because you can't do it...Globally, the number of people who know what Ethereum or any other block-chain technology means is probably what..many thousands? Maybe..maybe a few hundred thousand? And of those the subset of people who actually care...I'm sure is far fewer. So you can only verify yourself as the "owner" of said art to a very small subset of people...

I guess it's like a collector community? People are willing to spend literally millions of dollars to prove to other collectors that they are the owners of these digital assets?

I used to come onto HN and see crypto-coin news and I'd jump into the comments and ask something along the lines of "But isn't bitcoin and all the other things like it just a giant scam?" and someone who believed in Bitcoin to be a transformative technology would jump in and explain the real potential. I personally still think it's sort of a scam, but I'm happy for all of the people who used it to get rich....so, along those lines...

How is "NFT" not a gigantic scam? I'm looking at this image right now: https://rarible.com/token/0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061c2e118a18...

There is nothing at all to keep me from screenshotting or otherwise downloading that image. I won't have to pay the author $213 for it, I just take the image because I can. Now I won't necessarily "be the original owner" of it or whatever but....I mean....I have the same image as the owner and I have $213 where the new "owner" simply has the image.....

Can someone, if such a person exists, that believes in NFT's as having actual value please explain it? It just seems to me like a few thousand people have realized "Hey people will literally give me $200 just because I told them to" and are doing it at scale....

And according to that website, so far the author of those "NFT"s has made 13 million dollars......Is that true? If this person has made 13 million dollars because they drew a few monkeys....I'm pretty sure they will be President of the US one day.

Or Salesforce marketing cloud…it’s even worse than sfdc

Yep they’re very good at it. I won’t say it’s fool proof. But the very occasional times they get confused isn’t so bad I’ll replace them with wired.

I’ve just got a charging pad on my desk. In the morning I pop my watch and AirPods pro on it while I take a shower (have a HomePod mini in the bathroom so don’t need headphones) and by the time I’m done they’re charged up enough for the day. And I keep my AirPods max charged via cable in a drawer in my desk. Phone goes on the same charging pad as the watch and pro. So all in all it’s pretty easy keeping everything charged for me.

The only issue I have is that sometimes either my AirPods pro or AirPods max will get confused and try to connect to the wrong device. But it’s not such a huge inconvenience that Id go back to wired.

I like a lot of what’s out there these days. Pega is a good example that reasonably talented people with some training can solve real business problems quickly. But like most other folks here mention it’s usually great to remember the guard rails that help make these tools easy for some will be limiting to others. Maybe one day the Linux kernel devs will be using a drag and drop interface..but I think that day is probably a long way away (not speaking for the Linux kernel devs here obviously just my take)

You cant own property, man! :D

I think there will need to be work with things that essentially are what we think of as speculative execution today. This is because I’m sure there will be need to interact with considerably more systems, threads, messages, instructions whatever in the scope of an interstellar starship.

And no doubt some advances will be necessary in terms of AI to handle the calculations. I don’t know what those calculations are, but I’m sure they’re difficult :)

I think about the voice interface to the various computers. Really complex interactions. Always on. Rapidly changing contexts. Historic conversations. Different languages.

I’m sure storage is an issue. Something to do with compression algorithms. And decompression. Probably encryption and security.

Challenges in redundancy might be hardware or materials problems.

Most of them are hard for me to even articulate plainly :)

I sometimes wonder to myself: what programming challenges would come up in something like the starship Enterprise (any of them) and what new language constructs (if any) would be required to address them?

I’ve got a 2016 civic and the entire touch screen is taken over when you make a right turn or go into reverse. And it takes several seconds for the system to boot when you turn the car on which is especially irritating in very hot or very cold weather. That and the response is laggy and slow. And sometimes it just stops responding entirely and you have to reboot the touch screen. It’s very annoying “feature” of an otherwise lovely car.

I was brought in to a project on Friday to help figure something out. The gist of the project is that we have a system which generates tons of event data. Basically interaction logging. And until recently the system sent those logs to some other systems via nightly files. But someone in the business decided it made more sense to do it “real time” and so some folks have been diligently coding away and have built their solution only to find there was a gigantic miss:

The system is generating thousands, sometimes tens or hundreds of thousands of events per hour. And the api that is to receive this data can only receive 100 “records” (events) per request, and the system that generates the data can’t do any sort of multi threading or multiple requests simultaneously…it can just fire off one request after another..

I did the math and on our busiest day this process would take something like 827 years to send all of the event data…

I say all of this to highlight your point that it’s a foundational skill to gather requirements..and yet I’m working with sr engineers that created this mess…