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Agreed. It's funny I would tell people that light aircraft are still allowed to burn leaded fuel and they are shocked.

The other thing that is also ridiculous that no one is mentioning, is that in the middle of a climate crisis that we allow people to fly as a "hobby". They are not doing anything but just taking joy rides dumping tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Really, all non-essential flights should be banned.

I noticed that this post is from January 2016. It would be interesting if anyone followed his advice and succeeded or didn't. I also noticed he had another blog post from 2013 titled "My Advice to Aspiring Authors" that seemed to me to have a somewhat different tone.

Ooh, intrigued, my interest in graphic literature awakened. TY.

Oh, but if I share all my inner most thoughts and feelings, you say they will pay me $99.99 per month for sharing that information? Oh, I have that backwards, don't I? Eshh, now I suddenly see the light! Thank you! Wink.

no, frown, me dumb. ELI5 it for me :)

yeah, someone else's power bill, cooling, floor space, capital expense.

Hmm, ok, fair enough.

good feedback. TY

Ah no, not with edge compute, think MEC. Nope, I have a test VM on wavelength, under 4ms over 5G :)

I posted that farther down in the thread. Yes, I thought the same thing.

Sorry for the repetition, but this is a little dream of mine.

I have an experimental cloud phone that has no CPU and uses an FPGA to directly transfer data from a VM in the cloud to the screen. It works, even on 4G but better on 5G. Also, I have been experimenting with transparent OLED.

My dream would be a device completely cloud based, and hence, unlimited processing and storage. The back of the transparent display would be optical sensors and it would use computational imaging in the cloud, no lenses needed. The audio who knows, MEMS I suppose.

it would look like just a simple pane of glass

Hehe, you one upped me for sure :)

We are joking around of course, but sometimes interesting innovation comes from weird ponderings.

I have an experimental cloud phone that has no CPU and uses an FPGA to directly transfer data from a VM in the cloud to the screen. It works, even on 4G but better on 5G. Also, I have been experimenting with transparent OLED.

My dream would be a device completely cloud based, and hence, unlimited processing and storage. The back of the transparent display would be optical sensors and it would use computational imaging in the cloud, no lenses needed. The audio who knows, MEMS I suppose.

I think the technology exists; would anyone want such a thing? Who knows, we have seen things like that in sci-fi movies of course.

I clicked present without adding anything, my design uses a telepathic interface, you simply think about it. If you see something, the image is transferred to the memory and uploaded to the cloud by simply desiring that occur. No microphone or earphones are needed, no Bluetooth. I call it the tiPhone it will be out in 2031, place your pre-orders now.

Huh, I did not know that. OK, legit to bitch for sure.

Maybe it is me then because if I am looking at the Earth zoomed out, I always reach for google earth, and perhaps I just never notice it when zoomed in using it for directions.

Thanks!

Is it just me or does it seem like this is a problem that is disappearing with the prevalence of computers? I mean, the only time I can remember seeing a Mercator projection is in yet another HN "here is how bad Mercator is" articles.

I thought it was really cool and I noticed towards the end, it shifted away from organic evolution to architecture and structures. Then I saw farther down he posted another one projecting into the future the evolution of man and perhaps his replacement. If you did not see that at first, skip ahead on the second one to around 2:45 in.

I like the comments, but I was just noting that the original post did not contain the requisite (2015) in the title, but I see that has been fixed now.

The article is from 2015

Propellers all the way down.

No dishes, Phased Array ar flat

Yes, but it's tricky and takes time, if you replace on starlink with 30km radius with 4 at 15km. but then kupier could go to 10km while starlink is doing that. Satellite wars!

I explain it this way; think of it as a cellular network in the sky, except in a terrestrial cellular network, the cell sites are stationary and connected via fiber and you are moving in your car or walking (or you can). With LEOS, each satellite is like a cell site, like a 5G one with phased array antennas, the satellite is moving and you are stationary and the satellited are connected to each other via free space optics but the backhaul is obviously RF, but the hand offs between satellites is over FSO. In fact, R17 of 3GPP standards now has provisions in it for 5G direct from the LEOS to the user. None deploy yet. but in a couple of years, that could be interesting.

Each satellite paints a spot on the ground using the beamforming capabilities of the phased array antenna. The capacity of that spot is of course limited by Shannon limit, where C ~ B * S C = capacity (think Mbps) B = spectrum (think Mhz) S = SINR (Singal to noise ratio)

If you have a smaller spot on the ground, then the spectrum is shared amoung fewer users. If you have more powerful transmitters and or better antennas, then your C will be better.

Right now based on the specifications I have seen publicly, Amazon's Kuiper (their LEOS) will have higher capacity than starlink because it will have half the "spot" diameter. That is due to better antennas mostly, more array elements mean narrower beam width.

The problem here IMO is that although intelligence can be fairly well defined and measured and it tends to be fairly static over a given period of time, happiness can be more difficult to measure or define and fluctuates.

Someone may say they are less happy on Monday Morning than on Friday afternoon, or they were happier last year but then the pandemic lock down saddened them. And, some people perceive their own happiness differently, on person may say, I am very happy, but they perhaps are not as happy as another person who says they are only moderately happy because they may have a higher expectation of happiness.

And what is it really, many philosophers have spent a lot of time on that topic. Is it that all my needs and wants are met and I am in a committed relationship? Others may define it differently. The article touches on these points.

In my view these are just two different unconnected attributes, asking if intellect and happiness are correlated is like asking "how big is the color red?" it is not really a meaningful question.

Anyone can be happy, whether they have a high IQ or not.

Say you have one man who has a low IQ, works as a laborer, but comes home to a wife and loving children. They do not have a large house or fancy car but if you ask him, he may say he is very happy.

Another man, lives alone in a large home with a nice car but enjoys solitude and contemplation, perhaps occasionally having a friend over and they have a deep conversation about quantum mechanics. You ask him and he might say he is very happy.

Obviously, you could easily reverse those examples and add many more.

Now let's measure that?

Personally, I just don't see how.

Her personal story is also fascinating, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

Thank you for all the excellent posts to help people like me understand a bit more about this interesting work.

I recall one time, some years ago, I cannot remember exactly but I remember going to a meeting in a high rise with some co-workers and others, we get on the elevator together and there is a Muzak version of Devo playing, I could not help cracking up. People asked me what was so funny, I commented the Muzak was a cover of Devo. No one knew what I was talking about.

I agree completely. I have a large collection of original shellac 78's some as early as 1930's as well as true vinyl LP's from 1970's. They all sound terrible, what make them cool and collectable is the originality, not some magical thing about them being on shellac or vinyl. The new digital sound quality is far superior, hands down. Buying a reissue vinyl is a waste of money IMO.

When I was in college, I had this "friend" who, when we went out on the town, in a bar, or club, would walk right up to women and ask them if they wanted to fuck. Just like that, it was embarrassing. But he persisted. I asked him, why do you keep doing this when such an approach almost never is successful. He simply replied, because, when she says yes, I know that I have a sure thing. It saves a lot of time.

Maybe, a little piece of someone lives on in our hearts, memories, things like that. Not magic, just memories of love for someone.

Look. My Ma was sick, and hurting, I held her hand, we pinky swore over something silly, we knew that, it made her smile amongst a lot of pain. I light a candle, and think about all the times she was there for me.

The rest of it? Who cares.

Well. All I know is this.

I was a weird kid, and my mom protected me. I grew up on a farm in a pretty rural area. When I was between my sophomore and junior year in high school, my dad wanted me to work on the farm, to make me a man, or whatever. I wanted to go to science camp for the summer. Ma, put her foot down, and I got to go to science camp.

I dunno about the god stuff. I am not holding my breath on the message. But, I am lighting her candle.

That's all I got to say on it.

Sorry for your loss and everyone else who is sharing.

About 10 years ago, my mom came down with cancer and was in hospice care for some time. I had the opportunity to sit with her and hold hands and talk. She was a person of faith, I am not. She asked me to light the yahrzeit for her which I of course agreed to do, and did, although I had to consult the internet to figure out how.

She asked me if I would reconsider my rejection of faith, I had to be honest with her and said that I was sorry that I could not do that. She said if she got up there, into heaven, and could get me a message, would I change my mind. I said sure Ma. We came up with a goofy pass phrase, that only her and I knew, and pinky swore never to tell anyone. No, I have not received the message, but I do the candle. It is coming up on the 10th the web site says.

I know this isn't what you meant, but I was at a garage sale, and they had a stack of old books, one had a hollowed-out compartment in it that contained a "sex toy". I asked the proprietor of the garage sale where the books came from, and she said they were her fathers and he passed away and no one wanted them.

I put the book back and didn't say anything.

Thank you for taking the time to do that!

I think I get the basics now.