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They fold flat and wouldn't cause much bother in a pocket but I personally don't like anything at all in my pockets. I keep them in my satchel and they are unnoticeable in one of those flat pouch sections that are pretty useless for anything even as slim as a wallet or phone.
They won't last forever but good for a few years so far. They have survived when I have stocked up on canned goods.
Note that board has always been given compensation way out of line with any business ever before and it has been notably spineless through Musk's fraud convictions, impregnation of co-workers, pedo-gate abuse, open racism, drug use, erratic behaviour and that he is clearly absent from the business from the business 80%+ of the time and the product pipeline has been dead for years.
The man already owned a ton of shares which gave him huge upside on success aka "incentive" and said he wasn't leaving so what were the shareholders paying for? The board had a fiduciary duty to negotiate the best deal and instead they gave him what he asked for - a package many orders of magnitude greater than any CEO compensation ever before. What would the no. 2 CEO pick have cost?
No small issue is that we will likely see how temporary these "achievements" are as Tesla will, someday, be priced like a car company and Tesla's books have had red flags over them for a decade.
I enjoy VR but I feel really done with headsets. I find them more irritating to wear than covid masks and look how folk feel about those. Itchy sweaty forehead, dig into your cheeks, head straps messing your hair, can't lie down on your side, scuba face when you take it off. Once the genuinely awesome experiences get old and passe, it becomes pretty tiresome.
However, I think we might we would see some wear if they they were die. Might see some blobs dented or knocked off if they were regularly being rolled in taverns and such.
The only geometry the knitting demonstrations justify is "pins around hole". I don't see an argument for the dodecahedron shape or the cast metal. A vastly cheaper wooden jig with nails would service just as well and offer much better ergonomic possibilities, like a handle. The knitting with the finger growing inside the dodec looks unhelpful and implausible.
I sometimes quite like what others claim is hideous in these discussions, mainly because it's a refreshing change from my own local architectural group-think. There is a fair bit of regionality in the "cardboard" being pumped out.
I expect future generations will create taxonomies and venerate it and laugh at all the naysayers here as has happened so often before! We are too close to it and not subjected to the next horror yet. We will miss overground houses with windows as we climb into our underground pods and plug-in.
Too much of what people think is fidelity is actually a type of noise e.g. what matters to me in a drama is the writing, acting, plot, ideas and message. Going from 320p to 4320p does not add signal if it means I can see all the seams in the set, all the make-up, how badly the wigs fit etc... it's actually added noise.
> Ditto for all of the technology Millennials have ennui for.
Do you mean ennui (apathy)? Or do you mean nostalgia, yearning, yen, rose-tinted romanticism etc.?
It's such a bizarre belief that a product sold by Apple remains "their platform" once in the hands of a consumer. The only thing they still "own" is copyright IP. They sold a product. They don't get to legislate user actions. Their power over the device post sale, that they use to extract rent, is entirely artificial.
An "App Store", when it is not used as a rent-seeking choke-point, is a nothing-burger, it's a simple website to buy and download an app, yet you are trying to claim some great horror if this website was run by Meta not Apple. Please. It's nonsensical.
Their priority is to ensure every dollar gets taxed and to block features they want to monopolise. The idea that it is a service to developers that they should pay for is insulting.
I loved ebooks and my reading went way up. They were cheaper than paperbacks and cheap enough that I was making curiosity and impulse purchases. The problem with digital sales is that unlike a bookshop, I could not browse and take a book from the shelf and start reading and get hooked.
Once ebooks suddenly jumped in price and absurdly became more expensive than paperbacks, I was done, and didn't buy a book for years. You might try and argue this was irrational, but when I feel I am being scammed, my wallet stays in my pocket. I will indeed cut off my nose to spite an asshole.
Was it a review/pre-release unit? Dave2D's review 4 days ago said he wasn't allowed to benchmark it because they haven't finished optimising the drivers. I wouldn't rush to performance judgements just yet.
Are "animators" doing the original character/flow design work and then visual effects people punch up backgrounds/lighting/textures etc. and doing the rendering?
I find render is classic and beautiful but yes they are an ongoing maintenance issue to regularly repaint every decade or so and once the render has become damaged, rerendering the whole thing is eye-wateringly expensive. The main challenge is the right materials and expertise (lime render and porous mineral paint) which is expensive so people flipping a house will just bodge it with cement render and waterproof paints that will barely last a decade before it cracks, traps water, causes damp and starts coming way from the wall.
(Note that exposed stone also weathers and requires replacement which can make render/paint maintenance look very cheap).
A key part of the longevity of render is the design of other features e.g. you need correct channelling of water so it doesn't pour from roofs/windows down the render causing stains. This requires true skill and subtle architectural features like drip grooves carved under overhanging coping stones and subtle curves in the render itself (bell cast beading I think?). I am maddened by hokey designs that e.g. add a section of wooden facade above render which grossly stains the render below within months. It's just so careless and predictable. Any staining is a design fault that past experts knew how to avoid. There shouldn't be any "sources of colour" above render.
One of the joys of render is that you can personalise it with your own colours [2] which will stain less easily than white (grey is quite trendy) or even go for full graphic design [3] (I can't recall if those specific buildings were rendered - we have a tradition of drawing stone lines onto render so that it resembles limestone construction).
[1] https://images.mansionglobal.com/im-365825/social
[2] https://offloadmedia.feverup.com/secretbristol.com/wp-conten...
The US figure is more like the UK's definition of "rough sleeper" which was around 2-3000 in 2020.
I'm not sure what your point is about waste is because The Lord's Waste was a specific legal designation separate from the more emotive devastated/unusable/excess we might be familiar with.
The assumption that Common Land was unmanaged and owned by all is false but that doesn't mean it was always well managed. Be in no doubt that Enclosure was a horrifying theft of rights from the citizenry and in no way a solution to a Tragedy of the Commons.
I also expect the demographic they are selling to are impulse buyer notebook neophytes. The lettered purpose on the front triggers those buyers. They buy the product and put it to one side, never to use it. Repeat buyers that care about the notebook design probably turn to specialist brands they multi-buy online.
My main complaint is when using the laptop in dark bed to read ebooks and it is utterly blinding. I end up folding a bit of duvet over the bloody thing.
Other cities won't face this to the same degree - but it's exacerbated in London because it's such a popular destination yet with antiquated infrastructure due to such structures being built so ahead of the curve - thus surprising platform gaps and corridors far too narrow to support massive commuter flows of a metropolis that has grown so much.
An aimless tourist could be knocked over if they don't follow conventions or aren't made aware of unusual hazards that more recently built transport systems won't have.
... but now I look at the pictures on wikipedia and see there are no nudes or even a Vitruvian Man. How strange to have a belief of many decades suddenly corrected. Seems that I have mentally fused the earlier Pioneer plaque with Voyager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque
> After NASA had received criticism over the nudity on the Pioneer plaque (line drawings of a naked man and woman), the agency chose not to allow Sagan and his colleagues to include a photograph of a nude man and woman on the record. Instead, only a silhouette of the couple was included.[15] However, the record does contain "Diagram of vertebrate evolution", by Jon Lomberg, with drawings of an anatomically correct naked male and naked female, showing external organs.[16] The person waving on the diagram was also changed: on the Pioneer plaque, the man is waving, while on the "Vertebrate evolution" image, the woman is waving.
What are you thinking of?
As far as I recall, the main benefit has been to developer curiosity but I don't know of much impact beyond that. The games that used Id engines like HL or Call of Duty had to license it anyway right and didn't use the open source versions? I don't recall much of a scene around the open source engines unlike the mod scene that used the official game and assets.
Things like Quake2 running on the Quest uses an engine that I think started off with original source but eh, it's not that significant. Q2 was huge to me at the time but I can't muster the enthusiasm to play it in VR. I look at it briefly and I'm done.
There was Quake II RTX created by Nvidia but again, eh. That and Portal RTX did not make a convincing case for ray tracing. They ran like pigs and didn't look terribly good to me.
https://images.theconversation.com/files/551386/original/fil...
From a more accessible article:
https://theconversation.com/ed-balls-and-george-osbornes-new...
The journal article title is "Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants" which is tricky to make into a good HN title.
Something I note from interviews from RTO advocates is that the managerial class has an emotional reaction to WFH. I believe it wounds their sense of status and hierarchy - they resent the "unearned" freedom and comfort of people they have power over. They are not acting for business advantage but from a compulsion for their inferiors to know their place. It's very human sadly.
A side note - I am a little wary at how frequently economic figures have been revised recently. It makes suspicious when people are surprised at good news that seems to go against sentiment. I fear that in a couple of years time, the Fed might discover Dave's spreadsheet included December twice or something.