I'm a big fan of what DanceSafe has been doing, although their reagent test kits are extremely expensive considering how cheap they are to manufacture. Their Marquis reagent costs $20 plus shipping and consists of 2 drops of formaldehyde in 3ml of sulfuric acid. Tremendous margins for a group that should want everyone and their grandma to have a testing kit.
Does anyone have any experience managing engineers that are actively working on changing the way the company does business? Curious if engineers that excel at doing what they're told would get more done in the same amount of time.
They may have done something like that, other packages could easily have slightly different wording, font use, or layout structure. Without having access to all of the samples it's impossible to know if their packages differ or are all the same.
Which jetpack gets 20min of flight time? Modern jetpacks get 30 seconds of flight time. The 20min flight sequences are actually lots of extremely short flights edited together to look like a single extended flight.
When are they going to genetically modify something (yeast, kombucha, etc.) to produce a more unanimously enjoyable psychedelic like MDMA? The inevitable unpleasant mushroom trips will really screw up any ratings system these guys employ.
You can speed this process up by gently scrubbing with Dawn dish soap and lots of regular water, as long as you keep it wet. The key is to thoroughly rinse everything with distilled water before anything starts drying off.
The saddest part of this is facing the harsh reality that Jeopardy cannot exist without Alex Trebek. The only hope for future episodes is an AI reproduction of Alex Trebek that's been well trained on his past shows.
The funny thing is that cellphones have gotten slim to the point that adding replaceable batteries and upgradable RAM wouldn't make them ridiculously thick or heavy.
RIP the removable battery. Apparently the massive consumer demand for phones with low Z-heights has made replaceable batteries an impossibility and that's that. Same story for laptops. It's a only a matter of time before Tesla and other electric car OEMs realize they can force customers to buy new cars by making their batteries irreplaceable. All they need to do is build the batteries into the frame in such a way as to slim the cars profile and consumers will be fine with it. Something like a disposable low-profile Tesla Fiero with a 3-4 year maximum lifespan will quickly become the unavoidable reality car makers have always wanted to impose on the consumer.
It's amazing how prevalent the Rubik's Cube was for a while back in the 80s-90s despite the fact that the vast majority of them just ended up sitting on shelves. Statistically only 1 out of every 20 Rubik's Cube owners can actually solve the puzzle[0] that took Rubik himself an entire month to solve.
[0]https://www.ontheclock.com/Blog/Business-is-like-a-Rubiks-Cu...
The advent of touchscreen technology and its subsequent ubiquitous adoption replacing physical controls of all kinds across devices of all kinds is easily the single most ruinous thing to happen to UI in the modern history of design.
Car radios in GTA never have on-the-fly volume control. When you're doing shit in GTA and you feel the need to bump the radio at a higher volume it's a big pain in the ass to actually do it. I've put together a dedicated stereo system so I can turn up the volume with a physical knob but it would be a lot nicer if this could be done natively with the PS4/PS5/PS6 controller. Ramping up just the radio volume in real time with a swipe on the touchpad would be a massive improvement.
Syringes, urine cups, stool sample collection cups, catheters, condoms - these days nobody wants to go through the hassle of washing and sanitizing certain items for reuse. A single-use plastic ban would make dealing with biohazards an energy and chemically intensive cleaning nightmare.
Keeping college separate from the world at large is a good idea. Back when Facebook was exclusive to people with university '.edu' email accounts there was a massive shitstorm when everything got opened up to the general public. All of the sudden pictures of students drinking and doing drugs were visible to potential employers, non-students and the 'real world'. It seems that this new Facebook for universities won't have the same problem as it's not going to be merged back with regular FB.
That's where AR will shine. Having AR built-in to every window in a car will allow everything from safer driving directions to targeted advertising and real time environment beautification. Random roadside billboards will be replaced with extremely relevant targeted ads(gas ads when you need gas) and sprawling homeless encampments will be transformed into beautiful make-believe landscapes according to preselected themes. Things like crash avoidance will become more interactive with preemptive crash avoidance maneuvers being displayed in the driver's normal field of view.
Curious how Cyberpunk 2077 will deal with first person POV problems like taking cover behind objects or going up a steep incline. Good open worlds have so much going on that it's usually much more efficient to view them through a big picture 3rd person POV. A dedicated 'real life' point of view like the one that Cyberpunk 2077 has adopted reveals only a fraction of the context that can be gained from the same scene viewed from a 3rd person POV.
Kids are never going to be happy with just assembling the bricks into the Star Wars configuration outlined in the directions. Initially it's a challenge to put kits together according to the plans but once they're built any clever kid is going to mod them and eventually dismantle them and use the parts for something new entirely. That said, there are the Technics kits which have functional components that are largely useless outside of their intended configuration unless you have a massive amount of gears and spare pneumatic parts.
Alchemy wasn't scientifically disproven until the 19th century, so Newton had no choice but to explore it. If transforming base metals to gold was scientifically plausible and illegal(as it was in Newton's day) most of us on this board would be chasing after it at full speed right now.
The GoW games on a PS2(console, not emulated) are amazing, especially considering it's a 20 year old system. I still prefer them to the newer GoW on PS4.
If they'd contracted it out they wouldn't be in this mess. A cable laying company leaving drilling fluid out doesn't make headlines unless it's named Facebook.
President Trump is famous for boasting about how he only sleeps for 4 hours. He claims that reducing his sleeping time down to 4 hours took a tremendous amount of willpower and effort.