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No revolutions, unless explicitly permitted by the government.
Actually makes me a bit worried given the recent geopolitical development in the world.
Unlike French media, Swedish media does not have a well-developed tradition of confronting those in power and/or demanding accountability.
I often get frustrated by how easily interviewees dodge direct questions by answering something completely different, and get a "thank you" from the journalist in return, instead of a follow-up question.
Sure, technical capabilities are crucial, but don't political and economic factors significantly influence the adoption of the F-35? Factors like strengthening alliances, diplomatic influence, cost sharing, job creation, and export strategies.
My point is: you don't just buy a plane. You buy into an ecosystem where supply chains, political partnership, trade deals and long-term support are just as important. Take away some of that, and I'm sure for a lot of buyers the Typhoon or Gripen suddenly start looking a lot more attractive.
There have been numerous medical and scientific studies with N=1, known as N-of-1 trials. These trials are very useful in chronic conditions where symptoms are stable and measurable, allowing for multiple crossover periods to assess treatment effects accurately.
Also…don't forget all the medical discoveries based on self-experimentation:
Werner Forssmann performed the first heart catheterization on himself. He got the Nobel prize.
Barry Marshal injected himself with heliobacter pylori to prove that it causes stomach ulcers. Also got the Nobel prize.
Jessie Lazear allowed himself to be bitten by mosquitoes infected with yellow fever to prove his hypothesis that mosquitoes were the vector for transmission. No Nobel prize, but he did contract the disease, thus proving his hypothesis…before dying from yellow fever two weeks later.
Even mobile phones! I'm old enough to remember the first "popular" models in the 80's, like the Ericsson Hotline. Sure, the phone might've been cool, but the people using them certainly were not.
Regarding the headset, I have a feeling that the hardware simply might still be far too immature. Imagine if we had the tech to put augmented reality and actually smart/helpful ai tools in the form factor of contact lenses, paired with a reasonable pricetag. I think that would be an instant hit.
Too many "Siri, play my gym playlist" -> "Sure, calling your boss" at 9 pm on a Sunday.
That's not all they want.
Just look at some recent scandals, like Cambridge Analytica. Harvesting and analyzing the right data makes it possible to influence democratic elections and referendums.
Selling you stuff is great, but tricking you to vote for lower taxes for their trillion-dollar corporations or tariffs/other negative effects for their competitors is better.
> the clams are “paid back after three months of work by releasing them to a place from which they will never be caught again”. [---] this is done because they eventually become resistant to contamination in the water.
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/poznan-mussel-water-plant...
> During WWII, British Special Forces considered stuffing dead rats with explosives and dispersing them over Germany. They hoped that the Germans would gather the rats and dispose of them in industrial furnaces, producing tremendous explosions that would cause catastrophic boiler failures.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/oct/27/richardnortontayl...
They required the password to be changed monthly, have at least 10 characters, at least one number and at least one special character. On top of that – they locked out password managers and pasting. "We need to make sure you are the one logging in and not a hacker that hacked your password manager" they explained when I asked.
Out of spite I went for "Password12!" the first month and "Password123!" the month after, at which point I received an email from the IT department explaining to me that my choice of password was endangering the corporations security.
Not really a new project, but parts of the subway in Stockholm are cut and cover. One of those tunnels (from the 1930s) has been leaking in water for some years and is up for a total overhaul, so basically digging up everyting and doing a new cover.
The section is 8 m wide and 925 m long, projected timeline is 6-7 years starting this fall. It will be a massive project, as one of the busiest streets in Stockholm is directly on top of it.
The project's official sites:
https://www.ivlv.org/en/project/legufoam/
https://www.ivv.fraunhofer.de/en/food/pastries/project-leguf...
Strangely, no mention of aquafaba anywhere.
Also, the unbelieveable rendition with David Bowie in Royal Albert Hall in 2006. Bowie singing between the notes but in perfect key, Gilmour's solo grittier than usual.
Very impressive! I loved the hangman game, and the cool graphics. A cool addition for next version would be some kind of visual progress (or anti-progress) where the hangman gets angrier or something like that for every wrong letter entered.
The car game is completely random and non-interactive, right? Perhaps a text box for each car where those placing the bets can add their name/names? Perhaps also some kind of graphic element in the scorecard to the right, something to separate the cars that have finished from the cars still in the race. Also, the race could end after the third car finishes as there is no point really for the last one to keep racing – it already lost! Nevertheless – really liked the graphics and the cool idea, well executed.
The treasure hunt was also really fun, and nostalgic! Only improvement I can think of is to actually see some kind of gold coin or treasure chest in the end, to know how far off I was the times I lost, and as visual confirmation the times I won. But overall, awesome little game.
Three reasons for that:
1) Unlike most other countries, the Swedish dials had the number nine, and not zero, at the end. So "90 000" was considered easy to remember and easy to hit, even in the dark.
2) "90 000" was relatively easy to call by hand using the switch hook, on a telephone without a functioning number plate. (Swedish system had 1 click for zero, not 10.)
3) The statistical probability of a loose contact or some other type of electrical fault producing the sequence "90 000" is small.
I've never tried them on a matte or coated screen though.
How is that surprising? If they are lonely, they are not part of the group and intergroup communication (including shared values, opinions, gossip etc).
The text fails to define "unusual" in a meaningful way other than "not part of the majority". It's like saying "we found that the minority tends to vote differently than the majority".
Make it analog all the way by hooking it up directly to a lathe or milling machine.
Not a couple of years. The Voyagers have been doing around 38 000 mph since the late 1970's. That is rougly 17 km/s. The proposed Interstellar Probe mission aims to do 20 km/s or slightly more. It will take it decades to overtake any of them (no actual overtaking will probably take place though, as its trajectory most likely will be different).
I'm just a happy amateur photographer, but this fact has been annoying the sanity out of me for over a decade now. Mobile phones are taking increasingly large bites out of the camera manufacturers' market share, but companies like Fuji/Canon/Nikon/Olympus, for some unknown reason, are unable to adapt at all. Sure, there is still and will always be a market for larger glass and more pixels, lower noise levels, ergonomics etc. - but why in 2024 GPS, Wi-Fi, uploading to Instagram and similar functions are not standard in ALL cameras is beyond my understanding.
It's like watching the car industry in the early 2000's where manufacturers would pride themselves over finally putting a USB jack in their car.
I guess a lot of the editing has since moved to the photo-taking device (and the early iPhones/iPads lacked the processing power), but is that the cause or effect?
My sample size here is small, but yeah, from my horizon FCP is starting to look abandoned.
It's also not impossible that Apple moves a few of Pixelmator's tools into Photos but kills the rest of it, either actively or just by stagnant development.