Hah, didn't realize Deus Ex had a Morpheus too. Thought I missed a Deus Ex x Matrix crossover.
Was there an alternative dialog line that would let JC agree with Morpheus?
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Was there an alternative dialog line that would let JC agree with Morpheus?
Sorry, wasn't challenging that part, just bringing up an adjacent point. I apologize, I should've been clearer. I definitely believe the difference in reliability and repairability.
> At a 4% interest rate, and .12$/KWh, a modern fridge @450KWh/yr for 10 years costs NPV -$933 for electricity and say -$1000 to buy it. And old fridge @1800KWh/yr for 10 (more) years costs -$1750. So you'd save about $200 with the ancient fridge, not counting having to manually defrost it.
Thank you for doing the math here and making a convincing case for it. That's actually quite a bit better than I thought. However, electricity is already up to .25$/kWh in some states, and probably only going to increase in the years to come as fossil energy becomes scarcer. That changes the math a bit, but not drastically so I suppose. Refrigerators don't use all that much power to begin with anyway, considering the utility you get out of it.
> And before you say it - there is no "repairing over and over". You need to put about that $200 into like it every 20-30 years, every other generation you hand it down to.
Conversely, modern fridges in my experience aren't THAT unreliable either. If something breaks it's usually the ice maker or like a door seal, and many people will just let that stay broken. It's rare to see the actual fridge part break completely... in my very limited experience.
> Still if electricity doubled in cost, or you just like auto-defrost, or live with other monkeys, it's probably not worth it. But the difference isn't "vast". It's pretty negligible because on the whole, fridges don't use a lot lot of power.
Hah, sorry, I see now you've said the same thing.
> Instead of buying a new fridge because I have to, I should buy a new one because it's 2x as efficient and it's a better value proposition when faced with rising power costs. It'd spawn the right kind of obsolescence not fake bad design obsolescence.
This would be nice. FWIW, I know of a company that hand-builds ultra-efficient fridges out of a small town in America: http://www.sunfrost.com/
They're not very big... hard to compare with the mass-manufactured Chinese stuff... but just glad there's SOMEONE out there still making old-world hardware.
If you're 20 and stuck in a dead-end job and horny and partying all the time, maybe a partner would help control those urges and make you both lead more fulfilling lives. Or maybe you'd both accentuate each other's weaknesses and spiral down together into a hellhole of addiction and self-loathing. Who knows?
If you're 40 and relatively established in your life and career, a good partner can do wonders for keeping your life contentment high and your routine healthy. It's good to take a break from work once in a while, and when you return to it, you'll be more rested and motivated. It gives you side benefits to your work too (vacations with your partner, weekend outings, whatever) so that when your work projects aren't going well, you can at least be motivated by those side benefits.
Regardless of your age, being together with the wrong person can drastically fuck up your psyche, especially if there's a lot of drama (insecurities, paranoia) or abuse (emotional, physical, verbal) or trust issues (cheating, control issues), etc. That can be way, WAY worse than being single... trust me, there are worse things than loneliness.
In my very humble opinion as a late-30s millennial, loneliness is best tackled not by a romantic partner but by deep and fulfilling friendships in which you can share both activities and emotional connections and good conversations. That both decreases your tendency to put all your eggs in one basket (becoming codependent on a partner) and also teaches you the day-to-day and emotional framework to learn to work with, not against, your own emotions. It teaches you a bunch of coping strategies when you're feeling down (e.g. doing something fun with a friend that doesn't physically hurt you like partying does), conflict resolution skills, etc. And those same skills transfer over to a good partnership so that if and when you find a good one, you can grow that initial romantic attraction into a lasting and mutually fulfilling partnership, without being overly dependent on that other person to the point of suffocation.
I think there's a mix of conventional wisdom here, from "no man is an island" to "you can't love someone else until you love yourself". I don't think either extreme is true; we are by nature both communal and individualistic creatures, and a healthy social life combined with periods of reflective introspection can give you the best of both worlds. But the modern dating culture -- fast swipes and short stays -- are antithetical to building lasting and meaningful connections. If you can sidestep that urge to date fast and furiously for the sake of sex, and focus on building meaningful friendships and connections instead, romantic or not, IMHO you'll be a lot less lonely over the long run. The best partners are also great friends.
But that's just my perspective. Everyone is different. Some people very much so, if their genetics, culture, upbringing, personality, etc. are drastically different from mine. Some thrive on long periods of hermited productivity. Others need constant social connection. There's no one-size-fit-all approach to this, you just gotta keep testing and evaluating your ideal position on the social spectrum. If you're lucky you'll find a good balance, and with time, the physical brain development and emotional maturity that makes it all more bearable and eventually enjoyable.
One original article from 2008 made the case that they suck up a lot of CO2: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07276 (or https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1038/nature07276)
But this finding was challenged in 2021: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210325150055.h... (or https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/https://www.nature.com/articles/s...)
Edit: Dunno if climate is really the best argument there anyway. The old-growths have high biodiversity value, and are hard to regrow. Carbon is more or less a fungible commodity that can be sunk in a billion other ways.
PS If you ever see something like that on regular Wikipedia, please add the {{Jargon}} tag to it. In theory, at some point, some editor might come and make it better.
I strongly dislike them, personally. If you really don't want to learn native languages, maybe something like React Native would be a better balance. PWAs are just janky.
How does the lidar help with night shots though? Maybe focusing, but otherwise isn't it just a long exposure with algorithmic corrections?
And it's a gimmick because it's a tiny niche of people who do that, and I wish I didn't have to pay extra for a phone for a lidar. Would take a fingerprint scanner any day. Or a headphone jack.
The seek and flir imagers are cool for IR
It looks like something out of a video game dream sequence where your world is falling apart.
Yoi don't get ads if you pay for YouTube, or if you pay enough for most streaming services. Most papers and such offer an ad free subscription tier too. Cancel TV and use YouTube TV if you must.
For Google, there are ad free competitors, or just use ad block.
They'll be around as long as the financial incentives are there. Micropayments failed so many content providers are moving back to pay walls again, whether it's Patreon or adult videos or Steam or whatever. Gotta put food on the table somehow. If you don't want to see ads, just pay for the producers' time some other way.
Honestly the more mature photogrammetry techniques that stitch together multiple photos (from video or 360 shots taken successively) seemed much more impressive. Indeed, you can run most of the same apps with lidar off and still get similar results. There is a lot of depth info when you take pictures from different angles that a smart algorithm can figure out. The lidar adds more hinting but without professional grade equipment, the optical sensors (cameras) are much higher resolution and range.
The lidars on the i devices are cheap gimmicks.
Edit: just to add a bit more detail, lidar basically gets you a point cloud of depth data. The professional ones have big spinning mirrors that blanket the room in a matrix of powerful dots, like a Kinect on steroids. That takes a lot of power and, usually, moving parts.
The iPhone one uses more modern, smaller solid state technology but has a resolution of a few hundred dots and a range of 5m, vs the millions of pixels on the optical camera and a range of however much ambient light you have.
The lidar is an active emitter. It has to produce its own laser light, limited by its emitters and battery, and have a way to scan its emissions across 2d space (x and y axes) or else have a ton of micro lasers in a grid.
By comparison the optical camera is just a passive receiver, accepting reflected sunlight or light from the the weak LED flash. Those light sources are way stronger and more diffuse in terms of range and coverage.
Maybe in a few years the lidar will get better but for now it's just not useful for anything except face ID. Prosumer drones probably have better lidar and also better photogrammetry software.
More deets on i lidar: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/the-technology-behind-t...
Who the hell uses any of that stuff? But it lets them keep releasing new versions and charge huge amounts for new flagships.
Those gimmicks help to prevent the phones from becoming the next race to the bottom that the PC and cheap Android markets have become.
As a society we've normalized individual freedom over collective lives as a new value, something which wasn't true in, say, the WW2 era of collective rationing. Half the country was fine letting millions die because they believed some youtuber on masks and vax.
About electric cars though, case in point, they are a market that people have been clamoring for right to repair on. Not necessarily so they can hack the firmware themselves, but so that they can take it to their local mechanic for repairs instead of the dealership. I understand there is something of a cottage industry of places that can service some Priuses and Leafs etc but some newer cars are too locked down for third parties. That's essentially a DRM thing and hampers innovation in the post sale services sector, anticompetitive OEMs who want to prevent cheaper third party components.