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I wish the universe would give me the option not to restart and apply this update right in the middle of a project! It's not like I was working on something or had my browser tabs the way that I like them.

I... I thought we already had dark mode..

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Thermodynamic purists hate this thing!

cranks up music to 999999 dB

The problem with skilled trades is they put you inside a very limited skill box. You're stuck monetizing that trade for decades, with very little business opportunities outside that box. Swings in the economy and your health will not neatly follow this model of one-and-done.

The raw ugliness of their site is reasonable cause to do the exact opposite.

The site is beautiful in that it is fast, flexible across multiple screen shapes, readable, and accessible. If only more web sites would make these choices!

Back when monitors were 4:3 at 640x480, these plain HTML sites were readable and scrollable. It is 2025. Our ultrawide, ultrasmall, ultraresoultion screens make this a chore to read without playing with zoom levels.

What’s a real chore to read are all those “modern” sites with dark gray text on light gray background, 8pt font, and text constrained to a tiny 4inch wide column in the middle of the monitor. The fact that browsers had to all go implement a separate “reader mode” so that web sites can even be readable again is damning.

IMHO, Tesla stubbornly refusing to launch an App store will be seen as is its biggest failure when one of their many competitors finally takes on this challenge. They have millions of iPads bolted onto electric wheels, and for some reason refuse to monetize it.

29 picograms.

Just need to scale it by 1000000000000x to get a money printer.


It’s not even 29 picograms. It’s zero:

> Gold nuclei emerge from the collision with very high energy and hit the LHC beam pipe or collimators at various points downstream, where they immediately fragment into single protons, neutrons and other particles. The gold exists for just a tiny fraction of a second.


Aaaaaaaaand it's gone.

God help us if South Park made a sequel to the bank episode based on this.

A $0.000000003 saved is a $0.000000003 earned!

Are we talking about Bill putting 5G chips in our vaccines, or are we talking about Bill Gates the total asshole[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Treatment_of_collea...


99% of 100B puts him with 1B in wealth remaining in 20 years. Bill will die extremely wealthy by any measure.

That would put him in the ranks of Marissa Mayer, Sundar Pichai, Sheryl Sandberg, Reid Hoffman, Palmer Luckey, Tim Cook, Evan Spiegel.

There are 3 hands on a clock because 4 is too many to be useful and 2 is not quite enough to launch a tactical military strike.

Consider adding logic to test if the bulb is open. That would be a killer feature for sales.

With BLE integration and an app showing you great deals on bulbs.

And also ads for unrelated products down at the bottom of the page in the app.

ads are amateur hour - gotta make it a subscription and really milk those users.

Also offer a lifetime subscription, then the API disappears after 6 months

it's all LEDs now, i would think, is "open" still a thing?

>I consider how someone feels about free school lunch, a basic test of their humanity.

I'll bite (pun alert).

It isn't about free handout, it's about ROI. The valid counterpoint to free lunch for children is any program can become grossly mismanaged because of "think of the children". There are recent stories of unhealthy and expired food being served to children that made them sick. Moreover, what they are getting can be something that puts more bad-calories than good into them (processed, high in corn-syrup). While I agree that no child should go hungry, can you both understand and not disagree this isn't a fire and forget problem? Taxpayers need their hard-earned income only going into high nutrition food; food that will not exacerbate the nationwide obesity problem!

https://www.publicschoolreview.com/blog/expired-food-served-...

https://wchsinsight.org/33581/opinion/school-food-causes-com...

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/childhood-obesity-facts/childhoo...


I'm sorry, I'm all for discretion with what we feed kids, but that is not a valid counterpoint to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are many consistently worse side effects of not giving growing children food that outweigh whatever you think processed food does.

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