Ok, that's cool!

I've been using Jumpcut since 2008 when I switched to macos, and I'm pretty prone to app inertia, but that might actually make me switch. thanks.

I still remember and miss http://bluemars.org/

I discovered so much beautiful ambient music back in the early/mid 2000s.

Much of that baseline test actually comes from Nabokov's "Pale Fire" - which is also the book Joi picks up when she says "do you want to read to me".

Here's his actual keynote speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo

As always, John is a master of communication and clear thought.

Also, Carmack's notes: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ruv739914jzquue/connect2021.txt?dl...

It reminds me of the thread about the Quake 3 bots, who left alone for several years, figured out that the best approach was to not kill each other.

https://i.imgur.com/dx7sVXj.jpg

Without knowledge of their reward function its difficult to tell if they're converged on this strategy or if its just broken.

A station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway...

We laugh, but even Amazon has realized sometimes literally driving drives is the cheapest and fastest way to move serious amounts of data: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

Google Cloud also has an offering here, although it doesn't literally come with its own truck.

https://cloud.google.com/transfer-appliance/

There's an amusing infographic towards the bottom. Only 42 days!

Some exchanges still sell historical tick data by posting over large amounts of HDD/SSD with the data preloaded.

"Why do you need to buy an Audi RS6?"

"Dude, I'm maximizing my data transfer speed"

No one makes station wagons anymore, except luxury european makers :(

Aside from the already-mentioned Subaru Outback, there's the Buick Regal TourX, the Mini Cooper Clubman, and I'll contend that the Dodge Journey is more stationwagon than SUV; it's on the Avenger sedan platform.

There's plenty of used ones available. Nice and cheap.

Subaru Outback’s

In Ubik by Philip K Dick, the door of his apartment won't open unless he pays it five cents each time. Life imitates art.

“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door. “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”

I still hold that the scene where Grant and Sattler first see the Brachiosaur is one of the best acted (and I suppose directed) scenes ever. That subtle feeling of vindication when his theory is proven right against all the critics[1]... "they do move in herds"... and then the sheer wonder and child-like awe of Grant/Sam Neill when he just says, agape "...how'd you do this?" just spellbinds me each time.

I just couldn't imagine having that kind of emotional reponse as a viewer with today's CGI design by committee shitfest that seems to be the norm.

Also, don't forget that the first movie was based (fairly) closely on a riveting book written by a fantastic story teller - that sure helps with telling a good story.

[1] who you don't even know about - its just the way he says it makes you understand that he's been advancing that theory for a long time and facing a lot of criticism for it.

hah, reminds me of http://www.csszengarden.com but simpler.

I would like these themes to go beyond a simple article view. We have tags like <header>, <nav>, <main>, <aside>, <section> and <footer> now. Should be possible to build a complete app-shell with classless CSS.

This is what I expected too. This one has nav, aside : http://classless.de/#extra

Plus a couple bootstrap classes where HTML5 has no elements : grid and card.

As an exercice, I’m building my neighborhood newspaper website without any classes. It is surprisingly easy. With Grid and min(), I don’t even need media queries. CSS and HTML in 2020 is great, if you take the time to choose only the latest solutions.

Have a link to it?

I take it to mean that they're composed well: there's a balanced and sensible spacing/padding, the lines are a good weight, they are easy on the eye, there's a consistent look and feel between all of them etc etc.

For instance, I could mangle some SVG icons and while you could scale them to an infinite size.. you wouldn't want to use them ;)

These look great BTW!

They look great indeed.

That said, some of the icons reminded me of this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22490089