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As a small note, IP67 sealed connectors vary greatly in price, with excellent high pin count options like the Ecomate Aquarius line being in the low tens of dollars. The Deutsch/Amphenol AT automotive connectors are also very cheap yet provide a watertight seal.

Promin Aerospace, a Ukrainian company founded by a friend of mine, has been working on the same technology. Interesting to see this take on it though, it's an idea that seems almost too fantastical to work.

Roblox is likely one of the closest things to an actual "metaverse" that exists right now. An extensible world, where anyone can add/program in locations and experiences, is the truly transformative part of media like Ready Player One.

I had the exact opposite experience moving from Canada to San Francisco. While wages are much higher, the cost of living is not even comparable - anecdotally much, much higher in SF than either Toronto or Vancouver (both of which I have lived in). Healthcare has been a horrible experience here too, with Kaiser putting my through endless levels of bureaucracy in an effort to avoid paying for my medication.

I took Lukas Chrostowski's silicon photonics design course back when I was studying at UBC and it was one of the most interesting courses I ever participated in. We designed and actually did tape out for multiple projects like DBR resonator cavities, which was an incredible experience. For anyone intetested in the field I recommend his book Silicon Photonics Design: From Devices to Systems.

I used to go to vice a lot for news, but over the past 2 years the article feed has been flooded with a huge quantity of low quality, low effort content. A significant amount of the stories are either affiliate link compilations (hottest new vibrators!) or horoscopes (which occasionally make up the entirety of the first ~10 elements in the "latest news" section).