michaelmarion
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Comment · 3 years ago
...THAT was a big explosion.
Comment · 3 years ago
Specifically, the Masters is the most elite napping weekend of the year.
Comment · 3 years ago
IANAP, but a layman's understanding: the materials that we have available today to conduct electricity at or around room temperatures largely do so in an inefficient manner. As electricity moves through the material, some energy is wasted in the form of ejected heat.
To circumvent this, physicists discovered superconductivity: a state in which a material is a perfectly efficient conductor of electricity. Thus far, to create a superconductive material requires keeping that material at extreme conditions of temperature and pressure.
A room-temperature superconductor is a game-changer because we could get nearly-perfect energy efficient electric conduction without the additional energy overhead it takes to keep the material at such a dense pressure or extreme temperature. Such a material would have wide applications across a variety of disciplines.
Here's a useful article as well: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-2048/26/11/1...
Comment · 3 years ago
Congrats on the launch, guys!
Comment · 4 years ago
Yep—AROSE and then CLINT for me.
Comment · 4 years ago
This. I want an M1 Max in a Mac mini, and especially an Apple-branded display or three that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
Comment · 4 years ago
I agree on the recommendation piece, but Apple’s playlist and library management is atrocious, especially on desktop. Why can’t I drag-and-drop music into a playlist in the sidebar? Apple Music also feels (to me, at least) much slower than Spotify. Most likely this is due to the more aggressive client-side caching that Spotify does, but it’s worth the trade-off, in my opinion.
These are solvable problems for Apple, though. They need to more cleanly separate the legacy iTunes Store and pay-per-song UX from the Apple Music streaming paradigm. Maybe even have separate apps for them.
Comment · 5 years ago
This! If I don’t get exercise in the morning I feel really sluggish in the afternoon. It’s counterintuitive but really helps.
Comment · 5 years ago
As a proud owner of an iPhone mini, I agree with you. I wish this trend towards larger screen sizes would turn around.
Comment · 5 years ago
They really need to unify the design language across all mobile devices. You need to have one iThing that is available the following sizes:
XS — 6.1" (iPhone) S — 6.8" (iPhone Max) M — 8.3" (iPad Mini) L — 11" (iPad) XL — 12.9" (Big iPad)
That's it. Same design language, same thing. Pick your screen size, storage amount, whether you want cellular or just Wi-Fi, and color, and you're good.
This completely unifies everything—iPads, iPod Touches, and iPhones. You could even do a second Pro line alongside this.
I'm sure there are manufacturing difficulties involved here, in addition to having a single chipset that conforms to each size, but this should be getting a bit easier as they move into the M-series architecture. Or you just keep the A-series in the XS and S models and put an M-series chip in the iPad mini eventually.
Comment · 5 years ago
This looks awesome! Hope it works out for you. Could also see this becoming a B2B situation sometime down the road where engineering teams could use this as a knowledge base. That could also be really useful.
Comment · 5 years ago
Can we bring back the time when there was no social media instead? I feel like that's what society desperately needs.
Comment · 5 years ago
I’ve been using Monarch lately and I love it.
Comment · 5 years ago
I already do this with Feedbin and Reeder on macOS.
Comment · 6 years ago
He didn't just contribute the solo—he rearranged part of the song! [1]
> Michael [Jackson] left to go across the hall to do some children's speaking record. I think it was "E.T." or something. So I asked Quincy [Jones], "What do you want me to do?" And he goes, "Whatever you want to do." And I go, "Be careful when you say that. If you know anything about me, be careful when you say, "Do anything you want!"
> I listened to the song, and I immediately go, "Can I change some parts?" I turned to the engineer and I go, "OK, from the breakdown, chop in this part, go to this piece, pre-chorus, to the chorus, out." Took him maybe 10 minutes to put it together. And I proceeded to improvise two solos over it. I was just finishing the second solo when Michael walked in.
> And you know artists are kind of crazy people. We're all a little bit strange. I didn't know how he would react to what I was doing. So I warned him before he listened. I said, "Look, I changed the middle section of your song."
> Now in my mind, he's either going to have his bodyguards kick me out for butchering his song, or he's going to like it. And so he gave it a listen, and he turned to me and went, "Wow, thank you so much for having the passion to not just come in and blaze a solo, but to actually care about the song, and make it better."
I can't think of a more innovative and imaginative musician in history.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2012/11/30/showbiz/music/van-halen-jacks...