the_real_sparky

I have a proposal for you: Take back the k from the marketers.

Define: k = multiple of 1920x1080 pixel count

1920x1080 ~= 2M pixels = 1k 2560x1440 ~= 4M pixels = 2k 3840x2160 ~= 8M pixels = 4k

So now 1440p = 2k, and k becomes meaningful. Problem solved!

It also gives a solution for ultrawides like 7680 x 2160p, which are 8k.

More interestingly, “8K” TVs now become 16k TVs, which marketers should like. We’ve come full circle! Now the k nomenclature also gives you an idea of how difficult that 16k display will be to drive with a video card relative to your existing monitor.

Maybe Elon can have x.x.x

Isn’t it interesting that the more technology people have, the less they understand how it works?

The profit motive for business is to make things easier to use, but ironically that also makes it less likely for anyone using it to have any idea how it actually works. The reason most of us are here is because we had to struggle and learn in order to get computers to work. I don’t think as many kids today will have that opportunity, which probably means that we’ll have more people who use technology but less of them capable of creating it.

The 2’s adaptive transparency is a huge step up from the 1.

I see nobody around me at concerts wearing AirPod Pro 2s, even though they are undoubtedly the best musical experience you can have without destroying your ear drums (in the adaptive transparency mode).

I expect that one day I’ll go to a concert and everybody will be wearing them. Hopefully with a synchronized ultra-low latency broadcast option direct from the house mix (hint hint to any Apple employees) to deal with the garbage sound at some areas in arenas.

Adoption of new hardware seems to always be very slow, then all at once.

This is the way - the Direct Primary Care model. Find the smartest DPC doc that you can and you will be free from so much of our broken system.

See my nearby comment on Direct Primary Care. It is possible to partially opt out of the system, and fortunately it is the part of the system that you touch most often (or should be anyway).

The Direct Primary Care model shows that the overheads for healthcare are definitely a very large contributing factor to high costs and poor patient experiences. Cutting out the insurance company and related overheads from the medical practice, lab tests, and pharmacy creates an incredible experience for the patient at a very reasonable cost. I was and continue to be baffled at the attention I receive under a DPC physician, as well as how low the associated non-subscription costs are (effectively zero with the elimination of urgent care and expensive tests). The doctors and staff at the DPC practice are all happy and stress-free. Our system is definitely broken.

Better Candy Crush than slot machines?

For a friendly (to UPS) payment of $5.99, UPS America will happily deliver your package to a nearby location.

The worst part is that if you just want the package held at the hub in advance then it’s still $5.99 now, even though they didn’t have to actually deliver anything! It’s crazy.

So just wait. I’m sure UPS Norway will soon be coming for your money too.

I have been responsible for maintaining many thousands of pages of documentation with a dozen+ staff, and can say that at least for my industry there is often no hierarchy that fits every use case. Then consider that your documentation references dozens or hundreds of other pieces of external industry documentation, and now you have a real mess. That’s before we even get into the ERP system and all the relevant material specifications and such that’s stored away in there.

I do think LLMs will eventually be the solution to this long-standing problem. Even if you could ask questions and it would do a general summary for it and then point you in the right directions for more details we’d be way ahead.