theshadowknows

100% - even annoying "promotional" email blasts. I've worked for companies where, when we did surveys, customers overwhelmingly said that we sent them too many emails or that the emails were not relevant. Yet time and time again we would do a bulk email send and watch in-store sales climb up proportionally. So naturally then we had to make email address a required field when making an account online. One more step for users, and specifically something that most users don't want to give...but the money says otherwise.

My understanding of the automotive industry is that they cut corners everywhere they can because they know it’ll save more money than a lawsuit or recall will cost. Do they do these things and when someone dies or raises a stink only then do they do the recall.

is the last layer turtles?

So...I'm sure I'm not alone when my first thought was "big deal" but then I thought about it and I'm thinking there's two main issues here:

1. we don't want it there and they didn't ask permission or give a way to remove it

2. a tiny orange dot on a monitor will turn into a basketball sized orange ball on a big professional display

am I getting the right idea?

I mean…isn’t that exactly what the government _would_ say if these devices actually were working? /s, obviously

Also iCab which at least let’s you use the new engine. I don’t think the other browsers even allow that.

Thanks for the recommendation consider it done :)

Wow, and here I am dropping cash on weed and shrooms like a chump. I’ll be honest, this strikes me as similar to the whole binaural sounds thing…I tried that way back in high school and got nothing from it but my friend swore it was elevating. I won’t knock it, I’m sure some people really do get something out of it and who and I to say otherwise. I might even try it some time. But shrooms haven’t ever let me down. So at least I’ve got a backup

Depending on how clear of a display you want, a projector may be a good option.

We have a small shelf in our bedroom with an Apple TV, a HomePod mini, and a $90 projector from Best Buy. It projects to the large wall across the room from our bed and is perfect for night time or late evening viewing. I’m sure you could put together a similar system using either SD cards or streaming from your Plex or whatever media server you use.

The very first website I ever saw was at my cousin’s house during a visit for Christmas. They had just recently “gotten the online” and he was showing me his favorite site which was an Oprah talk show discussion forum. At first I was like “wow this is stupid” but then he told me that there’s discussions for “almost everything” and that you’re talking to people all over the world…now I was from a town of about 10,000 people or so and had probably met a thousand people total in my lifetime if that (I think I was 8 or so at the time) so it was mind boggling to me to have the ability to just talk to someone on the other side of the world just by clicking a few icons on a computer screen…I was hooked immediately.

Flash forward years and years and so far I just have not sensed the same magic and awe with things like blockchain “stuff” but it may be that I’m not allowing myself to be mentally agile and open (I’m willing to admit it’s a possibility, at least).

You could however nest horizontal and vertical marquee to make a diagonal marquee :)

For my very first interview I was told “write something in php” so I put together a few scripts to parse templated txt files into html and made a little baby version of a cms. Wasn’t exactly scalable or ground breaking but I thought it was cool. But the engineer that interviewed me was like so this imports text files and it took you all afternoon to build it? …didn’t get that job.

So the next one was pretty similar “hey use this language called Sikuli to build something.” Now, I’d never heard of Sikuli but it was basically python so I built a little app that, based on the screen, could offer up context sensitive hotkey chains…kind of like a baby version of Alfred that literally only worked with Microsoft office. But the guy thought it was cool and hired me anyway :)

Went from working in a gas station over night to working in my kitchen or the coffee shop. I thought it was sooooo cool

Yeah that’s what I’m understanding now. Really would have been amazing if it were possible. If you’ll indulge me, is there some theoretical technology that could enable such a breakthrough or is it so far from possible that it’s not even feasible for some reason?

When I first heard about the Theranos meltdown I was so sure that Holmes was a victim of big pharma trashing her name and her company. But man..as the story unfolds in front of us that is obviously not the case. I’m pretty bummed about it because I was really excited a few years ago when the company was so hot. Hopefully some of their tech or ideas are solid and someone really can build on them to make good healthcare products for people.