Where does this fall on the hazardous/toxicity scale? What kind of off-gassing/risks are there, especially compared to existing high resolution powder based systems?
Disclaimer: I don’t know much about this field, this may be a dumb question.
Much safer than existing powder-based systems. The feedstock is effectively water based so none of the flammability risks of metal powder. No special gases required, no high powered lasers or thermal processing sytems.
That being said it still is an industrial process and requires responsible handling of the feedstock and equipment to ensure safety to personnel and the environment.
Metallic ionic solutions are usually strong acids. They are made by dissolving metal in sulfuric or nitric acids. Looks like they are using copper sulfate as the electrolyte. After the copper is deposited you are left with sulfuric acid.
Does anyone know of any good reading material / papers on effective road maintenance and construction? Asphalt quality, longevity, cost, processes, success stories, etc. Cold weather climates would be a bonus.
Not really what you're asking for, but Sacramento's "Fix 50"[0] project is a currently ongoing development project where I can offer some commentary as a citizen who has no knowledge or expertise in this field.
In total honesty, I'm challenged in seeing how there was much in the way of due safety planning performed.
In certain framings, accidents and deaths have more-than doubled during construction[1]. The extreme amount of hyperfocus one (and all the other drivers around them) has to exercise in order to cope with the super-confusing lane changes and dodging other drivers not paying attention to the partial repavement lines completely deviating from the actual lanes, and short ramps, (and much worse when driving against the sun) is mind-boggling and renders the local headlines (even if sensationalist) unsurprising.
Everything that I've seen actually speaks to the company value of transparency not being a hollow corpo-speak but the actual reality. Fastest "yep, gotta apply" here I've every done.
I had no idea the same people behind Wordpress were behind WooCommerce and Jetpack AND Tumblr. What a wild amount of productivity in one place! Keep up the excellent work.
Really wonderful. I’m working on a ~relatively~ large web app and I just wrote drag and drop off as an option for form construction and report building, but this may put it back on the table. Thanks a lot!
I did notice some pretty intense issues using the examples on mobile. Is that just an issue with the examples, or is it something more foundational?
It would be great to grab some details. Probably easiest to track if you head over to the Github repo and raise an issue as we have a bug template which helps us gather the information we need to action things
Yeah, this is very confusing to me. The examples barely function on an iPhone. Is it just this specific implementation or is it a foundational issue with the library?
I sat behind a department head of theirs on a plane once. He was ranting to the flight attendant about how inefficient their baggage storage solution was because of how he had to check his carry-on. The flight attendant very calmly said "That's an interesting idea, sir." as he was mid diatribe about the lack of integrated sensor technology in overhead bins. He ended with a "I'm going to Tweet about this, this is totally ----ing unacceptable." A few minutes later he stood up to take pictures of the overhead bins and the flight attendant made sure he had a good clear view. "Let me help you, gotta get a good pic for the gram". Mr. Humane, with all the indignant condescension he could muster, said "Uh, it's for Twitter, not Instagram." Flight attendant responded "Ooh, Twitter, my apologies." I found the tweet while waiting for take off. I wonder if he ever got around to disrupting the space.
This is what I get for connecting in San Francisco. The flight attendant did give me a dozen packs of those little ginger-snap cookies, though, so I may be biased.
Would that be this guy? I was laughing at his tweet yesterday where he asserts that all the negativity around their bad product is our lack of "optimism"
edit: not sure if the previous comment was edited or I imagined it said it was their marketing guy before, but I'm editing his name out of the comment to not potentially tarnish his search engine results
I feel for the guys at Humane, it was my first thought after seeing mrwhosetheboss and MKBHD.
It's probably terrible, but oh so hypocritical. I can think of many occasions in the last 15 years these reviewers have cited the potential of gimmicks and latched on to the manufacturers promise to improve.
Would you happen to have any examples showcasing their hypocrisy?
Though hyperbolic, I thought the reviews were balanced. Products shouldn’t primarily be built on hype and optimism, they should fulfill a job to be done. The software for AI Pin will improve but so will AI capabilities for smartphones in parallel.
I don't disagree with you on the review being balanced overall or having merit. It's more the framing, very hyperbolic as you say. They all have "worst product ever reviewed" in the title perhaps it's the only way to stay relevant to the algorithms these days.
Don't have time to go look for one. But can think of many occasions they'd mention the manufacturer has promised to update and improve this and then give them a free pass on whatever gimmicky aspect of the product they're looking at, usually software. Overlooking that aspect rather than lambasting them.
I mean perhaps a slight stretch, but their coverage of the Apple Vision Pro, have they had much reason to use it, aside from the demos? There's also some UX issues mentioned but they're given a free pass as they expect Apple to improve it with time.
They'll say "not there yet" rather than "worst product ever".
I returned my AVP but these things don’t happen in a vacuum. Humane is a company that might not exist in 6 months whereas Apple has a proven track record on iterating and improving on the devices they release. The Apple Watch Series 0 is a good example of this IMHO.
I’m not saying the AVP will fix all its issues but it is so much more impressive than a cellular device hooked up to OpenAi’s APIs.
Also, let’s not forget that Humane wasn’t even planing to use AI for their product until the last year or two when AI took off. Maybe you can say it was a smart pivot but to me to reeked of just jumping on the AI bandwagon (which, does make some sense I’ll grant you).
He seems like a guy super invested in changing our trajectory from techno-dystopia to techno-utopia. I really respect that shining optimism, but it may have gotten in his eyes a bit with Humane.
Charging customers full price, including a monthly subscription, for a product that he admits is "not where it needs to be — full stop" seems more techno-dystopian than techno-utopian to me.
Should a marketing person be “full stop”-ing the criticism of the product? Yes, I get it’s an affinity exercise, but one I don’t think marketing should be doing unless there’s something tragically wrong about it.
If I was working on the product, I’d probably feel okay full stopping. If I saw the person representing us full stopping Id probably think something like hey, nobody died here. And also I feel like a full stop is reserved for maybe one or two people at a company.
add to that, making an obviously inferior first gen product, so that they could sell you a "new and improved" second gen and get you on an upgrade cycle for this completely extraneous thing that costs as much as a phone (that it will never, ever get rid of)
They have been serving those on airlines for a while now. A solid choice. Hopefully a 'BuyItForLife' kind of choice for the airlines.
Wonderful on planes and wonderful at home. Also great when dunked in milk. Make sure you let a small bit (or one whole) 'accidentally' fall off into the milk and rescue it later. Hmmm....
You can buy them in stores. Be warned though that eating them too often can ruin them. They're an awesome random treat but a little much when you have a whole package of them. Learn from my mistakes.
It's actually a specialty from belgium / north of France called speculoos, biscoff being just a brand of that type of biscuits that managed to export them worldwide.
In the north of France where I lived for a while, it's an absolute staple akin to what peanut butter is to an american maybe or Matcha to a Japanese. Speculoos butter is spread on bread, lots of pastries are speculoos flavoured etc.
When you’re in SF, you can go to the Pier and there’s a little coffee shop near the entrance near the aquarium-Biscoff Coffee Corner—where they will serve you one with every coffee drink you buy, unprompted.
In truth the coffee there ain’t great, and the prep is a bit hit or miss, but the folks behind the counter are nice, and you can buy all of the cookies and cookie butter you could want; but it’s probably best not to overdo it. I think they even have a cookie butter latte but never tried it since that sounds too sweet.
Right? You're hurdling through the sky at 600mph in a vehicle which is safer than driving a car, at a cost less than a half-week's pay for the median income in the US. This is still utterly magical, even if we don't seem to care any more.
I remember the first few times I flew a plane, I simply stared in awe out the window for the entire flight. I remember telling myself "No matter how many more times I fly, I must never forget how amazing this feels", and I like to think that I've kept that amazement alive even though I've probably flown over a hundred times now.
The stunning "gotcha" of this witch hunt (undoubtedly brought on by his proximity to individuals that the author doesn't like) is that Andrew Huberman was a bad boyfriend, weirdly flaky in his social life, and not an expert in all of the 100s of topics he discusses on his podcast (usually discussed with actual experts in the topics).
Okay...
Listen, if we stopped deriving information, education, or entertainment from people who have weird personal flaws, we would not read books, go to school, listen to music, or watch movies. Or have friends. What a silly article.
I've listened to a few episodes of the podcast, and enjoyed them, but I think he sometimes acts as though he is a model of how to live a healthy, well balanced life, and this article is a pretty convincing account that he isn't.
Did people expected him to be some kind of ultra healthy, jacked up, Buddha-Christ figure in his daily life?
Of course he has flaws, he is human.
And his personal life is his personal life. Writing a news profile about his would be as moral or relevent as some newspaper writing one about yours or mine.
I'd be actually concerned about his public function: about how he sells some new "scientific" lifestyle advice every week, an endless cycle of shallow unsettled science, bro advice, fads, and basically selling hope.
> but I think he sometimes acts as though he is a model of how to live a healthy
I think he more often tells listeners that x is the findings and suggests behavioral changes. Its hard to count the number of times his message comes across as "model your protocols after me".
Disclaimer: I don’t know much about this field, this may be a dumb question.
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