Plenty of the content producers I watch upload in 4K. I do, as well. 1080p is really amateur-hour these days and it's time to move past that. My Macs and PC are connected to 3 4K displays, so I prefer to pull video in at its max resolution. And even if your screen isn't 4K native, watching a video in 4K will give you a much cleaner result due to scaling.
If you can't tell the difference, all good. I can, and appreciate it. Thus: Chrome.
It is especially good when consumed in a sandwich with lots of bacon! The polycarbonate substrate is a little hard to digest though, and you have to make sure you chew REALLY REALLY well or the sharp edges will poke holes in your stomach and intestines
I've found the solution for that is to add more bacon and make sure it's extra greasy. It helps encapsulate the substrate and it sliiiiiiides right down much more easily.
Try that and lemme know.
The media keys don't work universally across all sites. The same can be said for Chrome, but there are plugins for Chrome that fix it. Firefox? Not so much. At least not on the Mac.
For better, for worse: Chrome is the best browser for my use cases.
I want to like Safari as a Mac user, but until I can consume 4K (or higher!) YouTube videos with it, it's a non-starter. As for Firefox, its handling of media keys on the keyboard is very bad, and doesn't allow proper plugins to fix that. So, that's out as well.
Chrome does what I need it to do so I'm going to keep on using it.
Introverts can find working at home too isolating as well. I'm only mildly introverted so I was OK for a while, but then I started missing being around people even if not interacting on the project.
I think you have to be careful of your generalizations there. For instance, I'm not "mildly introverted" as you put it. Rather I'm completely off-the-fucking-MB-charts introverted. Because I don't rank high enough to have my own office at work, I'm inevitably stuck in a soul-sucking/energy-depleting cubicle environment. Or even worse: an open office.
Thankfully I've been 100% WFH since June of 2019. And I'm thriving! I've never been happier or more productive at work.
Ultimately, I think the best overall solution is as others have suggested: flexibility. For those hyper-introverted: let them WFH permanently. For others, a sliding scale as they (not the employer!) need for their own sanity and productivity.
I do believe that by the time we get to 2021, the likes of GOOG and FB will re-visit their "WFH until 2021" statement. They're going to check the general productivity levels of their employees, and likely extend that to "permanent". The next step: start shrinking office holdings significantly. No company wants to be in the real estate business if they avoid it. Specially in Silly Valley! The cost savings from taxes, insurance, and other OpEx could be huge.
You simply can't account for every road imperfection unless you have a self-leveler on the light reflector that reacts within microseconds. Bumps in the road will still cause flares, and it's not realistic to think anything can actually be done about them. As far as inclines, those are handled by the cut-off in the lamp reflector (my first suggestion).
This is one of the very few times I'll suggest the government can help. Yes, here in the US we do have laws surrounding light beam patterns and whatnot, but they're VERY lax in comparison to the ECE/European laws. The beam pattern in your typical Euro-spec vehicle has a very sharp horizontal cutoff on driver's side reflector, which is meant to prevent blasting light into other drivers' eyes. This for drivers in front of you, and oncoming. If you've ever looked at an ECE-spec dipped beam pattern shown on a wall, you'd understand what I mean. It's literally a straight, horizontal line. About mid-way across the passenger's side light, it flares up wickedly, in order to help the driver read street signs and whatnot.
Very effective. In fact, it's so effective that you actually can run much brighter dipped bulbs in them without glaring or dazzling other drivers.
The other thing the government could go a long way in helping is to force 13.5V during the testing. Look at the voltage of your car's electrical system when it's running. Rarely is it sitting at 12V. It's usually 1 to 1.5V higher. But the OEMs test at 12V. How does this affect aftermarket LED capsules? A bit. If an OEM is forced to test their entire lighting system at 13.5V, it may show some of the weaknesses of their reflector setup, forcing them to make adjustments. This would have a benefit when dummies put a light source inside the capsule that it wasn't designed to handle.
because there is no shortage of applicants for that position.
Name one... just one company that you think can do it, and I'll explain to you why you're so very mistaken.
It's not as easy as you might think to run the single most important database on the entire Internet. Think about it for a moment and you'll realize that I'm not exaggerating with that statement, either.
Seriously. Everyone should go purchase a Ring, get it on your home network but NOT on your door. Somewhere in a closet or in a basement with a light shining on it. Together we'll find the epitome of goatse photos and aim all of our Rings at that. And just leave it there.
That's also happening. In fact Ubi is taking a bunch of steps in the next week or two outlined here:
I have a late 2018 and I'm becoming accustomed to typing on this keyboard. It's sub-optimal, I'd say. Definitely not one of my favorite set of keys to be banging out long dissertations on. What I abhor, however, is the sheer size of the trackpad. It's... like... WAY too fricken large. I understand that having plenty of space on the trackpad makes navigating mouse-driven applications easier. But the damned thing takes up almost half of the surface the keyboard is on. And that's ludicrous. The surface of the trackpad is perfect. The functionality of it is fantastic. Please Apple: reduce it back to its previous size!
(I know they'll never do that).
The same carriers that might also be providing these companies their Internet services (assuming US-based)? If so: disco the Internet service and force the companies to iterate on that. They'll figure out a way around it (mobile hotspots) until the carriers discover that: terminate. Iterate.
This isn't a hard problem to solve, it's a political and management one.
But on the topic, it was my understanding that even if an atmosphere could be generated, solar wind would strip it away without a magnetic field to shield it, and speaking of which, even if you did have a warm, breathable atmosphere, it still wouldn't stop the solar radiation from messing you up in all sorts of ways.
Mars does have a magnetosphere, but it's super-weak as compared to Earth's because it no longer has an active dynamo to keep it going. I'm not sure the "new" atmosphere would vanish immediately, but yes: it would be in serious risk. Also, as you point out: the solar radiation would still cook us alive. "Really bad sun burn" doesn't begin to describe it.
Are you doing something productive or just contributing to global warming because you want to see the world burn?
The amount of electricity I'm using in my house for computers/related hardware is nearly nothing compared to the electricity I'm using to keep my home cool during Virginia summers (or warm during the winters). And that "keep the house cool" has nothing to do with the computers running, either (before you go there). Sitting mostly idle, the machines are sucking down so little power it's basically a wash. The moment I'm ready to use any of them, they're ready to go without any of the accompanying hibernation/sleep bugs that plague all operating systems.
My Windows 10 rig (like my Windows 8 before it, and 7 before it, etc) stays running 24/7/365 unless power becomes a thing, or maintenance is required. I don't hibernate/sleep/etc it, either. It just stays running.
Same with my servers in the basement.
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