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"In 2019, the onset of the global pandemic brought unforeseen disruption to the market, but the company continued to move forward. However, the subsequent (and enduring) disruption to the supply chain caused by the pandemic proved incredibly difficult and the company engaged in a sales process in November, 2021. The goal was to find a parent for the company and continue to invest in new products and the technology. The process resulted in several interested parties and a sale was expected to be realized in the March timeframe. Unfortunately, that sale did not materialize. Consequently, the company was assigned to a financial services firm in March to optimize the assets of the company.
The pioneering work in smart lighting and world-class products have created an extraordinary following and community. Clearly, all Smartlabs’ employees who have worked so hard to produce such world-class products and technology hope that a buyer can be found for the company."
Personally, I think it's an epic takedown - a master class on how to hold an author accountable and ask that they actually support their arguments with, you know, *facts* and stuff...
- have a Schwartzchild radius (event horizon) of about 22km (= ~13.6 mi for we US Luddites)
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- have a gravitational acceleration (g) at the Schwartzchild radius of ~2 trillion m/s = about 205 billion-with-a-B times Earth surface gravity
So they're small in stellar terms, but you wouldn't want to run your Epstein-drive craft into one by mistake.
https://weibo.com/5673255066/L...
"After nailing the news of the event cancellation, Ice Universe added on Sina Weibo that the AMD GPU [in the Exynos 2200 SoC] is having problems - specifically, heat problems. The target frequency is apparently 1.9 GHz, but companies are currently only seeing reasonable thermals at 1.29 GHz. This is resulting in lots of infighting at Samsung about who dropped the ball."
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My personal laptop's hard drive is highly - obsessively, even - organized. But for something like mail, the laundry basket + good search feels better and more efficient.
As for the AC who thinks "having to search for everything is retarded", how does he deal with a message (or file) whose subject matter legitimately falls into three different categories? Which of the three possible folders does that get dropped into –and will he remember that choice a year later when he goes looking for it?
That's the problem with a directory hierarchy - it forces binary choices, ones that may not be optimal. Something like Gmails labels + search allows a more nuanced and multi-faceted approach that (for me) works a lot better in the messy Real World.
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Then along came Gmail, where all my messages were heaped into one "giant laundry basket" (to use the TFA's phrase), paired with a ridiculously fast and easy-to-use search function. Within a week I realized it was a better and more efficient paradigm and never looked back. I still use Gmail's labels for some things, sure, but don't have any way to know how my messages are actually stored and organized on Google's servers.
It's not a bad thing to understand computer storage and directory structures, just as understanding the basics of how an engine and transmission work together probably makes you a somewhat better and more efficient driver. But if the car is well-designed, you shouldn't need that knowledge just to get to the grocery store.
The Big Space Fuck
https://sensitiveskinmagazine....
(This story made quite the impression on the nine-year-old me when it was published, back somewhere in the Triassic....)
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Whew! Had me worried there.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"