Comment Fusion is always 20 years away (Score 5, Insightful) 75
Seems like a constant.
Comment Re: With great power comes great stupidity. (Score 3, Insightful) 295
How is this different than the public using "household chemicals" like bleach? If used improperly, it could kill you too. Just like canning food at home. Or guns. Or driving a car. Or anything else that we all agree that adults can do even when it's dangerous. Adults makes their own decisions.
If a molecule is simple enough to make, it should not be out of reach of anyone.
Comment Re: Save the environment, cut down all trees (Score 1) 85
This sounds like a bad plan for some reason, but I can't quite put my finger on why.
Comment Re: Of course (Score 1) 70
I remember a friend telling me pre-covid that they would refuse to take a new job with less than 50% WFH, when they already had a job with 20% WFH.
At the time, I thought he was dreaming. But now it's not that difficult to find.
He ended up finding a higher-paying job with 100% WFH in Fintech. He's still there. The WFH is costing the company almost nothing, and has gotten them the loyalty of a highly-skilled worker.
If I got an offer today for another job with more WFH but for slightly less pay per day, I'd seriously consider it. It's so easy nowadays to poach talent this way. And with all the return-to-office mandates, you have a rich pool to fish from.
Comment Re: gee I wonder (Score 0) 118
I keep seeing this bot posting. For points, I guess?
Comment Re: Return to office politics at its finest! (Score 1) 101
To my shock, I found out recently that "working class" means that if you stop working you can't survive. I haven't met anyone rich enough for that. They must be far away from me.
I always used to think I had made it into the middle class...
Comment Flexibility vs. Learning Opportunities - as reason (Score 1) 36
It was nearly alarming for me to read that learning opportunities were much less important than flexibility. In a field driven by knowledge it is really concerning that an employee would rather stay just because they have another day to work from home. 70% vs 44% is crazy for retention.
Submission + - Adobe Unveils Dress That Can Change Its Pattern On the Fly (futurism.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Adobe has unveiled a sparkling, interactive dress — and got the research scientist who created it to model the high-tech couture. Video of the dress debut shows researcher Christine Dierk wearing the slinky strapless number that, upon first glance, looks like the average sequined cocktail dress. With the click of a handheld remote, however, the dress began to shift patterns like something out of a fashion-forward science fiction film. Created under Adobe's "Project Primrose" initiative, this "digital dress," as Dierk described it for the audience at Adobe's MAX conference last week, "brings fabric to life."
"Unlike traditional clothing, which is static, Primrose allows me to refresh my look in a moment," the Adobe scientist said, demonstrating the clothing's capabilities by having its colors go from light to dark in an instant. The digital dress patterns can also, as Dierks demonstrated, be animated, and will even respond to movement — though that last feature appeared glitchy and didn't work at first. The researcher-turned-model also told the hosts of her portion of the convention that she not only designed the dress with the help of her team at Adobe, but also stitched it herself.
While the specs of this particular smart garment haven't been published, the high-tech sequins used for smaller Project Primrose offerings, a handbag and a canvas, were described by Dierks and her co-researchers last year in an article presented at a tech conference. As the article explains, those "sequins" are actually "reflective light-diffuser modules" that use reflective-backed polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLC), which are most often used in smart lighting. Technically, all those sequins are tiny screens.
"Unlike traditional clothing, which is static, Primrose allows me to refresh my look in a moment," the Adobe scientist said, demonstrating the clothing's capabilities by having its colors go from light to dark in an instant. The digital dress patterns can also, as Dierks demonstrated, be animated, and will even respond to movement — though that last feature appeared glitchy and didn't work at first. The researcher-turned-model also told the hosts of her portion of the convention that she not only designed the dress with the help of her team at Adobe, but also stitched it herself.
While the specs of this particular smart garment haven't been published, the high-tech sequins used for smaller Project Primrose offerings, a handbag and a canvas, were described by Dierks and her co-researchers last year in an article presented at a tech conference. As the article explains, those "sequins" are actually "reflective light-diffuser modules" that use reflective-backed polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLC), which are most often used in smart lighting. Technically, all those sequins are tiny screens.
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