I often wish vehicles were equipped with a regular horn and a "polite" horn. As in "don't mean to be a bother, but the light is green now. Whenever you're done checking your phone is fine."
I would like a polite horn so I can use it ironically.
I love these e-Scooters with their twee little mechanical bicycle bell that sometimes works. I induced some heavy duty road rage in a motorcyclist by ringing his bell.
Man, I wish we didn't have so much plastic, but I do what I can, and that includes never microwaving anything in plastic. If it's a microwave dinner (generally the ones I like are in paper trays) I pop it onto a plate and cover it with a paper towel.
I'm trying to find a solution to my Aeropress that tastes as good. Taking suggestions? (I've tried Chemex and french press, haven't been able to get the same flavor)
> In order to make the buildings look smaller, less intimidating and messy, architects have come up with a "four or six windows in one" solution.
Is there a source for this assumption? "Architects have come up with..." makes it sound like there was an explicit discussion about how to make the building look smaller. A) Why would a Vegas hotel want to look smaller, B) Does it actually look smaller? C) Smaller than what? A building with no windows? A building with too many windows?
I'm not suggesting Architects are getting too much credit. I'm just suggesting, maybe the monster building had a terrible architect(s), and the Vegas buildings didn't use terrible architects.
Brutalism was popular in the 60s. You can see examples around the world. It's not really a matter of being a bad or good architect. It's more of architectural style preferences.
Must be in office. Must work at least 40 hours per week. Eliminated days of rest. As if twitter's problems are caused by "employees not working enough".
Our own applications are hosted on Azure, but we had an outage today anyway. It was because apparently Netlify and Auth0 use AWS and went down, which took down our static sites and our authentication.
The nature of our business means it wasn't a big deal, but I could imagine lots of people were in the same boat.
But the colos aren't usually managed by a single control plane controlled by a single company, so while they can all fail, they will generally do so independently.
Is the light bending around some gravitational point, or is that an* artifact of the telescope itself?
If the former, that is astounding.
Edit: nvm I think I figured it out myself. There are objects next to smeared galaxies that are not distorted. The distorted objects must be behind the gravitational field, and the un-distorted objects in front.
It is a gravitational lens. A massive concentration of matter in between us and the galaxies behind it that bends the light and give us an extra magnification factor. Strange to look at, they can also boost the light gathering ability of the telescope and give us valuable information about the very early universe.
The like / dislike ratio is EXTREMELY useful. I'm very disappointed that they would do this. I expect it will be much harder to avoid useless content with this removed.
It took me a long time but I finally got over the never-ending desire for ever sharper lenses. 50mm is a general purpose lens. Not like macro or super-telephoto. Sharp enough to get the gist of the image without being distractingly blurry is good enough.
