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Some people can’t help themselves to read this like a Ouija board.


Corporate statements like these get written very carefully. You can be certain that not a single word in these sentences has been placed there without considering what they do imply and what they omit.


It’s pretty telling that he didn’t rule out using a Ouija board for fully autonomous military drones or mass surveillance.

Real eyes..


but you will have to read it if someone else uses it.


Ironically, this is the only article about musk/twitter on the front-page for me.


This depends on how the meat is frozen. Frozen meat can be more fresh in texture than chilled meat when flash frozen and dethawed immediately before use. The process of slowly freezing food alters the chemical structure, while flash freezing maintains this structure and subsequently the mouth feel and flavor of fresh meat/produce.


> The process of slowly freezing food alters the chemical structure

It's not the chemical structure, it's the physical structure. Slow freezing causes large (relatively) ice crystals, which are more likely to break cell walls than smaller ice crystals. Those broken cell walls result in more moisture loss when cooking, and a different texture when thawed.


And the difference is striking. I had some steaks from a freshly slaughtered cow not too long ago and despite being at best choice grade it tasted better than some prime steaks I’ve had.


What about vacuum sealing? Does that make a difference?


Can anyone shed light into what makes this difficult? I'd love a matte black mac, but I can't imagine this research is more than A/B testing.


It's not paint. It's build directly into the anodized finish, using nanotubes. (Kinda vaguely like what Vantablack does.) So you get a get a really deep black, not just a dark gray, and it will be very durable.

It's not exactly earth-shaking. It's just coloring a part, after all. But there's some materials science research going on, not just marketing.


The only schools with religious ed are religious schools. Do you think this would be a general fix?


Religious ed in public schools is quite common in many countries, including most of Europe.


I always thought those "factoids" were silly. There's a massive bandwidth difference between a few clicks and instant recollection.


I'd assume in any situation where a swat team is necessary, 5 minutes of triage would drastically decrease effectiveness.


Ok that still lands on the police force, as they're the one's to determine that a SWAT team is required.


Well, I can't argue with that. Everybody loves free murder delivery, right?


Star Trek predicted automatic sliding doors and flat screen TVs


Apparently not the automatic sliding door.

Star Trek the original series 1966.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_door

“In 1954, Dee Horton and Lew Hewitt invented the first sliding automatic door. The automatic door used a mat actuator. In 1960, they co-founded Horton Automatics Inc and placed the first commercial automatic sliding door on the market.[4]”

And not just flat panel displays, but capacitive touch screens.



The portable data "tapes" are similar to the much-later 3.5" diskettes.


I hope some day we invent Tricorder as well!


I wish. Our smartphones would be halfway there if manufacturers could be bothered to include a few more sensors.

Alas, I don't see tricorders happening soon, because they're "action movie" tools. That is, looking from economical and social POV, almost every use case for a tricorder would be better handled by a team of specialists with heavy equipment, and not in a hurry. Real life is boring this way, and technology in the real world isn't about empowering indivduals - at least not in any way that conflicts with the mundane.


There was a $10m XPRIZE for a Tricorder[1] and they awarded a $2.6m prize to Final Frontier Medical Devices in 2017 [2]. We're getting closer.

[1] https://tricorder.xprize.org/prizes/tricorder [2] https://tricorder.xprize.org/prizes/tricorder/articles/famil...


Is that book still relevant? It says it was written in 1998.


sort of. I doubt it covers GPUs, but it covers hardware performance in a way that you would be abble to understand how to utilize GPUs.


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