We were there a few weekends ago. The C&H exhibit had quite the crowd!
It is largely a collection of original strips. You won't see anything new or original, that is not in one or more of the books. But it is interesting to see his process, to note where he made mistakes, to listen to everyone chuckle at one strip or another, and to see the progression of the characters and artist as you walk through the lifetime of the comic.
Hi 76j67kj67k67, I'm matthiaswh. I use the nub every day and admire its ease of use and precision. In fact, I like it so much I went out and bought a separate keyboard with its own nub that I can use when the laptop is docked.
Now you know someone.
P.S. The drift usually happens when you hold the nub in a particular direction for too long, or on occasion if the screen is pressing on it when closed. It's irritating, but can often be addressed (although some models are worse than others).
I feel this way at times too, but the ability to sync state really is key. Traditional native desktop apps rarely had to consider this because users would only ever interact on one device. Now users are moving between a computer and a phone, if not more devices.
If I were to frame it succinctly I would say applications = local-only which is distinct from local-first.
Agreed but even data sync wasn't unheard of before everything became a "web application."
I mean not to get really low level or abstract, but there's a reason that operating systems have the concept of a virtual file system. Where and how your data is persisted is something that can be abstracted from the rest of the system. Add CRDT or another conflict resolution solution to that layer and, I don't want to pretend that it's simple, far from it ... but it's not new tech is all I'm really saying.
Distributed systems were a very hot topic in the 90s. We even went through one very awkward and short-lived fad where we toyed with the idea of having a single application distributed across a network of computers ... not to persist data across multiple systems per se but for computation performance. This entire concept got abandoned when people realized how unnecessarily complicated it was (all cost / very little reward). But it was a thing for a while.
Even RAID distributes data persistence across physical devices and needs to care about data integrity as a result.
It just seems like the longer I'm in the industry, the more I realize that there is very little that is actually new ... despite the fact that we have a large number of enthusiastic young software developers who are looking at these concepts with starry eyes and youthful ignorance because they weren't around decades ago when this stuff was being researched, developed and experimented with.
Installing heat pumps doesn't require a ton of domain knowledge (assuming you're already a handy person), but it's a lot of work. It took 3 guys who do it for a living 160+ man hours to install our mini-splits. They had to drill through walls, attach channels to the siding, crawl into a tight crawlspace, do some plumbing when they hit a water pipe with their drill, wire up electrical, and add breakers to the panel.
The only thing that might catch you up is designing the system and ensuring you right size it for your heat load requirements. I'm sure you could research this pretty well, but your HVAC guy might also be happy to consult on that portion.
Looks like it. I'd suggest anyone looking at a system like that install at least 2 separate outdoor units. That way if one breaks the other can still work - and most of the year it will be powerful enough to handle the whole house (some rooms will be a little uncomfortable but bearable)
If you're interested in installing heat pumps, there is a similar open data initiative started by some redditors to aggregate heat pump pricing quotes.
Really shocked at those prices, I really don't understand what's going on in the US/Canada. I could get a 7kW Mitsubishi Electric single-head mini-split installed with change for AU$3000 here (US$1950) if I buy the unit online and get one of the many, many installers around to put it in (fairly simple install if it's near an external wall is around AU$750 at the moment), but that document has prices in the $7K to $12K for that size?!?
Which is why mini splits are not very popular here. The install ends up costing so much. Labor is not cheap in US/Canada, and install is a lot of labor. Still seems like it should be cheaper though.
They're only 3.5kW units, but they seem to be the sweet spot of mini-split systems locally.
I recently paid 325 euros (about $350) for a unit and 200 euros (about $215) for installation. They are cheap Chinese units but the quality is good in terms of performance. This year they might be even cheaper.
I paid 15k CAD for 2 Daikin units two years ago, the pricing is kinda stupid but it depends on the quality of the model. Chinese models are way cheaper than Japanese models.
Similarly, I wanted to love Stephenson. I even enjoy the intense technical details in a good sci-fi story (I'm talking to you Red Mars).
I started with Seveneves and could not finish it. After 20 pages I wanted to quit, but I stuck it out for another 150 pages before folding. The premise of the story was fantastic, but the writing was not enjoyable to me, and IMO, not very good.
Where Robinson and authors like Weir and Clarke weave the technical details into the story in a fascinating way and show understanding of the topic, I felt Stephenson was copy-pasting Wikipedia articles into the middle of a book. Furthermore, he treated the reader like an idiot - by the end I couldn't help but laugh painfully when he felt the need to explain to us for the 30th time that A+0.150 means 0 years and 150 days after the agent event.
His characters are vague and annoying. While Robinson's characters were similarly lacking in depth in Red Mars, at least they represented something bigger, were deliberately chosen, and served a storytelling purpose.
Here's an example I pulled out of Seveneves that made me cringe.
"In those days Izzy had been like a kite: all surface area, no mass. Once Amalthea (a comet) had been attached, it was like a kite with a big rock strapped to it."
Weir would have pulled that line off easily as a slightly sarcastic, self-aware remark. I didn't get the impression that Stephenson meant it anything other than a serious statement.
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