I used to read how OS/2 had a niche running ATMs long after the general public had lost interest. Wonder if that's still the case. I almost think I may have seen one crash and display a Windows CE screen once.
I read some time ago about the Keto diet showing good results even in Alzheimer/dementia cases. Keto is not the same as low carb but it's close enough.
Our molecular biology and internal chemical reactions are still areas of research in early phases.
Just on a different topic, but in the same direction - last 10 years research discovered that immunity boosting has much better results in certain types of cancer than all the other non-surgery treatments (chemical or radiation).
"Diet supplementation with ketone bodies (acetoacetate and β‐hydroxybuturate) or medium‐length fatty acids generating ketone bodies has consistently been found to cause modest improvement of mental function in Alzheimer's patients. It was suggested that the therapeutic effect might be more pronounced if treatment was begun at a pre‐clinical stage of the disease instead of well after its manifestation."
I hope he gets to solve the terraforming part of going to Mars, as well.
Also, maybe he sets his eyes on colonizing the ocean space on Earth - lots of empty space in the water.
Here's another angle - not saying it's correct, just different.
Why would you want to perfect working from your bedroom?
It's ok to WFH for a while, but i would not recommend perfecting it long term.
As a human being you should be looking to interact and socialize with other humans, in person, as well - this makes us better humans, more empathetic, more understanding to the needs and pains of others.
>As a human being you should be looking to interact and socialize with other humans, in person, as well - this makes us better humans, more empathetic, more understanding to the needs and pains of others.
I don't disagree. But your assumption is that you would have less social interaction WFH is wrong (at least in my case).
My current commute is 2.5 hours a day. WFH would give me an additional time to do different activities each day (most with other people). Currently I'm limited because my preferred activities, I won't get home till close to midnight.
Having that commute time cut to zero would allow me to pursue my interests and have more social interaction than I currently do going into the office each day.
I went from around 2.5 hours or more each way for a commute to working from home. I socialize less now. Work accounted for the majority of my daily socializing. I have three kids and a wife. My returned time is spent with them (I don't consider this under socializing) or on hobbies.
During my worst commute I was spending 4.5 hours traveling to and from work each day. A long day at work meant doing nothing but work, travel, and sleep and still being deprived of sleep. I didn't last six months, and I have no family or anyone to depend on me.
When I worked from home I lived in a difficult climate which became overly pleasant. The worst snow storm didn't bother me in the slightest, if I didn't feel like going outside I just didn't. When bearing the cold became optional, it was a pleasant luxury going outside instead of a chore.
The human interaction you are talking about is real, but so is losing a large chunk of your life getting to work.
I could also have just won the lottery, just saying.
There are other realities to contend with, like how it looks bad to have a six month job on a resume, or leases that are expensive to break, or how moving when your lease ends to somewhere better to commute to a job you've lost confidence in, or waiting for a vesting cliff and promised raise, or moving far enough away that your friends might as well be in another state...
Not to mention if you have a family or partner.
In the long commute case, much of that was true. I tried to stick it through hard times after they moved offices to be significantly further away and burned out. It happens.
Life isn't always so simple and you can't always optimize your life around your job.
Anything close to an hour would have me thinking about moving closer.
On that note, I don't know if there's any research to it, but I feel like commute is an exponentially increasing nuisance. To illustrate: Moving from a 15 minutes commute to a 20 minutes commute will bring me less irritation than moving from a 55 minutes -> 60 minutes commute.
> As a human being you should be looking to interact and socialize with other humans, in person, as well - this makes us better humans, more empathetic, more understanding to the needs and pains of others.
Half a year plus of a remote work now - I'd argue I have a healthier social life now compared to before when working at an office. I actually have energy after work to go out for dinners and meetups and develop/maintain the personal connections I couldn't before.
CEO was rewarded for increasing artificially the stock price, through stock buy backs. He did a good job at that and a bad job at managing an industrial company.
That s how big companies start to fail, they lose sight of what matters.
This is just to protect the corporation from potential legal action. It s like a disclaimer on a police agent job that you might get shot when doing your job. Problem is when you don t care enough to take care of the ones who are affected by the stress.
This is what happens when you pay huge amounts of money on Google Ads and traffic. They notice that you must be quite profitable if you afford to pay so much, so they come for your market. It will happen more and more and the more you pay to Google the more you help them take you out of the market.
Isn't that a general thing? I hate the quality of Amazon's internal search, but Google's results for shopping related queries are just atrocious in my country. There's barely-related Amazon-Products on the top 5 places, SEO spam on the next 10, a few shops on pages 2/3 and then scam shops.
Expedia had a bad last quarter and blamed it on Google. Booking has a good quarter and said they did a better job with retaining visitors to skip Google.
I wish these guys would follow AirBnb in at least pretending to care about design. I know Booking.com is trying, and for that I can retain the knowledge of going directly to Booking.com/AirBnb.
TripAdvisor's site is a nightmare to navigate. It's easier to find things by searching them on Google than trying to navigate TripAdvisor. I won't lose sleep once someone finds out how to arrange their information in a cleaner format.
If it took Google that long to implement it, another search engine will beat them to the punch by simply noting that many users search for this information and would be much happier to get it without clicking through to another site.
this is what happens when top management is compensated based on stock value and the bottom line.
Instead of doing their job, top management practiced shares buy-backs as a way to increase share price.
I think we'll get a new motto soon - if it's Boeing, I'm not going...
Since the planes become more software dependent, the pilots should be trained on procedures to recognize/evaluate/react to software problems/glitches as well. The problems with the B-MAX were actually related to bad software (MCAS).
There is probably some delay between how pilots are training and the importance of software in their job.
I think, functionally speaking, a software failure is no different to that of hardware-based control / instrumentation systems (think of all the odd behaviour that could be caused by a short circuit or a bad connection somewhere in the wiring). The difference is that software systems tend to be more complex, and failures are in theory less random and more systematic - it's more a case of stepping on an unlikely combination of inputs (i.e. a bug that occurs in an untested corner-case) than encountering a random component failure which is more likely the case for a hardware system.
