[04:24] schestowitz[04:24] schestowitzUnity seems to hold pretty well in 2022. In fact, the results are better than what I had on the old Vivobook. When I actually upgraded the Trusty instance on that old laptop, Unity sort of broke. But now, things seem to be far more precise. The whole experience is better, in fact. My test was short, but pretty good. Yes there were problems and niggles and issues. It would be easy to say that most of these [04:24] schestowitz are just beta quality stuff that will go away, but that would be fanboyish exaggeration.
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[04:26] schestowitz[04:26] schestowitzAfter a bit of searching through the web, Im going to assume that a typical smartphone nowadays has a battery of 10 Wh. So we would need 294 times (10 Wh / 0,034 Wh) the electrical energy delivered by my lemon battery to charge a smartphone.
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[04:29] schestowitz[04:29] schestowitzAnd it turns out that this isnt a particularly well solved problem. As Daniel Bachler notes in a Tweet Its a weak point of modern data infrastructure - at @OurWorldInData we joke that CSV files are the technological frontier.
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[04:32] schestowitz[04:32] schestowitzToday in Tedium: Its easy to forget now, but desktop publishing was an immensely innovative thing when it emerged within the computing industry in the early 80s. While at its heart a mishmash of hardware and software cleverly combined for a single goal, it was an empire builder, one that helped create new businesses and improve the status and positioning of existing ones. And with the decline of print as a [04:32] schestowitz medium, it can feel kind of old hat, but lots of stuff still gets typeset every single day. And while weve landed on a few standards, a lot of desktop publishing tools failed to make to it the present day. So in a continuation of our list of things that didnt make it, Todays Tedium takes a look at 10 early examples of desktop publishing software that you probably dont remember desktop publishing was a killer app nearly 40 years ago and [04:32] schestowitz you were in diapers back then if you existed at all. (Oh yeah, quick reminder of what makes things obscure, from our point of view.) Ernie @ Tedium
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[05:04] schestowitz[05:04] schestowitzAs a professional journalist, I would recommend to those with significant historical claims of this nature to not directly edit Wikipedia themselves, but to talk to a journalist or academic researcher who is not connected to the original device in any way, who can help to uncover third-party research that verifies your contribution to history. They can help separate wheat from chaff and help build [05:04] schestowitz verifiable evidence that you were early, if not firstand help you avoid an edit war that seems designed to make you feel terrible about your lifes work.
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[05:05] schestowitz[05:05] schestowitzMackintosh created the robo-fish concept and then the Natural Robotics Contest team turned it into a real robot. This robot, called Gillbert (we see you, Eleanor) is now an open source project and anyone can build it for themselves using the 3D-printable files published on GrabCAD. Gillbert contains mesh filters that collect plastic particles as water flows through its mouth and out of its gills. It [05:05] schestowitz swims through the water like a real fish by swinging its tail for propulsion and using its fins to steer.
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