Hey man, wishing you a good early morning. Hope the responses haven't got you too down. If it's any consolation, your post must have resonated to garner 400+ upvotes. Personally I found it to be refreshing and real. Best of luck in your search and future endeavors.
I believe confusing UI with OS is a mistake Windows users are still paying to this day. Thanks to NeXT, Mac users don't have this torment since MacOS 9.
It's an interesting idea, I've never tried it. It could also be a simple VM running a given OS (with reduced need for hardware support), or an application running interpreted code with the environment UI.
Generally the idea is to expand UX in more interesting/fun directions without incurring significant hurdles associated with an OS (where everything needs to run reliably and be secure).
"Lionel even claimed the tender had the correct number of rivets on the tender. Although a collector later informed the company that the model tender was three short of the prototype's 1,402 rivets."
Tidbits like this are why I love these kinds of articles.
HamstOS is just the microcontroller for the power supply. Pros: it is voice activated and fault tolerant. Cons: only responds to voice prompts beginning "Hey Mr. Binky". Also, it secretly hates you.
If you were a red-blooded progressive maker-type of person in 2010, and you read Born to Run and didn't immediately go out and buy a pair of Vibram 5 Fingers, I really have to wonder if we're going to get along.
Never use the shoes anymore but that book has made me a healthier human for sure.
Same here. Back in 2009-ish or so when I was on a three week vacation to took my shoes off and re-learned how to walk. From then on, I haven't had any cortisone shots in my knees nor the somewhat annual reoccurring throwing my back out. From then on I have been exclusively barefooted, wearing Bedrock sandals or some other minimal shoe.
I get all kinds of comments and snide remarks, but to walk and stand pain free I really don't care.
Seriously. Hasn't the main thesis of that book (a distinct advantage of human upright evolution is our ability to run long distances) and several key supporting points been mostly disproven scientifically (early humans often hunted by running to exhaustion, for example)?
Seems to me another enticing narrative with little to no sound evidence a la Guns, Germs, and Steel, Sapiens, and the like. The stuff this site loves to gobble up with comment after comment of supporting anecdata.
The insistence HNers have for utterly re-inventing their lives off of a single completely unsubstantiated book astounds me.
You know literally anyone can write literally anything in a book right? There's no vetting, no magical reality check. You can write a book that's nothing but good sounding falsehoods and nobody can stop you. You can even fill it with 10 pages of garbage, low quality citations!
The modern equivalent of a book is a 3 hour Youtube video essay, and most of them have more research behind them!
But nobody would obsess over them like people here obsess over lifestyle books.
When you say it like that it is so obvious. If we collectively kept our heads out of our asses and just thought how to deescalate things rather than be parsimonious little nobodies we would all be better.
The other day somebody said I could not join a huge table in a coworking space because there was a meeting. Private meeting tables or rooms are paid and require reservation and that table was in the common area. I got annoyed because the guy did not ask if I could wait and go to another table, instead he just matter of fact told me they were having a meeting and would rather I would not sit in the free seats. I told him that I believe this was a public usage table, to which he then asked if I could allow them to remain alone. I considered being a prick but then I considered, what would be the gain of antagonising a dude that also goes there often and all for the pleasure of sitting in my favourite table? I stewed a bit but the next day I forgot it. If I had confronted him I would be reminded of the incident every time I crossed the guys path.
A lot of EVs have big 19" or 20" wheels, which get damaged easily on bad roads. I would think people who can afford a Lucid or whatever would also appreciate having surfaces to drive on that don't bend their rims. Just a small counter-vailing factor.
