They produce a non-flickering warm glow that is way more relaxing than a bluer "daylight" bulb, at least for us. They are somewhere around $10 a bulb, but have significantly increased the cozy factor of our house. We run dimmers in all of our hangout areas, and bring the brightness way down.
The article argues that twilight is bluer than daylight, and therefore tells our bodies to get ready for sleep, however I would argue that warm diffused light tells my brain that it's after twilight, like cavemen around a fire at night.
Am I the only one here that doesn't have any problem with my home SONOS system? My family constantly plays music in most rooms of the house using a Spotify premium account. It's been a godsend, and it truly makes me feel like we are living in the future. All the sueing and inter-corporate politics is a little annoying to hear about, but I still listen to the speakers daily without giving it all much thought.
I don't have a problem with mine at all. I've had Sonos speakers for about 4 years now. Two play 3's, playbar, Sub and a Play 1.
Works better than when I got it, everyone in the house knows how to use it to play music and watch movies etc. Allows me to play my Spotify playlists and them to play their Apple music playlists.
The stuff works fine and I update it all as soon as a new update comes out. I'd like to know if other people are having issues, just to know what to look out for. But I've had it for quite a while now and it blows people's minds when they see how it all works and how easily it works.
> they're always the same square shape and its always about fancy keyswitches, RGB, and little else.
This is where I disagree. I had severe hand and arm tendon pain for years, and finally dove into ergonomic mechanical keyboard options. It solved my issues, and I no longer feel the pain after typing all day.
I easily spend $350+ for a keyboard, and it's a very practical, life-changing decision, which involves a non-rectangular, non-RGB keyboard.
Fair enough, but when I look at pictures of peoples' builds it is almost always a square keyboard with fancy backlighting.
I'm personally a fan of the MS ergos with the wrist wrests and have mixed feelings about how that design doesn't seem to be getting replicated anywhere
I would guess there's a patent involved preventing another company from using it. I would definitely have bought an MS 3000/Sculpt with mechanical switches before I built my own ergodox. My problem was that I wore out my sculpt in like 14 months. Half of the space bar stopped working. I'm actually a little surprised Microsoft hasn't released one with mechanical switches.
This article was a little goofy, apparently as a daily user of the EegoDox EZ, I'm a "coder who is actively working to bring about the singularity." ... Ok, cool.
Back to reality, though I couldn't recommend the ErgoDox EZ more. It's a quality piece of kit; built well, the graphical configurator is convenient, and the support is top notch. I had a keychatter issue early on, and they responded immediately with updated firmware that solved the issue. I've gone back to it as a daily driver multiple times over any other keyboard.
The "solograms" were an amazing addition to the movie. My friend and I both commented on them walking out of the theater.
The visuals in the film we're really well done, in my opinion. In fact, I really enjoyed the movie as a great throwback to coming of age on cyberpunk material such as Snowcrash, Neuromancer, Ghost in the Shell, et al., whitewashing politics be damned.
The whitewashing didn't bother me, but the stupidwashing was offensive. Hollywood took one of the deepest, most brilliant cyberpunk classics and dumbed it down to the point of being insulting.
I've been recommending to my friends that they stay away from this film to prevent them having a bad impression of GitS. Instead, I am recommending they watch every episode and movie in the original GitS. Watch many of them multiple times to appreciate just how innovative this series is even today.
Well it was only 106 minutes long. Actually felt more like 90 minutes. I think it was great, I didn't expect a cinema blockbuster to perfectly sum up more than a decade of GitS canon.
They didn't need to sum up the full canon, they needed to like... have any part of it? The original animation accomplished more with the story in less time.
"from Greek barbaros 'foreign, strange, ignorant,' from PIE root *barbar- echoic of unintelligible speech of foreigners (compare Sanskrit barbara- 'stammering,' also 'non-Aryan,' Latin balbus 'stammering,' Czech blblati 'to stammer')." I don't know if the source I'm quoting is reliable, but I find the same reference to Sanskrit in a variety of sources.
Interesting. Though I knew Sanskrit (well in school), didn't know or remember that word - but still know Hindi well, and in Hindi, bad-bad (pronounced like bud-bud) means blabbing, as in:
Kya bad-bad kar rahe ho - What are you blabbing.
And to close the loop, in Hindi, the sounds r and d are closely related and sometimes substituted for one another - at least while talking.
Pretty sure this explanation is just really old speculation. Even if the ancient greeks kept records of word origins, those documents would likely be lost by now
Judging by this link: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=barbarian,
the reasoning is based on words in other indoeuropean languages having a similar root to 'barbarian' being used to refer to stammering or incoherent speech.
I understand that we are discussing readability here, with 'most readable' being the general consensus in the comments as being synonymous with 'better.'
That said, I see readability as something that is part of a greater equation. Take your last example of the Verge homepage. Often designs like this are intentionally designed to throw the viewer out of the flow of easy information consumption and disrupt your sense of hierarchy on the page. They are trying to get you to snack on different sections, not read left-right, top-bottom.
This sense of confusion also serves to hide the fact that they place the same article multiple times on the same page, in different contexts. This gives the reader the sense that there have a lot of content and a lot going on.
My point is that readablility is a sliding scale that can be used as a tool to varying effect.
They produce a non-flickering warm glow that is way more relaxing than a bluer "daylight" bulb, at least for us. They are somewhere around $10 a bulb, but have significantly increased the cozy factor of our house. We run dimmers in all of our hangout areas, and bring the brightness way down.
The article argues that twilight is bluer than daylight, and therefore tells our bodies to get ready for sleep, however I would argue that warm diffused light tells my brain that it's after twilight, like cavemen around a fire at night.