My take on the bias toward the “latest craze” is that it's probably a result of finite attention spans, as well as a fear of falling behind, which leaves little space for fundamental concepts.

A good example for ScrollPods was to support scrolling only through up/down head movements initially but many users asked for left/right head turns to map to vertical scrolling as well. Once implemented, the horizontal axis felt much more natural and less tiring. Thinking about it deeper, this makes perfect sense from a biological and anatomical perspective. I mean humans would probably be way more concerned with an ambush from a predator from the side or behind rather than above which shows in our peripheral vision for horizontal versus vertical visual field.

You can’t scroll in one window and type in another window at the exact same time. Your hand has to stop typing on the keyboard, move to the mouse and then scroll. There are many cases where a user would want to scroll and type at the exact same time without needing to keep switching back and forth between the keyboard and mouse. I then describe a solution to this problem. I hope this is clearer.

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Always impressive to see the Estonian approach.

For simplification, you need to make a Spaghetti Bolognese for 4 people.

Person A gets $10, Person B gets $100.

Person A is forced to be resourceful, look around and do a lot of thinking. Person B can be wasteful and still be in budget.

Reality Nowadays: Person B would contract this out to Person C, who would subcontract to Person D and suddenly there is a huge scope creep and $100 is not enough.

Initial announcement back in April

If this acquisition goes through the only winner here is Cursor, especially since CC and Codex are chipping away at Cursor very hard!

For digital content, could this be because our brain deems digital content as lower "value". You consume both high value and low value digital content in the exact same way giving your brain a harder time to understand what is high value and low value, maybe the brain takes a conservative approach on digital content being low value unless proven otherwise. Whereas for physical books your brain attaches a higher value to this and thus you're more alert, maybe?

The second element is the difference in time between turning pages versus swiping on a tablet. Do these extra seconds give your brain more time to digest the information from the previous page(s)? This reminds me of a conversation, I recently had with a friend how TV shows 20 years ago were much more memorable. You watched just 1 episode a week from your favourite show with ads compared to binge watching a show with no ads nowadays. Our theory was that this gives your brain the time to process and digest the new information better.

Also in general if you're on the losing end of a "fair" vote I assume a decent person would look within themselves to see why they lost, instead of creating a false alternative reality.

I understand someone not wanting to pay more tax but this is straight up villainous.

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There are, of course, many benefits to automation such standardisation, measurability and the list goes on. Plus cuurrently we have this sweet spot where the workforce contains several generations who have experienced both very manual and highly automated processes. This dual experience is invaluable for investigation and continuous improvement. It makes me wonder what will happen when the workforce consists entirely of operators and engineers who simply press start most of the time.

You would take contact, settle and active air sample plates within the cleanroom, followed by approximately one day before culturing is initiated in QC. Incubation then typically takes around seven days to cover both bacteria and fungi. You then get the colony forming units value which is the key parameter. Some companies take this further and perform organism identification, which adds additional days to the timeline but great for reactive investigations.

There is also a lag until the data becomes available in a digital format.

This of course differs between companies. Some companies may opt for shorter or longer incubation times, but in general, the key takeaway is that the process takes time.

What I couldn’t determine is whether there is any information about concentration. I mean so what if something is present, you have a lot of ubiquitous organisms out there.

Nevertheless, if the technology matures, it could help identify a problem earlier before it becomes visually obvious. You would still need to determine the root cause. Or it could help with a better decision making before buying a house?

All in all a lot to think about.

If a company was able to overcome all the red tape within three weeks and not be impacted today, that's impressive.

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If a company was able to overcome all the red tape within three weeks and not be impacted today, that's impressive.