bryantraywick

Literally a 3'x5-6' monitor that can render text as crisply and cleanly as print. That's all I want.

Absolutely. Mediocre resolution increases has been one of many disappointments for me when it comes to technology over the past 20 years. We had CRT monitors with better resolution than 1080p back in the late 90's early 2000's before LCD panels saddled us with 1080p resolution for 15 years. 4k is the bare minimum that should be available right now. I can't wait until I can have a 16k monitor at about 3'x5-6' on my desk. Maybe it will happen in my lifetime, but I'm not holding my breath.

$17B could have built a lot of affordable subsidized, or free, housing.

I just ordered 3 items for in store pickup today from Home Depot and one of them was wrong. That is going to cost me another 40+ minute round trip that I wouldn't have had to make if I would have just gone inside and picked the items myself. There is 0 chance I will be ordering groceries online in the next 10 years.

Uhh,no. Reacts popularity is because of lazy devs that only know JavaScript and want to use it everywhere. Large companies want to have have one "unified" codebase that runs on all "platforms". It has nothing to do with interactivity or usability because if it did then developers would write native apps with native UIs with much better interactivity, usability, and performance.

I'm no expert on the EU or Schengen Area, but the Wikipedia page says that "Switzerland was allowed to participate in the same manner in 2008" so it's certainly possible that the situation is completely different now.

It's been over a decade and I didn't drive while we were there but I remember it looking a lot like a tollbooth in the US, but one with military/police looking people that would randomly, or not so randomly, select people to pull off to the side so that they could search your vehicle. At least one time when we crossed into France to go grocery shopping we were searched and had to show our passports and they looked through our groceries and asked to see the receipt.

I'm quite surprised that Uber was able to even have any sort of hold in Geneva. I visited my Aunt in Geneva for a few weeks in 2006 and she lived 5-10 miles from the city center and even that far out there was a bus that came by every 9 minutes. The only time we drove was when we went into France. From my short visit I also got the impression that Switzerland is very serious about their taxes. We went grocery shopping across the border in France for the lower prices/taxes and every time we crossed back into Switzerland we got searched by border crossing security to ensure we weren't bringing too many goods across the border based on the number of occupants in the vehicle.

The fridge is trickier, but for your freezer fill a small plastic cup with water and let it freeze. Then place a penny on top of it. If it gets warm enough for the water to melt the penny will drop.

I have been thinking the same thing. For this price, for a so-called "smart" oven, there is no excuse that it's not a combi or cvap oven. I wouldn't consider purchasing any standalone oven appliance for this price unless it was combi or cvap.

Before any other "smart" features I'd want:

* Precise temperature control between ~100F-450F

* Precise humidity control from 0%-100% relative humidity

* Dry bulb temperature, wet bulb temperature, and an internal temperature probe (preferably up to 2 internal probes).

* High temperature sear/broil

If you want it to be "smart" then forget the camera identification and allow me simply select "roast chicken" and have it cook to an internal temperature of ~155F (165F if you so choose) at 100% humidity before automatically turning the humidity down to 0% and switching to broil to crisp the skin.

Others have replied with basically the same thing but replication has been in MySQL for a long time. Just last night I set up replication for a single MySQL server to a new 3-node Galera cluster then switched over the Galera cluster as the primary with only a few seconds of downtime. The downtime could have been entirely eliminated if the standalone MySQL server had binary logging enabled already.

Galera cluster is an awesome multi-master solution and I've had nothing but excellent experience with it in production environments. We currently typically direct writes at a single node and spread reads in round-robin to all three nodes using an HAProxy front-end to the cluster, but there is nothing preventing us from spreading writes across the cluster if it was needed. If the current write node goes down there is only a couple seconds of interruption as a new write node is elected and the application reconnects. Furthermore, if a node goes down rejoining is completely automatic once it starts back up with no slowdown in reads and writes. I don't have near as much PostgreSQL experience but replication and failover have been serious pain points from an operations stand-point when I have had to use it. I appreciate the end-user features of PostgreSQL, but operationally MySQL/MariaDB (plus Galera cluster) are miles ahead of anything I've seen for PostgreSQL.

Wow, I'm the same and never knew it had a name. I write left-handed use use a fork with my left-hand and generally consider myself left-handed. But, I throw right-handed and swing right-handed (although I became a decent switch hitter in little league, I had more power left-handed but more accuracy right-handed). Some tasks I have trouble picking a hand and go back and forth between the two. When I bowl (which is usually only about every 5 years or so) I spend the entire time switching between both hands to find one that feels more comfortable. I also pass a tennis racket from hand to hand depending on which side the ball is on, but I play ping-pong solely with my left hand. When I first started using computers in elementary school I made a conscious effort to use the mouse with my right hand because even then I knew that every computer I came to would have the mouse on the right side. However, I usually use a laptop trackpad with my left hand. I, like you, found wrist watches uncomfortable to use. I wore one in high school and always put it on my left wrist but I had to remove it every time I sat down to write or type. I think smart watches could have some useful applications, especially when cycling as a glance-able cycle-computer paired with a ride tracking app, but I just don't think I could put up with the pain of wearing a watch every day to get any benefit from one.