fighting the lack of good ideas
Just what is journalism going to look like in the future? It’s a question that’s been bouncing around my head for a while, and articulated in various pieces by Ben Thompson (in a nichification process), my friend Eric Hydrick, and others. Eric brought up the idea of supporting “special” journalism through services like Patreon. I…
Back in November, I was really up on Pi-hole. But after several more months of running it … I am far less psyched than I had been. I’m sure part of that is having gotten better internet services at my house – so the impact of ads is less noticeable. But a major part of…
Roads are empty something like 90% of the time. 8% of the time, they’re rightly-sized. 1.5% of time, they’re a little tight 1.5% of time, they’re a little tight.But that .5%? Holy CRAP But that .5%? Holy CRAP are they ever too small when they’re too small. Imagine if the “*-as-a-Service” model could be applied…
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Recently on one of the podcasts I listen to, I heard an offhanded comment made about how history is taught not in patterns but as facts. For example, “On the 18th of April in ’75, hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year”. Rarely are the “whys” explained – understandably…
A few years ago I wrote about why I like good vampire and zombie stories. I had an epiphany this week related to that, that I thought you’d all find interesting. If vampires exist, zombies can not exist [long] in the same universe. Why? Because they’d be eliminating the only source of food for the…
Given the ridiculous popularity of Facebook, their huge datacenter investments, super-resilient computing models, etc, I’m very surprised they haven’t gotten into the cloud computing business like Amazon’s AWS, Google’s Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, etc.
With Here, you can download maps to use offline. And, via personal experimentation, I can attest to the rapidity with which the screen will update (even in “airplane mode”) on my iPhone when in a commercial jet if I have Here open. So why don’t they advertise their mapping product(s) to pilots? Or do they,…