https://youtu.be/N5Rs8zdEHJw?si=jFusKJdAzHXCaTBh

He probably just mixed up the line from when he saw it in theaters.

The solar sail reflects light instead of absorbing it so you get to double dip on photon momentum.

And sure, you can steer with the laser I suppose, but with that kind of super weak deltaV, you’re not going to be exactly doing donuts in the solar system.

Even the massive solar sail only imparts a super small amount of force. It’s only useful because it does so for free over a long period of time with no air resistance.

You’d be better off using a conventional thruster to do whatever steering you needed to do before letting the sail take over. It’s not like you need to steer around any obstacles.

MP3 players are commodities now. Anyone who just wants iPod functionality can get it cheap, and there are even upmarket options for audiophiles with support for things like low impedance headphones that the iPod never supported.

There’s just not enough room in the market for Apple to re-insert themselves.

Also, they’d never ship a product that couldn’t somehow use AppleMusic.

Sure, but it would be less efficient than a sail, and since the incoming radiation would impart inertia on the solar panels, you would still be limited on where you could steer.

I ditched my smartphone spring of 2023. Still use it on WiFi at home, but every time I leave the house, I only carry a fliphone.

Every time a stranger asks me about it, they say something like “I wish I could ditch my smartphone.” Like I get it. It’s not easy. I can’t even go to a baseball game unless my wife has our tickets on her phone. Paying for parking sometimes requires an app.

Yet apparently everyone hates this thing that they are now required to carry around.

How did we get here?

Ironically, it didn’t break, but when I was on the road and needed a power drill to fix something, I didn’t feel bad about dropping $500 on a new Milwaukee from Ace hardware.

Power tools. If you are not a professional and need to buy a tool (if you can’t borrow one), buy the cheap one.

I used a $30 Ryobi drill for over a decade and it was fine.

Famous for their pears

Water. Best way to put out an EV fire is to keep dousing it with water until it cools down enough to not be on fire.

In case you’re not being sarcastic, Whistlindiesel…

But they’ve also been the target of some vandalism.

EVs tend to look like this after a battery fire, and the Cybertruck is easily the most hated vehicle ever made. I wouldn’t assume that this one caught itself on fire.

If you sidegrade to a Casio F-91W, there’s a fun open-source project called Sensor Watch that repolaces the PCB to bring some nice features.

My watch can now tell me sunrise/sunset times, run 6 different count down timers, and act as a full dice set for DnD.

Full list of complications: https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/watchfaces/complication/

Haven’t watched this particular video, but we watched the iPhone 14 one when my wife was shopping for a new phone a year ago.

He only does landscapes, so he won’t answer the question for indoor lighting.

And I guess I can walk my claim back a bit. I’m just a bit frustrated since I had a hard time finding a purpose built camera that could match an iPhone while being remotely pocketable.

Ricoh does alright for my purposes.

I mean you had to wait 20 seconds for it to buffer, so you were at least going to give it a fair shot.

Specifically this one which I find especially haunting:

Like not only are we intelligent life, we look like this, and we look like this on the inside, and we have technology that can see ourselves on the inside. And we just thought you’d find that neat.

I mean computational photography is exactly how you beat physics. And it’s shockingly good.

https://youtu.be/3EFW_dAX9lQ?si=LvaoeAG6h9HQoKc4

Highly recommend this guy’s videos on the matter. Can’t find a good comparison at very low light, but even dusk conditions are fine for a new iPhone.

What I don’t get is if you have to pay actors, camera crew, rent on sets and equipment, etc, how much can you save on a writer by using AI? Especially since the expectations are already so low?

Is this just a way to avoid hiring union work? I assume these actors aren’t union?

Poor Quibi. Totally ahead of it’s time.

Yeah way too big for my purposes. I needed a camera that’s with me literally all the time (as much as a phone would be).

He GRIII doesn’t have interchangeable lenses, but it’s still a 24MP APS-C with an f/2.8 prime. I’d argue it’s as “real” a camera as any other.