Forget the bathroom doors; can we at least bring back proper shower stall design that uses full-length doors instead of the 1/3-length piece of glass? More glaringly, those of you who know the Hilton MUC for instance, it's utterly mind blowing what they've done: the shower stall floor is on the same plane as the rest of the bathroom floor -- i.e., it's not sunken at all -- and it's not sloped or otherwise angled, either, to prevent water from seeping under the door and flood the whole floor. And this isn't like one-off bug in one room: we've stayed their countless times, in different rooms, and every single one suffers this problem.
To me that design screams it is a love hotel primarily used for one night stands and those beds you've slept on have been used for various such reasons. There isn't much dignity to be had after that.
RIP Jane Goodall. Not to make a flippant pun but, thank you indeed for all the good you brought to all of us. By discovering humanity in our chimpanzee cousins, you helped us see the humanity in each other.
But I think this animosity is very much expected, no? Even I felt a momentary hint of "jealousy" -- if you can even call it that -- when I realized that we humans are, in a sense, not really so special anymore.
But of course this was the age-old debate with our favorite golden-eyed android; and unsurprisingly, he too received the same sort of animosity:
Bones was deeply skeptical when he first met Data: "I don't see no points on your ears, boy, but you sound like a Vulcan." And we all know how much he loved those green-blooded fools.
Likewise, Dr. Pulanski has since been criticized for her rude and dismissive attitudes towards Data that had flavors of what might even be considered "racism," or so goes the Trekverse discussion on the topic.
And let's of course not forget when he was on trial essentially for "humanity," or whether hew as indeed just the property of Starfleet, and nothing more.
More recent incarnations of Star Trek: Picard illustrated the outright ban on "synthetics" and indeed their effective banishment; non-synthetic life -- from human to Roman -- simply weren't ok with them.
Yes this is all science fiction silliness -- or adoration depending on your point of view -- but I think it very much reflects the myriad directions our real life world is going to scatter (shatter?) in the coming years ahead.
I've loved reading Dan Ni's fantastic daily tech newsletter TLDR over the past year or so; I'm sure many (most?) of you subscribe to it too, and if you don't, you totally should @ tldr.tech.
A few weeks ago I was inspired to create a similar newsletter tightly modeled after Dan's winning formula, but focused on my three deepest passions: climate change, clean energy, and autonomous/electric vehicles (obviously, for those of you who know me).
Today I'd like to share it with you and hope that you will find it at least interesting, and optimally some non-zero value of useful.
My podcast is the only weekly podcast on autonomous cars in the world. Launched in Feb 2018, I've organically grown it to the #1 spot on Google (for searches like "autonomous cars podcasts") with nearly 10K listens per month. I published Episode 74 today -- the Season 2 finale -- and felt it was finally time to share with the HN community. Happy holidays and all the best for 2019!
This was my first -- and only -- Chrome extension that I ever wrote (I'm not a developer). And yes, I realize it's essentially just a simple iframe popup lol ... still, I'm pretty excited that after ~ 2 years, a blogger (Neil Patel) discovered it (#2 in his list @ https://neilpatel.com/blog/google-chrome-extensions-marketin...) and it's suddenly seeing a spike in installs! Woohoo! :)
