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  • I think it would be fine for me. Ever since I helped a surgeon to hold open a piece of human pelvis that was donated to science so he could experiment with our Hololens app some more, I know that I can apparently deal with dead people okay.

    I was the programmer not any sort of medical staff, but since the assistants had left with the other senior surgeon for another assignments the remaining one asked me to hold on to one of the grips and pull a bit for a moment, so he could follow the bone with our 3D marker. Surreal situation.





  • Tons of people engage with email regularily, including through standalone MUAs.*

    But my point is that email was big before the web even grew to its current significance. So I think common people have at least that one point of contact with the internet that is quite distinct from the web in their memory.

    But maybe it’s really a generational question. I have to concede that a lot of people now use web interfaces for their email client, especially outside of corporate managed devices. Late milennials and Gen Z will have grown up with the web being more significant than email.

    * Don’t forget about the MUAs on smartphone OSes, those aren’t web based.

    – signed, a late milennial network engineer, whose dad always installed outlook on the family computers

    PS: Funny story last week I was at CERN at the CIXP, the CERN Internet Exchange Point, to upgrade a connection to 400Gb/s, and in the lobby of the building they hung up the cover pages of Tim Berners-Lee’s original Hypertext and HTTP papers. And further in the have his original NeXTStation displayed








  • The tall ones are just the USB 3.0 version

    The tall bit on top of the type-B houses the five extra electrical connections that were added with USB 3.0.

    Maybe you’ve seen the same on type micro-B which gets a little extra side car. Same story there, the same five connections were added on the side.

    In a type-A connector they are in a second row deeper in the plug, you can see them if you look in, behind and offset by half to the classic four in front.

    These three plug designs all allow the old USB 2.0 type-A, type-B and type micro-B plugs to fit in new USB 3.0 holes, they will simply make contact only with the classical four pins and work as USB 2.0 then.








  • Don’t make the mistake of looking at one region and generalising to a universal. Where are you looking at?

    Here in Switzerland practically everything <1kV is buried.
    For high voltage lines they have only built one section to experiment so far. It’s pretty expensive, heats the ground a bit and blocks water with all the concrete, so it’s not so clear if it’s a good choice for agriculture happening above.

    I’ve wondered a lot why they don’t bury more infrastructure in hurricane regions in the US for example.