It beats figuring out which of the 5 typical buttons are up/down/left/right, in my opinion. It's only the build quality that seems to be the issue, not the concept

In truth it actually does have an ergonomics issue. Since the button position is orthogonal to the screen and mounted upside down, the left and right directions are evident but up and down directions are ambiguous.

It turns out you 'pull' the thing toward you for 'down' and 'push' it away from you for 'up'. Did you guess right?

> It turns out you 'pull' the thing toward you for 'down' and 'push' it away from you for 'up'. Did you guess right?

The only thing dumber than that is that DJI remotes use the same braindead scheme to control camera tilt: pushing the wheel moves the camera up and pulling on it - moves it down. Anyone who piloted anything would, of course, agree that it's insane (you push the stick to go down and pull on it to go up). I had to open mine up and swap the wires because DJI in their infinite wisdom didn't make that configurable in their app.

Oh my god, I've had this exact problem. So many "cinematic" drone videos ruined by me tilting the wrong way...

I spent ages searching for that option in the app, but never thought of physically swapping the wires in the controller. You've just given me a new project.

It's so stupid that DJI doesn't make that configurable.

Seems to me they might have been saying the cost for the drug therapy rather than the bloodletting

For anyone who also thought that was a weird way to say the stat, it's £2,000 upfront and £4,000 a year for one person.

It does seem awfully high. Donating blood costs way less. Maybe the treatment they're saying the cost for is the drug rather than the bloodletting?

i assume they get a transfusion as well?

Would be unnecessary. They'd only be removing the plasma component. Either via plasmapheresis or a nearly identical procedure called plasma exchange.

It's already profitable, or at least net-zero, it's just not politically correct. Here in Minneapolis (more generally: Hennepin county) we industrially incinerate our trash. The site lists many benefits: https://www.hennepin.us/your-government/facilities/hennepin-...

That doesn't negate their point. Starlink satellites still pass over Africa regularly and completely.

The only caveat I'll say is that starlink generally requires ground stations to provide connection at scale. So it's not 0 marginal cost for them to provide it for free. But the general thought is right: the marginal cost is small. Launching satellites is the expensive part, and once you have them up there, you might as well serve Africa

I think they're referring to Home Assistant, that's what they found

It definitely is for you and for other people. I challenge you to describe what it's for if not those two things

I think you're missing a small yet significant portion of people who will pay for content after consuming it. Off the top of my head I've "tipped" after the fact for: An awesome free work time recording app, "free" walking tours when I'm traveling, free online chess, Wikipedia — all after using them.

Most people won't do that though. The walking tour is an example of a situation where there is likely a societal expectation to tip. No such thing on the internet where the publisher is a faceless unknown.

The only thing constant is change. Queens and Brooklyn used to be a marshland swamp. If somebody proposed we build a metropolis in the everglades, we'd say we're ruining that too.

Cities should densify as needed, not be held to some arbitrary "good old days" ideal

There's a little bit of feedback: Each belt has a rotary encoder to track position, and the motors apply positive torque rather than positive position. This is in contrast to how stepper motors work on a 3d printer, for example.