What amazed me isn't that Achatz is charging $40 for the pie, it's that they're limiting the number sold to 200. First time I've seen a food item treated like numbered art.
Heard a radio interview last evening with the author of this site. He has a new book coming out that broke news about Truman and the bomb. Truman didn't know anything about the nuclear bomb until FDR died and he received a briefing. The military wanted to make Kyoto the first target. But an aide who had visited Kyoto as a young man fought the decision and escalated it up to Truman.
Leaflets were dropped on Japanese cities after Hiroshima warning another city would be destroyed. Sadly the leaflets that dropped on Nagasaki were sent 24 hours after the bombing. The military wanted to keep using nukes after Japan surrendered. Truman was so shocked about the women and children that had already died that he forbade it.
I grew up in Detroit and remember the nuclear drills in elementary school where we'd run to the basement and wait for the all clear. They had military style rations and jugs of water. They warned us not to touch the pipes which were wrapped in asbestos. This was in the late fifties and early sixties. So why was the World Trade Center built using asbestos a dozen years later?
There is a partial paywall for US visitors(only) where users that log-in have access to more content and the BBC news channel stream. There is still ad-supported content for breaking news and some other articles. But some are placed behind a paywall -- and only in the US.
Though, I haven't run in to any paywalled BBC articles posted here (and only submit the one's that are ad-supported [US based])
More than fifteen years ago Detroit made a major push to have the then early drone industry locate in Detroit. I attended a meeting at the old City Airport where several hangers had been converted to offices for drone startups. Some of them were quite promising but China took over the consumer industry for drones and they all failed.
Detroit has two major advantages: More manufacturing and engineering talent than anywhere else in America and the greater Detroit metro area has the fifth largest amount of software developers in the U.S. I would hope drone companied would at least investigate Detroit.
I think it’s a great idea. PDFs and other allegedly open standards that still feel proprietary (like Microsoft’s Office stuff) need replacement, especially in an AI driven world. But I feel weird about having yet another corporate overlord for a new standard.
My late father told me the first time he saw a TV. He was in Ann Arbor, Michigan making a sales call in 1947. When he drove in he noticed there was a huge crowd around a store window but couldn't see what was going on.
After making the call he noticed the crowd was still there so he parked his car and decided to investigate. There was a black and white TV broadcasting a Detroit Tigers game in the window of a radio repair shop. He told me that he came away impressed.
I remember a similar story from my father, of people in the small town he was in crowding standing in the front yard of a neighbor, crowding around a picture window to look in at the first TV in town in the mid-1950's.
When I was born my parents bought a TV. Back then it was sold as a way of enhancing the education of children. I remember the early days of the web when the same case was made. Pretty sure you could have predicted it would descend to the lowest common denominator ;<).
The family stayed with black and white until the late seventies. I remember the entire family watching the first moon landing. For the longest time I didn't know whether NASA was recording in color or not ;<).
I have believed for a couple of years that AI could do a better job of managing farm crop marketing than the average farmer. It would remove the emotion involved in selling the crop.
Managing all the decisions in growing a crop is too far a reach. Maybe someday, not today. Way too many variables and unexpected issues. I'm a former fertilizer company agronomist and the problem is far harder than say self driving cars.
This is pretty big news for an AI and Robotics company to move from Austin to Detroit. Granted the owner grew up in the D. This house is pretty amazing but kind of run down. But he is planning on investing $5 million to restore it.
Former Detroit Pistons star, John Salley, of the 'bad boys' era first bought this place from the church. He wanted to do movies after he was done playing basketball. He would invite movie stars, script writers and directors to live in the various bedrooms and that is how he built his network which is pretty shrewd.
The story talks about Dearborn which is adjacent to Detroit but not part of the city. However as Detroit underwent its well publicized bankruptcy fifteen years ago one of the benefits was turning back on the city's streetlights. The entire system was updated at that time and one of the benefits cited was they were spending the extra money so that they could easily add EV charging. To my knowledge it was never implemented, even on a trial basis.
Instead the governor spent millions repaving a short stretch of road that could recharge EV's. But most EV's couldn't make use of it and its such a short stretch of road you couldn't easily get any meaningful recharge.
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