qanael

Do you think playing video games a lot is comparable to excessive sugar consumption or sedentarism in terms of harm?

This is highly dependent on the user, though it is a common problem. I've personally never had any motion sickness in VR, whether playing flight sims (including helicopters) or driving sims.

I've always felt like flying cars are a solution looking for a problem. Massive deployment of flying cars has similar problems to cars on the ground (need space to land/park, airspace isn't unlimited, humans can't be trusted to fly safely). Additionally, they don't go fast enough to glide and don't have enough rotor mass to perform an autorotation in the event of total power loss. I doubt they're viable as a method of transportation at any large scale.

EDIT: Not to mention the much worse energy efficiency - staying in the air is _expensive_.

Is that a meaningful distinction?

It's kind of mind blowing that our cheap peripherals are driven by what used to be top-of-the-line processors only a few decades ago. I guess all that firmware has to run on something.

I'm pretty sure the largest predictor of your wealth during your life is whether you were born wealthy, regardless of how strategic you are.

If I'm not mistaken, those ships are more efficient per unit of cargo than smaller ships. It's one of the main reasons they were built.

Sometimes you gaze into the abyss, and the abyss goes "yeah, that seems fine."

Newegg has a "large format display" category for big monitors. 46" seems to be a popular size. There's some pretty cheap 1080p ones in there, but I don't know anything about their image quality.

Getting thrown into the deep end is the best part about programming, IMO. It keeps me on my toes and constantly learning new things.

Heat pipes are passive, though - there's no pump to carry the heat as far as you need to.