This is both true, and not in itself a sufficient reason to keep a book unless you an to revisit it very soon. I would also say that, with only a small handful of exceptions, I get more out of reading a new book than rereading even a wonderful book. Maybe that isn't true for you, but make sure it really is true and…

I don’t think anyone is strongly against filled bookshelves as sensible decor, they just aren’t a requirement.

Yeah, this article sort of dropped the ball on “weirdest”. I have read enough years of CES summaries to know that this list is pretty tame... though maybe most of the really fun exhibitors pulled out because of omicron.

It’s less a fraction and more who is announcing something and what is being announced. If the stuff is prototype I would say 1 in 10 is lucky to reach market. It’s it’s production item from a publicly traded company, you will almost certainly see it before the next CES. If it’s in between, well... eh. I guess it…

Huh, there is no angle where my LG OLED isn’t clearly visible. I can see how the QD would increase how vivid the picture is, but I can't imagine it making the viewing angle better and honestly I don't really see wanting it better.

Yeah, that would be sexy. 

I feel like car design in general takes too few chances and is worse with the “everyone is a follower” culture than even cell phones. I know a few cars get criticism for not following the popular design language (like our i3), but I greatly prefer that to the “design language” of our honda pilot that is essentially…

You could even use violet oleds and then have rgbv and cmy pixels to really actually closely match actual light output and lean less on tricking our brains with RGB. I am guessing, though, that's it's just easier to get precisely the best r, g, and b frequencies to trick our eyes with qd-oled.

All my smarthome stuff besides my doorbell (which is redundant with the system of Use Your Dang Knuckle) works fine without internet. Even under good conditions things that don’t work without internet are not reasonable replacements for stupid devices.

I feel like blowing up the sun would lead to a, er, powerful coronal mass ejection (I know, that assumes blowing it up). Probably our best bet is to slingshot off into deep space. :)

Hm. No time has passed for that photon, but space has been traversed, so space-time has passed. We aren’t used to measuring things with space time as the basic units, but something has been traversed and so it also doesn’t make sense to refer to events as simultaneous in our reference frame, or else we have to give up…

Or bread and eggs? (Why it's those things and not rice and beans I don't understand)

HTC has a headset that looks about that easy to use, but it's a terrible compromise to get there. Other than being ultra-light it's basically a 2015 Google Cardboard in terms of specs. I am glad to see them innovating but I think the lesson will be that there is a certain minimum below which a headset won't be…

Initially the only information I could find were the tweets, but I was finally able to find a less abridged version just as I was about to get cross.

Just to clarify, a division of Meta is making the Meta Quest 2. It's absolutely as stupid as it sounds, but... that's the right thing, according to *uckerberg.

Ah, you nailed it in the second guess I think. I think we all know that *uckerberg is a deeply creepy person, but not because he's like a serial killer or rapist but because he sees humans as data points and is only academically interested in the future of humanity. 

It occurs to me that bloody C. Sanders wouldn't be the only mens costume on that list either. They might even have been, I don't know, topical?

As a millennia (okay, cusp, but still) l I feel excellently qualified to say your advice is the opposite of “okay boomer”. I mean, I wash towels (all of them, because bath towels and kitchen towels are both gross by the time they need washed, thank you) on high heat separately, just because they didn’t make it to the…

For a “lifehacker” article, it sure missed the boat on the knife-hacker (hrm, clever pun or terrible slasher movie?) part. 1) get a knife block with horizontal slits or just a wood box filled with wood skewers. 2) what, you think we have stuff on the counter because we just have an extra drawer sitting empty we could…

To be fair, by Greek standards, almost all American olive oil is semi-rancid. More importantly, some oils are more stable than others: it’s good to stop using canola/rapeseed/vegetable oil for everything but switching to using evoo for everything isn't the right answer.