Hopefully my grandmother's funeral arrangements.
I'm editing the obituary for my grandmother right now, which is due to the funeral home in 2½ hours.
Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
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#82FPV Drone Racing - While automated flight is making great progress, there are some amazing pilots out there. Something about a person standing in a field with goggles and a controller feels so future to me. 3D Printing - This is going to be the main way to manufacture things in the future. The lab that is 3D printing houses with concrete. That makes me terrified for home values going forward. It will likely shift all…
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#86Anything VR / AR. It did exist but the world and the tech wasn't ready. Hell, both still aren't.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm editing the obituary for my grandmother right now, which is due to the funeral home in 2½ hours.
Suddenly my smart-alec quip is revealed to be very unfunny. I apologise and you have my condolences.
Thank you for your condolences.
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#88The various object-capability projects alive right now, like Tahoe-LAFS, Monte, Cap'n Proto, Sandstorm, and Genode, are all very much future technology. Imagine: * No accounts, no passwords, just secret keycaps * Instead of messy and complex role-based tables, capabilities always know exactly what they are capable of doing * No more confused deputies * Fine-grained trust
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#89The various object-capability projects alive right now, like Tahoe-LAFS, Monte, Cap'n Proto, Sandstorm, and Genode, are all very much future technology. Imagine: * No accounts, no passwords, just secret keycaps * Instead of messy and complex role-based tables, capabilities always know exactly what they are capable of doing * No more confused deputies * Fine-grained trust
Re: Ask HN: What projects are 20 years ahead of their time?
#90FPV Drone Racing - While automated flight is making great progress, there are some amazing pilots out there. Something about a person standing in a field with goggles and a controller feels so future to me. 3D Printing - This is going to be the main way to manufacture things in the future. The lab that is 3D printing houses with concrete. That makes me terrified for home values going forward. It will likely shift all…
> That makes me terrified for home values [...] The house will just become something you tear down and reprint every 10 years. The idea of me moving all my shit out of my house every 10 years is terrifying enough on is own...