I contributed to Phabricator a few times, and Evan was a pleasure to work with. I'm sorry to see it go but I hope for the best for Evan. I really hope this is a goodbye on to something great.
Phabricator will hold a great place in my heart as software written by a developer for developers that is well thought out, dog-fooded to the max, and fun.
My hope is that it can be well stewarded by a company into continuity. I wish I had the time to do so.
In short, thank you Evan and all those in the community for many years of wonderful software development.
This sounds really similar to https://www.mobvoi.com/us/pages/ticwatchpro which is a Smartwatch with a dual layer display, one of them is e-ink, the other is an AMOLED display.
Do a search for hybrid eink LCD display; Apple and others were looking into this 10 years ago; the Pixel Qi's 3qi displays were apparently manufactured and used in at least some products, then Apple applied for a more complex patent as well. As far as I can tell, both systems seem to use a layered display.
Just to clear any confusion, this is not a town created by the relative existence of Disney World, this is actually originally part of the original Disney World property that Disney used to create a new town called Celebration, which was then sold off.
I find it interesting how the solution to the OTP SMS problem is to provide the SMS Receiver API. I think the iOS keyboard OTP suggestion is the right way to do that. An SMS Receiver API, even if secure, just seems like a backwards way to solve this problem.
Disclaimer: Not a moon landing denier or anything of that sort, I’ve just educated myself on why people think this.
My understanding is that people believe that they did indeed launch a rocket but that the landing on the moon was faked. Some claim they were in orbit around the earth the whole time, some others claim they went around the moon but staged the landing. There are even some who believe that we did land on the moon but there was a tape that was staged in the event of an accident. The level of moon landing denial varies by each and every person.
> The level of moon landing denial varies by each and every person.
My two personal favourites being the people who believe we didn't go to the moon and get all our technology from aliens, and the truly amazing Krishna version;
>"The Vedic account of our planetary system is already researched, concluded, and perfect. The Vedas state that the moon is 800,000 miles farther from the earth than the sun. Therefore, even if we accept the modern calculation of 93 million miles as the distance from the earth to the sun, how could the “astronauts” have traveled to the moon–a distance of almost 94 million miles–in only 91 hours (the alleged elapsed time of the Apollo 11 moon trip)? This would require an average speed of more than one million miles per hour for the spacecraft, a patently impossible feat by even the space scientists’ calculations.
>Another important reason why the manned moon landing must be a hoax is that, according to the Vedas, each planet has its particular standard of living and atmosphere, and no one can transfer from one planet to another without becoming properly qualified. This means that if someone wants to go to Mars, for instance, he has to give up his present gross material body and acquire another one suitable for life on that particular planet. Vedic knowledge teaches that the living being doesn’t die with the death of the body, but that he is an eternal spirit soul. As Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita, “As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death” (Bhagavad-gita, 2.13). At the time of death the human being transfers to another material body according to the desires he cultivated and the work he performed during his lifetime. Therefore, since the moon has a particular standard of life and atmosphere, if one wants to travel there he has to adapt his material body to the conditions of that planet."
There are many problems with that theory, but I think one of the most compelling is regarding video technology. The direct broadcast from the moon was continuously transmitted for about an hour with no break. The technology to record a transmission like that simply didn't exist, it would have taken IIRC at leat 3 tape reels, and any transition would have been clearly visible.
Furthermore it's often suggested that the motion effect of moving in zero G was created by over-cranking the camera, but that's only possible with a film camera. Any stage involving film would have left frame marks, and effect like over-cranking on video tape wasn't possible until years later. Finally the best video technology of the time was from Japan, not the USA, so the US didn't have the technical capacity to develop specialist tech just for the landings. Even using much later tech from a decade or more later, the manipulations would be easily detectable nowadays in the recordings. Finally, they needed to use radio telescopes to receive the video transmission from the moon. They'd have needed a rig much bigger than the Apollo vehicles had to receive a video transmission from earth with enough bandwidth, to then re-transmit back.
A real-time faked video relayed from earth would have had very little manipulation or 'effects' to simulate low-G motion. That really just doesn't seem plausible, and again thousands of people would have had to have known about it and never talked.
Phabricator will hold a great place in my heart as software written by a developer for developers that is well thought out, dog-fooded to the max, and fun.
My hope is that it can be well stewarded by a company into continuity. I wish I had the time to do so.
In short, thank you Evan and all those in the community for many years of wonderful software development.