fabrics

A whole cloud being offline for a week doesn't make sense, but yea, sometimes datacenters need new network fabrics.

Some social fabrics should be destroyed - that something better may take their place.

I don't want folks to think that I am saying that scale trumps flexibility/disjunct fabrics.

Couple of months ago I was in Bali and I saw local women weaving fabrics.

Most of the fabrics shown don't look like they have much stretch, but I wanted something that could wrap around robot joints.

This is nothing new - what's interesting is that we're beginning to see consumer technology take the place of beads, fabrics, stones and metal.

Colorful, synthetic fabrics were just being developed.

They also have, famously, tartan-like fabrics.

Until furniture starts being made out of more space-age fabrics (or perhaps poetry out of emoji) it's unlikely that modernity will have much more to offer to furniture design or poetry...

Thanks to synthetic fabrics it takes less water to make my clothes than it would to wash them I'd like someone to run some more numbers on that.

Some folks may need the flexibility (say disjunct fabrics) that encap provides, while others need the scale (say 1000's or 10K's of servers) or simplicity (those sort-of go hand-in-hand) that a non-encap data-path provides.

In fact, even today in many places in the world (India and Africa come to mind), artisans still produce fabrics, clothes and other low-tech products by hand for way less than American minimum wage [2].

LN easily soaks through fabrics - also pretty much all of the fancy "cryo"-gloves that you can buy in lab equipment stores.

Seems to me that the unique thing in this instance is the nature of the finished material - they were initially being funded by the military so these fabrics may be more "high performance" than their current yeast-grown counterparts.

Those “Fabrics of Cashmere—” “to make Me beautiful—” “Trinket”—to gem—“Me to adorn—How tell”—tonight?

> they were initially being funded by the military so these fabrics may be more "high performance" This isn't genuine spider silk though, if it had comparable performance they would certainly state so in interviews.

Office Max, Joanne Fabrics, those types of retail took over most of them that weren't leveled.