I’d prefer the plane if I could be emulsified and piped into a holding container.

Or maybe if I got to be in the cargo hold with the dogs.

At least on a pilgrimage I can lie down

whilst I’ve never been assaulted when picking up items from online sales, I have had a few instances of men being extremely creepy in a way that made me regret not being more careful.

I think this behavior is a big contributor to the culture of fear. Even if nearly every man won’t assault a woman, enough of them do shit like this that it’s not hard to believe they’d do something worse.

Frick.

Dude, tomorrow’s Saturday

Thanks for reminding me to tear down my test AWS instances

The largest companies are the cloud.

Privacy doesn’t exist on corporate networks, so they don’t. However, the early thin clients had local servers. I don’t know how the very largest companies would feel about giving Amazon that much power.

FYI on a Mac you just type “open” and give it the file name. Works with any file.

Not sure how this works on Linux because I only use it via the cli

I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Even on WiFi with other peoples streaming it’s good enough to play games like Minecraft and Subnautica, but since I mainly play boring stuff like KSP or Civ latency isn’t much of an issue.

What I won’t do is tell you who my provider is because they’re already having problems at peak times and I don’t want to make it worse.

I already sort of do this with my gaming machine. It lives on a cloud host and I connect with a client.

It’s cheaper and more convenient than buying a new PC - especially since I’ve got three gamers in my house - and offloading graphics means I can get better battery life when playing on my laptop in my hammock.

However, if you’re more than a couple hundred miles from the data center or there’s network problems you won’t be having much fun. That’s the only reason I’d want an actual gaming machine, and even then I’d play via remote desktop from my hammock.

From an IT operations perspective this makes so much sense they’ve already tried it before. They were called “thin clients” and just had enough compute and network to connect to run remote desktop software.

This greatly reduces the amount of spending you need to build out a large corporate network, and centralizes management just like they already do for servers with stuff like VMWare.

What killed conspiracy theories for me was how the USAF drove Paul Bennewitz insane playing into his conspiracy theories rather than just admit he caught encrypted radio.

And not only that, they systematically undermined people’s trust in authorities with this by letting it become such a huge industry. If you think the government is lying to you about aliens it’s a lot easier to think they’re lying about vaccines and face masks.

It didn’t take that many generations for us to do it to foxes, so going back might be just as fast.

Good to know. But unless you want to be giving Rivers Cuomo the autofocus ones probably aren’t your style.

Also, could there be a backlash against thick frames in the future because they might be hiding electronics

Plus “clunky” bifocals have way fewer moving parts and can be made with thin wire frames so they’re lighter.

I’m sure there might be someone with really bad eyesight for whom these might be useful - like if the near and far prescriptions are too different to be possible, maybe - but this is inferior to the actual solution in almost every way.

I had poor social skills well before I started watching porn

Right? It’s like these guys have never seen The Wire.

This combination plus a lean diet and plenty of physical exercise got me in the best shape of my life.