Imagine thinking this government would pay you lol

The fact that they can’t find enough utility in AI to make people want to use it is telling.

Cleetus’s great-great-grand-pappy fought at the Battle of Blair Mountain

“Ancient aliens” would definitely win me a game of Don’t Get Me Started. And I’d get started with how it’s all Carl Sagan’s fault.

And I’m so conflicted because Stargate is one of my favorite franchises and is completely based on that racist bullshit. As is Battlestar Galactica. And Pumaman. And probably a lot of Star Trek episodes. Including the really racist one where Space Africa tried to buy Tasha Yar.

BTW if you like that stuff check out Miniminuteman or Decoding the Unknown on YT. They’re totally googledebonkers.

(And also, don’t get me started on Paul Bennewitz.)

There’s too goddamn many North American primates if you ask me.

And it’s not that he’s working class but that he very clearly had some kind of mental illness based on my interactions with him, which cast doubt on every other “expert” these shows had on. I had personal experience with this guy and knew he wasn’t a reliable person.

And that doubt was verified when I looked up where those other supposed experts got their alleged degrees.

I used to be big into the woo woo conspiracy theory stuff thanks to shows on cable networks. So much so my uncle bought me the Time-Life books series about stuff like Sasquatch and ufos.

What snapped me out of it was a show about ley lines and how they hold power and mystery. They had on an international expert on ley lines who was… my school bus driver.

Almost 30 years later he’s still driving a bus, and will tell anyone who asks about his five minutes of fame.

But if those lines held that kind of power I think he’d have retired by now.

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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.

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.

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

If NATO invades I promise to help the resistance.

You know how to contact me.

This American does. Being the only country not bombed to hell in WWII is a great way to fall ass backwards into hegemony.

Yes, the correct term for this would be “open api”