Doing a 12 hour drive in one day (with a few 10-15 minute stops for gas, food, or bathrooms) isn't uncommon when going on vacation in the USA. Load the car up before bed and then get going first thing in the morning. Driving on freeways is usually straightforward and not very mentally taxing (no stop and go unless you're in a stretch near a busy city with traffic), so with music or an audiobook it's certainly doable.

I've also been using Duplicati since CrashPlan abandoned home users, and I have it set up using Docker on a Raspberry Pi (which I use as a NAS, so it has access to everything I need backed up). It's been really nice, and I like that the backup structure is fully documented so in the worst case, I could write my own tool to recover things if needed. (And there's a python recovery script sample that's completely independent of the main C# code.) One thing I'll note is that since some things are still under active development, some of the beta versions have had some issues (or did last I checked). I've been using the canary releases and manually updating periodically. But I've also contributed a few fixes and features, so I'm willing to do some manual recovery if needed.

As a counterpoint, cars are often advertised as getting '30 mpg', when that often has a whole bunch of caveats in the fine print. And that analogy can also include the fact that some 'roads' (routes) on the internet might not be able to sustain that (you'll get worse gas mileage driving up and down hills in a city than on a flat freeway, just as some routes on the internet might not be able to sustain gigabit downloads). I don't mean to say that ISPs should be off the hook, they should still provide good service, but residential customers don't usually pay to have a guaranteed up/down speed, though commercial accounts with those guarantees do exist.

Mod this up. Some of the most insightful things I've read about programming have come from answers on Stack Overflow (or were linked to from there).

If you go far enough, it is also to the east.

8390 now, so that rate has kept up so far. Hopefully it doesn't taper off though.

And there's the car analogy to top it off.

Perhaps a Slashdot poll is in order?

Sooner or later though, they will all have problems. Murphey's Law will see to that.

If short term space missions are not worth bothering, the question becomes, when have we reached the long term? If we don't try anything new now, then there might not be any significantly different technology in a hundred years. I agree that this particular project sounds a bit too grand for our current level of technology, but I hope that doesn't stop us from continuing to travel further and further from home (Mars, Titan, etc.).

...on the Internet.

The red heading means you're a logged in user with enough karma to get a preview of the story before it goes live for everyone. I've seen it a few times, but it usually doesn't take long before its public and open (typically by the time I've refreshed the page).

More like, have fun typing.

Missed step:

6) PROFIT!

Why is there not a 'Sad Truth' moderation?