This was the peak of hardware quality -- also including humans. While plenty of other gear made at that time was of poor quality, the very best space probes -- and the very smartest and best looking humans -- were made at that time. If you were not in the womb during Voyager 1&2 launches, you suffer from ongoing enshittification of everything.
A million times this! Not once in the past 20 years have I ever pointed the finger at an image as the reason why a page is bogged down. Since I installed script blocking, slow sites are almost always showing an attempt to access *dozens* of 3rd party domains that I restrict by default. This site? It's only using 2 other domains, fsdn and cloudfront. Slashdot loads just as fast as it always has.
Dark Star was aired on late night TV several times in my teens. We're talking late, late night--after SNL crazy late. Something about being a teenager that makes you want to be up at that hour. I probably never saw the whole thing in one sitting, but I know I got to the end once. I admired the gritty, dirty look of it all vs. the unrealistic cleanliness of 2001 or Star Trek. When the Soviet space station Mir began to age and grow mold I was immediately reminded of it. A space station that was behaving like a rundown trailer meant we had arrived in the world of sci fi--the world predicted by Dark Star.
The original "things I won't work with" said there was actually a Chinese supplier listed, and he poked fun of them for listing a 1kg container because as far as he knew that much had never been created. That was not the cause, but the idea that somebody might order it and they would actually attempt fulfillment made me think of this.
This was out there on other sites last week. I read the bill, it's pretty short. My first thought was "What about crop dusting?" but if you RTFB, you see that you have to be releasing those chemicals for the *purpose* of affecting the things on the list. So. It doesn't ban contrails, crop dusting, or other normal activities. It's still silly, it's just that it seems to cover most of what people might see as unintended consequences--except possibly cloud seeding, which isn't very common anyway.
China, while not nice internally, doesn't invade foreign countries every a few years, and can wait more than 10 years between launching new genocides. Muscovy, on the other hand...
The exploit specifically checks for being run via
It's high time to remove Muscovy from the UN Security Council. There's a precedent: a member of the permanent council has been replaced before.
But for that purpose, you need to be using email not gmail: the former is reliable (either delivers to the target or returns failure), while the latter keeps randomly losing mails from any server other than Google itself.
I just had a word with "fuck", and he said "kill" and its various forms are not in the club.
This is an annoying trend, and the fact that the summary botched the number of asterisks makes it extra annoying. It seems like it started with r*pe, which made me wonder if somebody got a rope and killed themselves. (Oh no! He said killed). IIRC, rape may have been in our elementary school dictionary; kill definitely was. THESE ARE NOT DIRTY WORDS.
Is... is it official? Did Millenials ruin swearing, or it it more of a GenZ thing?
The local time already differs from solar time by 1-2 hours in most places, by more in eg. China. And use cases that actually care about accuracy already apply their corrections, with far more precision that legal time could reasonably do.
Endless real growth is unsustainable, but nominal monetary "growth" can be infinite. You just keep sending out stimulus checks, and as long as you do it in response to crises that would otherwise be deflationary it won't cause the hyper-inflation that so many gold bugs (and later bitcoiners) have forecast. Instead, we'll slow-walk towards a mixed UBI/capitalist economy, maybe even a Star Trek economy or as some have joked, "Full Luxury Gay Space Communism". It has to be managed properly though, and that's my big concern. Over-shooting on the dole-outs can definitely cause hyper-inflation. Idle minds can definitely be led by demagogues and sink us in to some kind of left or right extremism. Economists and politicians with vision have to come together and handle this with something other than ideology driven by Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, or Marx.
Not even that. It's a new keycap on the existing Menu key.
Very future-proof. Properly cared for, it may be possible to play vinyl centuries from now. There are already Edison cylinders over 100 years old, and the composition of modern records may be even more stable.
The CD-format hasn't changed in decades, but it's still wrapped up with some fairly advanced technology that's much more easily lost if society breaks down. CDs have only been subject to simulated aging tests at best, no real world experience with it as a century-long archiving format.
Meanwhile, Intel's Horse Creek is still vapourware...
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
