Remember - the Federation reserved the Death Penalty for making AI Androids.
Noonian Soong had to exile himself to a remote planet outside Federation control to work on Data and Lore (and his sexbot...).
They needed people to be able to have jobs *that* badly.
Which
I recently got a "plastic" target that changes color and the holes mostly self-heal if you don't use a hollow-point.
Good for plinking but they do wear out eventually.
I didn't even know this material existed before a buddy told me they were on Amazon. Amazing times, for sure.
Heck, I picked up some 100-lb test fishing line the other day that is some sort of braided heavy-chain polyethylene that is 11 times stronger than steel wire at the same size. The company made mechanical spinnerets to mimic spiders' to get it to work.
Again, I had no idea until a buddy told me it was $20 on Amazon.
Wild.
Back in the day we'd install wild boards that would upgrade the Mac CPU's by a generation or two, add FPU's, etc.
All of this depended on the systems being too expensive to replace or buy new except once in a blue moon.
At $600 which is probably $200 in 1986 money, it's a bit harder to be mad.
Those systems were probably $10K in 2025 dollars. Heck, a few were $10K in 1986 dollars.
*nerd alert*
The original script had The Matrix running in parallel on all the human brains.
Studio execs said that was too confusing and that they should be batteries.
Also Neo is seen on the Nebuchadnezzar with hundreds of acupuncture-looking needles with wires to get his muscles working while he's in a coma.
Writers should have been left alone (a story old as time).
The Earth has frequently been much warmer than it is today and coral reefs grew much faster then.
Perhaps they have a fine point to make but the implications fly in the face of established evidence.
And not shaky evidence - you can go vacation on huge islands made of these old reefs, from when the oceans were higher.
You can go visit Chazy Fossil Reef today and see coral fossils 480 million years old, from when Northern Vermont was a tropical marine environment.
These data aren't disputed in the field.
Throw up a cursive CAPTCHA.
As a Fiver (not Fiverr), gotta love the folk bragging on having (or losing) 6-digit accounts. Way to make me feel old.
The company had 762 employees as of December last year.
Given their "self-service" business model, why did Fiverr need 762 employees to begin with?
I was 100% C=64 before I transitioned to Apple ][ before I went IBM-PC DOS, briefly Windows/OS2 Warp, then MacOS, then 100% linux, and added Android later.
(sprinkle in some brief CP/M, BeOS, and NetBSD sidequests)
I'll deal with the shift to the next phone platform OK, I think.
I should probably dust off my Pine64 and try the latest builds again. It's been a few years since they were unusable as a daily driver.
Folks, this might be a huge opportunity if you correctly pick the successor and are the first developers.
I love these retro stories from 2012.
What a blast from the past!
This is a retro story from 2012, right?
> Python isn't perfect with its syntactically meaningful whitespace nonsense
I know a programmer with a visiospatial disability.
Braces are fine. Python is literally impossible.
I looked at a few 'Python with braces' preprocessors for her but they all seemed to be half-done and not really usable.
I'm not quite sure why.
It's a dumb reason to shut someone out of an entire software ecosystem. Almost every other language is accessible to her.
Or information on the murder of their whistleblower.
It's odd how every time I need to look at a Vimeo it stutters and buffers like it's 1997 no matter what device, OS, or network I'm on.
Literally the only video site that this happens to me. I thought it was my DSL line back in 2009 but home gigabit has been a thing for a while and oddly similar results.
If I understand what TFS is saying, check out The Why? Files for an example of what people like in a show with good production values (it did have a Midjourney rough patch).
"True Crime" seems lame to me but I'm not a chick so that doesn't matter.
"The Telepathy Tapes" is an investigative series that blew up the Internet.
This sounds like the NPR dweebs realized that their product was popular due to scarce distribution. Now distribution is democratized and listeners have choice.
People have long reported that taking a B vitamin supplement keeps mosquitoes away.
Beer drinking is well known to deplete B vitamins.
Consider that you might be dietarily or genetically deficient in B's. It's probably not your haircut or magnetic personality.
I like Life Extension's Two-Per Day. Good blend, cheap for the potency.
I would have bought at 5.2mm.
The case adds 6.1mm so how can they excuse a gargantuan 5.6mm?
Know Thy User.
