In a fit of rage, John Carmack was seen launching an armadillo into orbit.

That must be why every time I ask a second question in Grok, it says "Server are overloaded; try again later". Blah. When it works, it's fine, but I get much more reliable [free tier] results from ChatGPT.

And then they did it again in Interstellar! Sheesh, these rocket surgeons never learn.

I was on 1.7.10 for years. I only switched to 1.12.2 because the Manufactio 2 modpack looked like fun. I am disheartened at how much my elaborate factories will cause lag, but if Vulkan can in any way improve that (albeit in a new release), I'm all ears.

That's very interesting. And yet, the elites continue to build and buy palatial homes along the coast.

They can eliminate them, but then they would surely raise the price of coach seats to compensate. No, thank you! I'm perfectly OK with deep-pocketed fliers subsidizing us hoi polloi.

The USA is a big place. Our stuff is pretty spread out. How else would you propose we get from point A to point B?

I didn't know pollution was measured in kilowatt-hours.

Duh. Naming people is racist.

Why? Their margins were too low. There are plenty of other makes that still make good cars.

52 square miles is pretty big. I don't see how one "large AI data center" could make a dent in the crabs' commitment.

...Maybe dumping large amounts of heated water offshore?

"For venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) firms, dry powder refers to the amount of committed, but unallocated capital a firm has on hand. In other words, it’s an unspent cash reserve that’s waiting to be invested."

https://pitchbook.com/blog/what-is-dry-powder

We need a community-curated list of technological breakthroughs and their followups that make it to the front page of Slashdot. There's been some amazing R&D reports posted, and pretty regularly there will be one or more comments about how we'll never see it commercialized "because big will bury it", etc.

This article won't age well. I expect it will be laughable in 3-5 years. We ought to bookmark it.

Off-topic for me to say, but I just started reading The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis last night, and the first chapter i believe answers this. Basically, fear != dread != awe, and yet experiencing all of them can be translated to English as "afraid". The example he uses is you feel fear if there's a tiger in the next room, dread if it's a ghost, and awe if it's "a mighty spirit". It's the latter "fear" we owe to God.