Strawman. I never said people weren't for it. We've clearly seen the British are all fucking idiots. It doesn't have to be a "conspiracy." The push for individual digital identification has been out there in the public for years.

I remember getting an e-mail for purchasing Google Glass. They were pretty expensive ($1k or $2k NZDI think?). Glad I didn't get them since they were killed off and were paperweights within a few years. There are some videos of people who have gotten some more life out of them, but all the original apps and services for it are gone.

I hope there's a growth in Invidious usage.

Social media is bad for adults. This has nothing to do with children what so ever. It has to do with pushing for more identity verification to permanent identified each and every person with every single online request they make. It's the telescreen spying on everything you do. Anyone who thinks this has anything to do with protecting youths is not realizing what's really in play here.

I wish that cancerous blight on humanity could have been avoided, but in the early days people did run Minecraft servers locally and even dead games like Star Wars Galaxies have gotten reverse engineered implementations:

https://github.com/ProjectSWGC...

So I guess that evil would be unavoidable.

Half of our recent candidates can't even get past the most basic phone screening.

"What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS?"

"Well , I know HTTPS is the secure version."

"Well, what makes it secure?"

There is so much opportunity is this fucking basic technology question to show off what you know. You can talk about CAs, (browser and system), how websites identify themselves, how people use to pay a lot of certs but now we have LetsEncrypt, how even some of the paid cert providers now use ACME challenges LetsEncrypted pioneered, man-in-the-middle, certification revocation ... or hell, just fucking say it initiates a public/private key exchange! I'd even take "Secure Socket Layer," (even though it's TLS now) as a fucking bare minimum for our mid-level opening.

Zero clue what-so-ever. Some people can explain SQL-injection, but barely. If you're not out west, the talent pool is pretty bad out there.

> tell him

Tell It. It's an algorithm that creates predictive text that's sometimes useful. Not him, it.

I was thinking Steve Urkel. Man .. that guy's character is really creepy in retrospect. He kept obsessing over, and was even rewarded for obsessing over, a girl who was not remotely interested in him.

This goes back really far with Blizzard. I think it was 2000 or 2001 when they sent a cease and desist to an open source project called bnetd. It let you host your own Warcraft I/II and Starcraft games. It could also allow people to use pirated betas of Warcraft 3 in multiplayer mode on a local network. Back in this year, Counterstrike was still a mod and everyone hosted games locally using the free Half-Life server Valve provided (that could run on Linux).

Gamers should have turned away from games that didn't allow local hosting, but not enough did and here we are.

The point was quite obvious in context. You stated, and I quote:

"Two years of testing and development doesn't seem unrealistic."

I pointed out the obvious. It's been over 50% longer than that.

But beyond that, "solid state battery is eternally a few years away" has been a thing for well over a decade at this point. It's the same marketing category as "fusion on planet's surface is 50 years away" and "lithium air batteries are 20 years away".

Water is wet.

This sort of "let's state the obvious and pretend something so profound was uttered so it can stand on its own with no other commentary"-posting is not helpful.

Racing gliders are a specific subset of gliders that are optimized for higher speed gliding. They generally are single seaters (with some exceptions of two seaters in one behind the other configuration).

Most important difference is fuselage and wing shaping to generate optimal laminar flow at different speeds compared to normal gliders. I.e. those are the ones that get best glide ratios at 100kt and up.

Most people don't seem to know that the reason why gliders have that distinct shape is because they're optimized for laminar flow around at a very specific subset of speeds. Going off that subset in either direction disrupts the flow, generating eddies and therefore increasing turbulence and drag.

I suspect you're thinking racing gliders. This is a side by side seating glider with a wide canopy.

Well over three years.

For the record, this is a modded powered glider. These can fly way more than 600 miles, provided that terrain and weather conditions are suitable. Current record for a glider is over 3000km.

But you need specific geographic conditions for that sort of flight, where winds hit the mountains sitting next to a large body of water causing incoming wind to reliably rise up on one side of the mountains, and then going down the other side. Glider rides this constantly rising air. I.e you need something like Andes.

Propulsion is something you use to take off and give glider a push up when it can't find rising air for a prolonged period of time.