Maybe they block them less, if they know that many users will use them. Block VPN users now and it blocks some nerds and "pirates", block these IPs and it blocks a lot of Firefox users.
I imagine there aren't very many Firefox users who aren't nerds and/or "pirates" these days. 10-15 years ago, maybe, but today, I don't see many people (myself excluded) using Firefox in my day-to-day.
and then he got high!
Damn you! (truly, I blame myself) I should've seen that coming, but didn't.
Damn you.
In my entire life, I've only been to, as best I recall, three movies where there was an intermission. One was a Star Wars/Empire double feature, one was the theatrical release of three episodes of The Chosen, and I just found out the third was in my imagination. When I saw Glory in 1989, it was the first time I had to get up and go pee during a movie. No intermission.
Oh! Wait a minute, didn't the Lord of The Rings movies have intermissions? Maybe my count was short by 3.
As I recall, TLotR movies did not. I've never been in a movie theater with an intermission.
I did see a movie in 2025 in theaters. I was content with the decision to go, but it takes something of substance for me to want to. That said, I haven't seen very many movies released post The Hobbit approach the 222 minute runtime of Lawrence of Arabia.
That does not -- repeat, does not make you a part of any radiation belt.
But...the galaxy is on Orion's belt...
[golf clap]
Last I flew (last month) I don't think I ran into any of these issues. Plane was clean, reasonable, etc.
11. Stopping the service of excessive alcohol, honestly, how bombed do you need to get?
This makes your sig even funnier.
It's not just on airplanes. People using the speaker on their devices in public places like coffee shops, restaurants, movie theaters, etc., have become an extreme, difficult to avoid annoyance. I don't want to hear someone's conversation, the music they like, or whatever rage-filled commentator they're addicted to. It's an aggressive intrusion into my sonic space, and I'd like to see rules made against it and enforced.
It gets even worse. People are literally watching videos on their phone in stalls at my office. Regularly. I don't want to be hearing your pundit's analysis of last night's sportsball game while relieving my bladder or bowels. And the worst part is, I've heard multiple different feeds at the same time, so it's not just one bad apple.
"A sixth camera is one too many!"
This is what happens when the government lets people pick which hand gets the sex-monitoring chip. In hindsight, we shouldn't have left it to them.
Correct, it is only acceptable to put it in the right! The left is unacceptable!
Except, based on Reddit, many of the people canceling were canceling their FREE ChatGPT accounts. I found that funny. If anything, a free account was hurting the company as much as a $20/mo account was benefiting them.
Yes and no. Remember that those free accounts are also feeding the beast in the process. Not sure how much of that is beneficial material, but with how voracious an appetite LLMs have, every little bit counts.
Now, if there were a lot of free ones poisoning the well...those hurt the company probably as much as a $20/month account helps.
It's a bit surprising to me that the author of one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time dies and he gets about 15 comments on the Slashdot post. I guess if he had had more than a million book sales, then he would have been better known.
Worth noting that many (myself included) won't read
I only read Hyperion two or three years ago. It was a very heady book, but well written and I was appreciative of the recommendation (I think I even got it from a different
I watch a shitload of YouTube and Twitch, and I've heard his name mentioned but still don't really know who he is. What's his normal content look like? Gaming? Chatting? Deep dives?
My girlfriend is a huge fan of his. I'd never heard of him until I met her. Though, his most watched video is embarrassing to him (sorry Markiplier), most of his videos are game playthroughs with his commentary and the like, often leaning towards psychological thriller/horror games, but then things like Overcooked or the like, too. If memory serves, once he did his playthrough of Iron Lung, the developer saw a noticeable uptick in sales.
His second most watched video was equally bad.
GF and I went to see the movie in the theater a couple towns over on opening weekend because it was one of the first 60 theaters to announce they'd be carrying it. Never mind that there were two closer, better theaters airing it, we wanted to support the one that was committed to it earlier. The worst part about the movie, to me, was the projector in said theater had a small whine (probably in the neighborhood of 80 dB) and the subwoofers seemed to be either off or there was no LFE to the mix (which would surprise me).
There are lots of SQL already floating out there. Why did Google feel the need to add yet another to the mix? Does GoogleSQL genuinely offer benefits over others out there, or is it just not-invented-here syndrome?
I know nothing about GoogleSQL/ZetaSQL, but its description from its GitHub page describes it as an, "Analyzer Framework for SQL."
Furthermore, if you read TFS, you'd know this is not a new project, merely just a new name. There are easily references to its previous name (ZetaSQL) dating back beyond 2020 (a few that I quickly found dating back to 2014), so they're not, "add[ing] yet another to the mix."
Thanks for this, Spicy Autocomplete is my new favourite words.
I prefer it as Spicy Autocorrupt, personally.
Their idea of an offer you can't refuse is an offer... and you'd better not refuse.
