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I can’t put it into words well but it’s like if I discovered a vestigial limb attached to my body. I’d want to try firing it up.

The idea of gaining control of the management hardware like this is really exciting. Can anyone here comment on whether it could plausibly happen? I’m guessing it would require leaks from Intel because otherwise whoever develops the capability would presumably keep it close to the vest or sell it for major $ right?

So you think IBM turning into a consulting husk was a good thing?

Worth the trip for the kitten gun at 1:39.

I share your concerns about authoritarians using this occasion to bend things in a bad direction but are you asserting that the virus is not a real thing or that some group with authoritarian aims is behind its release? Because if the virus is a real thing then surely protesting by gathering into crowds and falling victim doesn’t harm the bad guys right? Help me understand if you don’t mind, serious questions it’s hard to word things so they don’t sound incendiary to one side or the other (or both) since the issue is so politically charged.

Thanks for articulating this. Well said.

I wish I had a more substantive comment beyond “wow” but this is really impressive. I’ve wanted something like this for a long time.

Are you a giant multinational that will need to convince people to store stuff on your server in the future? If not then this doesn’t apply to you so you can happily delete everything on your server.

You’re 100% correct. These things don’t happen because apparently those who can make it happen don’t actually want that outcome.

Isn’t it cruelty on top of cruelty to not address how unkind and unfair our society is and then attempt to block people’s only escape route? If the world isn’t going to become less cruel who are we to prevent individuals from escaping it?

Curiousity is killing me, what is this cursed place? I want to form my own opinion.

This is wonderful news. Anyone here get started on projects leveraging this dataset yet?

And after a collision like the one that created the moon? How habitable during a gamma ray burst?

I imagine people who are hostile to science would change their attitude after going without electricity and hot water for a couple weeks.

Serious question for better programmers than me: Doesn’t it violate seperation of concerns that something like the start menu that has a specific function and has been around for decades get smashed into the Cortana code and renamed. Cortana is clearly not core to the functionality of the start menu and if it became so it surely wasn’t out of necessity right?

It reminds me of when Microsoft was dead set on conflating the file manager “explorer” and Internet Explorer.

Can someone justify this?

I’d be really curious to hear more about your proposed quantum entanglement <-> memory formation idea.

Wow paradise-engineering.com has been up forever. I vividly remember encountering that page during one of my first forays onto the web circa ‘96 or so.

I’m all in on Apple phone-wise due to having too many Androids die on me in one year but the point about 3rd parties supporting some old hardware is very true. I have an ancient Barnes & Noble Nook tablet that I flashed with a custom rom and the thing is really snappy and responsive. The battery holds a charge and everything it’s really surprising.

I don’t have a dog in this fight but attempting to characterize anyone who has heterodox opinions on trade as anti-semitic feels pretty gross.

We are pretty sure that an impact liquified the entire surface of the Earth (creating the Moon by casting a big chunk of molten material into space). So clearly the “greatest imaginable” impact does not leave the Earth more habitable than the alternatives.

Impacts can and have liquified the entire surface of the Earth (eg the one that formed the moon). How do you plan to survive that?

Germany does a good job of owning their past it seems like.

Seems like a classic-style omnipotent god could write anything conceivable in some eternal Lisp dialect that he maintains personally. If he’s really capable of violating thermodynamics he should be able use knowledge of the future to ultra-waterfall the design and implement it flawlessly thereby completely avoiding accumulation of technical debt.

It’s fun to imagine Jesus returning in 30xx AD but this time instead of absolving the world of its accumulated sin he wipes away the accumulated technical debt of 1.5 millennia worth of corporate IT

Amen. I want to love it and I’ve tried but the file format thing is a dealbreaker. I fantasize about a fork that fixes the “projects” vs wav files issue, and in my fantasy the keybindings match Sound Forge so it’s not jarring to switch back and forth.

Can’t decide which Jurassic Park wisdom applies to this: “they were so worried about whether they could that they didn’t consider whether they should” or “Life, uh finds a way”

It feels like some of the demographics most likely to spread have overlap with groups unlikely to accept vaccinations.

Source: Live in Lansing MI where the nutty politicization of this issue is out of hand and there are redneck “anti-mask” protests seemingly once a month.

It was a bs street name made up by dealers to describe a long-lasting phenethylamine I think DOM.

Supposedly stood for “serenity, tranquility, peace”

DMT was quite niche back then and not substitutible for psilocybin as it’s not orally active. Much more likely to be a synthetic phenethylamine or tryptamine. Candidates back then would be DOM, DOI, etc.

As a huge ElectroBoom fan I’ve got to say the monobrow is actually part of the charm.

Based on your lucid comments in this thread I’m guessing you were not selected for the jury.