Rhaedas

As a conversational AI, I found this rather funny.

It wasn’t that hard. Don’t ask how I know. 5 cents a minute doesn’t seem like a lot even in 80s dollars, but…well, time flies… And it’s true, that bill only shows up once a month, by then the damage is done.

instead of sinking into the depths, surface water is being replaced by deep water masses rising to the surface, bringing with them heat and carbon dioxide (CO₂) that had been trapped for centuries.

Well, that’s bad. You know what line I haven’t seen much anymore if any, maybe because it was overdone so much. “Worse than expected”

Yeah, otherwise it would have been very hard before they came into being.

It was fun to learn how things work, and when things worked as planned (finally). It’s when they didn’t work that got annoying and frustrating, and with assembly language with basically no error codes or any help, it was just…nope, that wasn’t right. Maybe followed by cycling the computer off and on because it locked up. Still have my old Mapping the Commodore 64 book on the shelf. Huge resource.

I understood your point fine. I indeed started out with first Commodore BASIC and then into 6502, all using the manuals because there wasn’t much else of a source back then.

I was there. I was one of them. I just chose to use tools to make my life easier. Call me a sell out, I guess.

no Google

I do not believe you.

Arch Linux

Okay, fine. A rare sighting.

150 alone for a range isn’t terrible for certain markets (local use), but you better have fast recharge and everything else great. You’re right though that at this point most everyone is offering higher.

Past few years it seems that I’ve heard good things about Hyundai’s EVs, as opposed to the years of problems with their gas cars. I think I got the last generation that they build well, after was when the problems started hitting the fan.

From the novel, Sulu had the most appropriate reaction in his test, follow the rules. Scotty had the best though, new physics was discovered thanks to his actions.

I’d rather not given what comes between. Can we instead get the future of the civilization in Strange New World’s pilot episode? They got the advantage of learning from the mistakes Earth made before they did the same and leapfrogged into the better stuff.

My non-scientific gut feeling is that regardless of what we do, we’re too late to stop the natural feedbacks already in progress. Which was the problem all along - humans were never the sole cause of global warming, they were the catalyst with their emissions to set things rolling. Even twenty years ago if we had done everything right and stopped emissions, we had already pushed the environment to change. And we didn’t, so we’ve been pushing that boulder down the hill even as it gains its own momentum. Smart, we are. The boulder will stop when it stops, not when we wish it.

If you’re okay with reading Star Trek novels, “Prime Directive” is a great one, and really goes into detail on the grayness of having such a simple rule (that no one can or does follow well). And this time it was totally accidental (I guess they often are) but with big consequences to main TOS characters.

“The First Duty” was the Academy episode. “Measure of a Man” is the courtroom one where Data was going to be taken for research. “Your Honor, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life; well, there it sits! - Waiting.”

But he wasn’t. At least in the movie version, he and Banner had failed a few times, maybe more we didn’t see on screen. Something happened when Tony wasn’t there that sparked Ultron to become aware and catch Jarvis off guard. I’d give him credit for getting it 99% of the way there, same with Vision, but he didn’t make that final jump, it happened on its own.

And Jarvis wasn’t AGI. Seems like it to us, but since Ultron was apparently the big moment of A(G)I in the MCU even with Jarvis being around all that time, he was just a very flexible and even self-aware scripting that would never do something on his own accord, only following Tony’s orders. I think even Ultron catches on to that in the brilliant few seconds of waking and realization with his “why do you call him Sir?”

Flyby: the interplanetary odyssey of Voyager 2 (1987) by Joel Davis is a fascinating read about the behind the scenes to get things to work. Back then it was an amazing feat both in the results it gave and how they did it despite lots of problems. That we’re still seeing such miracles of science is incredible.

I’ll add to the bias. I created both a kbin account and a Lemmy.one account when the migration happened. Preferred kbin’s look and feel, then changed over to mbin when Ernest started having issues. Haven’t looked back, mbin is great.

The official homeless number for 2024 in the US was 771,480. That’s probably just reported and not actual.

The interest is payment for incentive to keep that money in inventory for the bank’s use. As long as there is someone actively in control of the account, like his lawyers, then they’d love to have a static amount (plus the added interest) to invest elsewhere.