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I feel like parent post is maybe joking/being sarcastic? If not they are kinda proving the point.

I would also add it's easier to download and set up than Minecraft. I still have nightmares about setting up various Microsoft and Xbox accounts and trying to help my kid play with her friends. IMO that Roblox doesn't have this friction is huge

They could just cease all shipping. The consequences would be legendary.

Bring back the key signing parties!

p.s. @patrickmay: jinx!

> They were in the software licensing printing money business

I mean what do you expect them to do, I'm sure the OracleDB exodus has been long ongoing and they probably saw the writing on the wall years ago

For me it's not the fingers, it's the eyesight.

The question is what happens after they are gone?

It strikes me that both these views are selfish, in that they focus on direct impact on one's life. But what about the broad impact on society for the descendants? What if by abdicating procreation we create conditions where only communities that force childbearing survive? Ought we not figure out a system where we can have both freedom and equality, as well as a sustainable population?

No no no use it more, make sure to use up as much tokens as possible. They do inference at a loss

> Reminds me of Blaise Pascal's quote: 'All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.'

Ah but this is where modern technology comes in! Social media, Tiktoks, video games, porn...

Should we discuss DNS root servers at some point too?

I pitched a "crit Doritos" idea to Pepsi just recently, but sadly they haven't implemented it :-)

I'm pretty sure if I followed this advice I'd get fired, arrested, or both. Nice aspiration but not practical for everyone

I'm going to guess that having too many kids would be a happy problem for them (and most gentrified Western societies)

I'm not sure even wealthy America is better off. They might have their $3M mansion in a nice town but it will still have no sidewalks, be 2 miles from school, and an hour from major city center.

The last time I used telnet was... today actually, to debug our memcached cluster :-D

OK to be fair it might not be THE telnet protocol but still.

These kinds of resignations are interesting. The character is such a good protagonist, he resigns rather than do Bad Thing. But that pretty much guarantees the boss will hire someone more pliable. Why not instead swallow the pride and do Bad Thing but with some level of moderation? That would surely be a better outcome overall.

The argument is that it would destroy the character's honor or whatever. But that is also a kind of sacrifice for the greater good. Maybe a lot of those are in fact happening but just not visible.

I think if artificial wombs ever succeed it will turn the world upside down

Looks like it might be opt-in by server.

I had that same epiphany when I discovered AI is great at writing complicated shell command lines for me. I had a bit of an identity crisis right there because I thought I was an aspiring Unixhead neckbeard but in truth I hated the process. Especially the scavenger hunt of finding stuff in man pages.

Ironically I feel like this may force schools to get better at the core mission of teaching, vs. credentialing people for the next rung on the ladder. What replaces that second function remains to be seen.

Makes me wonder if they are getting ripe for disruption. Not by a new business model, but a new operating model where a CEO will be tech/ai-aware and push through all these kinds of things.

There could be some compelling reasons for one.

- Services like maids or cleaners are usually scheduled, maybe you have to wait and open the door etc. Maybe they can't make it that day because of snow storm etc.

- Services are normally limited to certain hours. With a remote operator, the robot could do laundry all night ran by someone in a different time zone.

- If needed could be operated in shifts.

- Other new use cases could arise, e.g. wellness check on elderly, help if fallen or locked out etc.

I think if they are teleoperated they could make sense, or at least more than the device-local versions

Finally the year of Minitel on the desktop!

> built-in “cassette interface” of the PC (that was hardly ever used)

Wait a minute, what?? How did I not know about this.

People keep saying that prices of panels keep falling, and yet any time I look at getting panels on my roof the price is the same $3/W it has been for 10 years already.

I really don't get the Greenland thing. Is there some 4D chess reason for it? The US already has military bases there and could probably have as many more as they wanted if they just asked nicely. So the whole security thing is a pretext

I was thinking the time for the old PGP Web of Trust idea might have finally come [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

Wow, lots of insiders contributing lore in this article's comments. I appreciate you all!