I would hope that Ea-Nasir’s grave would be where machine shops drop copper shavings, just to show that guy what high quality copper is supposed to be.

One day your Internet search history is going to traumatize a police officer.

Here’s my plan to stop the war in Ukraine. Start up a massive industrial effort to mass produce printed copies of that photo. Absolutely absurd numbers of them. Cut down forests if necessary. Load them into B52s and drop them on the front lines from high altitude to get a good scatter. Keep doing this every day for 6 months. Like 50 tones of that photo dropped every day.

I will now take exactly zero questions.

I hope they own Jones’ likeness to the point where they can give DJs the rights to remix his shouts into something of value.

Reminds me of this ropeway thing that Tom Scott covered that doesn’t require power input either, for similar reasons:

https://youtu.be/6RiYXI1Tfu4

Niche application but still cool.

“the greatest argument against democracy is a conversation with the average voter”

In this case YouTube can do literally anything they want due to the lack of real alternatives. Hosting videos for free, for anyone (and any number of viewers) to watch, for free, is rather predictably not a very profitable business model. If you want to see what it takes to actually be profitable with such a model, look at the average free porn site. Extremely intrusive ads everywhere. If you don’t want to pay, and ads are the only revenue, advertisers are the customer, not you.

It’s dated, and ancient compared to the shit we spew, but it soo pure and clear (when you get the ear for it).

I am not a scholar, I can’t analyse prose or poetry, but his writing is cleansing and lights up the brain - especially if you have a fetish for reasonableness.

I know exactly what you mean and I’ve never quite had the words to describe this type of writing. It’s definitely old fashioned to our eyes, but it’s so dense with meaning. I felt the same reading some of the landmark SCOTUS decisions of the Warren court during the civil rights era.

I remember the first time I used MapQuest and I was absolutely amazed that it could just figure out the route automatically.

“unrealized gains” that you can somehow live off of indefinitely.

It’s congealed leprechaun jizz.

Charlize Theron is one of the most beautiful women of all time and won her Oscar for playing someone…not that. What I’m saying is that I honestly think Kathy Bates has the acting chops to pull it off.

The wise thing is to not offer perpetual licenses in the first place. You can’t predict the state of your business in 10 years let alone beyond that. Why make commitments that? Marketing of course. So if they’re going to raise capital that way (by one-time revenue from sales of perpetual licenses) then they can’t just decide that perpetual doesn’t mean perpetual anymore. All in all this will come down to a legal duel between expensive legal teams.

Because they make it easy and do a few cool things.

“Do you want a mic in your home that can record everything you say and do and send that data off to wherever the company chooses?”

“No of course not.”

“What about of it will also turn your lights on and off and play despacito on demand?”

“You son of a bitch, sign me up”.

The fact that this tweet caused their stock price to dive really shows what a joke the stock market is .

But it doesn’t work when every manufacturer puts those stickers on literally everything just in case.

Stargazer. Among the companies that smooth out the surface of their pans (a think any company could trivially do but don’t) , they cost the least. My info is a few years out do date though.

Did you have 3 strokes while typing that comment?

https://youtu.be/gLrraUzG24w

The power argument is true, but secondary. The primary reasons for this are ultimately financial. The problem was that Windows 7 was too good. Too stable. It did everything most people wanted, without issues. What has been added to windows after windows 7 that was actually beneficial to the user? The answer is nothing, within a small margin of error. That’s why upgrades to W10 and now 11 are as forced as possible. It’s not like those uogrades have anything that people actually need or want. Since they can’t produce anything more for windows that people would actually want to pay for, all that is left is adding in telemetry/spyware and selling your data, likely along side a long term vision to turn Windows into a monthly subscription.

When innovation ends but demand for increasing profits doesn’t, enshittification is all that is left.