... take your Mac down to the rifle range and use it as a target.

It's the only way to be sure.

Because she's gonna be rich pretty soon.

As long as it's my hand on the lever, I'm OK with the outcome.

... because when Israeli intelligence breeches FBI security, they don't deface the home page.

The OPM subcontractors "lost" government employee records (including security clearance information) so many times, the issue is moot.

Well, something went horribly wrong between python 2.x.x and 3.x.x. Because many v2 apps won't run on v3. And the application maintainers won't port every time someone picks up the language and tinkers with it.

Well, python is currently implemented with C. so we've already gone down this road.

I just hope that the jump from 3.17 to 3.18 (python with Rust) doesn't introduce another incompatibility branch. I've already got two versions on my system and I don't want any more snakes on my plane.

Soup of the day.

Cell phone coverage is practically nil out in many areas. Yes, we did build out the cell phone network. But then we switched to 4G/5G and in promptly vanished. Gotta keep those basement-dwelling autists happy with low latency networking for their vidya games.

And actually, "we" didn't build out anything. The corporations got lots of bandwidth to offer revenue producing product providing service we were getting for free. Compare the net present value of the fees you will be paying AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile for the rest of your life to the few hundred dollars an AM/FM radio will cost you once.

... Leon Trotsky appears to have vanished from the pictures altogether.

We've already seen those photos of you in your Audi R8.

Not a great place to work. The furniture flies around too much for my liking.

The reason some people hate data centers is the increased electrical demand that they produce and the resulting draw on limited resources and price increases that may result.

Data centers in space represent no such risk.

Leave it to the crazies who hate something, want to burn it down, but don't understand why. Useful idiots.

Correction: When people were only able to read William Randolph Hearst-approved nonsense.

The media moguls of those days, Hearst, Pulitzer, Insull and others would be rolling over in their graves at the thought of plebeians having a voice that they, the elite didn't control. And they controlled the government too. Just try to run a campaign for office during the days of the old media kings and the era of the owners of the new social media. Who provide editorial control in much the same way. Just the new generation of elites that Hearst would be quite comfortable with.

A 14 year old would have seen this crunch coming. And invested heavily in semiconductor companies like Micron. Thereby making enough money that a 5x or 10x increase in memory prices means nothing in the grand scheme of things.