People used to manage...paper maps...while driving, back in the 1970's and earlier, without wrecking into people

Maybe they did, nobody noticed, news was different back then and crash stats were harder to put together.

Python is probably the wrong language. A compiled language like Java or C# seems a better fit for a staid company.

> Fingers crossed the universe is not like an 80 year old though. I'd prefer to think of it as a teenager

God will give you a choice between a doddling Biden universe or a mad-clown Trump universe.

One theory is our universe is connected to another older universe, and the, I mean our Big Bang was was like an add-on room to a house. The theory is there is some spill-over, God forgot to close the door before setting off the fireworks.

> Ten years are like a hundred in computing.

Only because most "innovation" is just recycled and repackaged ideas from the past. The fad cycle is getting faster, like seeing bell-bottom jeans every 4 years instead of every 15.

Shit, there's 500 Putins floatin' around?

Do note it wasn't profitable cheating that way, but they hoped enough venture capital would fund R&D to get the real AI good enough. Thus, they were buying time.

Whether Earth will be swallowed is hotly debated (no pun intended). It's on the borderline of swallow-vs-non-swallow such that every new bit of research seems to shift the boundary back and forth across the threshold.

A key variable is how much mass the sun will lose before it swells to Earth's orbit. Surface instability typically spits off chunks of the expiring star such that it loses mass. Mass loss will move the orbits of the planets outward, giving Earth more margin, but how much mass is lost is not well understood yet. It depends on the the star's size, rotation, and composition, which is unique for every star, and formulas that factor all 3 of these are only rough drafts.

Earth will at least be BBQ'd.

Okay, thanks, but the outskirts of galaxies are quite sparse of "regular" matter, and thus friction would be very little relative to the mass of the galaxy. Friction from ordinary matter could slow the bodies a tiny bit if they pass mostly adjacent, but not by much.

Dark matter is believed to somehow cause friction based on some things I've read (don't have link yet), and it hangs out at the outskirts of galaxies, where early passes typically occur. Thus, I'm referring to what might be called "non-baryonic friction".

Nvidia ain't sending their best. Build a Firewall!

be used to clone humans one day. Most nations may ban it, but enough will allow it that it's not going away. Rich people will be able to get clones.

Shit, the Literalians infected Picard's mind again.

Givvit up! The rumors of Linux winning the desktop there are dubious. For one, they mostly use Andrix, which requires tentacles.

You'll beat your hospital mate with a bed-pan, but otherwise keep your memory a bit longer.

Correction: cofactor