“Procedurally generated worlds” sounds like it could provide nearly infinite exploration, but the reality is there’s like a dozen, maybe 20, archetype worlds, and procgen is little variations around them. There are some quests required to unlock access to certain world types (eg, protect from caustic atmosphere) or to access different levels of star system. There are radiant quest systems, if you care to, but they’re mostly optional. If you just want to skip from star to star, then fly/walk around its different planets, you don’t really need to engage with the quest system very much.

I tend to do enough quests to unlock most of the gear, build one main base, then little mining/teleport stations at one of each resource type. Then get bored and move on until I think I’ve forgotten enough that replaying will be fun. From your list of preferences, there’s no exploration like Morrowind or PoE, with some magic hidden behind a corner. Wait for NMS to go on sale: you can pretty regularly find it under $30, and I think the early phase of exploration, before you start recognizing the archetypes, will be that much fun.

I grew up with them, too. Flour in the big one, sugar in the middle one. They disappeared when the kitchen got a ‘contemporary’ renovation.

Cookies had to be sealed in tupperware, so they wouldn’t dry out.

According to one of her staffers, $10M from AIPAC.

During a gold rush, you want to be the guy selling shovels.

Man, I remember reading about some culture that actually had five formal gender structures and thinking, “That makes so much sense. Why can’t we do that?” Anthropology not politics. Wish I’d bookmarked it, although said culture was probably brown people and therefore unrecognizable to the people who most need to see it.

It is excellent evidence that the founders and VCs chose exactly the right time to unload their scheme and rip off a naive public.

I mean, their yaml editor still deletes comments. If I’ve barely learned how to make something something work, a little #comment in the yaml would really help future-me know where to look to learn it all over again, or even just wtf I was thinking with some {{template}}

I wonder if that’s to keep him from running for President. Clear the field for ol’ JD Vimle.

There’s $700/month of savings hidden in the drop from $85k gross to $66k net.

I keep looking at phones with IR cameras. Thermal imaging is super handy for electro/mechanical diagnostics, and some of them are under $500.

This feels like corporate propaganda meant to discourage job seekers and make people willing to take worse jobs at worse pay. It’s full of anecdotes and emotion, and the few hard numbers are without historical context.

Labor force participation among 25-54 year olds is at all-time high. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060 It’s lower in all workers https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART but that seems likely to be influenced by early retirements and more people 18-24 staying in school longer. My favorite graph - unemployed people and unfilled jobs - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1CJfC is swinging back to more job openings than people searching.

This is not to diminish the struggle of people looking for work, or the struggle of people just to afford basic necessities. I am just suspicious of the steady drum beat of ‘times are harder now than ever before’ from corporate media, because I have heard that story constantly for years.

Probably all illegal immigrants. Does Brazil even have 4 million citizens?

/s

The GPUs they’re talking about don’t have video outputs, and I think many of them aren’t even PCIe. Even at pennies on the dollar, they’ll still be hundreds of dollars, so way easier just to get a consumer card.

All the past infrastructure bubbles, the companies that inevitably failed at least left some usable infrastructure - rails, pipelines, dark fiber… These guys are going to crash, never pay back their loans, and the acres of datacenter, containers of GPUs, and racks of servers are just going to get recycled. It’s such shocking waste that it’s hard to comprehend.

There’s gripper socks, with non-slip soles.

It’s really not the publicly disclosed vulnerabilities you need to worry about. Most of those vulnerabilities have existed for years - the recent php thing is supposedly 12 years old. Maybe someone’s been out there exploiting it for 12 years.

The people who have sought and exploited vulnerabilities since computers went online don’t disclose what they find. They are the people who should be most worried about AI-assisted vulnerability research, because it directly attacks their business model.

White women.

The obvious solution to sub-replacement fertility rate is to expand immigration. Not only does that directly increase population, but immigrant families tend to have more children. Somehow, though, the same people screaming about fertility rates are also screaming about immigration. It’s almost like they only want one particular kind of baby.

I don’t know how the others set theirs up, but I use “views” in bind 9 https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-00851

Essentially, the DNS I run on a router-like box much like you describe uses a different database depending on whether you query from an internal IP address or a public address. For me, the advantages are that I can let devices on my local network declare their own names to DHCP and enter them in DNS without worrying about the outside world. Mu internal network doesn’t crash if my ISP changes my address, Certbot happily requests certs for any site with a public address, and that cert works seamlessly on the corresponding internal address, no wildcards or DNS challenge required.

five random letters. short enough to be easily memorizable & easily communicated by voice. no homophones, even in other languages. no one going to try to buy the domain out from under you. You could try four random letters, but that runs more risk of colliding with acronyms.

As my Silent Generation relatives have been dying off, each of them has had boxes of family history - photos, sometimes dating back to early 1900s, diaries/journals, kids’ school art, yearbooks… None of it organized, few of the photos with any indication of who’s in them, where or when they were taken, even who did the art. Shoebox after shoebox of Christmas pictures. Sometimes, one of the survivors will recognize photos, but no one has ever made the effort to record the oral histories, so they will soon be just photos of strangers in mystery locations.

Organize that stuff. Curate it. Make it possible for kids to care.

So, I have to admit, if there’s a crazy guy on one street corner yelling “2 + 2 = 4,” and another down the street yelling “2 + 2 = elephant,” I will be more interested in elephant dude. More curious to figure our what’s wrong with him, how he’s managed to stay alive for so long, etc. More curious to know his opinion of 2 * 2 and 2 + 3. Definitely not going argue or push back much on the elephant claim, though.

I can imagine that political reporters, inundated with the same bland, boilerplate statements over the past two decades, would be fascinated by people spouting obvious sociopathic garbage. It does seem irresponsible to entertain that fascination, when you know that a certain part of the population can’t recognize it as obvious sociopathic garbage.