Think of how shitty and scam filled the early internet was. Did we abandon it because of how shitty it was at first, or did we develop it and tweak it to it’s full potential?

I have been on the internet since 1992, and the internet today is by far the shittiest and most scam infested it has ever been in my time (and I doubt it was worse in the 80s)

Few things make me more depressed than thinking about the evolution of the internet, from where it started to where it is today.

I don’t doubt AI will follow a similar path, except somehow it is already starting in a much worse place than the internet ever did, and the downside potential is far greater and frightening.

Other countries took photos of the Apollo landing sites as well, including China.

The best ones so far were taken by the Indian Chandrayaan orbiters.

Really shows how deep this conspiracy goes ! :)

Current scientific consensus is that contrails are a net contributor to warming (they trap more heat from escaping the atmosphere than they prevent from entering overall) - but it’s a complex phenomena that’s difficult to model, so studies vary a lot in estimating the magnitude of this effect - from being a fraction of airplane CO2 emissions, to being several time that.

…or it gets the hose again, added Rubio.

Perpetual bonds are an actual thing

Funny enough, the origin of that character is 姦 - which goes all the way back to the earliest forms of Chinese writing (the bronze inscriptions) and was a pictogram of 3 women together, which represented “evil, treacherous, traitor, adulterer” and similar. 奸 was a later variant form with same meaning (the 干 was added as a phonetic component, and 3 女 were reduced to just 1), which was later adopted as the simplified form of traditional 姦.

I am still getting monthly updates on my Fenix 7X, with bugfixes and sometimes new features - 23.48 was released on 12/5

My Fenix 5 got last updated in 2022, but still works fine despite being almost 9 years old, still on the original battery too.

I worked at Bell Labs in the 90s, on wireless stuff, but we were still using the “in house” cfront compiler at the time, and would e-mail the compiler group, which included Bjarne Stroustrup, with issues sometimes. I learned C++ from his book before I joined Bell Labs, so that was a bit of a holy shit moment for sure for me then.

Kernighan, Ritchie and Thompson all still worked at Bell Labs as well at the time, but the company was huge then, and they were all in a different location from my team, so I never had any opportunities to meet them.

I can’t even imagine buying a track car that you can’t change brake pads on… I used to do track days with my daily driver back in the day, and would usually swap pads at least twice in a weekend (street to track, and back to street) I could do all 4 wheels in under 30 minutes in the paddock, no big deal.

At some tracks I could kill a set of new street pads in 2 days. So I started switching to track compound pads, which held up to high heat and repeated heavy braking much better - but those were terrible when cold, really had to be warmed up to work properly, so they were to the point of being dangerous to drive on the street.

And that was with a sub-3000 lbs car. The Ioniq 5 N is almost 5000 lbs, it must be absolute murder on pads.

You can keep a short position for a long time, as long as you can maintain margin, which gets bigger if the stock price continues increasing, and pay margin interest. Sometimes the lender who loaned you the stock can ask for it back, and if you can’t locate any more shares to borrow to replace the returned shares, you might be forced to buy the shares back and close the short, but this is not common, at least during normal market conditions.