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Once TNG hit syndication, it literally was what our local NBC station would air right after I got off the school bus.

What I’ve wanted to see is for someone to stuff the recording hardware from a VCR and a raspberry pi into a VHS cassette to constantly write new video to a tiny loop of tape.

Kind of like those 3.5mm to audio cassette adapters for old car stereos.

I think I missed this one (or lost in the flood of news). Got a link?

All I can find now is him pushing conspiracy theories about it.

Him actually celebrating would be the sort of thing that might convince some MAGA leaning folks I know to change their mind.

“…this article does not rely on Sun as a sympathetic victim.”

Right. The article is saying the basic argument stands whether you like Sun or not.

Does the person have children? If so then the law benefits more than just the driver, even if they are the only one on the road.

We already have a precedent of compelling parents to pay child-support.

I don’t know if I’m really advocating for a nanny state, but last month I went to the funeral of a friend that was driving without a seatbelt and was alone on the road. Now his pregnant wife has to raise their child alone.

I guess what I’m trying to say is: Wear a seatbelt.

You may not have any concern for your own safety, but there’s probably somebody who does.

Agreed. I noticed myself having a harder time stopping at the end of the day since I started using AI tools in earnest.

I naturally have a hard time stopping when almost done with something, but with AI everything feels "close" to a big breakthrough.

Just one more turn... Until suddenly it's way later than I thought and hardly have time to interact with my family.

I remembered enjoying the book, so having not read it in a long time, I tried sharing Surely You're Joking with my kids at bedtime.

That chapter wasn’t the only thing I ended up skipping or heavily editing.

* Picking a room at Los Alamos with a window facing the women’s housing, but being disappointed that a tree or something blocked his view. (Wasn’t he also married at this point?)

* Starting a new Uni faculty position and hanging out at student dances, dismayed that girls would stop chatting & dancing with him when they learned he was a prof and not a fellow student.

* Hanging out at strip clubs to practice his drawing skills.

* Considering a textbook sales rep’s offer to help him find “trouble” in Vegas.

So maybe that one chapter turns around some at the end, but it’s not the only cringe-worthy moment in the book, and I can see why some people may have an overall negative opinion.

If I were going to do this with my kids now that they are teens, I wouldn’t filter as much and use the more questionable events as points of discussion.

When I was six, a cousin about to leave for college gave me his 2600, my first console.

With it came not one, but two (!) copies of E.T. So I had a backup in case I accidentally dropped one in a pit or sinkhole…

Anyone have experience chaos testing Postgres?

I was reading this the other day looking for ideas on how to test query retries in our app. I suppose we could go at it from the network side by introducing latency and such.

However, it’d be great if there also was a proxy or something that could inject pg error codes.

I mean, the title is a quote from Buckaroo Banzai. Lack of context is part of the fun!

Nice! I worked on something similar as an undergrad project years ago, setting up beams with different orbital angular momentum characteristics. Was a lot fun working in the lab. Sadly I didn’t have the focus/grit to finish writing a paper (sorry Dr. Singh). Side note, this was in 2007 and the folks in our optics lab would check the location of beams by grabbing from the stacks of ancient punchcards lying around and waving them next to the apparatus.

This paper has a pretty similar setup, but adds a spatial light modulator (like a DLP projector that can control phase as well as brightness).

What is wild to me is that the researchers here are able to create a beam where the angular moment changes as you move away.

Plus the really cool spiral patterns.

Might be rough on battery life, but perhaps pulsing an SOS with the flashlight?

An approach we've done is to use Postgres' "create database foo2 template foo1" syntax to essentially snapshot the db under test at various points and use those to rollback as needed.