stoolpigeon

You might enjoy Beckey Chamber's Galactic Commons series. She does a great job of creating all kinds of interesting characters and exploring them and what makes them unique.

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell is very compelling.

And I seconded it below but I'll mention it again - the Bobiverse series is excellent with amazing exploration.

The Bob series by Dennis E. Taylor is amazing, and I highly recommend it. Very positive, very creative.

SpaceX is reusing spaceships, landing them, catching rockets in chopstick contraptions. But a spaceship that lands near its launchpad can also land anywhere in the world. In an hour. Loaded with military might.

No - no they can't. Referencing Starship Troopers is appropriate because this is fiction.

In my friend group - those with a Commodore 64 were at the top. The Vic-20 was the middle and the Sinclair the bottom. My one friend with a Tandy Color Computer had no idea what he was doing, his family just had money.

I'm the same - I call it "pseudoambidextrous".

I lived in Europe for 10 years and that was nice as far as eating goes. Here in the USA I always try to grab a left corner so I'm not bumping elbows with anyone.

I had an uncle just like us, my son is a true full on lefty.

I enjoy the camera for backing up.

I was surprised at how many athletes for other nations live and train the ihe US

I think it would be interesting to see all medals grouped this way, regardless of the country the athlete represented.

I think point 3 of the grand parent indicates admins were not given an opportunity to test this.

My company had a lot of Azure vms impacted by this and I'm not sure who the admin was who should have tested it. Microsoft? I don't think we have anything to do with crowdstrike software on our vms. ( I think - I'm sure I'll find out this week.)

Edit: I just learned the Azure central region failure wasn't related to the larger event - and we weren't impacted by the crowd strike issue - I didn't know it was two different things. So my second part of the comment is irrelevant.

I wouldn't say almost nothing. But the more domain specific things get the less I can track.

My big takeaway has been when that happens, I remind myself I'm not fit to judge if a comment is good/right or not. I try to get a feel for the context of conversations and just kind of mentally file it away.

I've learned a lot here over the years and the discussions sometimes remind of the good old days on slashdot.

I had a discussion with an engineer from John Deer, I'm not a farmer and don't have direct experience with it so I am taking his word but he told me in most cases the person in the tractor is just there to monitor what's going on for safety. I imagine this frees up people for other work if someone maybe less qualified can be in the tractor, or just takes the load off so they can work longer, allow them to do more in less time, etc.

The Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol is also a part of the lore and symbology for the band. I think that the use of the name is a 'clue' to the meaning of the symbol. The recent new release is the first time I think they've stated this explicitly.

I never thought about this - I'm aware of Bacon and the mathematicians - but not other famous people.

This is cool - my Winston Churchill number is 3.

Number 3 makes it worth it alone. If I buy something I want to be able to back it up and own it.

Number 2 is awesome because when people publish without DRM, effectively I don't need to worry about the format.

The first has never been that big a deal to me but I'll always have it on a machine I use for the other two.

I don't usually photograph places and stuff but I do take pictures of people I care about in places and in front of stuff. That I enjoy. But the really cool buildings and things I usually grab a picture online that's way better than what I would make.

You keep equating killing an industry with killing people - this is a false comparison.

Ending the use of coal saves human lives and does not take any human lives. The batman comparison is irrelevant.

No longer using asbestos saved lives and didn't take lives. Removing lead from consumer products saves lives and didn't take lives.

I'm sure you there were people in the asbestos industry who weren't happy about the change and they would have gladly gone on giving people cancer. Just like people in the coal industry still bemoan the fact they can't keep killing as many people.