“The testing has gone very well”, just not so much in the US.

Stephen Gould had a great influence on me. It has always been the case that the destiny of species is extinction, and in deep time that will almost certainly hold true. But it’s hard not to imagine we could well be on the cusp of creating something that’s self-perpetuating that could long outlast our organic species…

Not obvious your idea would solve the problem. The people you owe bills to also have obligations of their own that would suffer if their income from you is postponed. And the people they owe in turn. In a pandemic the cascade of enonomic hardship will be brutal. If you’re making 100k doing work without sick leave or…

If the virus spread progresses as predicted work for Uber drivers will decline anyway until people movement returns to normal. Don’t see many taxis or potential passengers on the streets of those cities where mass quarantines are in effect. Transport gig work is subject to natural disaster impacts. Doesn’t take much…

Agree, Emojis are not good for communicating important medical info. Nice of Lifehacer to support the hover tranlator, but that’s hardly universal, and not on Twitter. Minimizing potential confusion and misunderstanding is priority #1, and this fails that test.

VPN, browser to goodrx.com. Is that better?

“We’re very, very ready for this, for anything,”

Don’t know, maybe there are corporate “micro climates” of how it’s pronounced. Over the years I’ve heard gif but it was always from the less technical folks. Don’t mean that to disparage real techs who have always heard it as gif, just reporting my experience. Like a lot of words if you “grew up with it” then that’s…

Yep, it’s contradictory. No idea what else to say about that except that jif was the origin, and the guy who coined it insisted it was jif when he heard anyone pronounce it gif. Rules are irrelevant. Acronyms have a life of their own separate from the words they stand for. AWOL, IMAX and iPhone are examples of the way…

The engineer who coined the term wasn’t creating a rule, he was creating a name for a type of file, and he chose the pronunciation. He actually corrected people when he heard is spoken incorrectly. Whatever rules may apply to other words are not relevant. Others don’t get to vote on his choice. Anyone is free to…

You can’t actually be trying to standardize or rulify English pronunciation, can you? Seriously? That’s some funny girandole and gibberish right there, Colonel. No idea if gif hard-g is regional, but I was working in IT when the term was created, and spent the decades since in IT, working from as far west as Denver,…

Fortunately my state allows DMV appointments. They’re months in advance, but Real ID took me about 10 min including a computer glitch with my online records not showing up which took up 5 min.  But don’t even get me started on Global Entry renewal.

I don’t know, just a guess:

Interesting interview with the woman who was the first to see the image, including some background on the decision to take the shot.

Staggering how many thoughts that simple image evokes.

There’s no obvious reason evolution would have needed to provide us with sufficient intelligence to save us from us. It couldn’t have anticipated the virtually instant rise of technology and its power of destruction so far beyond our wisdom. 

Don’t remember the specific year but in the early 60's my dad had a Renault Dauphine with a auto stick in the US. He was a car nut but due to a war injury couldn’t use a clutch, and I remember how excited he was to be able to manually shift. I was just old enough to drive with my learner’s permit, so also had turns at…

They have paper ballots, so no votes lost. Computers, if any happened to get fried, can be replaced. A brain fried on adderall, not so much.

He’s that stupid.  Or he thinks we are.  Either way he’s that stupid.

Prefer the original in this example. The upscaled version looks more artificial with overly smoothed surfaces.