I miss the mako. Ever find that giant alien monument on the edge of that one planet that only worked if you collected the random artifact from some side quest?

Having put like 30 hours into NMS, I’d agree with you on everything but 1: the planets are NOT just pallette swaps. Each one has its own unique character.

It’s okay. She is now the poster child of entitled mediocrity. Every person she ever meets, every job she’ll ever apply for, will know she’s a loser by typing her name into Google and hitting the Lucky button.

To be fair, a room temperature hot dog would sway Clarence Thomas if the liberal wing said they like sausages of all kinds.

Her dad was a long-time friend of the attorney, who had be hunting the country for someone with a clear enough case to take it to SCOTUS, which since it turned conservative on GWB’s watch has been itching to dismantle affirmative action in all its forms.

Yeah...but the difference between i5 and i7 in the U series is almost nothing. Has been for years. Unless you’re doing some hard number crunching, where the whopping 10% theoretical difference in clocks matters (IRL will matter less due to thermal limits). In which case, you bought the wrong machine.

Yeah...but the difference between i5 and i7 in the U series is almost nothing. Has been for years. Unless you’re…

It was after he lost to Bush in 2000. It’s been a slightly unhinged, pseudo Tea Party robot ever since.

India was getting shitty engines no matter what, since it wasn’t building catapults into its carriers. Harrier has been out of production for years. Rafale, Hornet and even that nalavalized Typhoon proposed for the QE2 class require cats. India has not be cleared for F-35.

The QA system I mentioned earlier had a client front end (apparently Access can do that) acting as data entry for the main Access db. Both “apps” were developed by a man who has been using and iterating this setup for over a decade, taking it with him from job to job.

Well, the issue with Russian carrier jets is that there’s only so much you can fly off a ship without catapults (or resorting to STOVL). Su-33 cannot take off from Kuznetsov with anything close to full fuel, nor can it carry any more than A2A or modest A2G payloads.

I bet you also think the idea of giving a public drive, where *everyone* has write access, is a great collaborative tool.

Not sure how many, but at every company I’ve worked at, there was someone using a Access DB for something fairly important. Then again, I’ve mainly worked at/with small to medium sized businesses. I’ve seen entire demand forecasting and quality management systems built in Access.

IT people will remain employed because someone has to figure out that spreadsheet in every company that is 15MB (even while blank) from all the macros and conditional formatting. The guy that built it left 10 years ago and no one knows what it’s really doing, or even the password to access the locked and hidden cells.

Only if you’re already 50. Machine learning is having a renaissance, and that’s translating into huge advances for autonomous cars.

This is kinda aside, but between Pao, Mayer, Fiorina, Sandberg, and Holmes (let me know if there’s another famous woman in/from tech that I’m missing), Pao seems the most competent and the least obnoxious. And that’s despite the fact she was left her last two jobs in less-than-perfect circumstances.

The point I’m making is that the house is way, way outside of Knoxville norms, and the house itself is comparable to a million+ home in an urban area.

Sorry, I thought I was replying to someone else, who took umbrage at the idea that anyone with a $700k house (specifically in an urban area) had to earn big dollars to own the place.

Payments for what? An 80/20 on 700K?

Nah. My house isn’t worth half of what theirs is, closer to 1/3. And I said they were lucky (and old), not typical. Also, it’s 700K in a urban area, where the dollar doesn’t stretch that far. There’s million dollar studio walkups in SF and New York.

My first thought was “that’s not that expensive of a house. I know people who got lucky (despite having middling white collar jobs) in the 90s and 2000s housing markets that have a house that expensive.”