Fantastic article!

I remember the answer to that from the short story. “Let there be light.”

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A few thousand years from now, when Skynet launches a probe to study comets, it’ll discover purified and crystallized silicon on a comet, and speculate on whether machine intelligence originated in the Oort cloud.

Yeah, my bad, haven’t been keeping track closely. Looks like better battery life, smaller sizes available, but still flat tire?

Guess their next iteration is Pebble Time Round Steel?

You bring up good points, thanks.

There are less extreme temperature swings, however, since the water acts as a buffer.

Cheney has friends?

Actually, in your case, brushing up on reading comprehension would go a long way towards improving things in general. And don’t forget to water that money tree while you’re at it.

The Singapore Changi airport - that’s referring to the new terminal (Terminal 4, I think... I lost count). If you want unusual experiences at airports, the current Terminal 3 has a butterfly garden.

The lure of international travel has always been the destination, not the flight to get there. So it has never stopped being “fun” for me. If you want a better flight experience right now, the first thing you should do is to not fly coach on a US carrier.

That’s a very elegant solution for head mounted cameras. I didn’t even realize stereo mic input was supported by GoPro (it is - it’s on their product comparison page :

Among the stranger things I’d eaten was giraffe meat - at Carnivore Johannesburg back in 2000. I don’t recommend it other than for the novelty - very gamey and tough. No, I didn’t ask which part of the giraffe it was.

Ozymandias and Game of Thrones - is there any other cultural references I missed?

Sure. But get me a Star Trek reference first.

Me! Me! Give me one and I’ll show you.

You’re off by an order of magnitude of 3 :) Yeah, somehow I’m not too surprised the Pentagon managed to build a gas station at 100x the cost. Angry, yes, but also resigned as I don’t know what the hell we can do about it.

I want to create a new account, get onto lots of spam lists, and have it respond to all those spam messages.

Me too. This is perhaps the only area of personal computers that has not improved significantly.

Me too. This is perhaps the only area of personal computers that has not improved significantly.