Very true. People think American military hegemony is about fancy tech and nukes. Really it’s about being able to firehose materiel at an enemy until our populace feels bad about it.

Zelensky isn’t wrong, but even peacekeeping missions are extremely politically unpopular in Western Europe right now.

This is why I’m not bullish on the notion of a collective European defense. I’m sure it will happen, but how hamstrung will it be with politics?

Can the Lt ever find Greenland on a ma? Are people still falling for Lief Ericsson’s lies?

The largest companies are the cloud.

Privacy doesn’t exist on corporate networks, so they don’t. However, the early thin clients had local servers. I don’t know how the very largest companies would feel about giving Amazon that much power.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Even on WiFi with other peoples streaming it’s good enough to play games like Minecraft and Subnautica, but since I mainly play boring stuff like KSP or Civ latency isn’t much of an issue.

What I won’t do is tell you who my provider is because they’re already having problems at peak times and I don’t want to make it worse.

I already sort of do this with my gaming machine. It lives on a cloud host and I connect with a client.

It’s cheaper and more convenient than buying a new PC - especially since I’ve got three gamers in my house - and offloading graphics means I can get better battery life when playing on my laptop in my hammock.

However, if you’re more than a couple hundred miles from the data center or there’s network problems you won’t be having much fun. That’s the only reason I’d want an actual gaming machine, and even then I’d play via remote desktop from my hammock.

From an IT operations perspective this makes so much sense they’ve already tried it before. They were called “thin clients” and just had enough compute and network to connect to run remote desktop software.

This greatly reduces the amount of spending you need to build out a large corporate network, and centralizes management just like they already do for servers with stuff like VMWare.

Good to know. But unless you want to be giving Rivers Cuomo the autofocus ones probably aren’t your style.

Also, could there be a backlash against thick frames in the future because they might be hiding electronics

Plus “clunky” bifocals have way fewer moving parts and can be made with thin wire frames so they’re lighter.

I’m sure there might be someone with really bad eyesight for whom these might be useful - like if the near and far prescriptions are too different to be possible, maybe - but this is inferior to the actual solution in almost every way.

Right? It’s like these guys have never seen The Wire.

Yes, the correct term for this would be “open api”

Literally communism.

Yes but I want the absolute maximum heat or cool it can provide, starting immediately. Even if the air coming out is only slightly warmer/cooler it’s still warmer/cooler.

I can always turn it down later.

One of my cars has climate control with a knob, so I have to look at the (small) screen to see what the temperature is.

My other car has a hot/cold knob that I can just crank all the way to the stops. It even turns the A/C full blast on full cold.

I prefer the latter.

Not that I’m aware of…

My parents aren’t much younger than him and every time he speaks I worry for their health.

All of Russian was part of Made-up-istan which my ancestors ruled a billion years ago so it all belongs to me.

Checkmate.

If it’s the same one I’m thinking of they had to use saws to cut into their data centers after a major outage.

falling pregnant by a second while on police bail.

She really can’t stop fucking kids, can she?

Maybe she has a future in US government