But in space its the only option you have
Hmm, this has me thinking about the stealth ships in The Expanse. The engineering needed to make it work makes me want to cry, but in principle you could run a Peltier cooler with a swappable heat sink.
To be clear, I don’t think this is a viable option, but it’s interesting to think about.
Ha, this community has everything, including the kitchen sink! 😀
I shared this with my wife. She said “It sounds like pangolin programming.”
I lean towards discounting both rumors. I think the temptation to use said kill-switches would prove too great to resist, particularly for the authoritarian types involved.
We saw this a lot with provisions of the “PATRIOT Act”. It was championed as tools needed to combat terrorists and claimed to be reserved for such cases. In actuality, it was used to go after people running fan sites for sci-fi tv shows, among other things.
If such a kill switch existed in computer hardware, I’m sure it would have been used already. I’m less sure about a kill switch in the planes. On one hand, that’s a pretty situational tool, and you wouldn’t want to play that card until you really needed it.
OTOH, we didn’t hear about threats to throw the kill switch during the bluster over Greenland. If they had one, I think it would have been part of that bluster.
Because I’m not a sociopath. In this theoretical happily-ever-after dating app, I want to make people happy by connecting them with the right other people. Ongoing business comes from happy couples giving word of mouth recommendations to their friends and family, not from trying to lock in a misery subscription.
Maybe I’m old fashioned. I remember a time when capitalism meant “make money by doing something helpful for people” instead of rent-seeking bamboozle profits.
Wait, Starbuck is in Star Wars now? Which show was this?
any kind of dating app is self-detrimental for revenue
It doesn’t have to be. In the US, about 4 million people turn 18 every year. Let’s say you get all of them signed up and all of them optimally paired off. You still have another 4 million new signups next year. Until the world falls off a demographic cliff, you’ve got an evergreen customer population.
That being said, the well is VERY poisoned at this point. The match group is a cancer on our society.
I’m still annoyed that they deleted classic D2 from my battle.net account. I used to be able to download that and get several classic games installed from registering CD keys back in the day. Now it’s just a prompt to buy remastered :(
cilantro would also be good in that soup
Agreed! Unfortunately for me, we forgot to get it out of the fridge when the soup was ready.
Cilantro in general is tough. It comes in large enough bundles from the store that we really struggle to use it all before it goes bad.
True. Dishwasher is one thing, but IDK that I’d be able to swap out any parts on my coffee maker or immersion blender.
manufacturers actively making products harder to repair.
Possible counterexample: My dishwasher. The drain pump is super easy to replace – unplug it, disconnect the hoses, and pop it off the little metal piece that supports its weight. It takes longer to bail out the water in the pan and wiggle it out from under the counter than it does to replace the faulty pump.
(At the same time, it’s a pretty crap model. We’ve had to replace that drain pump 3 times since 2019)
It’s just one of reddit’s autogenerated usernames. It looks like another post in this thread talks a bit about it.
I played it. Beautiful game. Terrifying.
I didn’t think I had thalassophobia until Subnautica.
What did you think of Torchlight? I’m a bit surprised it didn’t make your list.
…well, then again, I haven’t played anything you listed, so I can’t compare.
Similar. I played a lot of Diablo 2 back in the day, but Blizzard got a lot worse as a game publisher during the years they were focused on WoW. I’m not super interested in starting up on Diablo 3 or 4 or even Starcraft 2.
For a different direction on this – I played Subnautica. It was terrifying. I’m not going to get the expansion or Subnautica 2 when it comes out. shudder
VENT! Ha, I remember using that back in the Counterstrike days.
I’m supposed to say ‘fun times’, but I sucked at Counterstrike. Not actually that much fun for me.
Go to a zoo and insult the monkeys?
focused on radio
And there, you’d be looking at 1901 for the first trans-Atlantic signal.
But then again, a general passenger couldn’t use the plane’s radio on a whim back in – oh, 2003 (first airplane wifi came about in 2004 apparently). There are some layers to this thought.
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Alexander, is that you?