Like others are saying, they’ll have done just enough math to make a convincing presentation. For them, it’s about the performance to create a perception of potential success, not about actual success.

I wish the news orgs would have used the pronunciation of the letters based on what they ostensibly stood for, rather than the meme.

Just seems like calling them “Doggy” every time would have changed how much leeway people gave them.

Yeah, I see a lot of people claiming that - but does the Bible make that claim?

Here’s how the serpent was cursed:

Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.

I don’t see Satan going on his belly, bruising our heels, or getting his head bruised! How did he escape a curse placed by God? Or is this just the snake’s origin story too? I’m not going to claim the serpent might not have been put up to it, but I don’t see Satan himself making an appearance here.

As I recall the story, the tempter was only ever identified as the Serpent. They were even cursed to always go on their belly afterwards, which I don’t recall Satan doing.

Depending on your mythology, Satan might have instigated that; but I don’t think it was ever established in the story

As I understand it, most adult content producers aren’t actually interested in having minors using their sites. It seems like the easiest thing to do would be to have them add some “Adult Material” flag in their metadata, and let consumers respond as they wish to that tag - whether that’s done through browser settings, router nannyware, or whatever.

Is there a technical reason this isn’t what’s being pushed for? I’m sure there’s lobbying and “optics” reasons for not doing this, but is there any practical reason for not pursuing this, or something like it?

The idea is that your services run on remote systems without regard for what those systems are (as a VM, docker image, etc.) Your architecture is decoupled from theirs - you can run on an Amazon host one week, and a server in your closet the next.

And as a bonus, systems hosted this way are often harder to scrape as they’re all structured differently. Additionally, you can (and should!) take additional measures to protect your data from your provider - something that just can’t be done when the provider controls the data architecture.

What is it that keeps the underground pockets of helium in place, anyway? Just craptons of stone?

At this point, the only thing I have Windows around for is VR. Every non-VR game I have runs swimmingly (often better!) on the Linux partition, but VR still struggles to keep up…

But doctor… I am the parent.

Seriously, half the stuff that we print is coloring pages.

I dunno, in this case the amateur happens to be able to absorb a whole lotta hits too - they can fail over and over while waiting for you to slip.

Maybe… More complicated limbs struck me as more prone to failure than rotors, and more expensive to maintain and replace

I’m remembering the old duelist’s adage, that the worst opponent to have is an amateur - because you have no idea what they’ll try

So I’m not as caught up in the current state of robotics as I’d like… The article talks about these being used to patrol, do safety inspections, and the like.

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace each of these with a dozen quadrocopter drones?

To my knowledge, there is very little research at all - the programs that would look into whether this might protect or endanger children struggle to get funded, because it’s icky.

Eh, that seems to suggest it’s entertainment for or about misers, rather than misery

Wait… It just verifies the age of whoever initially activated the device? Which might predate the bill, implying a long activation time?

Do the authors of this bill even live with children? Cuz they sure aren’t actually dealing with their device usage

Wait, yours doesn’t say that?

Red Menace, Yellow Peril… Who’ve we got coming up for the Green Trouble?

Playing with https://telecom.samm.com/cable-reel-calculator, it seems like you could probably fit a reel or two on a trailer?

I seem to remember the current wind turbines need some specialized trucks for maintenance too, this doesn’t seem like it’s need much more - but I’m not an engineer!

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