I try to remember that we're voting for an entire administration and presidential appointments, an apparatus much larger than one old man. It's cold comfort, but it's something.
As I'm watching it, Mozart's Requiem in D minor is playing in my head.
An approach that works well is to gray rock it. Be slow to answer. Make your answers as bland and boring as possible. They'll probably make fun of you for being dull as dishwater, but that's the goal! The more slowly and boring you answer them, the better. Give as few details as possible. Shrug and say "I don't know" a lot. Be consistent about it. They will lose interest in you and look for spicier prey.
The downside is, they will assume you're dumb. But it sounds like you don't care what they think.
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I think you're wrong about the shortage being 'solved' by NAT. NAT is great for LAN and WAN in the developed world, but there are billions of folks in remote developing areas where it's not much help. It also severely limits the big chunks of address spaces that can be allocated to business, universities, governments, etc. It is not a trivial problem waved away by NAT.
I think it will continue to be a very gradual but relentless rollout of IPv6. Not saying it will be fast. But 30 years from now, if we haven't destroyed civilization, I suspect IPv4 will be a quaint relic. And IPv6 will never run out of addresses.
That is fascinating. I wonder if the wavelength of green light is better because of something akin to harmonic resonance.
The dealer gets bonuses from the manufacturer if they sell enough vehicles, and the manufacturer wants to claim a higher percentage of the market. So both are motivated to take a hit on the interest as long as the customer is still paying the exorbitant markup.
I get where you're coming from. But if you're out in public, just assume there's no privacy. If you carry a phone, your movements and habits are being tracked anyway.
Kyle uses "son" a lot. Makes me chuckle.
I had a buddy in the UK I chatted with on this thing in the early days. We thought we were so cool using it. We were not.
I need to rewatch the episode, but I also felt like his recognition of him went deeper than "oh yeah, you're that guy we saw in the street before with Mae". Same thing with Yord. I could be way off here, but I felt like both of them had some kind of actual history with him. And maybe they didn't realize it until he was up close and personal, because he was much older / different.
Researchers will be studying Trump and his followers for decades to come. A gold mine of data to help them better understand the mechanisms of authoritarian populism and cognitive dissonance.
And Nadella looks like the PTA meeting version of Lex Luthor.
Microsoft quietly changed how folder backup works in the OneDrive app on Windows 11. Now, the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.
Ain't that the truth.
I felt bad reading this. Fast food is way too expensive here in 2024. And then you had to write an essay justifying yourself because of all the pedantic jerks who love to pounce on the smallest of things.
Yup. They violate HIPAA all the time, too. Rules for thee, not for me.
Oh cool, Cunningham's Law in action.
The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.
Looking for something engaging and interactive (preferably free, but I don't mind paying a reasonable price). Thanks for your suggestions!
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