Already, very few middle schoolers have the tech savvy to self-host anything. If it’s not a tablet, they have trouble using it.

Add to that the possibility that the data center run on memory and processors could mean that local computing power will disappear, to be replaced with devices like Chromebooks that use corporate cloud services for everything.

I feel like the bar is extremely low for TED talks these days. But maybe it has just changed to a financial one instead of an intellectual one.

The amount of grinding necessary to beat all of the Weapons was ridiculous. I got tired of trying.

Old Dolphin

Fish Me If You Can

Gnat Atlas

Kangaroo Beverly Hill

Racehorse of Dream

14-year-old me would also be very disappointed that I’m no longer religious. She would be afraid for me because I have gay and trans friends.

Poor little Nicki. She was brainwashed and didn’t know better. Fortunately, she got better after her first semester at university.

I think a lot of people view strangers that way, as obstacles to be avoided. You’re just more honest about it than most of us are.

It’s pretty obvious to me when I walk down the street in my city that most people have that view of anyone they perceive to be of a lower social class.

Elementary teacher here. I can corroborate that everything is somehow sticky at school, too.

I knew that function. And improving OCR felt like a worthwhile endeavor to crowdsource. There are a lot of old books that we need to digitize before we lose them forever.

The pivot to recognizing things for self-driving cars makes a lot of sense, but I really don’t like the idea that I’m increasing shareholder value for Tesla.

I think her version of “Time” by Tom Waits is the best thing from Strange Little Girls.

Her cover of " '97 Bonnie and Clyde" is haunting, too.

And his cover of “Billie Jean.”

Johnny Cash did a great cover of Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage,” too.

OMG is that why I always have to identify bicycles and crosswalks? That makes sense.

Some style guides recommend not capitalizing prepositions unless they have at least four letters.

At this point, we should not be surprised.

I don’t know when businesses stopped backing up their production databases on physical media, but maybe we should go back to that. I can remember multiple previous jobs where the IT manager was responsible for daily or weekly backups to external drives that were stored off-site in fireproof safes.

I get how cloud storage can meet that requirement now, but surely people recognize that cloud backups are worthless if every dumbass in your company can accidentally delete them.

If your artificial coding agent has a level of access that allows it to delete the cloud backup, maybe the person who gave it that access is the dumbass.

What happens a year later when the wife’s age no longer fits the formula because she doesn’t age at half the rate that he does?

Probably because you have the hubris necessary to believe that if the One Ring were in your hands, you would be strong enough to wield it without becoming corrupted.

Well, we’re not buying the product, so maybe they can extort us into paying to solve a problem instead.

Man, I don’t know your approach, but I have all of the upgrades, I’ve paid off all loans, and I have 18 million bells in the bank.

Starting out in debt kind of sucks, but it’s usually possible to pay off your first mortgage in a week. I wish the real world were even remotely like that.

Yeah, but it’s only a couple of years, starting with nothing but a dilapidated farm, until that farmer becomes a millionaire. I’d take it.

That’s a wise exclusion. I can’t think of anyone in that world who is actually happy.