Just say Phoenix. It’s a fucking huge city that probably has more notoriety world wide than the state does.

How?! When I did some driving a woman literally pissed herself laughing with her friends on the way to a club. I had to argue for weeks with several escalations to get the cleaning fee covered.

Took me a few times

Is that how the town in France got named?

Mapmaker: what’s that town over there?

Random farmer: (shrugs) I dunno

Mapmaker: (writes) “Nice”

It is not, but it is very soluble, so can be found in water.

Why hide that? She’s got an amazing voice and great rhythms.

Difficult

I dunno, kids get really excited when they see Waymos.

If you’re in a studio apartment, you don’t really have a separate room for sleeping, so you likely have a tv visible from bed. If you move up to a 1 or 2 bed apartment, now you have a a living room, and a tv visible from bed is a choice. Guessing OP recently upgraded their living situation and is seeing how others do it.

The book Enders Game. I was will bullied in grade school. As was Ender. The overall theme is that it’s effectively impossible to maintain a defensive posture indefinitely. Be that always ready for dealing with bullies at school or home, to dealing with an alien threat becoming nearly impossible in three dimensions.

Ender comes up with the philosophy that you have to win, but not just win that fight/battle, you have to win so decisively that there won’t just be another fight later. While this turns out to be effective, it also results in genocide.

This resulted in a restrained version of the philosophy in me. When diplomacy fails, fight for your life, but know when you’ve won, know when you’ve prevented the next fight(s). And most importantly, know when to stop.

My blueray player broke, and my tv stopped showing me to use certain apps and I can’t figure out why. But a used PS4 cost me $85 and solved all my problems. And they left a copy of Minecraft in it, so I even have a game to play.

What delineates Europe from Asia that shouldn’t also delineate India from Asia?

Not trying to be argumentative, curious. I’ve always heard of India as a subcontinent, and when explained why it seems like Europe fits the same description.

Counterpoint: my software allows you to access your banking needs. I’m financially on the hook if fraud occurs. Fraud occurs because your favorite “slap the monkey” game also installs a keylogger and network monitor. So I don’t allow my software to work if you have that installed.

I think you’re right that companies should not be able to tell you what software you can run, but users also can’t be trusted to keep their devices safe.

A lot of network, banking, and telephony protocols historically rely on trusting that there are no bad actors in the chain. Technology has added more links to the chain increasing the opportunities for bad actors to tap into it.

It’s a situation that needs better fixes. Maybe we just need to hand the current internet over to the bots and start a new one with security and privacy built in from the ground up.

Fully stocked pharmacy, comfy mattresses, tvs and video games, car batteries and inverters to run the entertainment, and sometimes even citrus trees to prevent scurvy.

Downside is that without power to the building you have a lot of work to do to dump all the fresh food before it stinks up the place. That dairy cooler alone would get disgusting real quick.

Good expansion on other things that turn turbines, but all of which would also never work in a mobile suit. Solar and PZ are truly different than “spin turbine“ but neither would work great to power the suit. Batteries and fuel cells might someday be energy dense enough to run an iron man for a short time, but still a long ways off. I think the direct energy converters are a super long way off. Good for low power situations, but I doubt they’ll ever be powerfully enough to propel even cars.

The tech behind the power source, thrust, and primary weapons doesn’t exist, and there are no real-life counterparts to them even at large scale that would just need to be miniaturized. With that much fiction in even the mark 1 suit, it’s impossible to estimate cost.

The biggest problem IMO is the fact that all our power generation technology comes down to “boil water to turn turbine”. How we generate the heat changes, but not how we turn it into electricity.

It’s always super frustrating that even on “high end“ pc laptops they’ll use some shitty combined Bluetooth and WiFi chip that will bottleneck everything.

Seriously, all they have to do is make an EV or hybrid under $20k and not try to push subscription BS.

As a software developer, that idea can fuck right off. India being on a half hour is enough of a pain in the ass. 6 more half-off time zones is just too much.

You’re right, you can see this with wire shark, or you can just use the network tab in your browsers developer tools.

But as a web developer, you’re absolutely wrong that we can’t collect every freaking keystroke if we want to.

Sometimes we wait for submit. Sometimes we collect everything as you move from one field to another, called a blur event. Sometimes we wait for the user to stop typing for like 1/4 or 1/3 of a second, called a debounce event. But we can collect every keystroke. We don’t concatenate them on the server side, we send the whole field value after each change, tied together with other fields based on a session ID.

Hell, sometimes we track your mouse movements as well. Where you move in the page, where your mouse lingers, how long you hesitate before clicking. A “good” company uses this information to make a better user experience. A nefarious one uses it to collect all your personal information without you ever clicking submit, and sees just how hesitant you were to disengage after being asked to pay. Then aggregate that experience to determine the price point.