Correct. Giving meaningful choices is hard.

Choice can’t exist without information. If you know nothing, you can’t chose. If two doors are perfectly the same, it’s not a choice. If you have no information on either path in the forest, you’re not really choosing.

Ehhhhhh.

Starlink has a major problem in durability as a result of the low orbit (required for low latency), meaning it’s extremely expensive in upkeep.

The satellites inability to talk to eachother, combined with the narrow transmission angle means the system scales very poorly and has numerous bottlenecks (both the satellite and the uplink station). Yes, Starlink is “working on it”, but the laser-link solution is very complex in terms of engineering.

Starlink has some amazing usecases, but those usecases can’t possible cover the cost. It runs almost entirely on subsidies and venture capital.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/18/spacex-employees-enjoy-calm-as-elon-musk-distracted-by-twitter/

Sartre would disagree, but then Sartre was a professional philosopher.

Dont forget that other favorite “No you can’t have more hardware, these were fine in 2006 and they’re fine now! Just delete some old stuff like you IT people always do”

And therefor a witch

“Better than Hitler” is really, REALLY not a great flex

Also, in quite a few comic timelines, the hammer literally makes Thor.

Error-correction for dropped packets is also pretty shit.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes flashdrives hurtling down the highway.

It’ll trickle down aaaaaany day now.

Well, China, if you want a few chip-makers, i know a few slightly-used ones that used to belong to an old lady and have only ever been used for shopping trips.

former fatty here with a little addition: Also just eat less outside of your meals. Go diet in the supermarket by buying less, instead of dieting by not eating what have at home. You spend 20 minutes in the supermarket and multiple hours at home. It’s MUCH easier to be strong for 20 minutes than for 12 hours.

In Dutch it’s the same, but we just say “KNO-arts”, for “throat, nose and ear”.

Traditional sails are also fragile, complex, expensive and very labour intensive even with electric winches. A fully rigged ship is exceptionally complicated and knowing how to work one takes huge skill and knowledge, and that’s not even mentioning what to do when something goes wrong. And of course, it’s much slower as well.

I’ve been woke moralizing for free, like some kind of chump. No more I say, I’ll stop doing it for free right now! I demand fair pay and equa… Damn it.

That’s why it has 4 sharp points right?

Well, the most likely natural disaster here will involve my immediate local area being under about 5 meter of water, so either I’m elsewhere and in need of a map, or… well, not in need of a map.

Wow the SAS survival handbook has built in GPS and a map of my local area? Damn, books have gotten fancy lately.