Nerd of many hats.
It’s “Neuromancer” by William Gibson. A burned computer jockey gets a chance to get his ability to “jack in” back, by doing a heist against a corporate stronghold in low earth orbit, after being hired by an A.I.
Seriously, an amazing cyberpunk novel. One of the best novels in the genre, and one of the most influential
Can’t watch. But the book should be at pretty much every used bookstore. “The sky was grey… the color of a dead telvision channel”
Covenant or Druids of Edora, can’t remember there were too many that week ;) Saying “a crunchy euro “ doesn’t narrow it down enough. :D
We were trying a game. We read through the rules for an hour, played another 2 hours and finished the first (of 4?) rounds, and said “fuck it” and went for drinks. My BGG complexity max is about 3.5/5. I don’t play often enough to keep all of that in my head.
Probably not, but they did state last year that the extra money they made from the gas station (they kept it competitive with other places) was used to keep the yearly “admission” price the same.
Why, at 81, would you say “yeah, I totally want to spend 2+ more years in congress”? You’ve probably got all the money and seniority.
Really? Not Slop, not enshittification? Sigh.
Congrats to them! Slava Ukraine!
Wha the hell did I just watch?!
It’s all about phrasing it a way where they say “no, you can’t say that”, and you say “yes, exactly”
I heard a good way to call out that bullshit.
The next time the person says something about their particular god, say “All Gods Matter”. It throws them into a tizzy because how dare you. Yup, welcome to what it feels like.
I typically have 100-200. It’s usually a “let me come back to this in a day or three”, which may or may not happen. Or a thread of “doing research on a topic” and then getting pulled to something else, but not having time to summarize/organize for later. Plus, as others have mentioned, sometimes you need the tab session history.
I really appreciate y’all saying what a monster or computer illiterate I am, though. Don’t tell my boss, she’ll wonder what I do all day.
Thanks. Apologies for derailing your point which is that this stuff can run for years without changes.
Why does bespoke have to mean no development? If it’s custom code, big whoop - provided the dev either made it easy to modify, or still helps out with it. Our company has tons of bespoke apps that get developed regularly.
(That said, I don’t know what metafilter is)
Sure sure. Is this state in the room right now? Or is this like your girlfriend who lives in Canada?
Ironically, none of that was why she went to jail. It was for defrauding investors. Fun!
CEO of Theranos, currently spending time in jail for fraudulently saying they could do this.
I like the explanation Gunn used, which was basically that it reminds him just how goofy it is, and that helps keep him grounded as a human.
Oh no, you can’t convince me to take a long dirt nap.
And thank YOU, since it’s been far too long since I’ve read any Dickson! I know I’ve got one around here somewhere. :)
For what it’s worth, for cyberpunk my personal fave 3 are