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> Also: it's a one lane road and "over taking" is not possible. I've eaten some hamburgers at Krystal's that definitely overtook whatever else was in front. Some folks have had the…

FizzBuzz will become an especially relevant interview question.

This reminds me of driving home after seeing The Matrix in the theater in 1999. I was on the parkway wondering why everything was moving so slowly, not quite bullet time but defini…

> The laws of thermodynamics pretty much guarantees this anyways does it not? Yes, but: http://www.thelastquestion.net/

> And now you've just got lots of different complications, like that seawater is very corrosive. Is it as corrosive as lightning? All space elevators will encounter that problem pr…

By Grabthar's hammer, I hope so.

https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publishe...

https://www.haiku-os.org/

> How does the fusion splice process take place deep under water? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter

Pffft, run Crysis in 8K

> You are either speaking hyperbolicly or lying. Bluetooth is very stable these days. Bluetooth as a network protocol, that might be stable. Bluetooth interactivity is not stable o…

No, we are more modern these days, I shall send a sternly worded telegram!

> Do you have any examples of companies building Hadoop clusters for amounts of data that fit on a single machine? I was a SQL Server DBA at Cox Automotive. Some director/VP caught…

Just don't use solarflare, it completely garbles your traffic. Even fucks up the error correction.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425112/quotes/ DS Andy Wainwright: You do know there are more guns in the country than there are in the city. DS Andy Cartwright: Everyone and their m…

The Far Side. THAT ought to make the results more interesting.

Or just watch his TED Talks, back when they were actually good: https://youtu.be/hVimVzgtD6w https://www.ted.com/playlists/474/the_best_hans_rosling_talk...

Not if your pan of boiling water automatically shuts off when it's done cooking.

https://youtu.be/8QWne13R_j0 There's an additional prediction in there that's eerily accurate/Simpsons did it.

> update some of the CGI There was no CGI used in Space: 1999, it's all practical model and optical effects. And as far as I can tell, it was all done on film, even though it was a…

To offer a counterpoint: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn... Around the 3:30 mark, while discussing Notre Dame Cathedral, consider how useful all those …

No, just some black monoliths on the surface ;)

And contains a grammatical error even before the introduction. ;)

As I recall, when Seymour Cray would buy a new car, he'd pick the first car on the left as he entered the dealership. After 2 or 3 purchases, the dealer habitually put the most exp…

NYC bike messengers. And rollerbladers. Not sure how it is now, but in the late 90's they were exactly as the other poster described. Fail to yield, swerving in front of buses and …