Are you sure you’re not thinking of a test of a nuclear-powered thruster for a non-nuclear weapon?

That’s an important distinction.

America has the same thing. People ask about New York pizza, but the real pizza is in New Haven.

B:\> ren eliza.bas reagan.bas

As an Old, I appreciate this Wife Bad humor.

They absolutely make “smart” curtains rods.

My sleep schedule doesn’t always have me needing to wake up after sunrise, so I instead have two of those umbrella-looking photography lamps at each side of the foot of the bed. Works great, but hard to convince dates I’m not filming them, so sometimes I have to remove them.

Except those go from one hole to over a dozen.

Cadillac CT5

They’ll even pass slow cars then get back over.

And none of that “touch the steering wheel every few min” stuff, but it uses infrared pupil trackers to make sure you’re mostly looking at the road and not sleeping.

I like my car’s version that’s just adaptive cruise control combined with using lidar maps of major roads to do lane-centering. I can go on a road trip and not touch the gas, break, or steering wheel for hours, but I have to drive it myself through residential neighborhoods.

I think the “big corporate tech bros” was meant to refer to the bigwigs. “Big” modifying “corporate tech bros”, not “big” modifying only “corporate”. English needs to normalize parenthesis for intra-phrase grouping.

Nothing compared to a sense8 orgy.

I THINK HE’S STILL ALIVE, CARL!

I do the web stuff for a very large news company, and over 80% of traffic is mobile, so product people don’t care about desktop. It’s being treated the way IE support used to be: an annoyingly necessary fringe user group. I imagine it’d be even worse in a company whose target demo didn’t skew sharply towards the elderly. We’re finally starting to move away from the idea of “websites exist to push people towards apps”, but it’s contentious and experimental. If I win, our sites will be far less annoying next year.

Sandboxed, you say? So no adblock without a pi-hole-ish solution? Sold!

And the Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis would say we gave up that ability to get complex language.

Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying he’s right. I just thought the objection was to the “restart bit”, and I thought that part reasonably followed if the earlier parts were accepted.

But Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology is pretty much the opposite of a Big Crunch.

If it’s mathematically equivalent to the starting conditions of our universe, why would it behave differently?

The black holes evaporate eventually.

After that, depends on who you ask. Most physicists would say something like “as close to nothing as possible”. Penrose would say at a certain point when nothing can interact with anything else, distance loses meaning, which makes the universe and a singularity equivalent, so then things restart.

The genie granted two wishes at once. The other was from a speed runner.

https://www.thegamer.com/how-ionizing-particle-outer-space-helped-super-mario-64-speedrunner-save-time/

During the race, an ionizing particle from outer space collided with DOTA_Teabag’s N64, flipping the eighth bit of Mario’s first height byte. Specifically, it flipped the byte from 11000101 to 11000100, from “C5” to “C4”. This resulted in a height change from C5837800 to C4837800, which by complete chance, happened to be the exact amount needed to warp Mario up to the higher floor at that exact moment.

You wouldn’t have any time to appreciate it.

And the optical illusion of it looking bigger near the horizon.