Oi! I can’t just tell yah what the matrix is mate!

Captain America: Winter Soldier.

(As much for the Russian characters as the American ones)

Smoke it up friend, really knock yourself out.

Well with shoplifting, aren’t the penalties correlated with the value of the items stolen?

And if you then went on to do it again the next day, and got cought, I imagine the combined value of the stolen items would be considered in the case.

Sounds like a charmer…

I think you’re right about that. Apple’s policies around user privacy and security from authorities are generally pretty good, certainly better than average for tech companies.

And… Apple has kind of always been monopolistic, and that hasn’t changed a bit.

What’s really crazy is that apple had this obnoxious attitude that “they know what users really want”, the users would disagree, they’d complain loudly, then they’d use the software and say “damn… Apple was right, this is better.”

But… That was all before 2010. I can’t think of a single software innovation the company has had since then. Apple used to deliver overpriced, outdated hardware and they only managed to sell it by packaging it with the slickest OS on the market. These days the situation is reversed, Apple is developing their own silicon, they have some of the fastest consumer chips around, and they need it, because their software is nothing to write home about and their prices are still high.

Can they not try him for multiple counts of animal abuse? In the US, for some crimes, you’d stack the charges, a sentence might be for 3 years, but with 4 counts of the crime you’d be looking at more like 12.

Oh hell yeah! That’s classes it up a bunch!

I can’t wait for XBox Live: The Movie!

That name though… Definitely could have gone through some focus groups…

I pull out the cutlery basket, unload it directly from the counter by the silverware drawer. Then I go back and pull out the entire top rack and do the same, then the bottom.

I only have to walk back to the dishwasher 3 times.

Yeah, this may work for people under a certain height. I think my knees are gonna hit the wall (or the tank).

Yes sir! I do this every day!

When trying to get the last bit of pasta sauce from a jar, don’t bother with a rubber spatula/pot licker.

Generally you need to add a bit of water to the pot at some point anyway, because some of that moisture is boiling off. So instead, after you pour most of the sauce into the pot, add that water up front by putting a little bit to the jar, closing the lid and shaking, and now add that to the pot.

Guys, this is not the place for dick pics, seriously…

Hey, why is Meta using this uncanny valley grimace on xanex as a mascot anyway? I mean, what’s the plan there… He’s creepy.

I guess you didn’t like my examples of paradigm shifts, that’s fine.

Someday everyone alive will die, does it stop being true if you live to 20?

If I lived to 20 and literally nobody in the world had died, then yes, that would be a rational conclusion.

Look, I don’t expect to convince you of anything, that’s fine. You can look at trends and history and draw your own conclusions. Personally though, I’ve watched the march of technology first hand, I’ve seen how this works and I see where there’s room for advancement. The last major paradigm shift was when we moved to multi core processors, but that kind of shift can happen again. For example, CPUs are still 2 dimensional, if they can solve the heat dissipation there’s plenty of room for growth. Also we’re still transmitting signals via electricity, but there’s research being put into optical computers transmitting data via photons. My point being, this isn’t the only viable architecture, and we will continue to develop technologies that are currently not even imagined yet.

But that assumption is the same as thinking a fallen object will keep gaining speed until it passes the speed of light. Or that Moore’s law would really keep going forever despite a very real limit in physics for how small a chip can be.

I gotta say, I’ve been hearing predictions that Moore"s law is coming to an end every year for the past twenty years.

Look, strictly speaking if you take Moore"s law word for word, sure there is a limit to how small a silicon transistor can be. However, realistically, I see no reason to expect computers won’t continue to meaningfully increase in capability every year forever.

When a technology reaches physical limits, we figure out how to bend the rules and get a little bit more out. And when that stops working, we start exploring different architectures, different materials. I think it’s just silly to predict that technology won’t improve, when has that ever happened?