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I had no idea that this was coming out, and it sort of makes me want a PS5... And then I check the price and I think I can wait a couple of years until it's on PC.

I wonder how many in game days a speedrun would be while still destroying the Caretaker's Array? I want to dunk on Janeway's time to the alpha quadrant... Unless I have to run my engines on nucleogenic aliens like the Equinox.

Seriously. I want a personal HUD for navigation and reminders that also corrects my vision (like normal glasses), not to become a walking surveillance device / info mine.

I don't think AOC has that baggage. Democratic voters want someone that isn't a corpo-centrist running like being not-Trump is enough. Every argument that can be made against AOC could have been made against Obama in 2006 too, but he had a message that resonated and won. AOC could be in a good position to do something similar. I'd sure vote for her, even if she's become more mainstream she's still miles ahead of every other likely candidate.

In a weird way this makes Linux a microkernel. They're "macro" but isolated and cooperative. Coolest patch set I've read about in a while.

Yeah, I also have this question. I loved playing 1 and 2 co-op but 3 and pre-sequel didn't hold my attention at all. I'm happy to see good reviews but I'd like to hear a review from someone that doesn't lose their access if they pan it...

You are getting this from Xwayland, so you're running a rootless X server in the background. It's nice that it works seamlessly, but it's not really Wayland doing anything but managing the X window.

I agree the Metron connection didn't need to be made so explicit. Would've been better if it was if-you-know-you-know about the lights, but I guess that would be unsatisfying to anyone unlikely to wiki things after the fact.

Anyway, also agree this was a great episode regardless. Couldn't help tear up when the Gorn died, which is not where I expected to be today.

RIP.

I don't really care what color they are when they are long as your palm and flying at your face.

Agreed. It's one thing if it's climate change or something where we at least need to put a plan out there even if there's zero chance of it happening, but for basic common sense stuff like this don't bother. If we ever get back to trying to make average American lives better with the government, this is low hanging fruit.

Huh, I kind of think the opposite. I haven't read everything he's written, but it seems to me that he kinda sucks at endings.

I loved Anathem, and when you realize what's going on it's so cool, but then it doesn't explore that idea as much as I want, it just ends without looking around the next corner. Cryptonomicon is a fun, interesting read and gets you worked up about what a monumental shift is going to happen... And then ends right as it's coming to fruition. Even Seveneves had a 5000 year jump and spends hundreds of pages on the consequences of humanity's brush with death... And then tosses in another population with five pages left. I want to keep going!

Maybe I just don't like being tantalized in the last few pages of a book, but I feel like I'm left hanging and unsatisfied, like there's a missing sequel. His pulpier, early novels were much better in terms of wrapping up the story.