That it only goes up to 2021

Finally, torrenting Linux distros becomes a thing, rather than a curiosity

Five years ago I splurged on a higher end laptop than I’ve ever had, and regretted it from the beginning. Even when new, the battery barely lasted an hour, and hyper-v was unable to do the VMs I wanted

But I needed Windows for two reasons: tax software and gaming with my kids. Well my tax software also supports Mac and my kids are in college, so there goes my reasons.

So I booted up the windows laptop to do my taxes. It started with not knowing my pin, my bad. But the alternate login was to use the mandated online account that I don’t use. That password change sent email to my ex: yikes. Then ad after ad after popup, so crazy how unusable it became

So yeah, laptop sucks and is showing its age, big waste of money, no more reason to be tied to windows, poor experience ……. Really selling me on a Mac for my next one

My NetGear router still has a uselessly incomplete implementation of VLANs after 5+ years of updates, I was ready to replace it out of frustration. Gen 6 wireless is getting old hat anyway

But doesn’t that argue against your earlier point? If our myriad of earthly problems are generally political and economic system, then Artemis does not take away from addressing them.

Yeah, corn syrup doesn’t count. I never willingly use that.

Buying real maple syrup by the gallon is not in groceries. You can get it that size but need to seek it out. I don’t use it enough to bother, plus then you need a separate pitcher and need to refill that all the time

Always looking for a good birch beer …. 27 flavors ?!?! ROAD TRIP!

Edit: DAMMIT

• https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-03-26/squamscot-soda-newfields-nh-for-sale

Great idea - I’ll look for them.

I’ll have to track down the link but I had a great one for Chicago - but it’s a damn expensive pizza to have delivered from there

Nice. I do remember liking those but totally forgot until you mentioned since I haven’t been down there in years

Fantastic. That’s a good one!

Always an excellent choice, except that I live in the northeast. I grew up where one of the things my grandfather’s farm produced was maple syrup! I’ve always been a huge fan

But of course that’s the hard part: I didn’t even think of it. I’m not entirely aware of it being specific to this region: it’s just a part of Normal life. If someone turned my question back on me, I don’t know if I could answer

The paperwork is supposed to be available by the end of January, so not usually before then.

So yeah, I stated a couple hours ago and spent most of that time fighting secure logins for online services I use once a year

One of my co-workers pointed out them at you can save some time in some places but it puts a real premium on evaluation. Instead of putting your head down and coding, you get something spitting code at you and it’s your responsibility to evaluate whether it’s useful and correct. It can be much more stressful

They’re slowly getting more useful but nowhere near the hype.

For coding at least, but probably everywhere, the real hype should be all the related infrastructure to make it work …. Unless it’s just my company, my experience being late to the party.

Regardless of what the LLM can do, the actual result is always bottlenecked by context. How do you give it enough context, rules, awareness so it has a chance to do useful work? Rule sets and mcp servers and plugins, developing new buzzwords and then making up what it needs to be, like harness engineering. I’m seeing huge changes here and it really cuts back on the slop.

As a confirmed cynic about ai, I’m getting excited about the challenge of building everything around it so it has a chance to work. Building out new tools and strategies for developers. Even just figuring out what it needs. I don’t know if the LLM will work and I don’t care but I’m excited about turning the hype into an honest try

Key goals for both moon and mars missions is finding out how much gravity we need. We know we’re much healthier at 1G than in microgravity, but where is good enough? You can’t really draw a straight line to predict it. Does the moon have enough gravity for people to stay healthy long term? Does mars? Where should we set the rotation of a space station with artificial gravity?

For Artemis the laser data link back to earth was supposedly disrupted by people moving around in the capsule- that’s how directional it is

Most importantly we tested all new everything and it worked!

I also don’t see how “colony” happens, but I do see “base” on mars as both something we could afford and something worth doing.

Making it feasible mostly depends on the boring innovations of figuring out how to use local resources.

Nothing on that flight was from SpaceX

Future ones will be, future money will be largely SpaceX, because if they get starship to work it promises to be much much cheaper than anything else

Well Apollo was at the height of the Cold War and Vietnam’s. It was much more politically motivated.

I do have to admit to being ambivalent about trying to call this a race with China. That’s pretty bogus. However if it gets us moving I’m ok with it