I had almost the reverse with coffee. I always liked the smell of coffee but not really the taste. Then my family bought a Nespresso machine when i was in high school, and i started adding espresso shots to hot chocolate. Then i started occasionally making espresso shots and drinking them straight. Then several years later i found myself in a hotel for work, at 6am before a shift, and they automatically brought me black coffee. I took one sip and was like “oh i guess i like coffee now” and never looked back. Yep, regular old hotel breakfast coffee got me hooked.

Security wasn’t the main concern in this particular case, the headache came from the fact that they were working in IP classes, and we were working in CIDRs (EC2 security groups, for example)

One of the startups I worked for did business with Ford. We needed info about their networks to get them connected to our service in AWS, and in the process we learned that they still use public IPs for everything. Every workstation, server, router, etc. connected to the internet from a public IP, no NAT and only protected by extremely complicated firewall rules. Their IT team must be in constant distress, or super defensive about their architecture haha

Really? Interesting. I think the version on Alive 2007 combined with Alive and Prime Time of Your Life is like the pinnacle of that album.

I’d diagnose this response as 10% the effect of mushrooms and 90% the effect of watching Ex Machina alone. I walked out of my room at 1am shell shocked from that movie and had a quick conversation with my roommate in the kitchen that i remember nothing about except how reassured i felt that she wasn’t a robot. Excellent movie.

Man this is a great shot, excellent colors and nicely balanced composition. You could totally leave it as is, but if it were mine, I would crop away the entire bottom half, right where the water starts to get blurry, leaving the top half as an amazing panoramic.

Fair points but you and the other commenter are, in my opinion, thinking too near-term. On the scale of hundreds of thousands to millions of years, evolution starts to become a factor. The beings that leave earth to live elsewhere, on that time scale, may have been human once but would have evolved into something different, hopefully more suited to environments on other worlds. And we’re not even close to the destruction of earth by the sun, which is on the order of a billion years from now.

That’s more what I meant by inevitable. Our curiosity brought us to the stars early, but we have the time here on earth to invent, adapt, grow, and change before the hard stop of needing to leave earth…assuming we survive what earth throws at us (and what we do to it) in the nearer term.

Interesting, I’m of the opposite mind: I think it’s inevitable that we will inhabit places outside earth. Time is long, technology keeps getting better, space on earth keeps getting smaller, and there’s only one way we escape the consumption of earth by the eventual expansion of the sun. We just have to make sure not to destroy ourselves here first (a tall order, it seems as of lately).

Pleasantly surprised to see Paprika in someone’s list, no one i know has ever even heard of it. Such a good weird movie.

Agreed, this is good advice. At one time I had three of these, they’re great, small, versatile, well built. All around a great machine.

This is so stupid. 10/10 would watch forever.

Last book: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Current book: Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Never Let Me Go was not my favorite book, but not a waste of time either. The story had some good highs and lows but it did not resonate with me personally.

Hyperion is excellent so far, I’m about halfway through and Simmons gives just enough information at the right time and pace to build the world out slowly and thoroughly, and each short story so far has left me contemplating for hours afterward. Definitely enjoying the journey so far but I have been warned not to expect definitive answers towards the end, so we’ll see.