The power goes out a lot in the winter but at least we are cozy, particularly with today's LED/Lithium lights.

Back when I had ADSL from the central office my internet would stay up when I lost power so I had enough power to run a cordless phone and one (of two) DSL modems off a small UPS -- so I could keep 21st century comms. Once I got fiber-to-the-node most outages would affect the node so I gave up on the UPS. They're supposed to get FTTH to my house soon but I have no idea how that is going to be affected by outages.

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/tagged/foxwork

I "go out" as that character most of the time except in my home and workplace and the experience ranges from being treated like a celebrity (people practically jump on me when I go out the front door of my building after transforming in the elevator, people practically jump on me when I get out of my car in a strange city, etc.) to feeling really out of place. I deal with the later by a process of "humanization" which is just doing things like ordering food and standing in line and hearing that the bagel for "Mr. Fox" is ready. That feeling of being ordinary is quite grounding when you have reason to feel special.

See also

https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/publications/therianthropy...

Does this help?

More important than rocketry for any space colonization project. Large market demand as a derisking technology for a world which could experience controlled or uncontrolled degrowth and deglobalization.

I think small tight-knit teams could still work in that style today. Practically that's what I do for projects I do solo.

Thread’s notifications are just plain weird like it is usually clickbait where you can’t tell if they love Trump or hate Trump and if the one sexy cosplayer/alt fashion model I follow because I know her in IRL did something provocative with her friend who has tattoos from head to toe, Threads thinks this is front page news.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol

One of us wrote a program in BASIC on a Tandy 1000 that the rest of us estimated would take more than a google years to finish, but he wasn't be dissuaded and let it run the whole weekend.

I made an analysis that was mostly correct but was off by a factor of four because I mistook a radius for a diameter.

Remember the goal here is not "make a demo for a site that looks like Fandango" but would be "make something that's truly better in terms of fit and finish and details and that can be proven better in terms of customer success and engagement metrics". AI might help with that, but it's not going to be something an intern can do in two weeks.

Now I wanted to say "it makes it hard that they have to integrate with external systems such as the partner theaters" but actually I think the API economy has offered a way out of enterprise software complexity, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangler_fig_pattern

but I think most people don't see it that way. Like my belief is that the main difficulty in the API economy is that 20% of API vendors just don't care how hard the client auth experience is, in fact they have an ideology that the best possible life is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ObCoCm61s

but boy have vendors like Zapier really intimidated management into giving up 20 lines of simple Python for a "can't get here from there" nightmare.