Granted, anything you find in that reading won't be accepted by your physician or insurance company, so it's more of a checkup for you and you alone. And most scans will find something anomalous. We're all asymmetrical and lumpy. so take that as you will.

What's more nonsense is the author of the article trying to split a check 6 ways and stressing over the fact two people shared a dessert. Sack up, split it roughly or better yet don't split it at all. Good friends return the favor sooner or later. Unless you're a cheapskate.

No advertising? Could have fooled me.

I always owe, since I don't care to give this government a free loan of my money for a year or more at a time. I also have other documentation which isn't always ready by April of the filing year. So I file later on and pay whatever small amount of interest they charge, which is cheaper than a credit card or bank loan.

https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

If you can reach a terrestrial data center in 10 mSec over fiber, the flying data center is 12x slower. And now, like the other replay said, do a TCP handshake and see how long it takes.

If you put them in low earth orbit, now you need complex ground stations and/or phased array antennae to track them and move data. And then your cat image generator is on the other side of the planet every 60 minutes unless you have fancy lasers relaying stuff between satellites.

If you put it into geosynchronous orbit, the transmission is easier but now you've introduced a huge delay in your packets.

And I can't even do the first steps on computing what a typical data center needs in network bandwidth. A few terabits per second? A few petabits? More?

This was the era before cheap video projectors and PowerPoint. These shows were done with huge banks of slide projectors and a bunch of clever software to sequence the slides and do interesting transitions between them. What you're seeing on YouTube is a videotaped capture. Watch those videos again and look carefully. Each frame is one slide on a projector being crossfaded or overlapped with another slide on another projector. This happened in real time.

Decades later, the Apple corporate pre-show lives on in their WWDC and product introduction events, just in MPEG and 4K form.

More here, and it's kind of a fascinating artifact for its time:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/11/1077232/corporat...

The MIT Technology Review article mentions the epic 1987 SAAB show, which someone uploaded to YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQq58_nWkE

Holy crap, is that Ken Nordine narrating?!?

I also carry a binder. Each page is a one-page description of a project with a color photo of the system and a bulled-point list of all technologies inside. It's a great conversation starter. Hasn't failed me yet.