It’s just a massive time scale that it happens on, but yes that gives way to feeling like that. Read the first 2, put the last one down halfway through after it started shitting all over the first 2 books with a certain character’s actions.
The second book has a really cool few pages that helped visualize what experiencing the 4th dimension could be like.
The series is more interesting for its concepts than it is for plot or any one character imo
For all intents and purposes this comment triggered me
Exactly, if I enjoy using a service and there's a paid ad-free version, I'm gonna go that route. I support the creators and understand the idea of "no free lunch". All the whiners in this thread are freeloading moochers
Nobody likes being wrong is more apt
What store has an isle? Like one of those chain surf shops, Alvin’s Island? Or did like Wal Mart the company buy a private Virgin Island?
Best view of the stars this side of the Canadian border. Love this park.
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Go to a local business, steal the bowl of business cards for a free dinner raffle, and start an immortalized game of connect 4 in your door.
Easy, just use AI to word it for you
I think it’s also true in reverse. Like if the book cover looks really cool but the story is hot garbage.
The “cover art***” sells it, then. They were trying to be funny I think lol
If I started an AI chat bot that was capable of sounding human, why wouldn’t I make a crappy AI writing detection tool and then shut it down shortly afterward saying “my AI chat bot is too good! You can’t detect it!”
Na, they’ve got managed forests and it’s fine. Your comment had me google to see and it’s actually pretty interesting.
I think they just stare at it, hoping the vulnerabilities come to them in a moment of revelation. A Linux Joseph Smith, the kernel playing the part of the Golden Plates.
Yeah, printing directions off of mapquest was a lot of fun (or alternatively asking directions from someone who doesn’t understand cardinal directions)
I want to add that you likely shouldn’t run the dishwasher before leaving town for a week in case there’s some failure. Don’t want to come home to a ton of water damage, that gets expensive to fix quick.
lol i was more or less just remarking on the fact that yes mainframe and other legacy apps are pretty old, however that does not mean that they’re necessarily worse than a modern implementation
I had to do some legacy app modernization for one of the largest telecoms companies in the US, and their mainframe system and the UI, while ugly, performed so much faster than the modern approach.
Given, we weren’t the most talented team out there, but rendering the UI on the server side was unmatched in performance versus what we could get out of a web browser. I was the UI guy so I didn’t really touch mainframe side, but it was wild to me that they made this system like 30 years ago and it worked so much better than our modern implementation
Yeah pretty fucked. Let’s give the image a ton more credit than it deserves and call it a critique on the increase in childhood obesity and lack of affordable healthy food as well as lack of child nutritional education for parents who may be too lazy/overworked/poor to feed their kids more than McDonald’s for every meal