It absolutely delay people buying. If you held out for 6 more months, you’d get a substantially faster computer.

That describes most of my life, under Moore’s Law.

I handled it in the traditional way: I bought what I wanted, and then I immediately cussed about my shitty timing to my friends the next day.

It’s not like cars would eventually cost negative money and they pay you to take them.

While I accept your point, I feel conditioned to interrupt here and clarify that I absolutely would download a car. There was some unexpected confusion about this, at one point.

Okay. Carry on. Thank you.

“Enterprises might discover that production agent deployments are harder than demos suggest. Hallucinations in high-stakes workflows, regulatory concerns around autonomous AI systems, or implementation complexity could slow adoption dramatically. If the agent future takes 5-7 years instead of 2-3, there’s a painful gap where billions in infrastructure sits waiting for demand to catch up.”

Yes. AI agents in infrastructure are a fundamentally stupid idea, at their very core.

Learn to write a bash script or pay someone competent to do it.

Almost no one needs a shittier solution that is 1000x faster to implement while 100x more likely to make profit-margin-evaporating mistakes.

Even the idiots calling the shots today are bound to notice this.

There’s a third category of adoption to consider: “between 7 years and - let’s not fucking do this, it is stupid”

There’s a delightful DC Comics Elseworlds story that amounts to this. It was fun.

Sure you harpsichord! Anyone harpsichord do it!

I don’t think this is the right community for it…

That’s right,

A third person is about to show up and express mild interest, then they will wander off for a drink, but then return and ask to have the rules explanation start over…

I’ve always liked the idea of the cap being an immediate loss of any legal property protection.

This would not be through any process, they simply instantly legally cease to have any property rights anytime they cannot prove their net worth is below the limit.

Any member of the public can reclaim any piexe of their ex-property, until the not-quite-billiomaire gets a court ruling confirming their not-a-billionaire status.

Then the not-yet-billionaires can figure out how to constantly stay comfortably below the limit.

Or…they can file an updated wealth disclosure every time they attempt to keep anyone from walking away with any piece of their former property.

If they want to avoid the inconvenience of their yachts, cars, pets, plants, fences, lamps, and television sets being repossessed, they can negotiate with their employees unions for collective ownership in good faith, instead.

It’ll be fun to see how many of them are too stupid to take a good deal, and lose their stupid toys.

“Sometimes when it’s not him, it’s still him!”

I dont have time to build and maintain a curated offline library like I used to.

I’m sorry for your loss. I’m sure the high seas legitimate DRM free music purchases will welcome you back when you have time again.

RIP Renee A. I can always hear his delivery of that final line when I read it.

Good points. I feel like Fate does a better job staying in the interesting in-between for longer, and also supports “epic” stories a bit better (than other systems I have played).

But I haven’t tried to force Fate to support the newbie to epic growth, because the rulebook calls out that the Fate rules intentionally ignore supporting the ability to play as a helpless nobody.

It’s very eco-conscious. It’s actually made of recycled Jake Sisko vests.

Neat. I’ve always wondered what train conductors had to say. I always imagined they announce safety reminders, or the next stop. But it could have been be poetry, or rants about a co-worker for all I could parse it.

Have you considered printing a list of three letter words and staring with them?

Ihope you will report back with the contents and combination of you succeed!

But no, between Archer and Kirk Starfleet must have recruited just the worst of the worst.

All good points.

But I’ve done some mental gymnastics to make it work. We actually know:

And I assume that the same character in my spoiler tag recruited various dysfunctional crew, while Saru recruited those crew that actually perform like Starfleet officers.

So basically, with enough mental hoops, I can assume that only Discovery, itself, is crewed unusually for Starfleet.

Edit: I also feel that Archer’s bring-my-dog-to-work leadership should also shoulder some blame. And Kirk is still a low ranking officer at this point, so we haven’t reached Starfleets prime.

Hence the number one rule: cool stuff should be done in the game, not your backstory.

I prefer Fate, where the rules practically require having cool stuff in each character’s back story.

Yes. That’s one reason that the Fate system basically disallows characters ever being low level. Low level starts aren’t actually particularly fun, and they can prevent characters from having diverse epic shared backstory.

Everything I used to use root access for, I do without root access on GrapheneOS.

And also, I can still take root anytime I want. I just don’t need to. Instead, I set per app permissions, including storage scopes for each app.

If you’ve been waiting for root, check it out. I bet you’ll like what you find.

Thank you!