Dried grasshopper does really taste like prawn crackers.

I laughed a lot reading that series. Lots of profanity, but really fun.

Some suggestions

• Saturn Returns by Sean Williams
• the Uplift universe by David Brin (Sundiver, Uplift war, Uplift trilogy etc)
• Existence by David Brin
• Helix and Helix Wars by Eric Brown
• the Shoal Sequence by Gary Gibson

1506 partners. Insane.

This is damn great.

Oh that’s cool!

I’d suggest to have the occasional look at the “most popular repos” ranking. It’s about 50% Chinese.

Super-interesting sometimes as it shows completely different tech trends.

Snap is still alive? I haven’t heard name in quite a while.

What a farce. And you just know this is gonna be spun like “see, you can’t trust these scientists”, by the alt-right. Whatever legitimacy any future COP may have had has now gone down the drain.

Has this ever been investigated in humans?

This somehow reminds me Altered Carbon

I got into programming via, I kid you not, Second Life.

Wanted to animate some objects with the built-in scripting language. Turned out I was pretty good at it.

Fast forward 15 years and I’m having a decade-long career in software.

I’m from a country where the main focus of the judicial system is rehabilitation. Mental health facilities are in fact part of it.

If our experience is anything to go by, you will absolutely still need to lock up certain people. For their own safety and that of society at large.

Some people cannot be cured, or resist treatment to such an extend that it is effectively impossible.

It’s an uncomfortable truth.

My country has psychiatric treatment facilities as part of the judicial systems (ours is mostly based on rehabilitation, not punitive). The problem with them is that being send to one of them is indefinite, until one is deemed cured. Is that ethical?

Ironically, this means that bona fide gangsters will often try to prove they do not have a mental health problem, because ordinary prison at least has a well-defined end date.

My country tried to privatize mail. It failed. Why: it’s very hard to operate profitably.

It’s soo simple, but soooo good.

I’m so sorry for your loss!

Yeah it’s a small, local ISP. I love it. They only serve a small area, but therefore they behave like a local business with real people instead of a faceless corporation.

I’m wowed.

I have 1gbps symmetrical for €17.95 in the Netherlands.