So District 9?

If that were the case, the perfect love story would be a movie about a couple winning the lottery, building their dream house, and living happily ever after without a hint of conflict or unhappiness.

But most people don’t actually want to experience the things that happen in romantic stories: the main characters in Pride and Prejudice spend most of the novel making mistakes and suffering from the consequences, and the main characters in Casablanca, Titanic, and Gone with the Wind experience increasing distress and end up parting forever.

One under-appreciated aspect of Docker is that it forces you to document all your setup steps in your dockerfile and docker-config files.

The New Oxford American.

roof

| ro͞of, ro͝of |
noun (plural roofs | rufs, rʊfs |)

1. the structure forming the upper covering of a building or vehicle.
2. the top inner surface of a covered area or space; the ceiling: the roof of the cave fell in.
3. used to signify a house or other building, especially in the context of hospitality or shelter: helping those without a roof over their heads | they slept under the same roof.

Eight billion people currently have this condition, and they’ve all survived so far.

I remember the steady turnover of social media networks leading up to Facebook—the joke was that kids would migrate to a new platform every time their parents joined their current one. I think there’s a kernel of truth there that’s still a potential weak point on Facebook: people want to have distinct, non-overlapping online personas for different social groups (family, work, friends, etc) without the overhead of maintaining multiple accounts. That seems like an avenue a potential fediverse Facebook alternative might exploit.

I think most anthropologists would agree that storytelling is an innate human activity far older than drug use.

“We’ve got now three humans with Neuralinks implanted and they’re all working well,” Musk said

I thought the first one had more or less stopped working.

That’s like saying “the problem with cancer isn’t the unrestrained tumor growth, it’s the depletion of resources for the rest of the body”—the two go hand in hand.