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  • Sending humans to Mars is evil.

    It is impossible to have people anywhere without gazillions of microbes. Once humans land on Mars we’ve at the very least corrupted any evidence of life, and possibly destroyed an independent genesis of life.

    Since all life on earth comes from a single progenitor, this is both an incalculable loss of potential knowledge, and also a greater extinction than all earth extinctions combined.

    I propose a moratorium for say 200 years or so, or at least until we’ve explored more than a few square kilometers in detail.



  • The only issue I ever had was Arch ARM changing the naming convention for network devices and making me have to plug the first Raspberry Pi that I upgraded into a monitor to debug what was going on.

    This was annoying for sure, but less annoying than using a 6 year old Python version like the Red Hat Enterprise Linux at work…





  • Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s we started to be able to use WiFi on laptops and connect to the Internet with some mobility.

    Almost everyone had the fantasy of working from the beach or their garden in the sun.

    It turns out that sitting down trying to read a screen in direct sunlight for hours sucks ass, which everyone who tried it discovered before moving back indoors.