Ahh, I fell hard in love for a full 24hrs with a dancer from Miami in London Stringfellows a few decades ago... She had the looks and body of Grace Jones and was studying Computing at UCL.
Nothing but admiration. I hope she graduated and has a fine career.
Not me; I contacted my pension fund last week to move it entirely out of equities and into bonds & cash.
Which is no guarantee, but... I'm not close enough to retirement that this would normally be sensible, but I know I'm close enough that I'd never earn back the losses from the mother of all crashes that is riding into view on the back of these IPOs (and the "I can't believe it's not a crime!" changes to index rules to fast track this nonsense into trackers, guaranteeing that pension funds and the like will be left holding the bag.)
I grew up in childhood on one meal a day (or one meal every two days often as not) due to poverty, and I guess it set up a pattern - I very rarely eat three meals a day in adulthood. I used to always skip breakfast (nowadays I tend to just have a yoghurt with my coffee mostly because I tell myself it'll be healthy, not because I'm hungry), and then I usually have lunch OR dinner, but very rarely both.
Of course, when I was young I was horribly thin (6'3" and 110lbs when I left home at 18), now I eat considerably more, so that changed - but the meal habits didn't.
The problem with Starlink is it's only ever a niche service. There's a limit to how many satellites you can have in the sky over paying subscribers (as opppsed to, say, deserts or oceans) - I did some back of the envelope maths that put it at about 15 million subscribers with acceptable speeds, maybe double that with terrible service.
By comparison, Deutsche Telekom in Germany alone has 5 times as many mobile subscribers, and a similar number of fixed-line broadband. Amd best of all, Deutsche Telekom doesn't need to replace all its infrastructure every 5 years when it falls to Earth.
So on what possible basis does Starlink warrant a "to the moon" valuation, and traditional providers don't? Traditional providers can serve more consumers, at lower cost, with better return on assets...
Starlink, and batshit ideas about datacentres in space, exist for one reason: US infrastructure is complete shit. It would almost certainly be long-run a better investment to fix the power, water, and telecomms infrastructure on the ground, but right now you have a government that would rather private companies fire money into space than pay taxes.
Yeah, so basically he didn't have cash, wanted to pay by ThaiQR, and they said "sorry, we don't take that, we do take WeChat Pay".
Which could just as easily have happened in any 7-11.
Thailand was on its knees begging for Chinese tourists to return after Covid. They'd be wise to do something about the goddamned Russians that are ruining the place - or any of the other endless-repeating-visa-run drug and sex offender contingents - before anyone starts worrying about the Chinese.
Wow. That's some fan service...
Awesome - thanks, that worked. (And yay, Steam - preordered :-).)
Anyone know if there is a non-YouTube source for the video? (Google want me to 'connect my account' to 'verify my age' and, well, screw that.)
I used to run my own instance, and then a couple of weeks ago thought it would be a good idea to upgrade to the 1.0 beta - which I made a complete horlicks of... And then made even more of a mess of trying to roll back, before throwing up my hands and saying "why not just use a proper instance!"
Which is to say - I'm very grateful you're doing all this (keeping up with upgrades, managing vulnerabilities etc. etc.) so I don't have to... Thank you!
One oresumes he's trying to appeal to their sense of pity. "Won't somebody think of the poor, dead, orks?"
I mean, it was before Bitcoin came along.
It's rather like the hacker/cracker(defunct) thing.