I have an old kindle keyboard I keep around for nostalgia that still works. I’m guessing this will be affected. Hoping I can still add books via usb

I broke my ankle and have multiple chats related to medicine, physical therapy, pain management, lawyer questions, how to handle messaging to boss and HR

The Atlantic has this. Related articles going back to the 1800s.

They have vending machines with hot pizza! I’d be in big trouble there.

We have them in Europe too. Creates a pizza from scratch (well, ok, the dough is preprepared) in about 5 minutes. Never tried it, though, but folks tell me it's ok.

We have them in the US too. Weirdly the one I used when I was in school was an A&W branded machine, which I only ever associated with root beer.

Which cloud service does this?

I have no idea. I know Azure does for the student/msdn/and similar accounts which are the only cloud services I use for personal projects. So I Azure doesn’t even have my credit card.

Cloud Run lets you cap the number of instances when you create a service. So you can just set max_instances to 1 and you never have to worry about a spambot or hug of death from blowing up your budget. I run all my personal sites like this and pay (generally) nothing.

The amount of ideas Karl had that have since come to fruition is quite remarkable

he's no dummy, that's for sure.

I get that reference. And I applaud it.

“oooOOOhhh, chimpanzee that! Monkey News, ya fff…”

The sequels got really strange and focused on voodoo god personas sort of running things. I probably read Neuromancer once a year just to revisit the place and always try to give the sequels another go but they just don’t grab me like the original did.

The early web died when everything went behind the walled gardens.

What difference would it make to anyone if you care when they die? They’re dead.

It's not unusual for people to care about their legacy. All but one health insurance executive got to find out how people will remember them.

Apple TV MLB games look incredible compared to live cable tv.