This isn’t meant for your house. From TFA:

A hotel in Osaka bought the first machine and is preparing to offer the service to hotel guests, the spokeswoman said.

Other customers include Yamada Denki, a major consumer electronics retail chain in Japan, which hopes the machine will draw people to visit its outlets, she said.

“Because part of the appeal of this machine is rarity, we plan to produce only about 50 units,” Ms Maekura said.

Can’t say I’m proud of my reaction, but it is what it is.

1. It makes the person look uncanny, which is naturally unsettling
2. I can’t empathize with the decision to surgically change your body for whatever reason. So we’re less likely to relate to each other.

It’s also really not that high on the scale of seriousness. It’s like the same weight as if I saw you wearing a Dallas Cowboys jersey or something.

I miss the sandwiches. Every time I go back to Philly I eat too many.

Is this really the kind of shit you think about in the shower?

If you’re primary interface to your computer is a shell, then why not do this in a shell too? You likely already have your DE setup to handle shells. It fits within all your styling (no weridness between qt, gtk, etc).

A better question might be, why run it in a GUI? What are you actually gaining from doing that?

Lots of neat uncomfortable questions arise though. At what point is it conscious? If it never experienced autonomy, life, locomotion, or social human interaction, is it torture or just its natural state of being?

I know people with vacation homes, but they bought those when they were older (50’s), and they’re usually small places say at a beach/lake, etc, that often gets rented out when they aren’t using it (as that’s how they pay for it).

It’s weird. This seemed so much more common when I was a little kid. People having like a lake cabin or beach house. Nowadays though, either someone inherited it or they’re rich.

If I’m putting the major bulk of my traffic over a tunnel that could eat up a sizable chunk of a given connection point for the provider that I’m sure costs more than $2/month to maintain. I would have to assume it would take the combined subscriptions of several users to pay for a given node.

Most VPN users do not saturate their connection the entire time. Which means they can overload their nodes.

They also have fatter pipes and dedicated hardware that allows them to handle a lot of traffic from many different endpoints.

Dark humor becomes a coping mechanism. “Fix it, fork it, f*ck off” becomes the phrase of choice.

oooo, I like that.

or badminton.

It’s not just bicycles either. I had someone scream at me with mouth froth and all because I filtered on a motorcycle. I guess they perceived I cut the line or whatever even though they weren’t even in the same lane as me.

I’ve had a lot of hostility as a pedestrian, too. FSM forbid I want to cross the street and it delays their trip by 10 seconds.

Car brained people are broken.

Not thermoelectrics, but sterling engines. But fair point about the heat.

In the UK, large stocks of civil nuclear waste contain significant quantities of americium-241. That makes the fuel not only long-lasting but also readily accessible. Instead of building new reactors to produce plutonium, agencies can extract Americium from existing waste, a form of recycling at a planetary scale.

Using it seems way more preferable to just letting it sit in casks.

Traditional RTGs utilize thermoelectrics, which are reliable but inefficient, often achieving only five percent efficiency. Stirling engines can convert heat to electricity with an efficiency of 25 percent or more. […] Stirling engines introduce moving parts, which also raises reliability concerns in space. However, Americium’s steady heat output enables RTG designs with multiple Stirling converters operating in tandem. If one fails, the others compensate, preserving power output.

That seems a little ridiculous though. All that friction requires a lube that’ll last “generations.” In space, without gravity, and at incredibly low temperatures.

There is a reason nearly every software corporation out there is allergic to GPL code, and similarly why they love MIT/BSD/Apache code. I urge you to consider why that is.

I’m well aware. Are you assuming that people using permissive licenses are somehow incapable of understanding the implication of their license choice?

Licenses do affect how software is used, that is literally the purpose of them.

You implied that I would be “contributing to something” I would object to. I’m left to fill in the gaps. Maybe be more direct in your comments.

My labor is done. I’ve already made the product. I have nothing to protect it from. Someone copying the product deprives me of nothing.

Also, you seem to be moving into another topic of controlling how software is used which is rarely ever addressed in licenses.

I’m going to continue releasing my software with a license that I deem appropriate.

For things I’m building only for myself or that I have no interest in building a community around, I couldn’t give a shit what people do with it or if they contribute back. My efforts have nothing to do with them. I’m releasing it for the remote chance someone finds it useful, either commercially or personally. Partially because I’ve benefited from others doing the same thing.

I’m not anti-copyleft, but the only time I actually care to use something like the GPL is for projects that would be obviously beneficial to have community contributions. Things that require more effort than I can put in, or that needs diverse points of views.

I use permissive licenses not because I’m a pushover, but because I really don’t care what you do with it.

I’m seeding an old movie from them and it’s gotten some traffic.

Why would blood in the abdominal cavity be painful? Wouldn’t it eventually just get absorbed by the lymphatic system?

I used to do order picking in a large warehouse. We used headphones that told you were to go.

GitCoin exists and has been pretty successful in the past.

Though I suspect it’s not what you’re looking for. I don’t see bounties on their site anymore and their focus has been mostly in the crypto space.