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.

This sounds like something Karl Pilkington would come up with.

Maybe an extension of monkey news, it could be cat news

I remember a teacher telling us that parents should not check their kids Google classroom accounts because it would be a violation of the other students’ privacy. I understand what they were saying but there’s no way I’m not checking my kid’s Google classroom account. Ridiculous.

I was offered a job by a large ed tech company that has all sorts of data including parent teacher communications, grades, hourly attendance, etc. For millions of students enrolled in k12 programs in the USA. I initially accepted but then they wanted me to build an early warning system to predict whether a student would have a behavioural problem on the next day. I quit because I do not find it moral to build panopticons for children. But I'm sure they found someone to replace me.

Good job. I’ve quit a job similarly over ethical issues. But this is the problem with software engineering lacking an ethical standard: there’s always Bob, three desks down, who is willing to build the Torment Nexus. One person’s ethical stand is meaningless.

Thanks. When I quit that job I didn't really have any other option lined up. But I had just finished my PhD and someone there at the university offered me a postdoc for six months and then I won a little grant that let me stay like another year and then I won another one for 3 years, and I started working at an AI company in my city. But at the time I was like, fuck now what am I going to do? Haha.